Open Education Resources (OER)
Achieve Created a series of eight rubrics that evaluate the degree to which each open educational resource's (OER) aligns to the Common Core State Standards, as well as the quality of each resource.
Curriki offers free resources to teachers in areas of math, English, social studies, and science.
- Floe provides the resources needed to enable inclusive access to personally relevant, engaging learning opportunities for the full diversity of learners and content producers. Through the Open Education Resources community, Floe makes tools that help transform augment, and personalize the learning experience.
- The Gateway to 21st Century Skills has been serving teachers since 1996 (Yes! 1996) and is one of the oldest publically accessible U.S. respositories of education resources on the Web. The Gateway contains a variety of educational resource types from activities and lesson plans to online projects to assessment items. Note: They have lost their funding as of 2/7/16 and are searching for support to continue to fund this site.
Science and Mathematics
- National Repository of Online Courses (NROC) provides an online library of OER high school and AP courses at HippoCampus.org. You'll find solid courseware available in modules with voice over text. It is easy to create media playlists, find track high-trending learning materials, and share learning content with students. You can find their next gen content at NROCmath.org including a great Hewlett Foundation-funded open Algebra 1 course and a developmental math sequence.
- Educurious is Gates-funded OER and project-based learning (PBL) curriculum designed to align with Common Core State Standards and reduce high school dropout.
- Khan Academy has a library of more than 3,000 math, science, history lesson delivered in easy-to-understand videos.
Comprehensive Modular Resources
- The Gateway to 21st Century Skills is one of the oldest repositories of education resources online, providing a variety of activities, lessons plans, projects, and assessments. Note: They have lost their funding as of 2/7/16 and are searching for support to continue to fund this site.
- Curriki.org is a big library of shared courses and content.
- Gooru Learning curates the Web's best resources, compiling them into collections and attaching quizzes.
- Power My Learningprovides math, Language Arts, science, social studies, art/music, computer programing, and more educational activities for parents and teachers.
Muzzylane transforms history into a game - Making History. They also have resources for science, language-learning, health education, business, and urban planning
Mostly Higher Education
Connexions provides a platform for learning modules and content creation that can be compiled into courses, books, reports, and more.
Additional Free Resource
- iTunesU has tons of mostly post-secondary content.
- National Geographic has a longstanding reputation of supporting learning with valuable multimedia resources for any classroom.
This page was updated on January 8, 2017.
Please contact Lou Howell (LouHowell@mediacombb.net) with additional resources to support open educational resources.


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Disco classic ‘Mainline’ by Black Ivory has been placed in Keith Haring: Street Art Boy, an excellent new documentary about the artist from the BBC. International art sensation Keith Haring blazed a trail through the legendary art scene of 1980s New York and revolutionised the worlds of pop culture and fine art. The fascinating and compelling film – told using previously unheard interviews with Haring, which form the narrative of the documentary – is the definitive story of the artist in his own words. The documentary also includes exclusive, unprecedented access to the Haring Foundation’s archives, capturing the wild, creative energy behind some of the most recognisable art of the past 30 years. ‘Mainline’ was penned by songwriter and prolific disco producer Leroy Burgess and went on to be one of Black Ivory’s biggest hits, an iconic classic that is still regularly sampled and played in the dance scene. Check out the full track below.
You can watch the full documentary here > https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000kqk5
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About Aaron & Langston Aizenstros
Langston & Aaron Aizenstros are Canada's youngest Afro-Canadian children authors. Their first audiobook published by LOVE Lifestyle Publishing Group is called I Believe In The Power Of You: Affirmations For Kids By Kids. They are two little boys who are living in the world of love, play and wonder. Ari Lang, created by Langston and Aaron Aizenstros is an inspirational platform dedicated to children who want to learn how affirmations and meditations can empower their lives.
Langston & Aaron's mission is to inspire other children to become empowered through affirmations and meditation globally.
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Langston Aizenstros, Age 12
Aaron Aizenstros, Age 10
The Story Behind: I Believe In The Power Of You: Affirmations For Kids By Kids
Aaron and Langston have been practicing affirmations since they were toddlers.
Late in 2014, Aaron approached his mom about creating a book of affirmations.
Keen on knowing what was already out there, their mom did a bit of research, and the only affirmation audiobook she found online was all created by adults.
She thought it would be super cool to have kids create an audiobook to inspire other children, so she suggested an audiobook first. She felt this would be a great approach for kids to use throughout their day. Plus, the main attraction was Langston and Aaron have the sweetest little voices.
They both sat with their mom and wrote out the affirmations. After, they began recording the audiobook in their mom’s home office during the evenings.
Oh, what a process that was for mum!
Let's just say that mummy had many character building moments.
And so their mom began thinking it was pretty great to finally have an affirmation audiobook for kids, by kids.
We do, too.
for inquiries + INTERVIEWS
Literary contact: pr [a] lovelifestylepublishing.com
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The History of Men’s Raiment: 18th & 19th Centuries
Earlier this week, we published some of the contents of a pamphlet called The History of Men’s Raiment, first issued in 1912. Here, we look at a few plates representing times nearer our own: the 18th and 19th centuries.
You can imagine how radical it was for Beau Brummel to wear plain, impeccably fitted clothing in his day, but you can see immediately how influential it was as well. Look at the difference between the pre- and post-Brummel aesthetics.


Here are our Easter tracts, perfect for sharing the wonderful news of the risen Savior!
All of the tracts listed below are available in KJV and NKJV versions. Some of our tracts are also available in Spanish. See the "Other Versions" tab on each item's page for more information.
- "Thank you for all the literature you send us. We believe each inmate will be..."
- "Good morning. I was wondering if you would be able to give us permission to..."
- "I am writing to thank you very much for the most greatest gift I have ever gotten..."


