Patawee Promsen: Throughout the book, you choose to use the term Nahua instead of Aztec, as it is the term they call themselves and it includes the larger ethnic groups in the area. I wonder, however, why you chose to use the term Aztec instead of Nahua for the book title? Are there any implications in doing so?
Isabel Laack: Words do not carry any inherent, objective meaning; we use words to communicate our ideas about reality and thus construct this reality. In academic thinking, we strive for clarity in our communication and analyze the meanings commonly associated with terms in their social and political contexts, contexts in which some people have more power to shape reality as others.
The term “Aztec” was coined by Europeans in the 19th century to name the mainly Nahuatl-speaking ethnic groups that formed the “Aztec empire” in the century before the Spanish conquest. Throughout my book, I preferred the Indigenous term “Nahua” because of two reasons: first, to emphasize the cultural traits shared by the people using this language, and second, to raise awareness for the political asymmetries reflected in our European interpretations of the Indigenous cultures of Mexico—including our powers to name them.
Having said that, it is the term “Aztec” that is most commonly used in American popular discourse; and it is also used in academic discourse to distinguish the pre-colonial “Aztecs” from the colonial and contemporary “Nahuas”. When you choose a title for a book, you need to name your subject and approach as clearly and concisely as possible. At the same time, you need to include the terms most probably used by your potential readers, to catch their attention and to be found when they search for literature in internet search engines or academic databases. Consequently, I decided to include the catchy if problematic “Aztec” in the main title but also the more speaking “Nahua” in the subtitle.
Patawee Promsen:. Can you share more about how you have come to be interested in this research topic, especially Nahua pictorial writing?
Isabel Laack: My fascination for Indigenous American cultures was first stirred in high school in the context of the 500th anniversary of the European conquest of America in 1992, when my history teacher taught us to critically reflect on European colonialism. Later, I was privileged to learn more about Indigenous Americans in my university studies of religion and anthropology. These studies were inspired by the wish to better understand their ways of living as well as the injustice initiated by my European ancestors through conquest, colonization, and suppression.
My academic interest in the specifics of Nahua pictorial writing and its correlation with (religious) cosmovision was raised primarily through the books written by art historian Elizabeth H. Boone. I was deeply touched by the beauty of Aztec and Mixtec painting, intrigued with this form of visual communication, and inspired by Boone’s impetus to overcome Eurocentric biases in our attempts to understand how this form of communication works.
Patawee Promsen: While some scholars tend to treat oral tradition as a primary source of understanding Nahua culture, your book suggests that pictorial writing is equally important, and its role is not limited to just a device for serving orality. In what ways that considering both oral and written literature as being inextricably interwoven will add to a more understanding of the indigenous historiographical genres?
Isabel Laack: The main thrust of my argument is to overcome the interpretative limitations produced by using European systems of communication as the (only) reference point for analyzing Indigenous oral and written genres.
If we look at the few surviving manuscripts written in traditional Aztec and Mixtec writing, we might be tempted to see them as very limited forms of communication—comparing them implicitly or explicitly to the long texts written in the history of Europe in alphabetical writing. Assuming that the Nahuas nonetheless had extensive cultural and historical knowledge, the only possible inference is: There must have been a strong oral tradition complementing the written records. And indeed, colonial sources evidently speak of a rich and elaborate oral tradition including all kinds of media and performative acts.
Nevertheless, trying to understand pictorial writing in its own right—not compared to alphabetical writing—opens our minds to realize that there might be layers of meaning communicated in this system that work beyond verbally expressed thinking. Then, we also realize that the Nahua combination of oral and written traditions is much more complex than previously assumed. Engaging in this way with Indigenous forms of communication teaches us very much about the many human possibilities of making sense of our lives in this world.
Patawee Promsen: Your book offers a fascinating idea of a “material turn” in the study of religion. In the conclusion part, you suggest that Nahua pictography challenges the idea that “thoughts are best expressed linguistically” (p.356). I wonder if you could explain more of why not only phonographic/alphabetical but also pictorial writing can reflect critical thinking?
Isabel Laack: Let me answer this question in two parts, discussing first the material turn and second my interpretation of pictorial writing.
1) Because of its origin and history, the Western academic study of religion is strongly shaped by Christian, Protestant ideas and has, thus far, mainly focused on analyzing the belief systems and theologies, that is, cognitively and verbally expressed interpretations of the world. In the last decades, some scholars of religion have turned their attention away from exclusively examining elite discourses to consider what most ordinary people do with their religion in their daily lives. Thus, scholars have come to realize that religion is lived with all the human senses and the body, not only cognitively but also emotionally, performatively, and in interaction with material and sensory media, such as artifacts and objects, music and sounds, images and colors, smells and food. Scholars promoting the material turn and the aesthetic turn in the study of religion attempt to better understand these ways of religiously making sense of the world, ways going beyond using words.
2) You mention a part of my key argument about Nahua pictorial writing, which challenges the idea that thoughts are best expressed linguistically. In this argument, I refer to the theory of embodied metaphors by cognitive linguist George P. Lakoff and philosopher Mark L. Johnson. In a nutshell, they argue that even our most critical and abstract thinking—such as philosophical thinking—is fundamentally shaped by the ways we perceive our environment through our bodies. A simple example for this is the conception of time as a linear movement in space. According to Lakoff and Johnson, we cannot think abstractly and critically without using embodied metaphors like this. In my book, I applied this argument to pictorial writing by showing its potential to visualize embodied metaphors in images and signs and thus to enable “readers” to understand them and to give them tools to critically reflect on the ideas expressed in the painting.
Patawee Promsen: One of the most important arguments from your book is that semiotic theories are developed differently in different cultures so that it will be a misinterpretation if we use Western knowledge to get the Non-Western’s sense of reality. Can you say more about how deconstructing Western idea of semiotics would be helpful to understand the Nahua’s linguistic theory and their sense of reality?
Isabel Laack: When we engage with people from a culture different to our own, maybe even from an earlier time in history, we might realize that they have a different perspective on the world, a different cosmovision, a different sense of reality. I intentionally use the term “sense of reality” to emphasize the sensorily, bodily aspects of our perception and (performative) interpretations of reality. Furthermore, humans in the many cultures of the world have developed different sign systems for communication, for example language, facial expression and body movements, ritualized acts, images, and scripts. Some of these sign systems, such as phonographic scripts, are secondary sign systems representing a primary sign system such as language.
A “semiotic theory” is an implicit or explicitly voiced theory about the relationship between the signs of a specific sign system and reality. As such, these theories mirror the more general sense of reality of the culture in question. We can use semiotic theories from our own culture to interpret a sign system from a different culture, but this does not tell us much about their sense of reality or their own ideas about the relationship between the signs and reality.
The problem with many Western engagements with people from other cultures is an attitude to essentially assume that Western ontology, interpretation of the world, or sense of reality is objectively true, whereas those of other cultures—if they happen to be different—are not. Sometimes, we need to deconstruct objectifying ideologies (such as Western logocentrism) in order to open our minds for the truth that might be lying in other senses of reality.
Patawee Promsen: You mentioned in your book that religion is not “solely the creation of the scholar’s study” (p.11). In your opinion, how does this study help challenge the Western science knowledge of religion? And how would it help overcome the ethnocentric and intellectualist biases?
Isabel Laack: First, I would like to explain why I quoted J.Z. Smith in my introduction. In the study of religion as in other humanities, cultural studies, and philosophies, there has been an ongoing debate about the ontological status of academic concepts. With his statement “religion is solely the creation of the scholar’s study,” J.Z. Smith argued against objectifying philosophies assuming that the concept of religion as used by academic scholars of religion mirrors categories objectively present in extra-linguistic reality.
My epistemological standpoint regarding the ontological status of academic concepts is more moderate and influenced by the embodied critical realism of Lakoff and Johnson. I believe that a reality exists outside the human imagination, with which we interact bodily and socially. This reality includes both the physical, material reality of our natural environment as well as the social reality formed by what we and other human beings do. Thus, human beings factually do things, things that we in our culture and historical time have decided to denote as religion. The category religion itself, however, does not objectively exist in extra-linguistic reality. We could also use a different concept to name some things people do or debate endlessly what religion is and what it is not, argue about the contents and boundaries of this category. Accordingly, there have been many different suggestions for defining religion. In the end, it is a matter of communicating our ideas about reality.
In my study of the Nahuas, I attempted to show that some common associations with the Western concept of religion do impede our possibilities of understanding how the Nahuas perceived and interpreted reality. I do not claim that all Nahuas perceived reality the same way, but I think they shared some foundational beliefs. Neither do I claim that I come in any way close to how any Nahua 500 years ago might have felt and thought. However, I do claim that if we read the surviving sources of Nahua communication attentively and reflect on the history of European projections, some interpretations of a more general Nahua sense of reality make more sense than others.
Many things the Nahuas did and communicated about their thoughts are very different from European culture. Academic theories about religion, as they are strongly shaped by European ways of seeing the world, might not be adequate tools to understand these things. Consequently, studying Nahua ways of seeing the world and acting in it challenges aspects of these academic theories believed to be cross-culturally applicable and universally true.
Boone, Elizabeth H., and Walter D. Mignolo, eds. 1994. Writing Without Words: Alternative Literacies in Mesoamerica and the Andes. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
Boone, Elizabeth H. 2000. Stories in Red and Black: Pictorial Histories of the Aztec and Mixtec. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press.
Boone, Elizabeth H. 2007. Cycles of Time and Meaning in the Mexican Books of Fate. Joe R. and Teresa Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press.
Smith, Jonathan Z. 1982. Imagining Religion: From Babylon to Jonestown. Chicago, London: University of Chicago Press: page xi.


