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I write poetry, fiction, essays, and this blog. I write on napkins in restaurants, too. My poetry collection”How it Happens” was published by Nomadic Press (2018) and nominated for a California Book Award. My work has appeared in The Lake County Bloom, WORDPEACE, riverbabble, The Squaw Review, Milvia Street, The New Voices of the American West, Temba Tupu! Walking Naked, and elsewhere.
I support fledgling and experienced writers, performers and public speakers in telling their stories. I am a college instructor, tutor, writing workshop leader, writing coach, and have been called a “writers’ midwife” by students and clients. I help writers build confidence, strengthen craft and develop audience awareness. I love dark chocolate, yoga, T’ai chi, walking, hiking, dancing and music.
You can follow me on Instagram @joypoetry and Twitter @joypoetyoung
I’m reaching out to you in hopes to have you read any of your wonderful works at an Open Mic event @ Black Diamond Cafe. We’ve met briefly a couple weeks before your reading at Berkeley Public Library on Claremont recently. We would be very grateful to be graced with your presence.
Of course I remember you and thanks so much for getting in touch! I’d be happy to read at the open mic @ Black Diamond Cafe. I will send you an email to get the details.


Save the Date: AACF to Hold Advocacy Academy on Auguest 29
Are you ready to champion children’s issues in Arkansas? Learn how!
Join us for an “Advocacy Academy” on August 29 in Fayetteville. You’ll learn how to engage elected officials, the media and like-minded allies to further your own cause, as well as how to join Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families in our fight to protect and improve children’s opportunities in the coming year.
August 29, 9:30-12:30*
Fayetteville Public Library’s Walker Community Room
Registration is free, but seating is limited. Email email@example.com to RSVP or call (479) 927-9800.
*Beverages and snacks will be available, though lunch is not provided.


TFI Research and PureSoftware Publish the Global Enterprise Hyperautomation Report 2022
The Enterprise Hyperautomation Report 2022 from TFI Research and PureSoftware is the most comprehensive study of enterprise hyperautomation to date. It assesses the state of hyperautomation across 19 industries and 10 geographies, providing a detailed view of how organizations are approaching this transformative technology.
This report explores the following topics:
- The benefits of hyperautomation and how it can be used to drive digital transformation
- The maturity of hyperautomation across industries and geographies
- The challenges organizations face when implementing hyperautomation
- The technologies and tools that are being used for hyperautomation
- The future of hyperautomation and its impact on the enterprise
The report is based on a survey of over 451 business and IT decision-makers from around the world. It includes detailed insights and data from 19 industries and 10 geographies.
Download the report to learn more about the state of hyperautomation and how it is being used to drive digital transformation.


Marie graduated Magna Cum Laude from Montclair State University (2001) with a BS in Finance. She is well-versed in business jargon, having worked for more than 25 years in various industries, from publishing to banking to pharmaceuticals.
Marie is devoted to supporting and volunteering at the JBI Library (established in 1931 as the Jewish Braille Institute), and Learning Ally in NYC. She sets time aside to record books so that those who are visually impaired, and educationally challenged can also enjoy published works of art. She also participates as a member of The Online Stage, a volunteer collective of narrators and actors who create high quality productions of classic dramatic works in audio format.
Member, CineTech Media Professionals (formerly mca-i)
Member, Audio Publishers Association
Member, Suburban Essex Chamber of Commerce
Founding Member, World-Voices Organization (WoVO)
Member,NJ Ad Club
Member, Women in Voiceover
Member, The Online Stage
Hardware: 6x6 recording booth, Audio-Technica AT4040 microphone, Scarlett Focusrite 2i2 interface, Sony MDR-7506 headphones, ASUS laptop, Seagate external hard drive
Software: Adobe Audition CC
Files delivered via mp3 wav, and flac
Marie brings skill and confidence to every project. Her voiceover experience includes audiobooks, eLearning and online learning tutorials, telephone voice mail and corporate narration.
Her vocal attributes — educated, articulate, engaging, mature, believable and trustworthy — create an air of warmth and wisdom.


Our Notion Reading List template makes it easy to keep on track of what you're reading and take notes as you go, revolving around a central database, so you don't have to hunt around to find notes for a particular title. Just select it from your library and you'll be able to find all observations research associated with it.
Unlike most of the Notion templates we release, this one is not free: We're selling it for $5 to cover the cost of the time we spent creating it. You'll be presented with a link to save the template to your Notion Workspace immediately after purchasing it and through email as well for safekeeping should you need to use it in the future.
You can save Notion templates, through the Notion App for Android, iOS, Mac and Windows, and through Notion for Web. We have some detailed instructions on Notion Wizard that'll walk you through how to save the template to your Workspace if it's your first time using one. In a sentence: Click the Duplicate button at the top.


Liisa’s wonderland, an illustrator’s story
By Carina Chela
Photos: Sami Sallinen
One sunny day at the beach Little Papu, a Finnish tortoise, takes his shell off to go for a swim. But while he is swimming, his shell shrinks and he doesn’t fit in it anymore. Fortunately, he solves the problem and finds a red glove that makes an excellent outfit, at least for a while. That’s the start of Little Papu’s life.
Little Papu is a series of books written by Liisa Kallio, one of Finland’s most prolific children’s writers. In 2010, Kallio was awarded the prestigious Kylli Koski Award for her Little Papu book Pikku Papu. She has also been nominated twice for the Finlandia Junior Prize. Together with author Hiroko Sakomura, Kallio is working on a book about Milla the elf which will be published in September 2016 by the Japanese publishing company Bunkeido.
Why children’s books?
It all started when I was working as a graphic designer at YLE, the Finnish Broadcasting Company. They asked if I was interested in making the animations for their Christmas calendar. They needed elves, birds, all sorts of little creatures. I immediately thought it was a great idea. Later on the publishing company Tammi asked if I wanted to illustrate the same story but as a book. Shortly after my first daughter was born, I decided to write and illustrate my first book which tells the story of a new-born baby. I was a bit surprised the book took off so well. That was very important for me: my first book!
To find a way for both tools, text and image, to alternate and tell the story. It’s all about storytelling. I love it when the drawing is really turning out the way I want it to. When it flows it feels good. Or when I’ve found the solution to a drawing, that aha! moment is also awesome. And I love it when there’s not much left and the book is almost completed. I guess I enjoy the whole process! But I also like to illustrate other authors’ books.
How would you define your own style?
A lot of my work is done by hand, I only use a computer for a few things. My style is that I have several styles. But I know what my limits are. For instance, I’m not good at drawing cars but I can draw emotions and social relationships quite well. My aim is to simplify texts as well as the images.
Do you work in silence or do you listen to music?
I like to listen to audio books when I don’t have to do any so-called intellectual work and I’ve made all the decisions about how I’m going to proceed with the illustration. I like Agatha Christie, they are great stories! It has to be a book that doesn’t make me think too much. But it works when I have to only draw. Sometimes I look at my books and I remember what audio book I was listening to when I drew a squirrel or a bunny. It’s quite funny!
Tell us about the Little Papu world you have created.
We invented the tortoise’s name with my daughters on a car trip. First came the books, then the Little Papu Orchestra, the song books and CDs. I love writing poems and they are great as lyrics. It’s an incredible feeling when I go to a Little Papu concert and all the children in the hall know and sing the Little Papu songs!
Are you ever short of ideas?
Nope, never. Sometimes I have to repeat a sketch many times before I get it right. But that’s part of the creative process. The process offers you alternatives, different paths you can take, or different ways of associating ideas. If everything evolves perfectly then I would stop searching. I’m the type of illustrator who can go on forever before getting to the final version. It doesn’t matter how simple the illustration is.
The magic comes from my own daily life. When I have time for myself I start consciously developing a story, but I need that time. To maintain that continuous working flow I often start thinking about the next book when I am about to finish working on another book. Having ideas gives me a sense of security.
Any new projects?
I’m starting to work on a comic book for adults. But I won’t say any more about that!


La Tene and Celtic Society
These artistic and technological developments were the marks of a sophisticated cultural movement. They point to the rise of the Celtic tribes as European powers. Historical sources record this as the period when Celtic tribes were becoming increasingly warlike, even challenging the burgeoning roman empire by invading and attacking areas of Italy.
At the same time, although the Celts remained as fragmented tribes, they were bound by social and religious customs. Their society was by no means undeveloped. As far as Britain, there are examples of tribal chieftains minting their own coins. The Celts of the La Tene period also practised the organised manufacturing of goods, as indicated by the evidence of a pottery factories in Germany.
La Tene was the period that firmly fixed the legendary figure of the creative Celtic warrior firmly in the imagination.
Read more at Suite101: The La Tene Period: The Pinnacle of Celtic Iron Age Culture | Suite101.com http://natasha-sheldon.suite101.com/the-la-tene-period-a128545#ixzz1uc3kPQWt


With time on our side, nothing can really stop us from binge watching our favourite Korean shows day and night. However, beyond the thrill of seeing these swoon-worthy actors play different roles and engage in riveting storylines, aren’t we all particularly curious as to where they film all these star-studded shows?
In case you’ve been staying up to date with the latest drama craze, we’re sure you’ve encountered a handful of scenes being shot at one familiar library. Tall, brown wooden shelves, an array of colourful books, and spacious contemporary interior—do these sound familiar to you? If not, we can take a trip down memory lane first!
Now that you remember, then we're pretty sure you long to take some pics in this scenic location! Well, you're certainly in luck because we found the exact Korean library where these were all filmed.
Situated in Paju Book City, Gyeonggi-do, the Forest of Wisdom Library can most certainly be called an Instagrammable bibliophilia haven. Its floor-to-ceiling wooden shelves boast over 500,000 books spanning multiple genres like poetry, fiction novels, and essays.
Having said that, if you’re a book lover, you can surely find a nook and settle in for a good read. A few hours away from Seoul, the library’s modern contemporary design has attracted many tourists and has become a hotspot for our beloved K-drama settings. See all other K-dramas that have also featured the same scenic library!
She Was Pretty
I Am Not A Robot
Hwayugi (A Korean Odyssey)
A World of Married
The Forest of Wisdom library is located at 145 Hoedong-gil, Gyoha-dong, Paju-si, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea.