So there I was taking a hot shower this morning and I found myself thinking about Bullwinkle’s Corner. Those of a certain generation will recall that the Corner was a 60-90 second feature within the “Rocky and Bullwinkle” show during which the intrepid Bullwinkle J. Moose would attempt to read or recite a famous poem, only to be interrupted by comic mayhem of one sort or another. Bullwinkle can be seen here, his book of verse in hand, sporting a tasteful morning coat and string tie, leaning all nonchalant on his Greco-roman podium, surrounded by the trappings of culture: a green curtain and a large potted plant.
What struck me -- apart from the steamy droplets falling from the showerhead, ho ho -- was this: Bullwinkle’s Corner mocked the convention of the public poetry reading as civic occasion and therefore assumes the audience is familiar with those conventions. Moreover, it assumes that its audience of early-1960s children already knows most of the poems. There is a presumed familiarity with the material and the cultural milieu that would make no sense today.
Checking a list of the works presented by the majestic moose reveals a larger percentage of nursery rhymes than I had at first recalled -- which we will assume were still a familiar part of the standard American childhood at the time. But the list also features a hefty proportion of Serious Verse: hefty helpings of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (The Village Blacksmith, The Children’s Hour, Excelsior), Robert Louis Stevenson (My Shadow, Where Go the Boats), Edgar Allan Poe (The Raven, of course), John Greenleaf Whittier (Barefoot Boy (with cheeks of tan)) and William [no middle name] Wordsworth (The Daffodils, for picking which without a license the antlered aesthete is incarcerated). Who, creating a cartoon today, would expect any audience familiarity with such things? Nobody, that’s who.
Which brings us to the oft-remarked disappearance of poetry from public consciousness. Over the course of 40 years, poetry has declined from being a sufficiently common experience that it could be the subject of jokes in a cartoon to being essentially invisible in the popular sphere. Some of the particular poems and poets in the Bullwinkle canon have faded from view because their homespun sentiment or thumpy thumpy meters just aren’t fashionable anymore. Others have no doubt been given the boot because they are seen as part of the Dead White Male conspiracy that Dominated Our Culture With Its [insert derogatory sociopolitical descriptor here] Values for Too Long. Longfellow in particular has been sent down repeatedly on both charges, neither of which is necessarily fair to him.
Another explanation, it seems, can be seen in the fact that even Bullwinkle had to turn back to the 19th Century for his material. Copyright issues aside, the quantity of 20th Century verse that is memorably recitable and readily familiar to the ordinary television viewer is limited at best. And the public evidence of poetry has declined steadily from there. Poets themselves have been a part of the problem: actually conveying a recognizable meaning, let alone doing it in a manner that might be remotely pleasurable to the reader, has become almost a mark of shame. To be taken seriously among the avant-garde, it helps not to be understood at all. Coincidentally, Joan Houlihan has just put up one of her irregular but reliably interesting commentaries at Web Del Sol, laying into the practitioners of post-post poetry. A snippet:
But one must ask: why is this being said? What is the purpose of these words? Why are they printed in a journal someone paid to produce, for someone else to pay to read instead of being spoken by a stroke victim in a rest home? Who is the intended reader? If it is a slice of something, what is it a slice of?The objection here is not difficulty: the world is full of difficult poems in difficult forms that are nonetheless worthwhile (if not readily recitable by a moose). No, the objection is that the difficulty of the post-post poem is itself an illusion. The poem is not a puzzle in which the challenge is to find the substance or meaning disguised by the appearance of drivel. The poem simply is drivel. Or maybe, as Houlihan suggests, the form has devolved to become not the Next Big Thing but the Last Big Thing:
Such poems are as inevitable as old age and its unstoppable deterioration of language. The avant-avant-garde as displayed by much of the work in [the journals under consideration] is, in fact, indistinguishable from the early stages of dementia. And really, what could be more avant-garde, more against-the-grain, more anti-tradition, more post-post than dementia? Perhaps this is the dawning of the New Senility, the next new thing, so daringly close to death itself, this intentional discarding of connections—synapse to synapse, word to word, person to person—any word, any order, anytime.Not, I fear, a very appetizing prospect. At least not to this particular Fool.
In coming posts (which you have already read perhaps, since they will appear above this one on your screen) I will bring up some poets and poetry about which I actually have something kind and constructive to say. Will this be an all-poetry weekend on the blog? We will soon see, gentle reader. . . .
[Houlihan link via the indispensable Arts & Letters Daily.]