Anyone wanting to know when “going rogue” became fashionable would do well to read this book.
What did the actor James Dean have to do with the Baptist founder of the Moral Majority Jerry Falwell? In her artfully rendered study, Grace Elizabeth Hale portrays a connection brimming with cultural significance. Her new book, A Nation of Outsiders, opens with two questions. Why, in the second half of the twentieth century, did so many white, middleclass Americans, the majority of them youth, liken themselves to “outsiders”? And, second, what were the effects of this identification on American culture and society? In her hunt for answers, Hale could have stuck with the stock figures of midcentury rebellion—the Deans and the Presleys. But instead she widened the orbit, encompassing a range of characters, not only Dean and Falwell, Jack Kerouac and Norman Mailer, but also the neo-conservative William F. Buckley and the folk singers Joan Baez, Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan, and Woody Guthrie, as well as Vietnam protestors, leaders of Students for a Democratic Society and Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Jesus People, Hippies, Yippies, and radical New Right activists. The lineup is impressive, as is the choreography. The author casts fresh light on the storied New Left and Sixties student movement. She illuminates as well convergences between the Civil Rights Movement and the folk music revival (this is the best part of the book, making it alone worth the price). Not least, though, she also manages a provocative contribution to studies in American conservatism, a once-negligible field of inquiry that is grandly rewriting how we conceive of the last half century-plus of U.S. history. (Anyone wanting to know when “going rogue” became fashionable would do well to read this book.)
Why were so many Americans attracted to those living beyond the pale of middle-class white society? Hale maintains that marginal figures were objects of affection in part because whites simply had greater physical and virtual access through media proliferation (photographic journalism, radio, television) and tourism. More important than access, though, was, she argues, psychological need. As she explains it, whites fell in love with the exotic and the primitive (chiefly African Americans) because they saw in their marginal status a way out of the iron cage of “mass” middle-class modernity, with all of its anxiety-producing contradictions. To be white and middle class was to be “phony.” Outsiders, on the other hand, were perceived as “authentic,” rooted, uninhibited, inextricably different. Even when these social outliers mixed with modernity, they seemed capable of containing it or holding its contradictions at bay. Disaffected whites believed that by simply appropriating outsiders’ dress, slang, music, habits, gestures, and lifestyles—by wiggling their hips, while singing their blues—they could magically self-disassociate from families, communities, social origins, and histories; they could live outside postwar, middle-class time and space and create new, sturdier identities for themselves.
That Americans were fascinated with the Other is not the original argument of this book. What is provocative is Hale’s claim that the insider-outsider relationship was, and is, driven by love. By that, she has in mind not the model love that two consensual adults express in the privacy of a bedroom. No, the sort of romance chronicled in this book is either unrequited or nonconsensual, driven by fantasy and narcissism, an objectification of the outsider for selfish gain. Significantly, chapter one opens with a prolonged examination of J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye, specifically honing in on Salinger’s mordant critique of middle-class “phoniness.” Starting with this classic work of fiction fixes Hale’s analysis in a well-worn critique of American capitalism. Yet it also has a secondary effect. As Hale reminds us, the prep-school dropout Holden Caulfield, Catcher’s protagonist, “refuses to grow up.” Focusing on Salinger imbues the romance with an air of irrationality. In other words, it is not mature. It is not considered. At best it is a self-absorbed dalliance that can never be consummated in a non-self-aggrandizing partnership. The confusion of intemperate hormones is the best-case interpretation of Caulfield’s infatuation, for, as Hale demonstrated very well in her first book, Making Whiteness, there is another, darker reading of Caulfield’s attraction to prostitutes and Village musicians.
In this reading, the romance with outsiders is more calculatedly sinister and more culpable, driven not by innocent infatuation, but by a cruel fantasy of sexual and racial domination. While careful not to reduce America’s romance simply to the perpetuation of sexualized racism, Hale skirts suggestively close throughout much of her study and in certain places makes the charge quite explicitly. The author cuts between the suggestive and the explicit by recurring to a critical cultural theory that was popularized toward the end of the 1980s and in the early 1990s around the late-Lawrence Levine school of American studies, known as “blackface minstrelsy.” Minstrelsy was a commonplace, nineteenth-century entertainment that entailed whites taking to the stage to “act” black. White performers, to be more specific, would blacken their faces, don wigs, and suit up in baggy, ill-fitting clothes to act out caricatures (denigrating fantasies) of imagined blackness. These showmen and women, who were often only lighter skinned immigrants, were not merely entertaining unaware white audiences, cultural studies scholars have argued. Performers in blackface were simultaneously masking their own precarious social status while reproducing and “enacting” America’s dominant, racialized social hierarchy. In an era of ascendant Jim Crowism, minstrelsy worked, then, like a social hand in a cultural glove, buttressing the supremacy of whites. Following her University of Virginia colleague Eric Lott, Hale drops the black greasepaint and shoe polish and brings minstrelsy up-to-date, applying this cultural theory of white aggrandizement to wide swaths of the more recent American past.
Had Hale curtailed her analysis to self-described “whiteNegros,” to borrow Mailer’s phrase—had she restricted herself to whiteface, blackacting performers like Presley and Kerouac—her study of America’s romance with outsiders would be less contestable. But she ventures a more ambitious claim, one that ends up tarring all sorts of actors with the taint of minstrelsy. To be sure, race factored into America’s attraction to outsiders. Yet it cannot adequately explain the country’s mid-twentiethcentury dialectical obsession with conformity and rebellion. Mailer was notorious before “The White Negro” for having written a heralded, sardonic war novel. It contains some rather coruscating dialogue expressly on the topic of phoniness and predates Catcher. Any explanation of the conformity-rebellion dialectic would have to consider World War II, a “total war” that altered the sociocultural landscape for blacks no less than whites (one could argue even more so for fueling the Civil Rights Movement). A Nation of Outsiders has little to say about this or any other big structural development, relying instead on C. Wright Mills’s belated critique of American corporatism. Just as race cannot sufficiently capture the socio-cultural complexities of rebellion, neither on a more intimate level can love or romance. Psychoanalysis in critical theory has made a demonstrable resurgence of late. While the rapprochement has been beneficial for the humanities, with it comes a temptation that befell an earlier generation of psychoculturalists, namely, that of attributing the irretrievable, the incoherent, and the inexpressible to irrationality. Certainly love played a role in this “romance,” as Hale ably demonstrates. Nevertheless, a panoply of emotions, not merely affection, fueled America’s incongruous feelings toward rebellion. Rage and reason were factors, too. With corpses smoldering in Southeast Asian jungles and black bodies being hosed down on white Southern streets, clear-minded folk on both the Left and Right were, to quote Network’s Howard Beale, “MAD AS HELL.” Rebellion was as much a calculated renunciation of institutions and values as it was a romantic embrace of the marginal; it was as much a political tactic as it was a heartfelt longing. Although A Nation of Outsiders is constrained by its author’s commitment to race and romance, it is, nonetheless, an admirable work of finely rendered scholarship. It deserves to be read and read widely.


Sunday, December 6, 2009
Alfred Jacob Miller
Alfred Jacob Miller was born in 1810 and raised in Baltimore Maryland. He studied portraiture with the painter Thomas Sully from 1831 to 1832. He then traveled to Paris in 1833 to study at the École des Beaux-Arts and later at the English Life School in Rome. When he returned to America, he opened a portrait studio in Baltimore but had limited success. In 1837 he moved to New Orleans, where he encountered Sir William Drummond Stewart, a Scottish nobleman who had served with distinction at the battle of Waterloo 20 years earlier. Stewart had come to America to experience the allure of the Transmississippi West. Stewart was preparing for his fifth trek west to attend the annual rendezvous of trappers at Horse Creek in the Wind River Mountains in Wyoming. Stewart immediately admired Miller's work and invited him to join his expedition to record its exploits.
Although Miller spent more than six months in the West, the number of works he actually produced while on this trip is relatively small -- probably less than 100. Shortly after his return to Baltimore in the autumn of 1837, Miller reworked his field sketches into an album of 87 watercolors for Stewart. After Miller finished the sketchbook, he journeyed to Scotland to paint at least ten large oils for Stewart at his ancestral home, Murthly Castle. The work that he created for his patron featured Stewart at the center of the action: leading the expedition, hunting on the prairies, or engaging in acts of diplomacy with the Indians.
Returning to America, Miller spent the rest of his life painting and repainting nearly 1,000 works of the western genre for Baltimore's patrons and citizens until he retired in 1872. He developed patronage among Baltimore merchants whose business interests included the American West, men who sought the frontiers of opportunity that the West presented and who were willing to invest their resources there. For these patrons, Miller painted his subjects in a stylized, romantic, and sentimental manner, capitalizing on the prevalent tastes and trends of his time by drawing from the story lines and characterizations that could be found in the popular literature of the day.
The first sculpting project will be a trapper reconstructed using the art of Jacob Miller.