War or peace?
(Hendrik van der Breggen, PhD, is associate professor of philosophy at Providence University College. After high school, Hendrik served for three years as an infantryman in the Canadian Armed Forces. The views in this column do not always reflect the views of Providence.)
- Daniel M. Bell, Just War as Christian Discipleship: Recentering the Tradition in the Church rather than the State
- J. Daryl Charles, Between Pacifism and Jihad: Just War and Christian Tradition
- C. S. Lewis, “Why I am not a Pacifist,” in The Weight of Glory (etc.)
- J. Warner Wallace, “Is Jesus a pacifist?”


Friends of The Historic McCormick Farm was formed to increase public awareness and appreciation of this historic site and to encourage financial support for its preservation and interpretation.
The McCormick Farm, also known as Walnut Grove, was the family farm of Cyrus Hall McCormick, who improved and patented the mechanical reaper and “brought about the greatest revolution in farming since the invention of the plow." Designated a National Historic Landmark in 1962, the McCormick Farm is owned by Virginia Tech and the historic core is open to the public. The farm is located in northern Rockbridge County and southern Augusta County, Virginia.
"Cyrus McCormick and the Rise of the Megacorps" is by historian Barry Machado, Professor Emeritus of Washington and Lee University, and was published in the most recent volume of the Proceedings of the Rockbridge Historical Society.
"Lion of the Hour" by Mary Miley Theobald was published in Virginia Living magazine.


Recently I received an e-book from Waterbrook to read and review for you guys. This book is called Cleaning House by Kay Wills Wyma. I will share with you a description of the book and then post my review below:
Do your kids expect clean folded clothes to magically appear in their drawers? Do they roll their eyes when you suggest they clean the bathroom? By racing in to make their lives easy, have you unintentionally reinforced your children’s belief that the world revolves around them?
Dismayed at the attitude of entitlement that had crept into her home, Kay Wyma got some attitude of her own. Cleaning House is her account of a year-long campaign to introduce her five kids to basic life skills and the ways meaningful work can increase earned self-confidence and concern for others.
With irresistible humor and refreshing insights, Kay candidly details the ups and downs of equipping her kids for such tasks as making beds, refinishing a deck chair, and working together. The changes that take place in her household will inspire you to launch your own campaign to dislodge your kids from the center of their universe.
I am always reading parenting books! Being a first time, new parent I always am on the lookout for a new parenting book to read so I was very interested when they sent me this book. I initially thought it was going to be the type of book that you can read out of order like most self-help books. But this book is written more in a story form. I found myself being drawn into the story and wanting to keep reading to find out how her kids did with the change. The author lists 12 things she wants her kids to be able to know and do when they leave her house which I thought was very interesting. I had never thought about making a list of things I want my child to learn before she's 18 but I think it's a great idea. I loved that this book was not only about teaching kids chores but also teaching them valuable life lessons such as loving their neighbor and family teamwork. I didn't agree with all of her ideas but it was a worthwhile read and the author peppered in humor in the book that made it a fun, easy read. I think it would be a great book for new parents wanting to get the upper hand on family chores and teamwork before their kids get out of hand and I also think it would be a great book for families who need help getting their teenagers involved in day to day lives.


Chinese Pinyin: Xiào Ào Jiāng Hú
Simplified Chinese: 笑傲江湖
Traditional Chinese: 笑傲江湖
Artist: Lee Chi Ching
Author: Jin Yong
Series begins: 2002
Series ends: 2004
Area: Hong Kong 港漫
Manhua Genre: Action, Adaption, Drama, Martial Arts/Wuxia, Shaonian
The Smiling, Proud Wanderer is the novel written by Jing Yong. This novel is so popular that it has been adapted to TV series and films at least 10 times. The plot of this manhua is adapted from this novel, too. Jing Yong’s novels are so popular in China that every one knows.
The story’s development revolves around a coveted martial arts manual known as the Bixie Swordplay Manual. This Manual is so powerful that every one want to get it. Who will get this Manual at last?


So, onto the next mammoth book by Edward Rutherfurd who is known – perhaps uniquely – for creating a story around the history of a place and populating it with characters and their descendants as we move through history’s most memorable events. This time, he has chosen to take on the geographically mighty Russia, telling its history from the second century AD through to 1990 and the end of Communism.
If you have read at least one of his works, you know what go expect. Each chapter is a set in a different time period; familiarity is exercised through the descendants of those in the previous chapters so continuity is maintained through the ongoing feuds, marriages, business partnerships etc. Of the work I have read, this approach is no better demonstrated than in Sarum. For me it remains his best work.
Early part has a different feel – not about events but how Russia appears as the world changes around them. Rarely do we see specific events, they arw referred to as external agencies. This was the approach he took in The Forest and I don’t feel it worked there. It works a little better here and the novel feels stronger for it. Russia is, after all, a large place and there is only so much that we can cover. The New Forest in comparison is tiny so there would/should have been greater scope to develop this.
Reading the 11th century chapter, I felt my heart begin to sink. Here was all the problems that made me almost give up on London. We follow the journey of one young boy as he grows up seeking to enter into a religious life. Unfortunately, too much time passes in too short a chapter (though the chapter is not long) and I didn’t feel emotionally engaged enough. Nor are those characters are particularly likeable. As a lover of the medieval period, this should have been one of the most enjoyable sections for me. It wasn’t.
I was pleased to feel more engaged with the story of Yanka in 1246. A difficult section to read due to the unpleasant relationship she has with her father after her brother is taken and her mother killed by Tatars. But she is soon swept off to Novgorod for a life she always wanted… but it isn’t a bed of roses. It was fascinating to see this high medieval world looked in Russia instead of the much-covered western Europe and crusades into the Holy Land.
The story really opens up in the story of Ivan (1552) and this, arguably, is where the story of Russka truly begins. Ivan the Terrible was the first Tsar of Russia who turned it into an empire worthy of the name. This then, for obvious reasons, is one of the longest chapters at around 120 pages of this 1000 page book. For such a pivotal point in Russian history, it is not a great chapter and I would have preferred to see some of these events rather than merely having characters discuss them (my major complaint about The Forest).
The next few chapters are largely about religious strife between their Polish Catholic rivals and Orthodox Russians. There is no greater discussion of this than in The Cossack before we move onto Peter (The Great). After this we move onto Catherine and as with London, this is where the book really takes off.
The 19th century was arguably the most pivotal period in Russian history. A century before the revolution, anti-aristocracy feelings were growing as the up and coming middle classes looked to successful empires westward. Napoleon sought to conquer Russia, the Crimean War and the beginnings of Communist thought. Rutherfurd deals with these chapters quite well but it is not a particularly interesting read. I find that he makes a habit of this sometimes, creating a mundane story set in what should one of the most interesting periods of the history of the place he covers.
We also see the end of the empire and the first stirrings of revolutionary thought from the 1870s. This is interesting and adds context to the final 150 or so pages even if again, it isn’t particularly fascinating as a story. What is clear is that revolution had a few false starts in this period, various uprisings within Ukraine and Russia from various factions that were suppressed or petered out and finally find success in the fateful 1916.
And finally to the incident filled 20th century and of course, it is rife with political discussion, on clashes between the Bolshevik and Menshevik before we move onto beyond the revolution and the beginning of the Soviet state. We even get to experience trench warfare as Germany attacks Russia in 1914. It is interesting to see the transition of the family lines right through the period though the Cold War is barely covered as we hope from WWI to WWII and then immediately to 1990 in the space of 30 pages. Rarely does Rutherfurd allow wider events to take over the storytelling. Again, I did not like this element of The Forest but it worked much better here, possibly because he is using the method so late on in the book when the families are established.
Overall, the majority of this book was too middle of the road, too plodding to be truly enjoyable or to truly absorb yourself into the prose. It is better as educational fiction; few people in the west have a level of understanding of Russian history that is deserving of its colourful past and that is the strength of this book. There could have been a little more in the way of experiencing events that made Russian history.
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From 2011 to 2018, I worked as an amateur and professional in singing vocal synthesis. More precisely, I was creating vocal libraries used by various libraries, mainly UTAU and Alter/Ego.
I began working with UTAU first by the end of 2011 on an unnamed and deleted Japanese vocal library. While I didn’t maintain it for long, mainly due to its bad recording quality (I recorded it with a low-end desktop microphone) and configuration, it did teach me the basics of creating vocal libraries and working with audio files.
In October 14th, 2012, I released my second vocal library, named BSUP01 KEINE Tashi JPN VCV which was of higher quality both due to the recording equipment, manner of recording, and configuration, though still relatively average for the time. My best work with this series of vocal libraries was BSUP01 KEINE Tashi JPN Extend Power, a high-energy voice made in similar circumstances but with yet again better know-how.
This series of vocal libraries also featured BSUP01 KEINE Tashi TIB CVVC and BSUP02 Drolma TIB, the two first Tibetan vocal libraries for singing vocal synthesis worldwide.
I later created in UTAU ALYS 001 JPN, ALYS 001 FRA, and ALYS 002 FRA as prototypes, known as ALYS4UTAU, for our upcoming product while working at VoxWave.
While all these vocal libraries have been discontinued, vocal libraries for BSUP01 KEINE Tashi and ALYS are available for download. Please refer to the following pages:
Due to the architecture and behaviour of Alter/Ego, important changes had to be done to the recording script for ALYS (later re-used for LEORA). Including the development of the new recording scripts, the initial development period for ALYS spanned well over a year, with some additional eight to nine months for its first major update.
ALYS for Alter/Ego, also known as ALYS4AE, is available free of charge as a module for Alter/Ego