I am pleased to introduce novelist and children's book author, Kristen Collier, to my readers. Ms. Collier is from Grand Haven, Michigan where she lives with her husband, Kevin.
Kristen is the writer in the family and Kevin illustrates the book. A great combination that works very well for this dynamic duo.
Tell us about yourself.
I’m married to author/illustrator Kevin Collier, which is great. It’s fun working on books together and watching him draw. He’s so wonderful and is my biggest fan. We spend just about all of our spare time on book stuff, hoping that one day it’ll become a full time gig. I started writing about five years ago, and it took that long just to find a publisher for my children’s picture book. So to all aspiring writers out there—never give up!
We live in Grand Haven, MI, with our son, Jarod. Grand Haven is a sleepy little bedroom town on the shores of Lake Michigan. Western Michigan is very Christian, a great place to raise a family, so we’re really sheltered here. The people are very relaxed, and very happy, so it’s just an all around nice place to live.
Kevy works a day job at the local newspaper, and I’m working in retail right now, but am training to substitute as a librarian at the local schools, which is a blast! Next year some people are retiring, so I’m hoping that I’ll be able to get in at one of the schools next fall. It’s so exciting being around all those children’s books that I grew up with and loved as a kid—such great memories! And working with the kids in this laid-back town is so nice—they’re sooooo sweet. So hopefully in August I’ll be able to substitute or get a full time librarian job. And then maybe down the road one day I’ll be able to be a full time writer.
What inspired you to write your first book?
I’m originally from Ohio. One night, five years ago, I was in the Broadview Heights, Ohio library, waiting to take a test for a job. I’d heard that if you write your goals down you’re more likely to achieve them, so I pulled out the only piece of paper in my purse—an envelope—and wrote down on the back of it my goals: a horse farm, a godly husband, even what kind of bridle and saddle I wanted. The next day the story for “King of Glory” came to me, complete, in my head. It was like God was saying to me, “I’m going to help you make your dreams come true, but you’re going to have to work for it.”
I wrote the whole thing in under a month, and have been writing ever since.
How many books have you written?
Two that are published, but about six or so manuscripts.
How do you decide on their topic?
The first one came to me, and the second, a picture book called “The Day Jarod Met Jesus,” (a picture book about the Second Coming as told through a child’s eyes), I don’t remember how that one came to me. Most of the other manuscripts I wrote with Kevy. He came up with the ideas for them. There are a few manuscripts that I’ve done on my own, but I always run them past him and he helps me either fine-tune the writing, or add to them in some way.
What works best to keep you focused and on track?
For now, our agent is sitting on a pile of manuscripts that he’s shopping, so I’m mostly doing promotional stuff. And I get bored if I don’t move forward, so that keeps me focused. Plus, Kevin has been lining up a bunch of interviews and short stories for various online magazines for my “Joy the Jellyfish” picture book, so that keeps me working on that series.
Do you write to make money or for the love of writing?
Sometimes it’s both. I’m not one of those people who’ve always wanted to be a writer. In fact, that’s one of my pet peeves about “writers,” because I personally feel that the people who’ve always wanted to be writers are really boring people. They live to write—they haven’t lived. I think, how can you have anything interesting to say unless you’ve lived life? If their whole focus is writing, they don’t have many life experiences.
There are some writers who spend 8 to 12 hours a day writing! I say, “When are you living if you’re spending that much time writing??” When are you taking care of your family? When are you going out and having fun? When are you learning a new skill or sharing your life with someone? It’s those sorts of life experiences that make you an interesting person. So a “writer” often ends up being a boring person, because it’s all in their imagination. They don’t have the emotional depth because they’ve never really lived.
Enough about that. So, yes, I write sometimes for the money, but it’s one of those things that when I’m doing it I enjoy it, although it’s work. I’m not a natural writer—I didn’t even start until my early thirties—but I’ve been working to improve my skill for five years now, and am getting some good comments, so my hard work is paying off. I don’t write for enjoyment, but I enjoy it when I’m doing it. It’s pleasing when I can see that I’ve honed my skill. That’s rewarding. And my end goal is to create a story that the reader enjoys. That’s rewarding also. It’s, I guess, the proverbial definition of a labor of love: it’s hard work for me, it doesn’t come natural, but while I’m doing it I enjoy it.
One type of writing that I didn’t enjoy that much was writing articles for papers. I always did articles that pertained in some way to my interests—such as a religion column I used to write. But the fiction stories are much more fun to write.
What are some traditional methods of marketing you have used to gain visibility for you and your book(s)?
Hmmmm—basically we do a lot online. I’m not sure what you mean by traditional, as marketing has really shifted to online sales for much of everything these days. Most books are sold online now. But I’ve read “Joy the Jellyfish” to some classes in local schools, and that has helped. But most has been online, however. Reviews are always great, so I’m really happy that they’re starting to come out now. The reviews are online, though.
What are some unique methods?
Because I’m married to my illustrator, he’s created a website that has some great free downloads for kids. When I did the book readings in schools, he did a coloring page that I handed out (which the children were thrilled to have!), and that had the website listed on it. The hits on the site went up a lot during that week I was in the schools, so that helped a lot. And along with the coloring page, there are some other activities, such as dot-to-dots, mazes, word searches, etc., all free, so the kids will want to come back to the site. And there are links to the interviews and some online stories as well, so if the kids like the book, they can go online and read some free short stories about Joy.
There is even a trailer, with music, that a guy in CA did for the book, so that’s cool. An author that Kevin illustrated a book for is in commercials, so he did that for us. And Kevin did some animations. So, between the animations, activities, interviews, and online stories, there are a lot of fun things for interested kids to do on the site. And they’re all free, so that’s a great way to spread the word. One more thing—there are links to real pictures of the undersea creatures in the story, so there is an educational aspect to the site also. Kids can click on the picture of the real sea creature and they’re taken to the Wikpedia page that teaches them about the real creature. I wanted it to have educational aspects as well as entertainment, to make it a well-rounded website.
Do you sell through a website?
There’s a button to click on to take you to the page on Amazon in which you can purchase it.
Do you plan on writing additional books?
Yep, there are some other manuscripts in various stages of completion, and the publisher for “Joy the Jellyfish” wants a sequel sometime in the future, so that’ll be fun. For now, though, I’m focusing on the marketing, and online stories for Joy. There will be one coming out in Jan. that will be on some online magazines. In Feb. another story is going to be the cover of an online children’s magazine, so if the kids like Joy, there are a few online stories in which they can read about her and her undersea friends.


The magic cookbook is a simple-looking book with spells in the form of traditional Chinese recipes. Kong-Li and Mei-Hua trained since childhood to use the powers of the cookbook, but Kong-Li wanted to abuse the powers for his own ends. Mei-Hua now holds the book, with her adopted children tasked with defending the book from Kong-Li. Many of the pages have been separated from the book, where they find themselves in the hands of people who unwittingly cast the spell from the recipe. When this happens, Tobey, Sid and Sue have to find the missing page before Kong-Li finds it, and deal with what has been conjured. The book is hidden in a secret vault at a rear rooftop garden at Wu's Garden.