Series: About Writing, Episode: Anthony Rudel: Hello, Everybody!
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A Framework to Guide Practice Facilitators in Building Capacity
Neil Baker, Ann Lefebvre, Cory Sevin
Journal of Family Medicine & Community Health. August 2017 vol. 6:6: 1126.
Advancing heart health in North Carolina primary care: the Heart Health NOW study protocol
Bryan J. Weiner, Michael P. Pignone, C. Annette DuBard, Ann Lefebvre, Janet L. Suttie, Janet K. Freburger, and Samuel Cykert
Implementation Science. November 2015 vol. 10:160. DOI:10.1186/s13012-015-0348-4


Concert Season 2019-2020
- August 18, 2019 - Sunday 4:00p.m.
Summer in the City, A Downtown Music Festival and Celebration
(MLKCCSD Ensemble - 30 members Only)
1301 Market Street, San Diego, CA 92101
Admission: $10 - $25
- November 17, 2019 - Sunday 4:00p.m.
St. Catherine Laboure Catholic Church
4124 Mt Abraham Ave, San Diego, CA 92111
- December 14, 2019 - Saturday 6:00p.m.
Christmas on the Plaza
875 Hotel Circle South, San Diego, CA 92108
(Choir Attire: Black Pants w/ Red or Green tops, or a combo of both. Santa Hats provided)
***There is free parking in the parking structure***
***Choir will receive $15 food vouchers for Fountains Grab & Go Restaurant***
- December 15, 2019 - Sunday 2:30p.m.
Scripps Ranch Library
10301 Scripps Lake Drive, San Diego, CA 92131
(Choir Attire: Black Pants w/ Red or Green tops, or a combo of both.
Expect to enter via the side doors -- facing the library from the parking lot, the doors are on the right-hand side of the building off a small patio overlooking the lower parking lot. (The library is closed on Sundays, so the main entrance will be locked).
- January 19, 2020 - Sunday 4:30p.m.
St. Mark\'s United Methodist Church
3502 Clairemont Drive, San Diego, CA 92117
- January 26, 2020 - Sunday 4:00p.m.
First Congregational Church
1800 N. Broadway, Escondido, CA 92026
- February 15, 2020 - Saturday 1:00p.m.
Black History Month Concert
El Centro, CA
- May 3, 2020 - Sunday 4:00p.m.
First United Methodist Church of Chula Vista
1200 East H Street, Chula Vista, CA 91910
(Choir Attire: White MLK Polo Shirts w/ Blue Jeans, Black Socks, Black Shoes)
- May 9, 2020 - Saturday 6:00p.m.
All \'Bout the Blues - - (Fundraiser)
The Joan B. Kroc Theatre
6611 University Avenue, San Diego, CA 92115
- June 7, 2020 - Sunday 6:00p.m.
The Metropolitan Community Church of San Diego
2633 Denver Street, San Diego, CA 92110
(Choir Attire: White MLK Polo Shirts w/ Blue Jeans, Black Socks/Shoes or White Socks/Shoes)
***Dessert Social to follow concert***
- June 14, 2020 - Sunday 3:00p.m.
Twenty-Second Annual Educational Grants Awards Ceremony
College Avenue Baptist Church
4747 College Avenue, San Diego, CA 92115


Summer is a great time to catch up on any of these powerful Storywalking courses that you might have missed when they came out. Sign up for open access June 1 through August 31. Which one will you choose to walk?
- THE WINDOW (6 week journey of the Tale of Rapunzel from 2021)
- THE OTHER FLOWER (10 week journey through the Tale of the Lindworm from 2021)
- SPINDLE & THREAD (10 week exploration of the Myth of Er from 2021)
- LOVE OF SALT (10 week exploration of the Cap O Rushes from 2020)
- REFLECTED (10 week StoryWalk of the Ugly Duckling from 2020)


Tuesday, September 10, 2019
Acknowledging INBRE Support in Publications/Press Releases
When citing INBRE in your publications, posters and press releases, please consult the NIH guidelines at: : https://grants.nih.gov/policy/federal-funding.htm
The OK-INBRE grant number is: P20GM103447
NIH requires scientists to submit final peer-reviewed journal manuscripts that arise from NIH funds to the digital archive PubMed Central upon acceptance for publication no later than 12 months after publication.