References for Ingersoll [as of 10-20-98]
[Number at end of each line (in bold) is the number of "hits" for Ingersoll in that reference]
OTHER INGERSOLL REFERENCES :
John Ingersoll of Westfield
First Settlers of New England by Savage
Genealogical Dictionary of New England Settlers, Volume 2
Colonial Families of America edited by Ruth Lawrence; vol 11
Families of Early Hartford CT taken from First Church and Hartford Town records. Compiled before 1934-printed 1977; , Lucius Barbour
"Hampshire Records of Births, Marriages and Deaths, 1638-1696" maintained by William Pynchon (1590-1662) & John Pynchon (1621-1703)
GENEALOGICAL NOTES, or, Contributions to the Family History of Some of the First Settlers of Conn. & Mass. By Nathaniel Goodwin. 372p. (1856) 1987.
GENEALOGICAL & FAMILY HISTORY OF THE STATE OF CT: Record of the Achievements of her People in the Making of a Commonwealth & the Founding of a Nation. Ed. by Wm. Richard Cutter, et al. 4 vols., 2208p. (Lweis Hist. Pub. Co.; 1911) 1997.
THE HISTORY OF NORTHAMPTON MA, from its Settlement in 1654. By J. R. Trumbull. 2 vols., 628+699pp. (1898) 1992.
WESTFIELD MA and its Historical Influences, 1669-1919: the Life of an Early Town, with a Survey of Events in New England & Bordering Regions to which it was Related in Colonial & Revolutionary Times. By Rev. John H. Lockwood. 2 vols.,621+506p. (1922) 1996.
(SPRINGFIELD) SKETCHES OF THE OLD INHABITANTS & Other Citizens of Old Springfield of the Present Century, & its Historic Mansions of "ye olden tyme. "With 124 illustrations. By Charles W. Chapin. 431p. (1893) 1993.
THE FIRST CENTURY OF THE HISTORY OF SPRINGFIELD: The Official Records from 1636 to 1736, with an Historical Review & Biographical Mention of the Founders. By Henry M. Burt. 2 vols., 473+712p. (1899) 1995.
SPRINGFIELD, 1636-1886, History of Town and City, Including an Account of the Quarter-Millennial Celebration. By Mason A. Green. 645p. (C.A. Nichols & Co.;1888) 1995.
HISTORY OF GREAT BARRINGTON, Berkshire Co. By C. Taylor. 516pp. (1882) 1987.
HISTORY OF GREAT BARRINGTON, 1676-1882, Extended to 1922. Orig. by Charles J. Taylor, extended by George E. McLean. 620pp. (1928) 1992.
GENEALOGIES OF THE FAMILIES & DESCENDANTS OF THE EARLY SETTLERS OF WATERTOWN, Incl. Waltham & Weston; to which is Appended the Early History of the Town. By Henry Bond. 1094p, 2 vols. in 1. (2nd ed. 1860) 1991. (First section is a compendium of the earliest settlers of Watertown & some families from surrounding areas. The second is a brief history of the settlement, concentrating on the early decades.)
VITAL RECORDS OF LEE, 1777-1801, from the Records of the Town Congregation Church & Inscriptions in the Early Burial Grounds [with baptisms]. 108p.,paper. (1897) 1996.
GRAVESTONE INSCRIPTIONS, LEE, MASSACHUSETTS, in Three Parts: 1773-1800, 1801-25,1826-50; Also Deaths Recorded 1775-1800 & Marriages by Dr Hyde Prior to 1801.Comp. by D.M. Wilcox. 124p., paper. n.d. 1996.
(Lee) THE CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION & CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF LEE. Comp. by C.M. Hyde & Alexander Hyde. 352pp. (1878) 1922.
HISTORY OF CUYAHOGA COUNTY & THE CITY OF CLEVELAND, Historical & Biographical. By Wm. R. Coates. 3 vols. in 2, 555+641p. (American Hist. Society; 1924) 1997. The set: $115.00 Part I, History. $58.00 Part II, Biography.
(CUYAHOGA CO.) INDEX TO THE ADMINISTRATION DOCKETS OF THE PROBATE COURTS OF CUYAHOGA CO., Showing Estates Administered ...from March 5,1811 to Dec. 31, 1896. Comp. by F.M. Chandler. 192p., paper. (1897)1997.
HISTORY OF CUYAHOGA COUNTY, with Portraits & Biographical Sketches of Some of its Prominent Men & Pioneers. Comp. by Crisfeld Johnson.534p. (1879) 1993.
LORD: Descendants of Thomas Lord of Hartford, Ct., by Kenneth Lord. 92p. 1945.
BIRD: Genealogy of the Bird family of Hartford, by I. Bird 24p. 1855.
BASCOM: Harris, Edward Doubleday, "A Genealogical Record of Thomas Bascom and his Descendants.", Boston; William Parsons Lunt, 1870.
HUNT: Genealogy of the name & fam. of Hunt, by T. Wyman. 430p. 1862-3.
WEBSTER. Gen. of some desc. of John Webster of Ipswich, Ma., in 1635, by Lapham & Webster. 14p. 1884.
WEBSTER. Some of the desc. of John Webster of Ipswich, Mass., 1634, by J.C. Webster. 92p. 1912.
WEBSTER: History & gen. of the Gov. John Webster fam. of Conn., by W.H. &M.R. Webster. 833+827p. 2 vols. 1915.
Blackman and Allied Families by Alfred L Holman
* GEORGE, Salem, s. of Richard, b. a. 1618, had there gr. of ld. 1639, by w. Eliz. had Joseph, b. 14 Oct. 1646; Eliz. 1 Feb. 1648, d. soon; Eliz. again, 19 Mar. 1651; rem. to Gloucester, was there a selectman 1652, and ha Mary, 12 Aug. 1657; rem. [p.520] to Falmouth, and his other ch. George and Samuel may have been b. there; from 1675 he was at Falmouth, and was the lieut. call. by Hutch. I. 266, foll. the Col. Rec. 1668, Ingerfield, driv. away at the destruct. of the tow by the Ind. 1676, where one of his s. was k. the former yr. Williamson says he was a rep. 1683 and 5, and that must have been to Maine Legislat.; was liv. at Salem 1694. Willis, I. 64, 210. George, not his s. was k. by the Ind. 16 July 1690; but he may have been a neph.; and Willis refers to a s. of first George, k. by the Ind. 1676.
GEORGE, Falmouth, s. of the preced. rem. to Charlestown, after the sec. destruct. of F. there on 10 Dec. 1693 brot. his ch. to unite with the ch.: Eliz. aged 18; Sarah, 16; an Bethia, 14; at least so far as then to be bapt. his d. Mary hav. d. 14 Oct. preced. The formality of owning the covenant was suffic. But on 12 July 1696 he and his w. Catharine more solemnly join. the ch. he then aged a. 50 was bapt. and their other ch. George, aged 13; Daniel, 6; Catharine, 4; and Lydia, 1.
JOHN, Salem, mariner, prob. s. of Richard, b. in Eng. or perhaps, but less likely, on the voyage hither, went with Gloucester people to New London, a. 1643, but back in a yr. or two, had John, Nathaniel, Ruth, and Richard, all bapt. 10 Sept. 1654; Sarah, 3 June 1655; Samuel, 6 Oct. 1658, as he wrote it, or by ano. rec. 30 Jan. 1659; Deborah, 1668; was freem. 1668; rem. to Casco, had there Ephraim; Mary; Rachel; and Abigail; beside a d. wh. m.Brown, and d. bef. her f. Driv. by the Ind. war from Falmouth, he sett. at Kittery, d. 1716, leav. wid. Deborah aged 71, and the ch. Elisha; Nathaniel; John; Ephraim; Deborah, wh. m. Benjamin Larrabee; Mary Low; Rachel, w. of John Chapman; and Abigail Blacey. Willis I. 211. Sarah m. 1676, William Ropes.
JOHN, Hartford 1653, or earlier, m. a. 1651, Dorothy, d. of Thomas Lord, had Hannah, b. 1652; Dorothy, 1654; and rem. to Northampton, where his w. d. in giv. b. to Margery, Jan. 1656. He m. sec. w. 2 Dec. foll. Abigail, d. of Thomas Bascom, had Abigail, 11 Jan. 1659; Sarah, 30 Oct. 1660; Abiah, or Abigail, 24 Aug. 1663; Esther, 9 Sept. 1665; rem. to Westfield next yr. had Thomas, 28 Mar. 1668, and his w. d. that yr. By third w. Mary, sis. of Jonathan Hunt, and gr.d. of Gov. Webster, had John, 19 Oct. 1669; Abel, 11 Nov. 1671; Ebenezer, 15 Oct. 1673, d. young; Joseph, 16 Oct. 1675, wh. was k. by the Ind. in the assault on Deerfield, 29 Feb. 1704; Mary, 17 Nov. 1677, d. young; Benjamin, 15 Nov. 1679, d. at 7 yrs.; and Jonathan, 10 May 1681; and d. 3 Sept. 1684, and his wid. d. 18 Aug. 1690; but one high authority says, 1 Sept.
Thirteen of the ch. were liv. when the est. of their f. was div. and ten so late as 1707. Hannah m. 15 Nov. 1672, Stephen Kelsey; Dorothy m. 2 May 1672, Jacob Phelps, and next, m. a Root; Margery m. 5 Dec. 1679, Jacob Goffe, and next, Jonathan Buck; Abigail m. Thomas Rix, and next, Joshua Wells; Sarah m.Barnes; [p.521] Abiah, or Abigail m. Jedediah Strong; and Esther m. William Gurley, to wh. she bore only Samuel, ancest. of Rev. Samuel, chaplain to Congress; and m. next Benoni Jones, wh. with her s. Benjamin was k. by the Ind. 13 May 1704 in that part of Northampton call. Pascomuck, while she was car. prison. to Canada, there d. next yr.
JOIIN, Westfield, s. of the preced. m. 1699, Isabel Brown, had Isabel, b. 18 Mar. 1701; and he d. 18 May 1750. His wid. liv. to 26 Jan. 1772, in her 96th yr.
JONATHAN, Milford, youngest br. of the preced. liv. at M. 1698, was a joiner 1714, by w. Sarah, wh. d. 14 Feb. 1748, in 62d yr. had Jonathan, b. 1713; Sarah, 16 June 1716, d. young; Mary, 14 Dec. 1718, d. young; David, 4 Sept. 1720; Jared, 3 June 1722, wh. was f. of Jared, disting. as a lawyer and judge at Philadelphia; and Sarah, again, whose b. is not found.
JOSPII, Falmouth, s. of George, m. a d. of Matthew Coe, had Benjamin and prob. other ch. rem. in the Ind. war to Gloucester, there d. 12 Mar. 1718. His s. Benjamin went back to F. bef. his f. d.
NATHANIEL, Salem, s. of Richard, not b. in Eng. was an innholder, m. Hannah Collins, it is said, had only d. wh. d. bef. him; was chos. deac. 24 Nov. 1689 of that ch. at the village now Danvers, where the devil had his great triumphs, many of the trials of the witches being held at his ho.; was freem. 1690, and lieut. d. early in 1719. From him, thro. fem. line, descend. the late emin. mathemat. Nathaniel Bowditch, translat. of La Place, all whose ch. bear this fam. name. Young's Chron. of Mass. 178. Nathaniel wh. perish. in shipwr. 1 Apr. 1683, may have been his s.
RICHARD, Salem 1629, came with Higginson, bring w. and childr. was from Co. Bedford, kept the ferry at N. riv. d. 1644. His will of 21 July 1644, pro. 2 Jan. 1645, ment. w. Ann, s. George, John, and Nathaniel, the youngest, s.-in-law Richard Pettingell, wh. m. his d. Joanna, and William Haines, wh. m. his d. Sarah, that had sec. h. Joseph Houlton, also ds. Alice, w. of Josiah Walcot, and Bathsheba, the youngest, wh. m. John Knight, jr. and bef. 1652, his f. John Knight m. her mo. Ann, wh. d. 1677. In his inv. a pair of oxen is set down as of the value of £14, and his farm of fifty acres £7.
RICHARD, Salem, perhaps gr.s. of the preced. cast away in a vessel of wh. he was capt. 1 Apr. 1683 at Cape Cod.
SAMUEL, Falmouth, s. of the first George, driv. by the Ind. hostil. went to Charlestown, his w. Judith brot. to bapt. their ch. Samuel, Josiah, Jonathan, Rebecca, and Dorcas, all on 10 June 1694; and David, 1 Sept. 1695. He, 12 July 1696, aged near 50 was bapt. Often this is writ. on the rec. Ingerston, or Engerston. Such is the statem. to be gain. from rec. but it is evid. that ano.
SAMUEL of Salem, prob. s. of John, was the younger by a. ten yrs. whose memo. of the fam. are print. in Essex Hist. Coll. I. 12. Of hims. he ment. birth in Oct. 1658, of his w. Sarah (whose surname he omits), 11 Dec. 1665, [p.522] m. 28 Apr. 1684, had Sarah, b. 12 Oct. 1686; Margaret, 8 Apr. 1690; and Susanna, 4 Dec. 1692. He was a capt. and merch. trad. to Newfoundland, Sal Tortugas, and Barbados, and d. a. 1695, leav. decent est. His wid. m. Philip English, as sec. w.
THOMAS, Westfield, s. of John of the same, m. 22 July 1692, Sarah, d. of David Ashley, had five ch. of wh. four, Thomas, b. 27 Nov. 1692; Moses, 10 Feb. 1695; Miriam, 4 June 1697; and David, 30 Sept. 1699, outliv. him. He had 21 Jan. 1708, for sec. w. Abigail, d. of Samuel Blackman, wid. of Hezekiah Dickinson, mo. of famous Jonathan and Moses; rem. to Springfield; and his w. d. 30 Mar. 1719; and in May 1720 for third w. had Ruth Childs of Watertown; and d. 14 Nov. 1732. Often the name writ. was Ingerson. Nineteen of this name had been, in 1834, gr. at the N. E. coll. of wh. only three at Harv.