Videos. Tutorials. Site Files
This library of Client resources is a combination of the Handbooks & Web Tutorials created to help you manage your site. The first section contains the resources just for you & the bottom section has the video tutorials for all.
Smoothies in a Second
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Lily & Henry Photography
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Divi is the drag and drop builder you’ll use to edit your site, this video gives you a brief overview of where to find a great resource of Divi tutorials
Using YOAST to ensure good on-page SEO for new content
Media Library Basics
Media library is a store of all your images and files
Editing Existing Pages
Editing existing Pages and Posts using the Visual Builder. Find the page you want and open it in Preview to begin.
Create a New Page
How to build a new page from a Template or from scratch
A Quick Look at Plugins
Choosing Plugins and what to look for
Blog Post Basics
An overview of the components you need for each Blog Post
Adding New User Accounts
How to add new users accounts and assign the correct role
If you’re performing your own Website Maintenance this video will take you through how to perform each of the required tasks.
Also read the accompanying Website Maintenance Guide
This video will show you the basics of how to use a free online tool for Photo editing, resizing, cropping, adding Logos and most of the basics functions you’d want for adding new images to Pages and Posts.
Have a look at the accompanying guide - Image Basics for Web Tutorial and Tips


|Mapping the movies: understanding post-war cinema as a located example of globalization-in-process|
This project investigates the significance of Australian cinemas as sites of social and economic activity. The project analyses the responsiveness of cinemas and their audiences to social and cultural change through several detailed case studies. We investigate distribution practices and audience preferences using a combination of archival, demographic and spatial data and oral histories. As one of the first Australian research projects to produce historical maps of the social, economic and cultural patterning of media consumption, the project makes a groundbreaking contribution to the analysis of regional and community differentiation in Australian media and cultural history and enhances our understanding of the ways in which local media practices sustain community identities.
|Start By||29 December 2007|
|Completed By||29 December 2010|
ARC Discovery Grant
|Outcomes||Deb Verhoeven, ‘Film, Video, DVD and Online Delivery’, Media and Communications in Australia, 5th edition, Stuart Cunningham and Graeme Turner (eds), Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2010 (in press);
Deb Verhoeven, ‘Diasporic Cinemagoing and National Cinema'.
Globalization and Culture
Melbourne – Australia


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Finding good books for tweens can be a real challenge. A tween is a tough age, so it makes sense that a tween book would be a difficult thing to write as well. One series that my tweens, teens, and even mees (get it…me…) loves is the Artemis Fowl book series by Eoin Colfer. This book series checks all of the boxes for what my kids and I want in a book. These books are fun, clever, packed with laughs, and sports some great characters. Artemis Fowl is simply fantastic and meant to hold the interest and the imagination of kids ages 9-12. But, in my opinion, it really works for kids a little bit younger and little bit older, too!
The Fowl Twins
On November 5th, Eoin Colfer returns to the world of Artemis Fowl with The Fowl Twins! With all the hallmarks that made the Artemis Fowl series so popular, this hilarious spinoff adventure stars Artemis’ younger brothers, along with a nefarious nobleman, a shadowy nun, and a fairy intern, and a maverick troll.
The Fowl twins–scientist Myles, and Beckett, the force of nature–are left in the care of house security (NANNI) for a single night. This happened one week after their eleventh birthday! In that time they befriend a troll who has clawed his way through the earth’s crust to the surface. The troll is being chased by a nefarious nobleman and an interrogating nun, who both need the magical creature for their own gain, as well as a fairy-in-training who has been assigned to protect him. The boys and their new troll best friend escape and go on the run. Along the way they get shot at, kidnapped, buried, arrested, threatened, killed (temporarily), and discover that the strongest bond in the world is not the one forged by covalent electrons in adjacent atoms, but the one that exists between a pair of twins.
Eoin Colfer is the author of the New York Times best-selling Artemis Fowl series and Ireland’s laureate for children’s literature in 2014. The author lives with his wife and two sons in Dublin, Ireland. Best thing yet, he”s there right now working on the next Fowl twins novel!!
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This fantastic book will be online and in stores November 5, 2019!! Published by Disney-Hyperion, this is a must-read for my family. I think it could be for your family as well!!
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As a bookseller, this is one of my FAVORITE series to recommend. It works for the ravenous reader AND the reluctant reader. There is no inappropriate content, and is great for the younger kids that are on a higher reading level, and older kids that may be below their reading level.
My kids love this series. I love them, too. They’re exciting, and they have a lot of heart. They keep reading interesting, and that’s key. No one wants to read a boring book!
This is the first time I heard about Artemis Fowl Series. It looks like a great book. I love the cover too!
This looks like a great series! I love the fall decor on your mantlepiece too 😀
I’ve never heard of this series! I will have to check it out!
This actually looks interesting! I would have to look more into the series!
That sounds like a great series. I think my son would enjoy these!
sounds like a fun series. two points for disney publishing. and the sweater is well designed.
Joy at The Joyous Living
It’s so important to encourage reading rather than video games! This is a great list of books for youth!
It sounds great, I also heard of that from my co-workers. So I guest it’s a great recommendation.
This looks like a fab book. Would make a great Christmas stocking filler x
This sounds awesome! I need to get it for my nephew!
Sounds like a great series. I will have to pick it up for my nephew!
reading books should always be a part of a teen’s life in this digital world. i love seeing kids really finding the time to read books. 🙂
Cha at Little MisadvenCHA
Good books for tweens can be so hard!!! This is the best, definitely saving!
I’d love to give this to my kids to read!
I would give this to my nephew. Thanks for the giveaway!


The MUSDB18 dataset is a dataset of 150 full lengths music tracks (~10h duration) of different genres along with their isolated drums, bass, vocals and others stems. The website also provides information on the "Compressed STEMS" format used in the dataset.
The Open Source Tools & Data for Music Source Separation site, by Ethan Manilow, Prem Seetharaman, and Justin Salamon, provides an in-depth tutorial on source separation, and covers the main steps in source separation, including importing datasets and training models.
The Deep learning for automatic mixing book, by Christian J. Steinmetz, Soumya Sai Vanka, Marco Martínez and Gary Bromham, provides a comprehensive tutorial that serves as a starting point for researchers interested on applying the last deep learning techniques on automatic music mixing. The video of the tutorial is available here.