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Dan Lee is the Managing Editor of West 86th, the BGC’s journal. He is also Director of BGC Learned Publications. We recently chatted about the range of publications that are a part of the Research Institute at the BGC.
EPS: Dan, both you and Paul Stirton, the editor of West 86th, have transformed this journal since its re-launch. Tell us a little about what you have been trying to do.
DL: Hi Elena. The journal is really a reflection of what the BGC has become over the years and hopefully it conveys some of what we do and what interests us as a research institute dedicated to the study of the decorative arts, design history, and material culture. Our institutional remit has gradually broadened over time and from the beginning of the journal re-launch about three years ago, we wanted to convey this broadening by publishing scholarship on objects and artifacts from all periods and cultures and also to accommodate perspectives that come from across academic disciplines.
We aren’t narrowly focused and as Paul is fond of saying, “We have no methodological axe to grind.” If you take a look at what we’ve published so far, I hope that you’ll see a pretty close correlation between who and what we publish and the kinds of scholarship we see in action every day within the confines of our West 86th Street campus through our classes, gallery, seminar series, and lecture events and through the everyday research, writing, and conversation that’s being carried out by our faculty, students, staff, fellows, and guests.
A perfect example of this kind of synergy is an article that appears in the current issue of West 86th by Jeffrey Schnapp called “Crystalline Bodies: Fragments of a Cultural History of Glass.” We first heard a form of this article about two years ago at one of our evening endowed seminars (The Paul and Irene Hollister Seminar on Glass). Since that time, we worked with Jeffrey on turning what was a fabulous talk on the role of tempered glass in the modernist imagination (from architecture in fascist Italy to the transparent and anatomically revealing Glass Man and Glass Woman featured in the German Hygiene Museum in Dresden) into the polished piece that now appears in the journal.
One of the things I’m constantly trying to explain to people who aren’t familiar with the journal is how beautiful it is in print. This isn’t your standard academic journal. We put a good deal of thought, effort, and resources into the design and layout of each issue, right down to the ragged right margins. Chances are you will see more and better high-quality, full-color illustrations in our pages than in any other scholarly journal. While most people will access our content electronically through JSTOR or through the subscription packages that our fantastic publisher, the University of Chicago Press, supplies through institutional libraries, we want everyone to know how beautiful the printed object is and what a pleasure it is to feel the weight and texture of the paper stock and see the contrast of the ink and colors on the page. We wouldn’t be who we are if we neglected this very real and material aspect of our identity.
I think the TLS review from last year captures it best: “Articles are meticulously referenced and supported by photographs and graphics. The result is both stylish and comprehensive. Of interest both to the expert and the amateur enthusiast, West 86th is a splendid addition to scholarship on material culture in all its facets.” A proud moment for us, but something we have to live up to with each issue.
EPS: Indeed, having a high bar to strive for is always a good thing.
Dan, tell us a little about your background and some of what you have done before your arrival at the BGC.
DL: Well, I was consistently unsure of what to do in life, except that I liked to read and to write. I attended St. John’s College in Annapolis, Maryland, where I feel like I first learned how to really read and how to engage with texts and become immersed in the ongoing conversation that good books can facilitate. After my undergraduate studies, I ended up on a Fulbright grant in Budapest, Hungary to study the mass migration of peoples such as the Huns through Europe in the fifth century. Unsure of what to do next, I ended up at the University of Chicago for a brief stint, where I got to read War and Peace with JM Coetzee and Jonathan Lear; after receiving my master’s degree, I started working for the University of Chicago Press, again because I was unsure of what to do with myself, but working with books and with scholars was always appealing. From there, I spent some time at Yale University Press and then at Harvard University Press. It was while I was at Harvard that I first encountered the BGC, through a book series called Cultural Histories of the Material World that was brought to my attention by Bob Darnton, Harvard University Librarian and professor of history. It was Bob who introduced me to Dean Miller, and the rest, as they say, is history.
EPS: Happily for us! The book series, Cultural Histories of the Material World, has already had three impressive books launched. Tell us about the series, and a little about those books.
DL: Simply put, Cultural Histories of the Material World is an ambitious series that’s dedicated to exploring the ways that humans have shaped and interpreted the material world that’s all around. Our contributors come from a wide array of disciplines—there are historians of art and design, science and technology, culture, economics, media, and landscape, along with anthropologists, archaeologists, literary scholars, musicologists, philosophers, and practitioners of the arts among others.
The first three books in the series, Antiquarianism and Intellectual Life in Europe and China, 1500-1800 (CHMW 1), The Sea: Thalassography and Historiography (CHMW 2), and the eponymous Cultural Histories of the Material World (CHMW 3), were published by the University of Michigan Press over the last two years. They gathered together some of the leading scholars in their respective fields and variously explored the comparative material histories and practice of antiquarianism in Europe and China (CHMW 1), the ways in which sea-based history-writing focused on material exchange influences the practice of historical scholarship itself (CHMW 2), and the deep relationship between the man-made and the natural as seen by twenty-three contributors across disciplines and continents (CHMW 3). This last volume really lays out the stakes and prepares some of the groundwork for what is to come in future volumes.
Between these first three volumes alone, there are a lot of new facets of materiality for a scholar to encounter and engage. It’s obvious that material culture does not belong to any one discipline and that its study has relevance that could reverberate for many years to come throughout the arts and humanities.
EPS: So, tell us what’s next in this important series?
The next two books in the series are Ways of Making and Knowing: The Material Culture of Empirical Knowledge (edited by Pamela Smith at Columbia, Hal Cook at Brown, and Amy Meyers, of the Yale Center for British Art) and a book called The Technical Image: A History of Styles in Scientific Imagery, which is collaborative effort between the BGC and the members of Das Technische Bild, a research project founded in 2000 by Horst Bredekamp at the Humboldt University of Berlin.
After that, we have a book in the works from Ben Kafka, Lilly Chumley, and Lisa Gitelman of NYU called The Paper Trail: Photographs from the Survey of Federal Archives, Oregon, 1935-36, which will be a major contribution to the emerging field of “paperwork studies” that scholars like Kafka and Gitelman have been spearheading. (Both were featured in a New York Times profile called “The Paper Trail Through History” last December.) We also have a collection on Ex Votos across periods and cultures, a volume called The Anthropology of Expeditions: Travel, Visualities, Afterlives, and several translations of primary source materials in process, including the first English-language translation of the German historian Karl Schlögel’s important work Im Raume lesen wir die Zeit (In Space We Read Time: On the History of Civilization and Geopolitics), which takes history back to its geographical and spatial roots.
We’re also moving towards publishing some shorter-length monographs; we’re in conversations with several authors about new projects and are always interested in receiving relevant proposals.
EPS: An amazing agenda, especially in the light of so many that have expressed concern about the future of academic publishing in this country. Tell us why these kinds of scholarly works need to continue to see the light of day in book form.
DL: While it’s true that there is a great deal of concern about the future of academic publishing—particularly in the arts and humanities—the demand for good, well-written, well-reasoned, and well-researched scholarship has not gone away. New topics and debates emerge and scholarship goes on. There may be a more widespread public perception that the value of a scholarly monograph or collection of essays on the materiality of color or on “thingness” is suspect, but anyone who is engaged in serious scholarship—anyone who is actively involved in research or writing in the humanities—doesn’t question the value inherent in pursuing knowledge and in knowing oneself or one’s culture and place in the world to the fullest possible extent. There is a broader debate about the value of all of the Humanities and its place in the University and in education in general that I find to be exceedingly disturbing. I think the whole premise that scholarly publishing doesn’t really follow a sustainable business model and thus ought to be cut or that a humanities education doesn’t really work out in terms of a cost-benefit analysis of one’s life is wrong and it really begs the question. Just because some people don’t value the humanities, doesn’t mean the humanities are ipso facto worthless. The humanities and humanities-based research and publishing is done because this is a human endeavor that a lot of people still value and cherish and pursue for its own sake. Its part of what makes us who we are. People don’t become art or design or cultural historians in order to get rich or even to balance their checkbooks. Like anything people are passionate about, they do it in spite of the hurdles set out before them. Sure, there are new tools and technologies that enable our research and help to spread information further afield; the Internet and all of the changes that it’s wrought are now taken mostly for granted (not that we understand everything about what’s happening as it’s occurring, but that it’s happening, nobody debates). But I don’t see the desire for the book and the kind of unique story that each one tells to ever go away.
EPS: Great response. What do you think the next 10 years in academic publishing will bring?
DL:The landscape potentially could change quite a bit, but I think it would be a mistake for publishers to panic and change things just for the sake of changing. I feel like I was in the thick of some of this kind of thinking in the past decade as Presses began moving towards digital workflows and making some necessary changes to accommodate new electronic publishing formats (I was director of Digital Publishing at Yale and Harvard). The economics of scholarly publishing never quite made sense, but we were all happy going along with it until suddenly, we weren’t. Academic presses can’t survive on their own or without the support of their home institutions. The survival of these Presses really depends on the survival of the humanities and whether their host institutions continue to value some pretty basic humanistic pursuits. If the priority for a scholarly, University-based publisher or for its sponsoring institution becomes how many copies a book is able to sell in its first month or two of publication, then they ought to just start disbanding now and leave the business of books to Basic or to Brill.
EPS: Are you an optimist or a pessimist on this topic?
DL: I guess I’m as optimistic as a natural pessimist can be. Scholarship will go on—even if it reverts back to personal letters exchanged between interested and educated individuals who share a common and intense interest in a topic, like the antiquarians of old. There are some who want to go back to a form of pre-publishing in the scholarly context. Or to use new technologies to do away with publishers and other intermediaries all together since they’re often perceived as posing restrictive and unnecessary obstacles to getting one’s work out fast. It’s true: there are a lot of annoying, frustrating things about the publication process that we all complain about—proposals, meetings, permissions, deadlines, delays; but in the end all of these painful processes, all of the behind the scenes work that’s done to bring a manuscript into book shape—editing, design, production, marketing, distribution, not to mention all of the back and forth in negotiating reviews, reports, revisions, contracts, etc.—all of this invisible hard labor is what makes a book a book. Each book is a real accomplishment. It’s difficult to see this whole enterprise as worthless and replaceable by a blog or a series of exchanges on the latest social network.
It shouldn’t take a scholar of the book to know that producing a book is a huge (and often expensive) collaborative effort between dozens of interested parties. Really, it ought to inspire wonder that there are so many people still invested in bringing the written word to life or to shaping complex theories and ideas in order to advance human understanding. It can be done better at times and the process can stand to move more efficiently, but it’s an encouraging sign that not everything we work for or towards is some disposable or consumable commodity, to be measured purely in terms of monetary profit or loss. But whether this is something that anyone will still care about in ten or twenty years is anybody’s guess. We live in a weird world.


Following the release of the 2.1.1 specifications earlier this year, ITxPT has now released complementary material to the 2.1.1 specifications.
XML and JSON schemas
The schemas for both XML and JSON are now updated to 2.1.1 status.
New for 2.1.1; Known Issues have been documented, and the document contains known issues in the 2.1.1 specification. It also contains recommendations on how to minimize the related problems.
Client Development Guide
For the S02 section of the ITxPT specification (on-board services), a document containing Best Practices for development of on-board clients has been added.
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Wexford Library. This installation involved the supply and installation of an underfloor heating and cooling system. The heating pipework was laid with the intention of providing heating in the winter and comfort cooling in the summer.
The heating and cooling for the underfloor heating is provided by three 16kW Daikin Altherma units. The heating flow temperature ranges from 35/45 in the winter to 15/25 in the summer as selected by the building management system.
In operation for over 12 months the system is operating as designed giving complete comfort within the library.


Thankfully, I also had the US election results to watch, making for some great (yet nail biting) entertainment. This is in no way, shape or form a political blog, but yeah for Obama! It's funny because I can recall watching the elections on November 4, 2008 when I was (im)patiently awaiting the arrival of my little girl, and excited about the political milestone that took place days before her birth.
|Lady M's cake...covered with M&M's because she thought|
it would be fun to have her initial all over her cake!
At 5:45 am on Wednesday morning (very early for my little lady who normally likes to sleep until at least 6:30/7:00) I felt her tiny little self climb into my bed and say "mummy, there are decorations in my doorway!". I responded with "why do you think they're there?", to which she replied "BECAUSE IT'S MY BIRTHDAY"!!! Let the celebrations begin.
We had promised her a present in the morning, so I had placed it on my night table for the instant gratification of a first-thing-in-the-morning-birthday-present. Buried within the bag and tissue paper was a new Hello Kitty shirt to wear to school, Hello Kitty socks and a Hello Kitty bracelet. (Can anyone identify the pattern?!)
I had sent a note to school the day before asking if there was any way to celebrate the kids' birthdays in class, seeing as the school has very strict rules about treats and sweets. The teacher let me know that we could donate a book to the class library on behalf of Lady M's birthday, and that they would read the story and sing happy birthday to her during circle time. So, I selected a story called Wild About Books and Lady M and I read it together the night before her birthday so she would be familiar with it. I added a little inscription to the inside cover, packed it in her 'important bag' in her backpack, and she was set to go. She tells me, however, that they already had that book in their collection, but oh well! It was a really cute story, so why not have two?!
So she'd had her morning celebration, her school celebration, then she was off to daycare where they had another little party for her. Whew, what a day for a four-year old, and it wasn't over yet!!
As I mentioned, we had the immediate family over dinner for her special day, and with contributions from the whole fam, it seemed everyone was well-fed and happy. But, nobody was happier than little Lady M who was delighting in all of her gifts - clothes, toys, shoes - and best of all, a beautiful new doll house. What little girl doesn't want a dollhouse that's taller than her, with three floors of fun?! And as it turned out, it was a total hit with both my girls, and my nephew Mr. F. They happily played together rearranging furniture, checking out all the rooms, and bringing more and more dolls and toys to the house to play. It was perfect.
All in all it was a wonderful day, and Lady M went to bed one year older, and happily exhausted. This weekend will be her dance party with eight little girls and my nephew, so the fun isn't over yet! I love a birthday that lasts all week...


Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father
Documentary well worth watching.
Fantastic and heart wrenching documentary about a Dr. Andrew Bagby's murder and the problems in the legal system that follow. The documentary starts as a tribute to Dr Bagby so that his unborn son can know what an amazing friend and son he was. When it is found that the mother to his unborn child is also the person who murdered him the story takes a tragic turn, focussing on Bagby's parents and their fight for justice.