This was an exceptional book and I am so glad that I read it. Wilkinson shows us in this books ways that we can become partners with God so that we are able to enjoy the everyday little miracles that are thrown our way. Not only does this book talk about everyday miracles that you can experience with knowing God, it also helps you understand new ways of becoming closer to God. This book also shows you how to be yourself and that the plan for your life was created by God the same day that God created you. A wonderful read for anyone who needs to be enlightened.
I received this book for free from WaterBrook Multnomah Publishing Group for this review


Party Planet is THE hangout spot for tabletop gaming! Drop by to check out a wide selection of games, ranging from easy-to-learn party games to more complex strategy games. Some are competitive, some are cooperative. Take them for a test run, or sit down to play a full game.
We can help you choose a game that fits your group's size and the amount of time you'd like to play. Solo players are encouraged to drop by as well, and we'll help you find a group!
Party Planet can be found on the library's 9th floor in the Winter Garden. Here you'll also find workshops, presentations, and game tutorials to explore.


Denman was born in Calgary, Alberta, and spent her childhood in a house one street away from the open prairie. When she was 11, her family moved to Delta, British Columbia, and she got to know life on the coast: tides, clam digging, rain gear, green grass year-round and enormous trees. It was there that Kim and her sisters got their first pony. She continued to live near Vancouver for many years while finishing school, attending college, and eventually getting married and starting a family. She always loved writing and when her teen children and their friends provided inspiration and re-kindled memories of this challenging passage, writing for teens became an irresistible venture.
Stuff We All Get. Fifteen-year-old Zack finds a home made CD with the word Famous written on it. Orca Currents. Orca Sports. Orca Soundings. Rapid Reads. Just Enough. My Great Bear Rainforest. The World Around Us. Great Bear Books. Orca Footprints. Orca Issues. Orca Origins. Orca Wild. Board Books. Picture Books. Lucy Tries Sports. Orca Echoes - French.
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Plains Cree. Other Editions 9. Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Stuff We All Get , please sign up. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Rating details. More filters. Sort order. My french is not strong enough to work through this with any sort of accuracy on it's own I read the english version first and then went on to this version where it became clear very quickly that this book was written in english first and then as an afterthought translated into french.
There is a lot of slang and phrasing used in the english version that become choppy or inaccurate in the french version. The story is really cute and the MC Zack is realistically weird. His awkwardness surprisingly comes across better in french than it did in the english version. For some reason he seems slightly less cool in french In any case the awkward is better in french.
The french version gets a 3 star for the choppy translation and the english version gets a 4. Dec 15, MissBecka rated it really liked it Shelves: canada-stuffs , zbooks-i-read , completed-library-rentals. In an effort to reclaim the french of my youth I entered a giveaway for the french version of this book La Cache.
Review: STUFF WE ALL GET by K.L. Denman
My french is not strong enough to work through it with any sort of accuracy on it's own I read the english version first and then went on to french where it became clear very quickly that the book was written in english first and then as an afterthought translated into french. There is a lot of slang and p In an effort to reclaim the french of my youth I entered a giveaway for the french version of this book La Cache.
This was a pretty good book for this series. I liked how the story felt longer, in a good way, than it actually was. Zack was an okay character. He seemed typical of a teenage boy, I wished he would've behaved better but at least the story had a strong and caring parental figure in it which can be rare in books nowadays. Stuff We All Get is a book that I believe would appeal to both boys and girls.
Nov 20, Jenn rated it liked it. I was sure I knew how it would end; the ending was one I didn't like. Thankfully I did not. The story was good, had a strong morale and shared some key points of coming of age. Nov 01, Fatima Hernandez rated it liked it. Is a amazing book, but the things pass fast and doesn't has so much details. May 09, Jaymee Sitchon rated it really liked it.
Denman was an interesting read. The book starts of with Zack, a fifteen-year-old boy, receiving a suspension from school. Zack got grounded, and was stuck at home with numerous of chores to do. His mother, a police officer, finds out about geocaching and decided to bring Zack along. Apparently, geocaching is very popular all over the world. Basically, people are on hunt for a box, which they call the geocache. One thing I found very interesting was that Zack has a sound-colour synesthesia, where he sees colours when he listens to music. While listening to the songs, he explains the colours he is seeing based on the song.
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He goes on a detective mode, and tries to look for the singer. He finds out that it was a girl named, Jolene. When Zack found Jolene, he had nothing but praises for her. I liked how it was fast but very fun and informative read.
I learned about synesthesia, in this book. Jun 21, E. Anderson rated it liked it. This new novel in the Orca Currents line is exactly what Orca Currents promises -- fast, fun, and engaging. It all starts when Zack gets in a fight with this kid at school. And, during his week at home, where he is, obviously, grounded, Zack's mom thinks it might be fun to take up geocaching This new novel in the Orca Currents line is exactly what Orca Currents promises -- fast, fun, and engaging.
And, during his week at home, where he is, obviously, grounded, Zack's mom thinks it might be fun to take up geocaching -- a hobby where people use GPS trackers to find hidden treasure all over the world. There are several caches in Zack's new town, and, reluctantly -- if only to get out of the house and his chores -- he joins his mom for an "adventure.
Soon, Zack is entranced by the songs on the CD. And he's determined to find the girl singing. So determined, in fact, it's all he can think about.