Tales From Ophidium
Human Paladin of Heironeous
Alfred Arless was an orphan and never knew his parents. He was first raised in an orphanage, but fled and led a life of petty crime for several years. When he was nine, Alfred was caught picking the pocket of a knight of Hieroneous, Sir Coyle, who took pity on the boy. Sir Coyle adopted Alfred and raised him in the ways of Hieroneous, teaching Alfred structure, honor, chivalry and combat.
When Alfred came of age at sixteen, he was squired to the head of Coyle’s order, Sir Ziegler. Where Sir Coyle was warm and tolerant, Sir Ziegler was cold and cruel to Alfred. Sir Ziegler was disdainful of Alfred’s origins as a street urchin, and took every opportunity to humiliate Alfred and stop him from graduating to knighthood. Only through strict adherence to the teachings of Sir Coyle was Alfred able to persevere and proceed on the path to knighthood.
Now Alfred is on his Mission, a quest where he must go out into the world and prove his worth to Hieroneous, to his Order and to Humankind. Completion of his quest is a requirement for Alfred to become a full knight. Alfred has chosen to travel away from the continent of his birth. He wants to make his mark on the world, but he is also eager to be out from under the thumb of Sir Ziegler.


In 1855 this was the first widely circulated instruction booklet for playing what came to be called the Minstrel style banjo. There were obscure predecessors and other instruction booklets would follow, but this was the beginning of the “codification” of the stroke method of playing which would be adopted by many of the mid-19th century minstrels.
Though there were still a great deal of self-taught improvisational styles, this method became common among the professional entertainers. By the 1860s, classical picking styles (resembling classical guitar techniques) gained popularity among banjo players, but the old stroke style remained common throughout the 1800s and even into the 20th Century.
Original copies are extremely rare and even reprints can be difficult to come by. Being in the public domain, it offers limited profit potential to commercial publishers. With this in mind, we offer this 52 page facsimile free of charge. Enjoy!
Click where it indicates download below below to get a PDF copy of the complete 1855 edition.
There is a modern reprint available, including tabs, on Amazon.


If I were given the task of teaching an alien race about what it’s like to be human, I might start by giving them Anna Karenina to read. Tolstoy follows his characters deep into their heads and lays out, in detail, how each one thinks and feels, what motivates them to act, and even how they think about their own thoughts. He does this with an uncompromising realism and absence of judgement: there are no heroes and villains, only people acting in ways that make sense to them at the time. I’m guessing that which characters are more likeable and sympathetic will depend very much on the reader’s own perspective. I certainly have my favorites, but for nearly every character there came a moment where I thought, “Yes, I have felt like that, exactly.”
Coupled with the depth of individual characters, the breadth of scope is impressive. While the slice of life Tolstoy presents is mostly confined to one class — we would probably call it upper middle class — the experiences cover a wide range of the human spectrum. There is marriage, both loving and loveless. There is birth and death. There is politics and social change, religion and skepticism, work and play. There is charity that looks like selfishness and selfishness that looks like charity. Most of the things that I worry and wonder about in the course of my life are explored somewhere in the book, and often in different lights and from different perspectives.
Although it’s best known as the story of Anna Karenina’s tragic love affair, less than half of the book is dedicated to Anna, her husband Karenin, and her lover Vronsky. Friends and relatives of these people have their own lives, and their own stories play out in counterpoint to Anna’s. The story begins with Anna’s brother Oblonsky and his family, and through the course of the book a third family is formed, and the three families by themselves could make up an entire course exploring the nature of marriage, family, parenthood, and love. Most impressive to me was the way social and external forces shape, and are shaped by, the feelings and relationships of the characters. Often we have a habit of viewing a love story as something set apart from the rest of life, with its own beginning, middle, and happy or unhappy ending determined only by the qualities of the people involved and the strength of their love. Reality is more complicated: human beings need social support and material provision as well as love, and just as love changes our view of friends, family, and material needs, these things change the way our love affair plays out.
Anna Karenina is not a book you read to find out what happens: even if you’ve missed hearing the major plot events, nothing that happens in it is much of a surprise. It’s not a book you read to ease the complexities of life with a simpler, clearer narrative. It’s a book you read to meditate on your own life, to come out with a deeper, broader understanding of how different life feels to different people, even people who are going through outwardly very similar events. For me, reading it left me with a swell of compassion, both for myself and for others, walking this road of life that is difficult and confusing and sometimes very rewarding.
This is my first review for Cannonball Read 5, a group blog where people pledge to read and review 52 books a year (or 26, or 13.) Mindful of my grad school requirements, I’m only doing 26 this year, but I hope to do the full 52 in the future!


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The Shipping Museum’s collection of maps and charts comprises 162 nautical charts, maps and plans covering a range of subjects, dating from the 16th century to the 20th.
To facilitate access to the collection and make it accessible to anyone who may be interested, the various items are listed here by geographical areas and in chronological order. The basis for this list is the work put into cataloguing the collection by Javier Marichalar, which can be consulted in issue nº 7 of Itsas Memoria. Revista de Estudios Marítimos del País Vasco. Catálogo cartográfico [”Catalogue of Maps and Charts”].
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Navigating Historical Research at UofT - Courtney Lundrigan
The International Relations subject librarian at Trinity's Graham Library, Ms. Courtney Lundrigan, has put together a brief but comprehensive presentation guiding students through the steps of early research for an essay. This includes
- Conducting background research & topic negotiation
- Concept building
- A list of important databases accessible to UofT students
- Accessing primary resources
- Evaluating the quality and validity of information found, and
A copy of the Powerpoint presentation she used can be found here. If you'd like more information about any of the content, please feel free to contact her at firstname.lastname@example.org.
Essay Writing Workshop - Tina Park
Tina Park, a PhD candidate at the University of Toronto and a TA for HIS311 Canadian International Relations, has put together a very thorough presentation on the steps to writing a successful essay. She addresses the nature of writing in history, the distinction between Political Science and History, as well as the mechanics of essay writing. Her Powerpoint from this presentation offers a comprehensive step-by-step guide, and is a must-have resource for students.
Evaluating Sources - Courtney Lundrigan
Ms. Lundrigan has put together a very helpful test students can use to evaluate the usefulness of their research material (both print and digital, including websites). You can access the CRAAP test here.
Writing Centres at the University of Toronto
The University of Toronto has multiple resources, both online and in-person, for students looking for help with the particulars of constructing and executing a university-level paper. Some of the most sought after resources are the writing centres, where students can book appointments for one-on-one help with their essay, no matter where they are in the stage of writing. These centres are college-specific, and spots tend to be filled up quickly, so book appointments well in advance!