A two-day 'Melayu Islam Beraja' (MIB) seminar that was held in conjunction with the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the Information Department, came to a conclusion yesterday with the co-chairman stating that as the nation's sole philosophy, it should be understood by many residing in the country, particularly senior citizens, despite the various topics of the philosophy having never been disclosed through formal presentations or discussions in a forum.
The head of the Malay Islamic Monarchy Supreme Council (MTMIB), Associate Professor Ampuan Dr Haji Brahim bin Ampuan Haji Tengah said during the closing ceremony, "Hence, it is important that the concept of MIB be discussed in seminars, conventions, workshops, forums and lectures, and then followed by the documentation of its content through the publication of working papers and books to ensure that the understanding and knowledge of MIB will be more understood by locals, especially the new generations to come," he added.
It is MTMIB's intention to publicise the MIB philosophy in three main areas - dissemination, publication and research.
The associate professor added that the MTMIB has been active in organising programmes for information dissemination such as talks, workshops, roadshows, exhibitions and competitions.
In the area of publication, MTMIB has successfully printed two publications through the Information Department, the 'MIB Collection' and 'Mutiara Bangsa'. In terms of research, the council intends to implement several research proposals that are meant to consolidate the understanding and propagation of MIB.
"MTMIB is also on hand to assist public and private institutions as well as members of the public wishing to partake in the dissemination processes. For example, any village or Mukim consultative council wishing to incorporate MIB in their seminars or workshops, MTMIB will be pleased to cooperate. For research, MTMIB will also help in its coordination until the publication process," said the sssociate professor.
Another topic of interest during the seminar was the potential extinction of Jawi writing. Although all students in Brunei are taught to write and read in Jawi at some point in their lives, the skill is slowly fading due to the diminishing necessity of its usage.
"As one of the factors associated with Malays, the skills and historical values of Jawi should be preserved, used as a medium of formal communication between Malay rulers, the government and the people," he said.


Chroma is the title of the book written by Derek Jarman around color in the last months of his life when he lost his sight. It is a kind of autobiography by color in which chromatic impressions, intellectual reflections on color and childhood memories are mixed. Jarman can not see the colors anymore. But he can tell them, they are in his mind, his body and in emotion. It exposes one of the most powerful aspects of color: its sensory and emotional impact.Read more
OVERSIZE - CAMOUFLAGE
The art of concealing, between the visible and the invisible.
We will try to appropriate what has been the ploy of plants, animals and also humans since time immemorial. Camouflage, hide, swallow, dissolve the contours of the forms, multiply the pieces, absorb the patterns ...


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Several developers have asked for intellisense/auto-completion support for Notepad++, Eclipse, and Microsoft Visual Studio. This document will outline where to download the auto-completion libraries and how to install them into your editor.
3) In Notepad++, select the "Settings" menu, then "Preferences". Then select the "Backup/Auto-Completion" tab. Make sure you check "Enable auto-complete on each input" and "Function parameters on input".
1) Download the file appmobi-vsdoc.js from:
2) Copy the file into your project.
3) Include the script locally BEFORE the appmobi.js tag. In order for the engines to process the file, it must be referenced locally.
4) In Eclipse based editors, you may need to open up the file manually to get it to parse it and recognize it.


A few weeks ago, I was in a bookstore. Waiting for someone, I started browsing the books in the front, budget section.
I saw the book ASSASSINATION VACATION by Sarah Vowell. I had been meaning to read it for a while. After seeing Vowell on Letterman, I wrote the title down on my ever growing list of books to eventually read.
So, I picked it up to read while waiting.
Before I know it, I'm five pages in, and absolutely hooked.
It is a mix of a history book and travelogue. Sarah travels around to all the important places in the lives and deaths of the assassinated Presidents Lincoln, Garfield, and McKinley. Even being a sort of history geek myself, I learned quite a bit in reading it. And not only that, who knew that Garfield was so interesting, or how close McKinley's term mirrored that of today, with a war overseas, secret prisons, etc.
Vowell is such a great writer that, before I was even halfway through it, I was online ordering her other three books.
RADIO ON is an interesting one, a diary of a year in the life (1995) of her listening to the radio.
But even better were TAKE THE CANOLI and THE PARTLY CLOUDY PATRIOT. Both are collections of essays by her, many that appeared on NPR.
So now I'm all caught up, AND WANT MORE!!! Supposedly her next book, due next year, will be about Puritans. Living in New England, and growing up with a father who lectured on the subject of 17th century history, I have to say, I'm psyched for that one.


Feastday St. Agnes: January the 21st
When did St. Agnes live: Fourth century
Biography of St. Agnes:
The story of St. Agnes is based on two different traditions referring to two different martyrs. According to the Latin tradition St. Agnes was massacred when she was twelve years old, whereas the Hellenic tradition remembers her as an adult virgin. The Greek story tells about a youngster who tried to violate St. Agnes and dropped dead. When the prefect interrogated Agnes about this death, she answered that a white dressed angel had protected her.
Statues and sculptures of St. Agnes - portrayal, imagery and emblem: The sculptures represent St. Agnes with a sheep in her arms and a book in her hand.
Patronage St. Agnes: Patroness of virgins, fiancées and gardeners


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In the first paragraph of the book, the ordinariness of Oran is contrasted with the extraordinary business of the plague, and on the surface the comment seems possibly only a bit of literary formula. Castel finishes his anti-plague serum, and he and Dr.
Active Themes Tarrou notes that no one laughs out loud anymore except for drunk people. Michel in the days following his death, and the public grows more frightened.
Active Themes Related Quotes with Explanations The result of the sermon is that people feel more and more that they are trapped and being punished, and so they try harder to escape or revolt.
What logic, he wonders, is behind the destruction of Oran? The man who spits on cats has been robbed of his meaningful action, absurd though it was, and he gives up in the face of the plague. Tarrou and Rieux have similar philosophies, but they arrived at them in very different ways.
He brings up his struggle with words every time he sees Dr.
The image expands and colors the chapter. His search is for a knowledge that will produce a perfect prose. The doctors meet with the Prefect, and Rieux and Castel are the strongest voices urging immediate action and insisting that the illness is the plague.
He lacks almost all sense of commercial survival. Before, they simply took their loved ones for granted. His role will enlarge as the story develops. He cannot see the plague as a public calamity, but only as an obstacle in the way of his own happiness. He is, further, depicted enjoying a cup of coffee with milk during the vigil, and having a smoke with a caretaker at the nursing home in which his mother died.
As a doctor, Rieux has seen all the horror of the Absurd, but he still chooses to fight against suffering because it is human nature to cling to life. He is now concerned that he live, that the police do not arrest him, and that his rights be fully respected.
The new serum from Paris seems less effective, and the plague has become pneumonic and more contagious. Rieux acknowledges that Rambert is in an absurd situation, but there is nothing he can do. Tarrou then describes Dr. In one of the emblematic strands of the novel, the orderly Joseph Grand is looking throughout for the right words to perfect his vision of a woman rider out in the Bois de Boulogne: And Camus proves as facile with the paradoxical.
Even in those times rats were not found dead on the middle of the floor. The recognition of the plague as a collective concern allows them to break the gap of alienation that has characterized their existence.
Rieux feels something "soft" under his foot. The basic government response consists of exterminating the rats and sending anyone with a fever to a special isolation ward of the hospital. Is the old man aware of what he is doing?
The rats first appear as symbols of the darker side of humanity and the Absurd, the side that humans try to ignore. The doctor seems distracted, and Rambert apologizes for losing his temper, and they part ways.
As an actual Algerian town in North Africa, it functions as an anchor of reality for the reader. Cottard tries to commit suicide, which in the absurdist worldview is a viable option in dealing with the Absurd, but is ultimately the path of cowardice.
Active Themes The only man in town who seems content is Cottard. Tarrou organizes an anti-plague sanitation league, and many volunteers join to help.The Plague (French: La Peste) is a novel by Albert Camus, published inthat tells the story of a plague sweeping the French Algerian city of Oran.
It asks a number of questions relating to the nature of destiny and the human condition. Parallelism in Albert Camus’ The Here are some following facts about the story’s plot that involve parallelism through the novel.
The. A summary of Analysis in Albert Camus's The Plague. Learn exactly what happened in this chapter, scene, or section of The Plague and what it means.
Perfect for acing essays, tests, and quizzes, as well as for writing lesson plans. The Plague study guide contains a biography of Albert Camus, literature essays, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full summary and analysis. About The Plague The Plague Summary. The Plague, which propelled Camus into international celebrity, is both an allegory of World War II and a universal meditation on human conduct and community.
Organized into five sections, The. The Plague by Albert Camus.
Home / Literature / The Plague / Analysis ; The Plague Analysis Literary Devices in The Plague. Symbolism, Imagery, Allegory. The rats don’t simply symbolize the plague. They are symbols of people. They die in the streets, on playgrounds, in businesses and then people follow suit.Download


"Makeup is art. Every face is a blank canvas and every brush stroke creates something magical. Makeup enhances natural beauty but also builds confidence for everyday life. This book intends to inspire makeup artists, those wishing to enter this exciting career and those who want to experiment with, and develop, their makeup looks."
I have never read a makeup book like I would a novel. That was until I found 'Makeup is Art' By AOFM (Academy Of Freelance Makeup). I was blown away and fell in love with makeup all over again.
This is, by far, THE BEST makeup book I have ever bought. If you are a makeup artist or you are a fan of creative makeup, then this is THE book to buy. Everything you need to know about makeup is right here. It takes you through the A-Z of makeup- from Understanding Face Shapes to Makeup Textures to Natural Makeup to Editorial Makeup to Iconic Eras to Lighting to Body Art to Catwalk & Backstage to Tools & at the end, "How to get work in this competitive industry?"
I tried to find a flaw in this book, but I couldn't find any. The writers gave their 100% while creating it. The pictures are beyond awesome, the writing is to-the-point and very easy to imagine, and the tips & techniques shown could have only come from some of the most experienced & 'true' makeup artists. The one thing that makes this book different from other makeup books I have read is, it mentions & gives examples of the products used. They used high end/street brands (Chanel, MAC, Bobbi Brown) to drugstore brands (Maybelline, L'Oreal etc). It seems they love using Dermalogica for the skin.