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Welcome to our Galway Campus
About the Campus
Established in 1972 and overlooking Galway Bay, the purpose-built campus on the Dublin Road in Galway City is the largest of GMIT’s five campuses. This campus is one of Galway City’s iconic landmarks, due to the three distinctive sail-shaped copper panels at the front of the main building. This unique design helps identify the Institute as an innovator in modern technology, and serves the practical purpose of housing the Library and IT Centre. A huge variety of courses are available at the Galway campus – everything from business and science, to engineering and tourism.
About Galway City
Galway city is home to the main GMIT Galway campus, and GMIT’s Centre for Creative Arts and Media. Nationally and internationally renowned as the friendliest city in Europe (Travel + Leisure 2015), Galway is so much more than a scenic city-by-the-sea. Galway has a spirited population of 75,000 people, with students making up at least a quarter of that. Everything from open air markets to pubs, theatres, live music events, and an eclectic bunch of personalities, keeps Galway city buzzing by day and night. And when the vibrancy of city life is all too much, why not escape for a break and head a little further west to Connemara, the most unspoiled countryside you will ever see. Or, head south to explore the Burren and Cliffs of Moher in County Clare.
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Gerald Cobb (1900–1986), antiquary and architectural historian, was born on 8 June 1900 at Ivy Lodge, Hamilton Road, Reading, one of four sons of Joseph William Cobb, a banker's clerk, and his wife, Florence Kate Arnold.
Cobb became a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1951 and was master of the Art-Workers' Guild in 1952. During the Second World War Cobb was a fire warden at St Paul's Cathedral, where he helped to preserve the fabric while compiling his files for every major ecclesiastical structure (and many minor ones) in Great Britain.
He never married, and lived for most of his life in a house in Streatham utterly packed with his finds. Until just before his death, on 9 June 1986 at Tooting Bec Hospital, he was still sorting, comparing, and interpreting what can now be seen as an objective picture library without equal.
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The Well-Dressed Window is a celebration of du Pont’s genius as a decorator and scholar of early American design. Focusing on 40 of the house’s important period rooms, it tells how he adapted historical models to suit the rooms where he displayed his collections, at the same time leaving his own mark on the designs. Authoritatively written by Sandy Brown with an in-depth introduction on Henry du Pont’s life and work by Linda Eaton, it is a visual delight and illuminating look at how both historical and contemporary forces shaped the results.
In the foreword, Thomas Jayne shares his own passion for history in design, but notes the hand of the designer is always apparent:
[du Pont] consulted historical references, especially illustrations, to inform his schemes for the rooms. He was known to have sought period designs, and sometimes he even used surviving examples. However, as a designer he acknowledged that aesthetics played an important role in the presentation of his collections. Hence many of the windows in the museum have qualities that are both historical and personal.
Today we are careful to also preserve Mr. du Pont’s curtains. His take on history and taste is historically important, and we have come to understand that accuracy is a relative term. And in fact, Mr. du Pont’s curtains are an accurate reflection of the time in which he created them. With this handsome book we celebrate their beauty, and their place in the history of American material culture.
Details on the book from Monacelli Press’ site:
The Well-Dressed Window – Curtains at Winterthur
Written by Sandy Brown, Introduction by Linda Eaton, Foreword by Thomas Jayne
Monacelli Press, New York
Release date: June 13, 2017
Today Henry Francis du Pont, the force behind the transformation of Winterthur from a family house to the premier museum of American decorative arts, is recognized, along with Henry Davis Sleeper and Elsie de Wolfe, as one of the early leaders of interior design in this country.
Working with architects, curators, and antiques dealers, du Pont created some 175 room settings within the house. He assembled his rooms using architectural elements from historic houses along the East Coast and filled them with an extraordinary collection of American furniture and decorative arts. Du Pont’s unique talent was his ability to arrange historically related objects in a beautiful way, in settings that enhanced their shape and form through the choice of color, textiles, and style.
Du Pont paid particular attention to the design of the curtains, and The Well-Dressed Window surveys his achievement, explaining how the fabrics were selected as well as their relationship to the architecture and other decorative elements in the rooms. Forty rooms are presented, each specially photographed to show the overall space in addition to details of fabric and trim. A series of stereoviews taken in the 1930s as well as other period photographs reveal the evolution of the window treatments and upholstery over nearly sixty years. Of particular interest is du Pont’s seasonal changing of the curtains, which were rotated throughout the year as the lighting and colors in the surrounding garden shifted.


Jarvis Honori (Honi) Campbell Gaines, 97 an extraordinary person who lived through extraordinary times.
Born in east Texas in 1923 before the Great Depression to Howard and Eva Campbell, people of ingenuity and resourcefulness, she learned how to create something from nothing.
They lived in numerous places across Texas, the most unique being a chicken coop, as Howard and Eva tried to make a better life for their family.
Honi was determined not to be a farmer’s wife and pick cotton her entire life, she knew that education was her way to experience the world beyond. With the hope of becoming a teacher, she borrowed money from relatives to pay for college.
In 1942 at the start of the Second World War, after accidently taking the wrong federal civil service exam, she was offered a position and found herself in Washington DC. Having never left the state of Texas, D.C. was an exciting place for a beautiful young single woman. She made life long friends and explored, what were at the time, “exotic” cuisines such as Italian and Chinese. On her time off, Honi and friends would travel to the ends of the street car lines to see what was there.
Her first position with the U.S. Coast Guard was sending letters of condolence and personal effects to families of deceased servicemen, a task to which she brought her usual care and eye for detail, affected her deeply.
She continued her civil service at the Department of Labor and then the Department of Agriculture where she advanced her career and was a Federal Women’s Program Manager EEO Specialist. She also served as manager for the Headquarters staff. According to her meticulous records, Honi retired in 1986 from government service after 31 years, 7 months and 7 days.
Married to Joseph P. Gaines in 1946, they had three children, Denny, Patti, and Kathy and lived in DC, and Abilene, TX, finally settling in Hyattsville, MD in 1958.
Always stylish she designed and made most of her clothes including her wedding gown; the first of many she would create for her family. She was also an expert upholsterer which came in handy when redecorating her home. When she could not find the perfect sized couch she simply cut the old one apart, rebuilt it and upholstered it.
Honi never let challenges deter her from new experiences and adventures and had a bucket list long before that was a term. Though she never made it to Egypt she did make it to most of the places that captured her imagination. Sharing her love of the world’s beauty, Honi took her children on a 6-week long cross country trip in 1966 visiting family and national sites, with the most ingenious packing method ever devised. She rafted down the Rio Grande and rode horseback down the Santa Elena Canyon with her teen-aged grandson, was treated like the Queen in a pub in Ireland, and continued to travel throughout the U.S. and the world into her nineties. She often returned to Texas with her last trip being in October 2019 where (per usual) she charmed everyone on the plane.
Honi lived the “Golden Rule” embracing all she met and taught that tenet to her children and grandchildren. Throughout her life she impacted the lives of many, was an advocate for women, and was an exemplar of what a thoughtful, independent and dynamic woman could achieve. Honi volunteered at Hospice of the Chesapeake and her church food bank, she also served as one of her church’s first female deacons.
Always proud of her family and what they had accomplished, it became a family joke that it was because none of her children ever went to jail (that she knew of!).
Honi leaves her son, Denny and his wife Cookie, daughter Patti Caudell, daughter Kathy Swekel and her husband Chris, grandchildren Kevin Caudell, Evan Gaines, Jennifer Gaines-Bender and Rachel Swekel-Thomas and great grandchildren Declan Gaines and Sirius Swekel, to whom she was an example of boundless love.
In lieu of flowers please support the Hospice of the Chesapeake or Hospice of Cabarrus County. A celebration of her life will be held at a future date.


How to transfer iTunes library to another computer in Windows 10? You may want to move your iTunes library from one computer to another, for example, from an old PC with Windows 7 to a new one with Windows 10.
If you are not that familiar with Apple media, sometimes it can be confusing since the steps are not that intuitive. It will take a few steps more than the traditional 'copy-paste' method for copying the iTunes library from your old PC to the new one.
How to Transfer iTunes Library
Before transferring, you need to consolidate all the files so that they will be in one location. Note that your iTunes playlist might come from different folders, and there is no need to copy them all into a single folder. Consolidation is the key.
After consolidating, do not forget the importance of the XML file. This file contains the iTunes app's info to locate the songs and copy their details on the dashboard. Assuming you already anticipated your media files' size and prepared the appropriate external drive, here are the complete steps for transferring the files:
Step 1: Consolidating iTunes Files
1. On your previous PC, open iTunes.
2. Next, select 'File' then select 'Library'.
3. Afterward, choose 'Organize Library' then click on 'Consolidate files.' Click on 'OK.'
Step 2: Creating An XML File
1. If an XML file doesn't exist, you need to create one. From the menu, click on 'Edit' and then select 'Preferences.'
2. Select the tab 'Advanced.'
3. Mark the box 'Share iTunes Library XML with other applications.'
4. Click on 'OK' in order to create the XML file.
Step 3: Copying The Files Onto External Drive
1. After consolidating the files, open 'File Explorer' from the Start menu.
2. Search for the 'iTunes' media folder usually found in the 'Music' sub-folder of Drive C's Users folder.
3. Copy the said folder and paste it on your external drive with the appropriate size.
4. After copying the folder, check one more time. After it is okay, disconnect the external drive safely.
5. For good measure, try to de-authorize the old computer. Search for help on the iTunes website.
Step 4: Preparing The Environment Of New PC
1. Make sure the iTunes app is installed on the new PC. If not, download one online and then install it.
2. Before copying the files from the external drive, we need to prepare the environment. First, open iTunes and add any song to the library by clicking on 'File' and 'Add file to Library.' Afterward, close the app.
3. Next, open 'File Explorer' and look for the 'Music' sub-folder under 'This PC' folder. Open the 'iTunes' folder.
4. If there is no XML file, follow the previous steps in creating an XML file for the iTunes library of the new PC. If the file exists, right-click on it and choose 'Edit.'
5. Look for File://localhost/ and highlight the text that starts 'C:/' all the way to 'iTunes/.' Let‘s use this as an example: C:/Users/Bill%20Yovino/Music/iTunes/
6. Copy the text, close the Edit window without saving, open the Notepad app, and paste the text.
Step 5: Copying The Files Onto New PC
1. On the Music sub-folder, delete the iTunes folder.
2. Next, connect the external hard drive to the new PC. Inside the removable drive, copy the 'iTunes' folder that was copied from the previous PC.
3. Paste the copied folder on the same Music subfolder from the first procedure. Wait for the whole thing to be copied.
4. After you finished copying, move (take note, it is not "copy") the XML file from the copied folder to any folder besides the iTunes folder.
5. The next step is to edit the XML file so that the copied files will be recognized in their new location—right-click on the XML file from the copied folder of the external hard-drive. Click on 'Edit.'
6. Look for File://localhost/ and highlight the text that starts 'C:/' all the way to 'iTunes/.' Copy the whole text. For this procedure, let us use this as an example:
7. Open another Notepad app, click on 'Edit' and then click on 'Replace'.
8. From the 'Find What' field, paste the recently copied text. On the 'Replace With' field, copy the text from the previously highlighted text.
9. Click on 'Replace All.' This will change the text:
C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/william.yovino/My%20Documents/My%20Music/iTunes/ into this: C:/Users/Bill%20Yovino/Music/iTunes/
10. Save the results and close the Edit window of the XML file. Close all Notepad apps.
11. Next, open the iTunes app.
12. Select 'File,' then 'Library', and finally 'Import Playlist.' Look for the recently edited XML file, click on it, and click on 'OK.' This will cause iTunes to display the playlist of the songs.
The most likely mistake you will be making is the editing of the XML file. You can just recopy the XML file of the previous PC from your external drive and repeat the steps in editing them.