Using the Zoom Site Search within NetObjects Fusion
Overview of Zoom
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- Free: As the name says, this is a free version of Zoom. It is limited to sites of 50 pages or less.
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George Orwell: Politics and the English Language Politics and the English Language, the essay of George Orwell. First published: April 1946 by/in Horizon, GB, London George Orwell - Complete works, Biography, Quotes, Essays Welcome to george-orwell.org, a site dedicated to George Orwell. This site contains the complete works of George Orwell, as well as a biography, pictures and famous Politics and the English Language - Wikipedia "Politics and the English Language" (1946) is an essay by George Orwell that criticises the "ugly and inaccurate" written English of his time and examines the George Orwell - Wikipedia Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), better known by the pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist, and critic. George Orwell Quotes - BrainyQuote Enjoy the best George Orwell Quotes at BrainyQuote. Quotations by George Orwell, British Author, Born June 25, 1903. Share with your friends. George Orwell: Why I Write – 1946 Why I Write, the essay of George Orwell. First published: summer 1946 by/in Gangrel, GB, London George Orwell Biography - A Biography of George Orwell The complete works of george orwell, searchable format. Also contains a biography and quotes by George Orwell George Orwell (Author of 1984) Eric Arthur Blair, better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English author and journalist. His work is marked by keen intelligence and wit, a profound George Orwell’s Five Greatest Essays (as Selected by Pulitzer Every time I’ve taught George Orwell’s famous 1946 essay on misleading, smudgy writing, “Politics and the English Language,” to a group of George Orwell - Biography and Works. Search Texts, Read George Orwell. Biography of George Orwell and a searchable collection of works.
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I picked the 1980 eruptions of Mount St. Helens because I am writing about the volcano for my History 485 senior thesis. One of the sources I found during my research is a book by Bruce L. Foxworthy and Mary Hill entitled Volcanic Eruptions of 1980 at Mount St. Helens: The First 100 Days. The book was published by the United States Government Printing Office in 1982 and tells the story of the 1980 eruptions through the days leading up to, during, and following the eruptions. The entire book spans from March 20, 1980 to June 27, 1980, I however, I paraphrased from pages 37-86 for May 5, 1980 to May 31, 1980. I tried to imagine myself as one of the USGS researchers there to study the mountain, so most of my tweets are just updates on the status of the mountain since during events today, people use Twitter as a kind of instant news source. This assignment also gave me the opportunity to learn more of the details about the 1980 eruptions of Mount St. Helens which will definitely benefit me as I write my History 485 thesis about Mount St. Helens.
Dickerson-Murray, Roberta. “My Mt. St. Helens Nightmare.” n.d.Where Were You When Mt St Helens Blew?. Personal Collection of Roberta Roberta.
Foxworthy, Bruce L. and Mary Hill. Volcanic Eruptions of 1980 at Mount St. Helens: The First 100 Days. Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1982.
Reingold, Jessica. “Mount St. Helens Crater.” August 8, 2014. Personal Collection of Jessica Reingold.
Reingold, Jessica. “Mount St. Helens Scars.” August 8, 2014. Personal Collection of Jessica Reingold.


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|Letter: Exhibit enshrined St. Augustine's black heritage|
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Exhibit enshrined city’s black heritage
Editor: A year ago, I was invited to serve on the Advisory Council that helped develop the exhibition entitled “Journey: 450 Years of the African-American Experience,” which ran from January through July 2014 in the Visitor Information Center. The exhibit showcased to the world a compelling and detailed account of the African-American experience that began right here when both freed and enslaved Africans helped colonize St. Augustine in 1565.
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Can she risk giving her heart back to a man whose loss nearly destroyed her whole world?
Long ago, a powerful witch named Casterix nearly destroyed the world of Arroway out of grief for the murder of her mate, Callum. She spent those years since exiled on Earth, believing she could never return home.
Unbeknownst to her, the power of their connection tied Callum to their world despite his demise. While she hid away, his spirit remained lost in dimension between life and death, until he finally found a way to return to her.
Now, after a thousand years, the two are reunited. But their reunion is less than joyous.
Arroway is dying. The witches are close to extinction. It will take the combined power of Casterix and Callum to save their world. But can she risk caring for him as she used to, when their separation tore her apart?


Over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, I was able to look at the variety of events happening in the world and see the amount of conflict between different points of view. A radical event like a global pandemic and the amount of conflict in the world at the time gave me the opportunity to really understand my opinions on certain subjects. Humanities is letting me apply these ideas I have formed by seeing how key historical events and social movements form, and the social tensions behind them.
The opinion editorial piece gave me the opportunity to express my opinion on a social idea I am passionate about. This was an excellent opportunity for me to express passionate thoughts in a constructive way. It can be read here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/17-9z8IvVb75pynEU04kwOkgP7o9mPcPqMsNyUtk8CpQ/edit?usp=sharing


Today, my guest is LTCOL Dave Grossman. He requires very little introduction, as I’m sure most of my audience will be intimately familiar with his books, most notably the one that has revolutionised the way we think and talk about combat. The book is of course ‘On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society’, which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize; has been translated into multiple languages; is on the US Marine Corps Commandant’s Required Reading List; and is required reading at the FBI academy and numerous other academies and colleges around the world.
He is now the director of the ‘Killology Research Group’ and is on the road almost 300 days a year, training elite military and law enforcement organisations worldwide about the reality of combat.
During our chat, we discussed a range of topics, including
- Non-firers in combat and how we made killing a conditioned response
- How anonymity can enable violence and the importance of non-verbal communication
- The logic behind the term ‘killology’
- What LTCOL Grossman means by the phrase ‘no pity party, no macho man’
- Sleep deprivation and its effects on our societies
- The issue with high doses of caffeine in energy drinks
- The impact of sleep deprivation on ethical decision making in soldiers and first responders
- Social blind spots and how they impact our decision making
- The blind spot of creating a generation desensitised to violence and war
- How medical technology decreases murder and death rate, and thereby hides an increase in violence
- How otherwise good people come to do bad things, particularly in war
- ‘Killing enabling factors’ and how they can lead to atrocities
- ‘The virus of violent crime’ and its implications for our future
- The need to understand causes of violence, not means to carry it out
- The power and danger of information
Since I’ve barely scratched the surface of LTCOL Grossman’s extensive biography, you can find an extended version here. You can find a list of other books he has written over the years, including the two mentioned in our chat—'On Combat' and 'Assassination Generation'—here.