The word biography meaning both to a kind of book where books of that kind are found. It tells the story of a real person’s life. It may be about someone who lived long ago, recently, or even someone who is still living. Sometimes biographies are significantly shorter than a book—something anyone who’s been asked to submit a biography for, say, a conference or a community will be glad to know. Bio, a term that can be both a synonym of biography and a term for what is actually a biographical. A brief description of a person’s life. These biographies bios vary person to person, but many times they are only a few sentences long. Looking at bios that have been used in the same context can be a useful guide in determining what to put in own. A biographer in pursuit of an individual long dead is usually hampered by a lack of sources: it is often impossible to check or verify what written evidence.


Early History & Coming to Dayton
Jacob Weinhard was born in Stuttgart, Wurtemburg, Germany in 1849. After serving four years as an apprentice in the brewing trade, he came to the United States in October, 1872. His first destination was Portland where he was employed as foreman at the brewery belonging to his uncle, creating a brand and beer known as Henry Weinhard's. In the fall of 1880 he started for Spokane after hearing of the opportunities in the Washington Territories. Delayed in Dayton by a snow storm, he heard of a business opportunity and decided to stay.
Brewing and Thriving in Dayton
Jacob Weinhard became a partner in a brewery soon after his arrival to Dayton. Shortly thereafter he became the sole owner of the Jacob Weinhard Brewery. Because of his need for great quantities of barley, he was instrumental in the conversion of wheat to barley agriculture in Columbia County. In the areas of architecture and commerce he had a major influence on the town of Dayton including the brewery, a malt house, the first bank, a beautiful theatre, the first cement sidewalks, the paving of Main Street, the building of the Weinhard Building which housed his saloon and other commercial enterprises and the Weinhard Block which housed leased commercial spaces. The latter two are still standing along with his home which are all listed on the National Register of Historic Places. All three are architectural jewels of fine wood and woodworking.
In the area of community planning and development he was deeply interested in civic development often baring a greater portion of the cost of the project for the good of the community as in the case of the sidewalk land street paving projects. His theater made great contributions to the cultural development of the community bringing to Dayton traveling road shows presenting works by Shakespeare, Ibsen and Sheridan, plus many home talent productions.
Later in Life
Jacob Weinhard married Caroline Giebenhain in San Francisco December 31, 1881. After which he returned to Dayton immediately. Of their seven children they had three daughters and one son survive to adulthood. His son started a cattle ranch in Willowa, Oregon and had four daughters. The three girls stayed in Dayton with only one marrying after her father’s death and having no children. Jacob Weinhard died in 1941 in Dayton at the age of 91 and is buried to rest in the Dayton City Cemetery.Sources:
- Photo: History of Henry Weinhard Brewery
- HistoryLink, Jacob Wenhard arrives in Dayton
- Blue Mountain Heritage Society (newspaper summaries)


Fate is the 10th volume of Muhyo & Roji's Bureau of Supernatural Investigation manga series.
- Article 78: Fate
- Article 79: Target
- Article 80: Executor Busujima
- Article 81: Contact
- Article 82: Isabi
- Article 83: King of the Mountain
- Article 84: The Bells of Troy
- Article 85: A New Rule
With his sharp blade and unhealthy thirst for blood, Ark assassin Mick is after Muhyo and the gang! Muhyo tries to summon aid, but something's wrong with his Book of Magic Law--wrong as in ripped-into-two-parts wrong!


NetMeeting 25November 1900 (7PM)
Our Business meeting will be on 2 December Terrebonne Parish Library North Branch in Gray across from H. L. Bourgeois High School at 1930 (7:30 PM). Testing is at 1900.
NetMeeting 9December 1900 (7PM)
Our Social Meeting for16 December will be at 6:30 PM at:
7937 Main Street, Houma
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The second reason for this book: when I began writing, I wanted to reveal a world where neither children nor adults needed to have special magical powers to accomplish great feats. In other words, I wanted to unlock the power of imagination that lives inside each one of us. The Conjunction of the Realms introduces the young reader to a place where those who live in the realm of imagination and those who live in the world of humans can interact and go on adventures together to solve mysteries, defeat enemies, and create new worlds. If, after reading this book, a young adult embarks on a journey of discovery to unveil mysteries, or seeks to better understand and know the invisible intelligence that has created us, or realizes that the creativity that lives in us came from the creator of all things, and that nothing is impossible to those who believe, then my second goal for writing this book will have been accomplished. Imagination and creativity are gifts that every human being is endowed with from their creator. I hope that “The Conjunction of the Realms (Part One)” provokes the youth of our world to not believe in limitations, to not ever second guess themselves, and to know that each one is destined for a great future, one that they can create with their imagination, one that will be free from the tentacles of evil and perversion.
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Workings of the Council - Minutes
Minutes document the attendance of councillors at each meeting, the items discussed and any payments made.
Produced by the Clerk, they are probably the most important publication of any Parish Council.
A Parish Council has limited powers of its own but can bring local issues to the attention of District and County Councils so that they can take action where necessary. The minutes record such requests and monitor the progress of ongoing issues.
The official minutes of the Council are signed and dated by the Chair at the following meeting to verify that they are a true reflection of events. The documents on this web site are therefore not the official documents but are substantially the same. Original signed official documents are kept by the Clerk and can be made available for public inspection at reasonable hours by contacting the Clerk.


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Isaiah 53:1. Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the
Lord revealed? Sermons 3-6 from James Durham, Sermons on Isaiah 53. New format from unpublished revised text (2012).
Several sermons by James Durham on the duty, warrant to believe the gospel and the nature of saving faith and various false types of belief.
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My response to this week’s reading is really more of a question. Doe it defeat the purpose of electronic book if you have to print the book out to be able to read it? I doubt I’m alone in this, but at the end of the day, I just can’t read off of a computer anymore…I have to print out all of my assignments for Clio Wired to read them. Now I know part of the purpose of the e-books is to provide broad access to scholarly writing (very similar to everyone’s favorite, JSTOR.) I don’t want anyone to think that I’m missing the point of tonight’s reading by asking what seems to be a silly question. The concept of the e-books opens up so many other doors for scholars and students. Manning’s mention of the significant insights through links among the documents caught my eye in particular. It really bothers me though, that I’d have to print out the links also though. But I have to wonder if the readership is limited because there are so many folks out there like myself, who have a hard time reading an extensive work (anything more then a newspaper article) off a computer screen.
On a completely different note, I was completely sucked in by this terrific documentary, “Little Man” on TV tonight (God bless those premium channels.) The filmmaker was documenting her family’s life after the birth of her very premature son. It was an absolute tear-jerker watching this couple try to keep tiny little baby alive and what all the pressure of doing was was doing to their family. As the director of the documentary was one of the parents, she, of course, focused on what the stress was doing to her relationship with her partner. One of the things that the director (and I) found interesting was that even while she and her partner could scarcely talk without fighting under the most stressful times, they could always talk civilly and express their true feelings through e-mail and over IM. The director made a statement at one point in the documentary that technology was not only keeping their son alive, the the relationship between themselves, the parents, alive. Anywho, I just thought it was an interesting insight how the kinds of technology we’re talking about in class goes far beyond the academic world and into the emotional one.


I have found it. A discussion group that fits me; a short story discussion group. I used to really enjoy attending book clubs, first at my local library, then through my job. But, as life went on and my commitments increased, my ability to keep up with the book club decreased. In other words, I wasn’t finishing the books. Oh, I still attended the book club at work (I dare not pull this fraud off at my library). The book club chair showed me her ways. I went to her the day of one of the book club meetings, confessing I hadn’t had a chance to finish the book. She shared she had only gotten through the first chapter and was planning on attending anyway. Wow. I felt good. I had read a full three quarters of the book.
Well, this, for me, was a slippery slope. For the last two book club meetings, I had not even read the books at all. I had taken them out of the library and carried them around with me, including to the book club meetings. How embarrassing. After this, I stopped attending my work book club. The reason? I changed to a job 50 miles away. Otherwise, I fear I might still be attending, albeit fraudulently.
So, when I saw the offering at my local library for a new short story discussion group, cleverly called Sunday Shorts, I was delighted. Short stories have been my favorite genre for sometime. But, similar to my shrinking time and energy for reading novels, I haven’t been able to get through any of my collections of short stories, either. So, this is a wonderful opportunity. I enjoyed reading the short story and, the one hour discussion group was great, too!
Finally, just my genre!