By Joseph Panek | A Seeker’s Thoughts
The doctrine of Virgin Birth is an extremely ancient and common motif (theme) found in the numerous mythologies, legends, and religions throughout our planet.
However, before we begin to explore the doctrine of Virgin Birth, it is important that we understand the Alchemical, Hermetic, Gnostic, and Esoteric meaning of the Word Virgin; a designation which comes down to us from the earliest dawn of antiquity.
Virgin, or Virginity is the pure; the untainted; the unadulterated. And the only True essence which fits this description of Virginity is Spirit. Specifically, the Virgin is that Esoteric Spiritual essence which is untainted or unadulterated by union with matter.
Therefore, Virgin Birth is Creation which occurs in the Spiritual Realm. It is pre-manifested Thought of the highest degree.
One of the oldest accounts of Virgin Birth comes to us by way of the ancient Egyptian Mystery concerning Osiris and his wife-sister Isis.
After Seth murdered Osiris, and cut his body into fourteen parts which he scattered throughout creation, Isis scoured the entire world collecting Osiris’ parts in order to reconstruct the body of her husband. She was able to locate every part of Osiris’ body except one – his penis.
After she located all of Osiris’ severed parts – save one – and reconstructed his body, she then hovered over the reconstructed body of her dead husband, became impregnated, and gave birth to Horus.
This Ancient Egyptian Mystery illustrates to us that this was not a physical birth. It was a Spiritual Birth; it was an Immaculate Conception.
This Egyptian Mystery is the same Lesson which comes to us by way of the Symbolic Trinity (Father, Son, and [Holy]Spirit). It is also the same Lesson which comes to us by way of The Three Gunas (Sattwa, Tamas, and Rajas). And, it is the same Lesson which comes to us from Hermetic texts (Nous,Chaos, and Logos).
In the Egyptian Mystery Osiris is the Father (the creator), Sattwa, and Nous. Horus is the Son (the created), Tamas, and Chaos. Isis is the Spirit (of creation), Rajas, and Logos.
A great deal of Symbolic Wisdom is contained within the Egyptian Mystery of Isis and Osiris.
The slaying of Osiris is Symbolic of the end of one life, or Cycle, so that another life, Cycle, or Incarnation can begin. As Osiris is the Egyptian Neter who personifies re-Incarnation, He represents the continuing Cycles of re-incarnation we must progress through until all of our Inner Demons are slain and Spiritual perfection is accomplished.
The number 14 represents the fourteen segments of the waning moon, it is therefore Symbolic of the waning portion of a Cycle.
The fact that the penis of Osiris was never recovered by Isis teaches us that the “birth” created between Isis and Osiris is a spiritual and abstract creation which comes about by way of Osiris “dying” in the physical and becoming transformed into a higher essence so that His Seed can reproduce itself, with the Spiritual assistance of Isis, on the next higher realm. This is a continuing Cycle which forever repeats itself until Spiritual completion is attained.
This continuing Cyclical principle of death, transformation, and re-birth into a higher realm is the theme which is Remembered,and honored, through the performance of Initiation Rituals and Rites of Passage. It is this Spiritual and Esoteric process which is represented by the Egyptian Symbol of the Ankh.
Isis, the Virgin, is the unseen creative essence which stimulates creation, and re-creation, in the Spiritual, mental, and abstract realms. Without the Spiritual stimulation of creative energy which Isis provides, the ability to create could not exist between the creator and the created. Therefore Isis Symbolizes the Spiritual creative principle which is invoked in Initiation Rituals and magical Ceremonies.
Horus Symbolizes the abstract, Esoteric, and Spiritual Creation which is the result of Virgin Birth. And because Horus is the highest essence which is created between Spirit (Isis) and the higher and higher re-incarnations of Osiris, Horus is the Symbol and essence of direct ascension. Horus Symbolizes the Path which is available to, and can be Traveled by, the select few who Choose to resolve all of their Incarnations in one lifetime.
Categories: The Occult


I bound from book to book, leap frogging my bibliophile life to what strikes my mood or need. Sometimes this has a soothing effect on my psyche – other times more jarring to my mindset.
McCarthy, pretty sincerely, meant for his book to be a post-apocalyptic stark study of human beings that makes a case for desolate view of the indifference of the universe to the plight of man, a cosmic condition that he takes to be the “absolute truth of the world.”
Borg’s book is a portrayal of the historical man Jesus – a charismatic healer, sage, cultural leader, who lived in and within the divine Spirit bringing a new philosophy to the Jewish people. Borg states that Jesus did not come to create a new religion, but to re-shape faith.
Is it wise to make comparisons or connect the themes of these two books?
I’m not suggesting a debate between this historical Jesus with the fictional father and son in the Road – or between Borg and McCarthy, for that matter. It’s just that because I read them in such quick succession my mind wanted to build some parallels or bear down to the essential meanings.
For one – Jesus was straddling the old and new worlds, as are the main characters, father and son in The Road. When the father considers attempting to make the old world real to his son by telling stories about what used to be, he realized that the story is too difficult and sad to tell, the whole story is one that ends in loss. Yet he again and again is compassionate toward the boy modeling patient and loving behavior on The Road. While Jesus, in rebuilding the world of Judaism by deconstructing the cultural morays of the Pharisees and the Sadducees, also straddles an old and new world. Jesus seeks to show others that life should not be filled with rigid, authoritarian law, but instead pattern a new road that maintains the love of God while throwing off the man-made encumbrances that restrain the culture from treating one another with mercy.
For another – the business of being human characterizes each book. Father teaches the son not just to survive but what it means to be human. In The Road, the babe was born just after the apocalypse occurs and he has little notion of how to “be.” Throughout their travels, the father assures his son that “We are the Good Guys,” and “This is how the Good Guys do it.” Borg states that this is what Jesus is doing as well in countering the cultural leaps that the various Jewish leaders are taking the faithful down their roads. As the Roman Empire had conquered the land of Israel and Palestine and were intent on either changing the culture or crushing it, the Jewish leaders dictated a dogmatic adherence to Old Testament laws. Jesus showed disciples and followers how to be merciful, humane, compassionate. Each, in their way, have stepped out to tame the savageness of man and create a new world.
Yet there are contrasts: in The Road, the characters are making their journey through unchartered times and the Father must make some decisions that the boy questions, “Are we still the Good Guys?” the child asks after the father kills a gangster and later leaves another to starve. By contract, Jesus challenges the Roman Empire with his non-violent resistance stance and thus martyrs himself to change the culture. Father and son face danger with a defensive stance in order to stay alive, while Jesus sacrifices his life. In the end the son and the Christian disciples are left – one to carry the fire and the others to follow it.
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“The Nazis called them ‘Night Witches’ because the whooshing noise their plywood and canvas airplanes made reminded the Germans of the sound of a witch’s broomstick.
The Russian women who piloted those planes, onetime crop dusters, took it as a compliment. In 30,000 missions over four years, they dumped 23,000 tons of bombs on the German invaders, ultimately helping to chase them back to Berlin. Any German pilot who downed a “witch” was awarded an Iron Cross.
These young heroines, all volunteers and most in their teens and early 20s, became legends of World War II but are now largely forgotten. Flying only in the dark, they had no parachutes, guns, radios or radar, only maps and compasses. If hit by tracer bullets, their planes would burn like sheets of paper.”
So begins a NY Times tribute to one of the most famous “Night Witches,” Nadezhda Popova, who flew 852 missions during the war, including 18 in a single night. She passed away in 2013 at the age of 91. To read about Popova’s incredible life story and learn more about these largely forgotten heroines of WWII, visit http://nyti.ms/JbnOMC.
While there aren’t any books available for young readers about these courageous women, there are several books for older readers about the role of Russian women combat pilots during WWII including “Flying for Her Country: The American and Soviet Women Military Pilots of World War II” (http://amzn.to/1mTMad9), “Night Witches: The Amazing Story Of Russia’s Women Pilots in World War II” (http://amzn.to/15qK7JD), “Wings, Women, and War: Soviet Airwomen in World War II Combat” (http://amzn.to/1fyPOs8), “A Dance with Death: Soviet Airwomen in World War II” (http://amzn.to/1jJb79N), “Red Sky, Black Death: A Soviet Woman Pilot’s Memoir of the Eastern Front” (http://amzn.to/NhxvM4).
For more true stories of courageous women heroes of WWII, check out the inspiring book for ages 13 and up “Women Heroes of World War II: 26 Stories of Espionage, Sabotage, Resistance, and Rescue” at http://
For an excellent book for ages 8 to 12 about the WASPs, the American women flyers of WWII, check out “Yankee Doodle Gals: Women Pilots of World War II” at http://
For two highly recommended recent novels, both for ages 13 and up, about women resistance fighters of WWII, check out “Code Name Verity” (http://
For stories for all ages about girls and women living through the WWII period, visit our “WWII / Holocaust” section at http://
And, to introduce your kids to more famous female flyers like Amelia Earhart, Bessie Coleman, and Harriet Quimby, visit A Mighty Girl’s “Planes” section at http://
– A Mighty Girl