The Impact of Brexit on Health
In December, I was asked to write an article for the 4th Anniversary edition of iScot magazine detailing the impact Brexit will have on health. In it, I look at the effect on the NHS, health research, and public health through regulations. I also explore the worrying implications it could have on health procurement and how the the Scottish Government purchases or contracts public services on our behalf.
To read the article in full see IScot Brexit and Health Dec18


We believe that library is not just a place of collection of books; it is a learning center. This belief is behind the classification and collection of books. We believe that ‘reading still most efficient way of learning’ and offer a wide range of books on different subjects to our students. Our collection of library spans over all the categories of reading materials. Students can find books, newspapers, periodicals and magazines. Our library is classified and catalogued which enables students to access the information very fast with accuracy.
The school has fully equipped labs separately for Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Geography. All the labs have latest devices, experimental kits to create proper scientific temperament by co-relating theories with experiments. Labs have been designed in such a manner that the student can satisfy their inquisitive thought precess and commit themselves to education and research with keen interest.
A special emphasis is laid on Computer literacy. The computer lab is well equipped with latest Hardware and Software to provide multi-user facilities and meet the challenges of a competitive Computer World. The Lab is provided with number of pentium 4 machines and connected on a Local area Network with the latest sever. Our Computer lab is a consultant hub is designed aesthetically with ultra modern facilities like Internet.