Jewellery Making Books
Learn how to make outstanding jewellery that is beyond compare. Take your jewellery making from ho-um to a whole new level of sophistication with the top-drawer designs in these books.
Stylish Leather Jewelry
Expand your jewellery-making skills with 26 chic and stylish leather jewellery projects. Learn how to loop, twist, fold, and recolour leather in ways that take leather jewellery beyond camp crafts and onto the fashion runway.
Fabulous Jewelry from Findings
Take a fresh look at jewellery findings and construct elegant pieces from nothing but findings. This fresh approach to jewellery design will have you looking at findings in a whole new light.
Jewellery Making ebooks
Don’t stop at decorating the tree this year… make these incredible earring designs to adorn your holiday outfits too! Each of these jewellery making ebooks is filled with 12 unique holiday earring projects – designs that embody the holiday spirit.
Available for download immediately after purchase.
Every Christmas outfit needs a pair of festive holiday earrings and with the 12 Days of Christmas earrings Volume 1, you have all the holiday designs you need to make your party outfit sparkle. There are 12 standout holiday designs in this book for you to make.
Get into the Christmas spirit with these gorgeous festive earring designs. These 12 stylish designs use some unconventional stringing ideas so you’ll never be short of chic holiday earrings to dress up your outfits. Each design is accompanied by clear photos and full instructions.
If fun and fab DIY holiday earrings are your style, then this book of 12 magical earring designs fits the bill. The projects in Volume 3 of the 12 Days of Christmas earrings are guaranteed to add festive cheer to your holiday outfits.
Do you love sparkle and glitz at Christmas?
Then the dazzling holiday earring projects in this book are just what you need.
You’ll find lots of time-honoured red, green and gold projects in this ebook. But you’ll also find some projects using non-traditional colours that are just as festive.
The 12 Days of Christmas Earrings Volume 4 takes festive earrings to a whole new level of sophistication.
Glam up your Christmas wardrobe with this sparkly collection of 12 new earring designs for the festive season. These designs feature filigrees, wire wrapping and even leather, plus an extensive variety of techniques to create the earrings. In all, there are twelve never-before-seen pairs of earrings that will help you spread Christmas cheer as you party your way through December.
Take your jewellery making to a new level with the exceptional designs in Volume 7 of the 12 Days of Christmas Earrings.
The projects featured in this edition are unique and unusual and whilst there is a smattering of traditional Christmas red throughout, there are also unexpected colours like blue, copper and black.
Several of the earring designs in this ebook feature stars and each one is a striking design. Click through to see the stunning and unusual jewellery designs in this book.


Enjoy Dorset Books from famous Dorset Authors
Dorset, has for hundreds of years inspired some of the greatest writers in our history. Writers such as Thomas Hardy, T.E.Lawrence and William Barnes called Dorset home. Did you know, that Enid Blyton, who for generations has inspired the minds of the young with her tales of adventure – used Dorset as a stunning backdrop for her stories.
Dorset has a plethora of literary landmarks to visit. Explore Clouds Hill, a National Trust site near Bovington once lived in by T.E. Lawrence himself. Visit Hardy’s Cottage in Dorchester, owned and lived in by possibly the most noted of Dorset’s authors – Thomas Hardy. Hardy is responsible for some of the greatest works of English Literature – including Far From the Madding Crowd, Jude the Obscure and Tess of the d’Urbervilles and there are many local attractions you can uncover whilst on a quest to seek out Hardy’s secret hiding places.
If you visit the Dorset County Museum, you can enjoy some excellent displays,paying homage to Thomas Hardy and Williams Barnes. The museum has recreated Thomas Hardy’s study, complete with his writing desk. You can hear the interesting works of Williams Barnes, who wrote using the olde dialect of Dorset.
Inspired By Dorset
It isn’t just the locals that have been inspired! Beatrix Potter could also be counted upon as a fan. Some of the views painted in Little Pig Robinson were taken from Lyme Regis where she used to visit. The Tale of Little Pig Robinson is set in the fictional town of ‘Stymouth’, which Beatrix Potter based in part on Lyme Regis, as well as on the nearby towns of Sidmouth and Teignmouth in Devon. Views of all three towns are used as backgrounds in the book.
On her visit to Lyme, Beatrix Potter stayed at Burley, Silver Street, and enjoyed perfect weather and the steep views. She produced a number of sketches of the town, including several drawings of Broad Street: she wrote in a letter that it was a lovely street and she would have liked to have done better justice to it. One of her sketches of Broad Street on display in the Museum.
Even Jane Austen herself used West Dorset as the backdrop for her novel Persuasion, set in Lyme Regis. The crucial passage set in Lyme is the central link in the story which begins in the Somerset countryside and moves to its climax in Bath. Jane Austen’s settings for her novels were not usually real places: Lyme is one of the few exceptions, together with Bath. Persuasion was published posthumously in 1818, and the town has been a centre of literary pilgrimage ever since. When Lord Tennyson came here, he was more interested in seeing landmarks connected with Jane Austen’s novel than with real events such as the Monmouth Rebellion!
No less than three screen adaptations of Persuasion have used Lyme Regis as a filming location: the 1971 BBC mini-series starring Ann Firbank, the 1995 film starring Amanda Root, and the 2007 TV adaptation starring Sally Hawkins.
Dorset Literary Events
Whatever your literary interests we are confident that Dorset will have an event to suit, Purbeck Literary Festival between 14th and 27th February showcases some of the many talents
both locally and nationally. 2017 will be the fourth year of the Purbeck Literary Festival and already we have had the great pleasure of looking forward to seeing some fabulous authors. These include Carole Matthews, Geraldine McCaughrean, Katie Fforde, Minette Walters and Della Galton.
Dorchester Literary Festival which is held 19th – 23rd October is also well worth a visit and is even supported by Jullian Fellowes, writer and Director of TV’s Downton Abbey. Picturesque Dorchester and the unspoiled countryside and dramatic coastal scenery surrounding it has inspired many of Britain’s best loved writers.
With a programme of events highlighting the latest books by today’s most original authors, the new festival warmly welcomes book-lovers to this beautiful setting. Whether you want to hear about the latest novels, discover more about new biographies, recent books on history, art, politics and the natural world, or attend workshops on writing and publishing your own work, there will be something to delight and inspire you.
The festival’s main events will be held in the grand hall of the County Museum, a quirky Victorian building filled with a fascinating collection of exhibits to enjoy. A detailed programme of events will be available in late summer
We are delighted to work closely with a fantastic local publisher, Roving Press, who produce insightful, interesting books about Dorset. You can purchase their wonderful titles from many of our local bookshops and visitor centres. All titles are available to buy from their website Roving Press. They cover a vast range of Dorset subjects, from helpful Lesser Known guides to places like Swanage, Weymouth, Christchurch and Lyme Regis to the paranormal in Purbeck and secret places in West Dorset.
Swanage and Purbeck are fantastic locations for a relaxing short break by the sea, why not come and enjoy the Purbeck Literary Festival event at the same time as enjoying a wonderful holiday or short break? See availability here
At Dorset Cottage Holidays we have a variety of quality accommodation for you to choose from, offering great value for money and a warm welcome.