A Recommendation: The Appalachian Trail Reader
There’s a virtuous interchange between hiking culture and intellectual/book culture. People who spend lots of time outdoors–walking, or just observing–tend to be on the more contemplative end of the spectrum. Those traits also make good writers, and foster the patience and introverted concentration necessary to actually produce a book. For this reason there is a lot of detailed writing in publication about naturalistic exploration, usually written out of attachment to a specific place. The genre is not well-defined, and encourages DIY eccentricity with respect to organization: topics include what to do and where to go, amateur botany and biology, old-school naturalist appreciation, human history, and exquisite reflections on simply being there. Some of the best books are indifferent to genre and quite uncharacterizable, and tend to be written at the end of an author’s life, as an attempt to crystalize decades of on-the-ground life. Publication with a small or specialty press (of which there are fewer and fewer), or even self-publication, often makes these works possible. Michael Frome’s Strangers in High Places: The Story of the Great Smoky Mountains comes to mind. As a result these books are rarely in publication for very long; usually they fall out of print and into obscurity as soon as they appear. I’ve taken to collecting books in this space that I find particularly worthy of preservation, especially if they cover a region that I have long experience with like the Appalachians. The big centralized online booksellers like Amazon and its affiliates are often, for all their problems, the only sources for a few old copies of these books.
I was delighted to discover David Emblidge’s The Appalachian Trail Reader, which was published by a major university press (Oxford, 1996). I don’t know if there was something else about the Appalachian Trail that brought it to prominence in the mid-to-late 1990s, but it’s worth noting that this book came out the year before Bill Bryson’s much better-known memoir about the trail, A Walk in the Woods
As I wrote above about this weird genre, the book is a lot of things, but is in essence an attempt to preserve stories about the area the trail covers. Some of its sources are canonical (e.g., Benton MacKay, Aldo Leopold, Thomas Bartram), but most of its dozens of authors are ordinary unknowns, people reflecting on the trail in more transitory sources (trail bulletins, long-defunct magazines, regional newspapers, etc.). Its topics range from the deep pre-American backstory of Appalachian lands and peoples, to musings from “thru-hikers” who walked, or attempted to walk, the entire 2000+ miles of the AT from the 1960s to the 1990s.
Here’s the TOC:
hiking outdoors nature reflection books culture preservation


The novel, The Rainbow by D.H. Lawrence, formerly known as The Wedding Ring, “traces the history of three generations of the Brangwen’s, a vigorous farming family, living on the Marsh farm in Derbyshire in south England” (Lawrence 15). The Rainbow, specifically focuses on the marital life and relationships of men and women of Brangwen’s on Marsh farm. In the first chapter itself.
The Rainbow by DH Lawrence Summary - The rainbow is a controversial novel by DH Lawrence that was banned in England. The novel revolves around the story of three generations of Brangwen family that reside at marsh farms.
The Rainbow. D. H. Lawrence. The following entry presents criticism of Lawrence's novel The Rainbow. For information on Lawrence's complete career, see TCLC, Volumes 2 and 9. For discussion of.
The fourth child of Arthur John Lawrence, a barely literate miner at Brinsley Colliery, and Lydia Beardsall, a former pupil teacher who had been forced to perform manual work in a lace factory due to her family's financial difficulties, Lawrence spent his formative years in the coal mining town of Eastwood, Nottinghamshire.The house in which he was born, 8a Victoria Street, is now the D. H.
In the case of sumarizing the novel 'The Rainbow' by D H Lawrence, it helps to know whether the student is being asked to summarize the story itself, or whether it is a critique summary. I will.
Essays for The Rainbow. The Rainbow essays are academic essays for citation. These papers were written primarily by students and provide critical analysis of The Rainbow by D.H. Lawrence. Gender in The Rainbow; Mind Over Matter: A Close Reading of Character Contrasts in The Rainbow.
D.H. Lawrence's The Rainbow D.H. Lawrence uses varied ways to express Ursula's feelings and experience through the passage. Each of the techniques he uses, create a different impact on the reader, all expressing Ursula's thought and feelings. One of the most obvious things about the writing in this passage is the overwhelming use of military language. Lawrence repeats the ideas that he.
The Rainbow is a novel written by British author D.H. Lawrence, that covers the lives of three generations of the Brangwen family: beginning with Tom and Lydia and their daughter Anna, moving on.
D.H. Lawrence's novel The Rainbow demonstrates how the thrill of the unknown comes to fruition over time. In order to make observations about the relationship dynamics between the two sexes, Lawrence uses desire-based characterizations. In doing so, he sets up situations in which the result of child-bearing, for which the parents' reapable reward is the ideal child. The household develops, and.
The Rainbow is D.H. Lawrence's first brush with obscenity. It's in 1915, so you shouldn't get too excited about what's in there. But it was definitely banned, and all existing copies were burnt.
D.H. Lawrence, English author of novels, short stories, poems, plays, essays, travel books, and letters. His novels Sons and Lovers (1913), The Rainbow (1915), and Women in Love (1920) made him one of the most influential English writers of the 20th century. Lawrence was the fourth child of a north.
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In The Rainbow, D.H. Lawrence embodies the Woman’s situation as he paints a clear picture of her and the thoughts she ponders. By utilizing imagery as well as the juxtaposition of rural and urban life, combined with strong and precise diction and tone related to those subjects, Lawrence is able to address the woman’s nature, as well as explain her situation.
D.H. Lawrence was a very notable writer in his prime and although he was not known for being an active practitioner of naturalism during the literary period of naturalism, Lawrence used this type of literary work exceptionally well. D.H. Lawrence used the characters, themes and motifs throughout The Rainbow, and Lady Chatterley’s Lover to exemplify the themes, motifs and characterization.
Essay The Rainbow is one of DH Lawrence's most controversial works. It was banned in Great Britain when it was first published. The Rainbow introduced sexual life into a family-based novel, portraying a visionary quest for love by three generations of English men and women. Ursula Brangwen is the main character of the novel, and her goal in the book is to achieve a good and peaceful.
This detailed literature summary also contains Related Titles and a Free Quiz on The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence. The Rainbow chronicles three generations of Brangwens living near Marsh Farm. Sexually stormy marriages set the stage for conflict and power struggles within the home. Tradition, passion, children, and compromise define the Brangwen clan, giving its members both happiness and sadness.
Lawrence's fourth novel, The Rainbow (1915), was about two sisters growing up in the north of England. Lawrence started to write The Lost Girl in Italy. He dropped the novel for some years and rewrote the story in an old Sicilian farmhouse near Taormina in 1920. During the First World War Lawrence and his wife were unable to obtain passports and were targets of constant harassment from the.
It examines the three major heterosexual relationships (Tom and Lydia, Will and Anna, and Skrebensky and Ursula) in Lawrence s The Rainbow (1915). Each couple struggles to achieve a healthy.


Kids Favorite Card Games
Everybody needs to know these classic games. Ages 4 and upWonderfully illustrated, high-quality playing cards open the door to hours of simple, old-fashioned fun! Contains 52 cards and rules for five well-known classic card games including I doubt it, Speed, Crazy 8's, War and easy to play Hearts, to play with friends and family. For 2 to 4 players, ages 4 and up.The iPlay Card Game Series offers oversized cards with beautiful illustrations that will really stand out, are easy for kids to hold and the games are just as easy to learn. Plus, these card games have several variations of play making them perfect for all occasions!


PR Public Library Presents Radio 101
Radio 101 will teach the basics of radio and sound including the concepts around radio, the technology needed to make a radio documentary, how to build a story for radio, collecting audio, and editing. Local journalist Carrie Swiggum will be joining teen services coordinator, Megan Cole, for this four-day camp that will take teens from story development to having a piece ready to air.
This program is for ages 12+ Registration is required.
Bring a lunch.


Application Program Interfaces (APIs) are structured methods for one software application to communicate with another. APIs allow programs to interoperate and share data and services in a standard way. Here is a list of library-related APIs that library developers may find useful. If you have ideas for others that would be appropriate for this list, please contact me.
Only APIs that are deemed to be generally useful are listed here. However, almost any library catalog will have a search API (e.g., Z39.50) and may have others as well depending on the vendor and product. You can also find other APIs at programmableweb.com.
I've been using the expression "learned helplessness" a lot lately because that's how I see the situation libraries have found themselves in after a decade of integrated library systems.
I find it particularly disturbing because so much of the work I do seems to bump into roadblocks that point squarely at the ILS. And worse than the roadblock is the shoulder shrugging of so many of the library folk using that ILS software.
Too many worthy projects have died because the currently available integrated library systems (ILS) available today from commercial, proprietary vendors don't and won't support libraries and the services they've like to be providing to their customers.
I saw a note come through recently about a server that the University of Cincinnati Libraries had set up to be a "sandbox". What this means is that it is a place where new software (particularly open source software) can be installed for staff to investigate.
The sole admonition is to "Play nice together" and it currently has such applications as Drupal, Joomla, Mambo, WordPress, phpWiki, Tiki, and Moodle installed, among others.
I think this ia a wonderful idea and I'm glad to see that the University of Cincinnati Libraries takes their responsibility to help its staff learn new technologies seriously. I wish that more of our institutions did so.
Jessica Hupp at VirtualHosting.com has put together an amazing list of web
Yes, the server was hacked recently, and as soon as I discovered it to be the case I backed up the data, wiped it, and reinstalled all the software.
The folks at Talis pulled together a group of knowledgeable folks to discuss the Library Software Manifesto published here at TechEssence.info. It has now been published on the Talking with Talis web site as a podcast.
Last week I gave a talk at the 2007 CODI Conference (Customers of Dynix, Inc.). I had decided to take as my topic a "library software manifesto" in which I would outline the rights and responsibilities of libraries and library software vendors. I posted about this on the Code4Lib mailing list and used some of the resulting comments in the resulting Library Software Manifesto published on this site.
Should you focus your efforts on a smaller number of really big technology projects, or a larger number of smaller projects? Of course there is no one right answer for all institutions, and it’s likely no institution would rely on one approach to the exclusion of the other. But it can be difficult to find the right balance between the large-scale, high-impact initiatives and those that are more nimble and quick to appear.
We are ALL busy. Yesterday for example, I had a plan of what I was going to accomplish at work, but then I came in to an e-mail from a student asking for articles about the Second Anglo-Afghan War (for which we had next to nothing in the databases so I really had to hunt), and after that I found out about some dead links I needed to fix on a Web page, and then I got a call from a professor whom I needed to talk through some database searches, and then I had a reference shift all afternoon. So by the end of the day, I was shocked to find that I'd barely gotten any of the things I'd wanted to accomplish done. Imagine, if this is going on every day, how I, or anyone else in our profession, can actually make time for any sort of continuing education work?


Banks, Robert. Reenvisioning Theological Education: Exploring a Missional Alternative to Current Models. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1999. Paperback. 268 pp.
This book contributes a thoughtful, Evangelical voice to a twenty-year conversation on the theological foundations of ministry training. Banks reviews that conversation, critiques proposals previously offered, builds a biblical approach to ministry and ministry education, then proposes that biblical ministry education must be missional.
Brookfield, Stephen D. The Skillful Teacher: On Technique, Trust, and Responsiveness in the Classroom. 2nd ed. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2006. Hardcover. 297 pp.
In this book, Brookfield provides helpful perspectives and practical advice on the priorities and responsibilities of teachers. He emphasizes the importance of attending to learner responses as means of assuring that learning occurs and of adjusting instructional approaches to facilitate learning. Chapters on lecturing, leading discussions, and evaluation are especially helpful.
Cranton, Patricia. Understanding and Promoting Transformative Learning. 2nd ed. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2006. 228 pp.
Cranton’s book provides a helpful introduction to the literature of transformative teaching and learning. In contrast to edited volumes, this book provides a single viewpoint versus a cafeteria of perspectives. Cranton defines and describes transformative education but also is helpfully critical of Mezirow and his associates. Although GATE’s use of the term “transformational education” is unique, Cranton provides the larger context from which GATE’s theory and methods arise.
Daloz-Parks, Sharon. Leadership Can Be Taught: A Bold Approach for a Complex World. Boston: Harvard Business School Publishing, 2005. Hardcover. 287 pp.
This book provides a very helpful case study of the teaching techniques used to teach “adaptive” leadership by Ron Heifetz at Harvard. Daloz-Parks provides a day-by-day account of Heifetz’s course Exercising Leadership: Mobilizing Group Resources. The student of interactive, participatory learning methods will find the book a rich resource of examples that illustrate how to effectively engage learners in leadership development. Additional insight into the leadership theories referenced in the book is provided in Heifetz’s books Leadership without Easy Answers (1994) and Leadership on the Line (2002).
Elmer, Duane, H. Cross-Cultural Servanthood: Serving the World in Christlike Humility. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2006. Paperback, 212 pp.
Doing what is servant-like in one’s own culture may not communicate servanthood or humility in another culture. Six important steps to serving in another culture are examined each forcing us to look through the eyes of the other person's culture. Leadership, power and mystery are also examined as pieces of the life of the servant.
Elmer, Duane H. Cross-Cultural Conflict: Building Bridges for Effective Ministry. Downers Grove, IL: Intervarsity Press, 1993. Paperback, 189 pp.
Conflict happens to everyone; the difference is the cultural ways in which we handle the conflict. The book compares the ways Westerners handle conflict with the conflict strategies of Majority World peoples including the respective underlying cultural values. With strong biblical support, new insights help navigate these difficult places.
Enlow, Ralph E., Jr. The Leader's Palette: Seven Primary Colors. Bloomington, IN: WestBow Press, 2013. Hardcover. 136 pp.
Scripture and scholarly consensus suggest that leadership is both art and science. Like every God-given capacity, however, the gift of leadership needs to be developed through thoughtful exercise. Many gifted leaders fail to develop their gifts fully and to avail themselves of the many facets of influence that comprise leadership’s full effect. Aspiring and experienced leaders alike can benefit from the reflection this book fosters on the beautiful possibilities inherent in God’s vivid leadership spectrum.
Epstein, Marc J. and Kristi Yuthas. Measuring and Improving Social Impacts. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2014. 254 pp.
In the nonprofit and philanthropic sectors for which Epstein and Yuthas write, substantive social impact is desired, but how to demonstrate or document it? The authors advocate reflection on a “logic chain” that includes inputs, activities, outputs, outcomes, and impact. In planning, the rationale for each link must be supported by previous links. In assessment, only qualitative—principally longitudinal—evidence can document impact. The book provides a helpful lens through which to approach assessment of ministry education.
Ferris, Robert W. (ed.) Establishing Ministry Training: A Manual for Programme Developers. Pasadena, CA: William Carey Library, 1995. Paperback. 198 pp.
Written to guide development of missionary training schools in the Majority World, this book is a useful manual for all theological educators. The principles covered apply equally in school and nonformal education settings. The book includes basic steps in identifying program goals, curriculum design, and program development and evaluation.
Ferris, Robert W. Renewal in Theological Education: Strategies for Change. Wheaton, IL: The Billy Graham Center, 1990. Paperback. 234 pp.
Research on theological schools on five continents revealed that the values expressed in the “ICAA Manifesto on the Renewal of Theological Education” are widely affirmed but school leaders are dissatisfied with their implementation. Case studies of eight exemplary schools lead to recommendations for realizing those values in other schools.
Fink, L. Dee. Creating Significant Learning Experiences: An Integrated Approach to Designing College Courses. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2003. Hardcover, 295 pp.
Fink focuses on what happens when good learning occurs. Seeing good learning we can then ask about the nature of the teaching producing that kind of learning. Using adult education practices, he leads the reader into designing the effective college level classroom utilizing both theory and practical insights.
Horne, Herman. Jesus the Teacher. Revised and updated by Angus M. Gunn. Grand Rapids, MI: Kregel Publications, 1998. Original edition, 1920. 142 pp.
This classic text is not to be read rapidly; Horne’s presentation is accessible but dense. A Christian educator with a forty-year career at a secular university (University of New York), Horne’s study of Jesus’ teaching ministry is deeply insightful for any who take time to digest the data he presents.
Palmer, Parker J. The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher’s Life (Tenth anniversary edition). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2007. Hardcover, 240 pp.
Palmer’s book refocuses the craft of teaching from technique to the teacher and from a singular focus on content to relationships that inhibit or empower learning in the classroom. Reading this book is a soul-searching and liberating exercise for any teacher. Palmer understands—and helps his readers understand—the teacher’s true calling.
Shaw, Perry. Transforming Theological Education. Carlisle, Cumbria, UK: Langham Global Library, 2014. 300 pp.
Shaw has provided a handbook for changing the way ministry education is approached and pursued. He challenges reigning perceptions that guide educational practice in ministry education globally and provides alternatives for reflection, planning, practice, and assessment. Shaw provides ample resources for use by the faculty intent on changing education in its school.
Vella, Jane. Taking Learning to Task: Creative Strategies for Teaching Adults. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 2001. Hard cover. 151 pp.
This book guides educators in an approach to educational planning that attends to learners and context and that weds learning and application. Vella holds that educational goals should be framed as “achievement objectives” realized through carefully designed “learning tasks.” Although simple in concept, implications for teaching and learning are immense.
Zull, James E. The Art of Changing the Brain. Sterling, VA: Stylus Publishing, 2002. 263 pp.
Learning occurs when new connections are created within the brain. In this description of the science of learning, a biologist and educator describes the neurological aspects of learning. Recent developments in brain imaging technology make it possible for scientists to observe the brain at work. Zull explains both the physiology of learning and its pedagogical implications.


The railway station was constructed approximately 1890, shortly after siedlecko-malkinska railway line, representing a section of Warszawa-Terespol iron road, was run. It is known that this line was started in 1887, and it had – in addition end stations – two middle stations (Sokołow and Telaki) and three stops (Podniesno, Kostki, Treblinka). Most of the facilities in the stations were masonry, except for linemen houses and facilities for switchmen.
During the last war, the railway station facility was destroyed. Together with the pressure tower it was blown up by Germans withdrawing from the city in 1944. Shortly after the war it was rebuilt in a different form – in manor style. In 2006 on the basis of a notarial deed the city took plot with facility of the former Polish State Railways railway station from the Polish State Railways SA. In 2009 – 2011 general renovation of the facility was carried out in order to adjust it for cultural needs of the city. Currently there is Konstanty Ildefons Galczynski City Public Library. This institution has its divisions, among which it is worth noting the Laboratory of Documentation of the City History, dedicated to gathering and sharing of historical knowledge.
The library is well-deserved for community cultural institution. Reading traditions in the city had its beginning in the first years of the inter-war period. Thanks to the Library of Polish Teachers’ Union, books reached to inhabitants of the city and surrounding landowners. Migratory libraries supported population of communities. Outbreak of World war II interrupted libraries operation, and most tables were destroyed. On 1st April 1946 the County Public Library located in the facility of the Fire Service at Lipowa Street, started its operation. In 1979 Sedlce voivode provided the City Public Library in Sokolow Podlaski name after poet Konstanty Ildefons Galczynski. Over the years, library book collection has grew, and apart from collecting and providing books, it is very actively involved in cultural life of the city and the surrounding area. The library organizes meetings with authors, holds knowledge competitions, book exhibitions, scientific sessions on historical anniversaries, competitions, reading and recitation contests, and many other cultural and educational events.
The railway station complex in Sokolow consists of the railway station facility and several facilities: two masonry cottages (one of them probably belonged to lineman), dugout (basement) and the fountain located in the square in front of the railway station and facilities in the so-called railway district.


In 1989, Albert Collins made his first iron helmet. The search for knowledge on how to create armour has since then characterised his entire life. Already from the beginning, he focused on studying preserved original armour, striving to understand how these were constructed and how armourers had manufactured them historically. In 1998, he started his company Via Armorari and has since then produced and restored armour and armour parts for museums, collectors and private customers. In this book, Albert describes the process of making a masterpiece armour, how to transform a flat plate into a functioning protective garment, with the aim of reintroducing armouring as an official profession in Sweden.