3 Books To Know Lesbian Literature
These carefully selected works can be fiction, non-fiction, historical documents or even biographies.
We will always select for you three great works to instigate your mind, this time the topic is:Lesbian Literature.
- Orlando by Virginia Woolf.
- The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall.
- Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu.Orlando: A Biography is a novel by Virginia Woolf, first published on 11 October 1928. A high-spirited romp inspired by the tumultuous family history of Woolf's lover and close friend the aristocratic poet and novelist Vita Sackville-West, it is arguably one of Woolf's most popular novels: a history of English literature in satiric form. The book describes the adventures of a poet who changes sex from man to woman and lives for centuries, meeting the key figures of English literary history. Considered a feminist classic, the book has been written about extensively by scholars of women's writing and gender and transgender studies.
The Well of Loneliness is a lesbian novel by British author Radclyffe Hall that was first published in 1928 by Jonathan Cape. It follows the life of Stephen Gordon, an Englishwoman from an upper-class family whose "sexual inversion" (homosexuality) is apparent from an early age. She finds love with Mary Llewellyn, whom she meets while serving as an ambulance driver in World War I, but their happiness together is marred by social isolation and rejection, which Hall depicts as typically suffered by "inverts", with predictably debilitating effects. The novel portrays "inversion" as a natural, God-given state and makes an explicit plea: "Give us also the right to our existence".
Carmilla is an 1872 Gothic novella by Irish author Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and one of the early works of vampire fiction, predating Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897) by 26 years. First published as a serial in The Dark Blue, the story is narrated by a young woman preyed upon by a female vampire named Carmilla, later revealed to be Mircalla, Countess Karnstein (Carmilla is an anagram of Mircalla). The character is a prototypical example of the lesbian vampire, expressing romantic desires toward the protagonist, and is depicted as a trait of antagonism in line with the contemporary views of homosexuality. The story is often anthologized and has been adapted many times in film and other media.
This is one of many books in the series 3 Books To Know. If you liked this book, look for the other titles in the series, we are sure you will like some of the topics.
3 Books To Know Lesbian Literature ist als e-Book verfügbar.
Erscheinungsdatum : 2020-05-02
Verlag E-Book: Tacet Books
ISBN E-Book: 9783968583754
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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.:
The Man, The Minister, and The Champion
The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Seen as a great man for all that he accomplished as an adult; his eloquence and
inspiring words, the risks he took, his charismatic leadership of people who, despite
the violence and threats to their lives, fought for civil rights and economic opportunity.
While studying for his Doctor of Divinity degree at Boston University, Martin met
Coretta Scott who was attending the New England Conservatory of Music. They were
married in 1952, one year after meeting. Do you know about his childhood, his family,
why he chose to become a minister instead of the lawyer he first thought he would be,
or the source of his nonviolence philosophy?
He was raised in a household with his father, mother, grandmother, and two siblings. The family was close knit and God fearing. He was a “Jr.” but few know he was not named Martin when he was born. His name was Michael, his father’s name. When Michael turned five, his father changed both his and his son’s name to Martin Luther. However, at home, Martin was known as “M.L.” not “Jr.” Martin loved sports and played them well, and he enjoyed dancing, too. He experienced many happy moments growing up but the saddest moment was when his best friend told Martin the boy’s white parents forbid the kid to play with him because Martin was black. At a young age, Martin had gained keen insights to the injustices blacks experienced. As a fourteen-year-old, he wrote a winning essay on fair play and free opportunity for all. Martin was intelligent and hard working. He skipped two grades in high school, entering the famous Morehouse College at the age of 15 and graduating at the age of 19.
Martin had the benefit of having a father who was a Baptist minister whose oratory inspired and moved people. Martin saw and later demonstrated the power of the spoken word, building upon the teachings at home and later, from Crozer
Theological Seminary where he was class valedictorian. Despite being raised in this very special environment, his initial thought was to go to law school. However, he discovered his passion was in church leadership. He served as a minister and coaster at his “home” church, Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta and as pastor at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. He studied the works of Mahatma Gandhi and practiced what he learned in a violent and racist South where people of color had no rights and often were killed if they sought respect and equal treatment.
Forms of injustice took many forms including requiring black kids and white kids to go to different “separate but equal” schools. Black people could not drink from the same water fountains as white people. Black people on a bus had to either sit in the back of the bus if “colored seats” were available, or stand up giving their seats to white riders. Blacks were challenged with either difficulty to vote or no ability to vote. Blacks had no access to hotels nor could they eat in a restaurant. Their food, if served, was “to go”. Entrance to buildings, for blacks was around the side or in the back. There were virtually no legal protections for blacks against injustices perpetrated by whites.
Dr. King waded into this evil morass. His fiery oratory is reflected in everything he wrote and said. He traveled around the country speaking about injustice and civil rights; later, he linked the importance of economic equality to his message.His words, actions and deeds told a story of bravery, leadership and determination in an inconceivably hostile
environment. He went all over the country giving speeches. He gave 2,500 speeches just in the last eleven years of his life. His most famous speech, “I Have a Dream,” was given before an estimated crowd of 200,000 people on “The Mall” at the Washington Monument on August 28, 1963.
He marched in peaceful demonstrations, many of which were disrupted in violence caused by angry onlookers. Yet many of the marchers were arrested, not the troublemakers. Blacks and whites joined in these marches and demonstrations, risking bodily harm and even death. Yet the marches continued in protest of bad laws and ill treatment of blacks. Dr. King was arrested 30 times. The Selma March and the Montgomery Bus Boycott give very objective evidence of the brutality people seeking change faced. As a result of Dr. King’s actions, leaders globally recognized this inspirational leader by awarding him the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. He was just 35
Sadly, the closing chapter of his life where he sought to blend the power of economic equality and the need to assure equal treatment for all most likely led to his death. The Montgomery Bus Boycott demonstrated the power of the almighty dollar. This successful effort took a year to break the backs of the bus company there. It was a victory hatemongers did not want to see repeated. On April 4, 1968 while working with sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee to garner better pay, he was assassinated while standing on the balcony of his hotel. King gave his life for the causes in which he believed.


For an MBA student planning to build a career in Finance, general understanding of finance, financial statements, businesses and valuation are core areas where work is needed. In this line, a lot of worldly wisdom is available in the form of books that are remarkable for learning. We have carefully curated a list of books we believe you should go through, in order to broaden your perspective about financial analysis and business valuations. In this post , we are listing the books that you should read, and re-read, and you will see how this changes the way you look at finance and valuations.
The Ascent of Money – by Niall Ferguson
The book talks about the origins for various asset classes, and financial products, globally. A very interesting read from the perspective of financial history
Liar’s Poker – by Michael Lewis
A hilarious tale of an investment banker – and his view of the investment banking world
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
Behavioural Finance is one of the top areas of research in recent past, looking at biases that affect investors and analysts. This book takes a good look at those biases, and what we should be careful about while making assumptions in financial evaluation.
Fooled by Randomness – by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
A fascinating and original take on the way we assess risk, and how we tend to miscalculate risk in the financial world. Must Read for anyone who wants to be an analyst or investor.
The Intelligent Investor – by Benjamin Graham
Sort of a bible for any investor or analyst. Probably the first book recommended to anyone intending to analyse companies and valuations
The Little Book of Behavioral Investing: How Not to be Your Own Worst Enemy – by James Montier
This little book scores above many other books in helping us understand some of the major behavioural biases in analysis of companies and investments.
Value Investing and Behavioral Finance – Insights into Indian Stock Market Realities – by Parag Parikh
This is a book by legendary Indian Value investor, the late Mr Parag Parikh. With Indian markets as the backdrop, this book initiates you into long term company analysis.
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine – by Michael Lewis
Shows the story of global economy in 2007, just before the subprime crisis, and explains how a set of investors made money in those markets by being Short
When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management – by Roger Lowenstein
A book about the first major hedge fund to fail – The LTCM crisis.
If It’s Raining in Brazil, Buy Starbucks – by Peter Navarro
One of the best books linking global macro events to market moves. This would help understanding in the linkages between macroeconomic data and valuations of companies.
This list is obviously just a short initiation into the world of reading around finance. There is much more that can be done here. If there are any books around finance that you have found fascinating, do share about those in the comments section, so that others could benefit from those as well!!
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Friday, January 7, 2011
After watching a PBS painting show recently, I was moved to try my hand at painting some birds! Neither one turned out exactly as I wanted them to, but I really like painting birds!
I had purchased this little book on bird watching (that was published in 1955) from the library book store for 50 cents. It's such a sweet little book, with little paintings of all the different birds for people to look for. The previous owners of the book, had labeled all the birds that they had found, and where they saw them. So, I used a few of the birds in the book as inspiration. What fun!


In this post on Arduino Tutorial For Beginners, this topic about how to use Arduino to receive data from standard keyboard (101-, 102- , 104-) via PS2 cable type or USB type. But they are as same as each other so in this topic we only discuss about PS2 type, i will talk about USB type a little bit. If you want to build an external module instead of using Arduino directly, read this.
The PS/2 port is a 6-pin mini-DIN connector used for connecting keyboards and mice to a PC compatible computer system. Its name comes from the IBM Personal System/2 series of personal computers, with which it was introduced in 1987. Although it has 6 pins but we only use 4/6pins: +5V, GND, Data and Clk.
Look at the picture below to know the keyboard frame transfer. Assume when we press any keys on keyboard the keyboard will transfer a data packet . Each data packet consists of 11 bits. These are 1 start bit (a), 8 data bits, parity and stop bit (b) as the picture.
The keyboard will pull the clock pin from HIGH to LOW (>100us) for ready to start , then send 8 data bits and then parity and stop bit.
Is it simple, right?. Below is some HEX data will be transferred when press the keyboard. On Arduino we have to decompose those signal and then compare with the default keyboard scan code table.
These signals are very fast so simple pooling pin state would be too slow and we could be lost some data. Because of this, we use external interrupt (INT1) on Arduino for clock falling edge detection and readout of key data. We can use INT1 or INT0 but in the PS2 library they use INT1 , so we only use INT1 to commute with the keyboard, you can change it to INT0 if you want. This is the library, please download ‘PS2Keyboard002.zip’ because that is the standard library, I’m not sure the other library can work properly. Below is INT1 pin on Arduino
After downloaded the library, we also add it to Arduino IDE as the picture below via ‘Add. ZIP library’ and browse to the directory which you had just downloaded the PS2 library.
Next, to run this library on new Arduino IDE version, we need to edit some code insde PS2Keyboard.cpp, follow the instruction.
Go to the Arduino library directory, which contain all user library downloading from the internet. The directory normally is: ‘ThisPC/Documents/Arduino/libraries/’ access to the PS2Keyboard folder and open ‘PS2Keyboard.cpp’ file, edit code as the picture below
Okay, now let’s connect PS2 cable to Arduino as the diagram below
Copy and paste below code then enjoy the project:
#include PS2Keyboard mykb;
mykb.begin(4); //Data pin
Serial.begin(9600); //Init Serial Monitor with baud = 9600
byte datarecei = mykb.read(); // Save receive data
Serial.println(dataracei,HEX); // Print to SerialMonitor data receive as HEX
The USB type is as the same as the PS2 type, below is USB type pinout, keep the old code and connect the USB type to Arduino and enjoy the project.