Magic Resists is hosting The Resist Reading Challenge - to focus on history, politics and social change. Quite a worthwhile, and in this political climate, a very necessary one.
I plan to read at least 5 books - but hope to read more.
Here are the guidelines:
Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it. ~ George Santayana
Read a damn book. ~ Various people
What is The Resist Reading Challenge?
The Resist Reading Challenge is a year long challenge that encourages you to read books about history, politics, activism, and social change.
I started it about a year ago and it ran only about a month or so but because there was very little interest I decided to end the challenge. Recent events made me realize I need to do this reading challenge for myself even if no one else participates. I was made painfully and publicly aware of how little I actually know about history. In all my time on Twitter I had never been more embarrassed. I knew I needed to do something about it.
This reading challenge also serves another purpose. The truth is, like many in The Resistance, I spend far too much time on Twitter, reading the news online, or watching the news on television. I love reading and it gives me a much needed break from tweeting or binging the news. The best part about this reading challenge is it's not about escaping reality but learning about history and the reality that goes beyond the latest headlines.
I'm also extremely frustrated with just tweeting. This reading challenge is a way to learn different types of activism other than being a keyboard warrior. I want to do more than just tweet and vote. I want to become more involved and hands on in Resist but I honestly know little about how to do that.
I could do this challenge on my own, and I will if no one else participates, but doing reading challenges with others is always more fun. I also think reading about these different topics would benefit anyone in The Resistance. Or a topic. Even if they just read one book it can make a difference.
Really! This is a low pressure challenge. Even if you only read one book this whole year I still want you to participate in The Resist Reading Challenge! This challenge is about reading however much you want or or feel you can handle. I do hope that you will join me in 2019 for The Resist Reading Challenge.
How The 2019 Resist Reading Challenge Works:
This reading challenge runs from Jan 1, 2019 - Dec 31, 2019.
You do not need to consider yourself part of The Resistance to participate.
You may sign up anytime during the challenge.
I want you to choose your own reading goals. I won't be creating different levels.Read as little or as many books as you want. Even if you just read one book you can still participate!
I will be creating an optional Bingo challenge. You do not have to do the Bingo challenge to participate. The link to the Bingo challenge can be found here.
Books may be fiction or nonfiction but must be on the topics of politics, history, government, human rights, feminism, race issues, LGBTQ issues, political movements, memoirs, autobiographies, climate change, or activism.
You are also encouraged to read books that challenge your views or are the opposite of your views.
Books may be adult, young adult, or children's books.
You may include books of any format including traditional books, ebooks, or audiobooks.
This new challenge is just what I need to spur me on to read those books that I keep returning to the library unread as I have too many I want to read and then run out of time. I keep a record of those that have been recommended and then I return.
Bev at "My Reader's Block" is hosting the VirtualMount TBR Reading Chaqllenge - the sister of the Mount TBR Challenge I have already signed up for. These are two good companion challenges - hopefully I will clear a lot of my TBR books. I am aiming for at least 26 each.(so I plan to climb Mt. Crumpit!)
a Virtual Mount TBR Reading Challenge Books for all those folks with mile-long "wish-list" of TBRs who would like a chance to climb as well. The strategy and general set-up is the same--except you don't have to own the books. Heard about a great book from a friend, took note of the title, and then never got around to reading it? Saw a book online that you thought sounded intriguing but you keep putting off ordering it up from the library? You borrowed a book from somebody and need an extra push to read it and return it? This is the place for you! Challenges Levels: Mount Rum Doodle: Read 12 books from your Virtual TBR/Wish List/Library Mount Crumpit: Read 24 books from your Virtual TBR/Wish List/Library Mount Munch: Read 36 books from your Virtual TBR/Wish List/Library White Plume Mountain: Read 48 books from your Virtual TBR/Wish List/Library Stormness Head: Read 60 books from your Virtual TBR/Wish List/Library Mount Mindolluin: Read 75 books from your Virtual TBR/Wish List/Library Mount Seleya: Read 100 books from your Virtual TBR/Wish List/Library Mount Olympus: Read 150+ books from your Virtual TBR/Wish List/Library [In keeping with the virtual nature of the challenge, all mountains are fictional (references in comment below). How many do you recognize? The only one shared by both TBR challenges is Olympus--both fictional and on Mars. However, since I don't know actual heights, I have arbitrarily assigned the levels.] The Rules: ~Once you choose your challenge level you are locked in for at least that many books. If you find that you are on a mountain-climbing roll and want to tackle a "taller" mountain, then you are welcome to upgrade. All books counted for lower mountains carry over towards the new peak. ~Challenge runs from January 1 to December 31, 2019. You may count any "currently reading" book that you begin prior to January 1--provided you have 50% or more of the book left to finish when January 1 rolled around. I will trust you on that.
~[UPDATE] Just to be clear: this challenge is only for books you do not own. They may be borrowed from the library, a friend, found on a free e-book site (like Project Gutenberg), or anywhere else that allows you to temporarily checkout the book. Also--unlike Mount TBR, there is no date limit on your wish list. If you see a book online that strikes your fancy after January 1 and you just have to go get it from the library, then it absolutely counts. ~Rereads may count if you have not read it within the last five years [my arbitrary pick for a limit]. ~You may count "Did Not Finish" books provided they meet your own standard for such things; you do not plan to ever finish it; and you move it off your mountain. For example, my personal rule (unless it's a very short book) is to give a book at leas 100 pages. If I decide I just can't finish it and won't ever, then off the mountain it goes and I count it as another step on the hike. ~Books may be used to count for other challenges as well. ~There will be a year-end check points and prize drawing! [Since I'm adding an extra challenge to my round-up, I'm going to have to reduce the number of check points/prizes on all my challenges. I wish I could afford to give you all prizes!] ~A blog and reviews are not necessary to participate. If you have a blog, then please post a challenge sign-up and link THAT post (not your home page) into the linky below. Non-bloggers please leave a comment declaring your challenge level--OR, if you are a member of Goodreads, I will offer this challenge there as well. Feel free to sign up HERE if that's where you want to participate.
I just discovered this challenge at "Feeding Your Addiction" (where you can find the master list of challenges!).
I like the idea of challenging myself to write more reviews. Now I may do 10 or so for WOW! Women on Writing, but I'd like to do more.
So for this challenge, I plan to write a review a week, of books that I read for other challenges.
That means 52 reviews for the year.
Are you like me and sometimes the writing mojo leaves you when you have to write a review? Well, last year I challenged myself to write 50 reviews. This year let’s make it 75! Now I want to challenge you and me to write those reviews!
Set a goal of how many reviews you want to write in 2019.
Post them on Goodreads, Amazon, Barnes & Noble or your own blog.
This is another favourite challenge - the 52 Books in 52 Weeks hosted by Liz Mannegren at MommyMannegren
Here are the guidelines
The goals for this challenge are simple: stretch yourself out of your regular reading habits, read more, and have fun with it! While there are no “rules” to this challenge, here are a few helpful notes to keep in mind as you get started:
1. Don’t stress about whether or not you get through all 52 categories. The goal is simply to read more. (Whatever that looks like FOR YOU.) Set a goal for yourself and see if you can reach it.
2. Venture out of your usual section of the library/bookstore. As tempting as it may be to slot your regular reading into every category, use this as an opportunity to branch out a little too. These categories are a great way to uncover new authors and genres that you might not otherwise read.
3. Interpret the categories in whatever way you like. Feel free to use the fullness of your creativity and imagination as you pick books for each category. If you think a book fits a certain category, then it does!
4. Read books you like! This isn’t meant to be a stressful challenge. Due to our natural reading preferences some of the categories will be more difficult to complete than others — but just have fun with it! Do a little research and find books that not only fit that category but that you’ll also enjoy reading.
5. Join the Facebook Group. The Facebook group is the perfect place to meet fellow readers and discuss the books we’re reading. We help each other out with ideas for different categories, share reviews, and talk about all things books! (Plus, it’ll help you out with this year’s category “A book suggested by someone else in the challenge.”)
Here are the categories:
Published in 2019:
An Author You've Never Heard of Before:
Book You've Read Before:
With a Strong Female Lead:
Set in the Southern USA:
Memoir on Someone You Admire:
Set in the Victorian Era:
Character With a Career You Wish You Had:
A Plant on the Cover:
Published the Year You Graduated School:
An Ugly Cover:
Teen as Main Character:
Retelling of a Well-Known Story:
Set During a Holiday:
Picked Out for You By Someone Else:
Gothic Fiction Novel:
Book About Time Travel:
Title That Starts With the Letter "J":
True Crime Novel:
Name of a Color in the Title:
Book That Makes You Mad:
Discusses Mental Health:
Published by HarperCollins:
Author Who Uses Initials:
Book That Everyone's Talking About:
Book About a Cult:
Nominated for (But Didn't Win) the 2018 Goodreads Choice Awards:
I have thoroughly enjoyed the 2018 PopSugar Challenge. It was a challenge at times to find just the right book, but it forced me to expand my reading. So I am already looking forward to the 2019 version. This time I hope to do the advanced list as well.
I did not participate much in the Goodreads' discussions but I hope to do that more next year.
Although I prefer to hold a print book when I read, I do enjoy reading ebooks. I belong to Bookbub and Freebooksy and have a very full Kindle! But I have discovered some wonderful writers and read some great series.
So I plan to join in with this challenge and just enjoy reading more ebooks.
I love the library - my library card is used extensively. This challenge is perfect.
I have been trying to buy less books, but read more. So between the library and my TBR shelves, I have a wide choice of reading material.
For this challenge at "Angel's Guilty Pleasures", I aim to have a "Library Card on Fire" (reading 60+ books.
Here are the guidelines for the challenge:
Runs: January 1, 2019 – December 31, 2019. You can join any time.
·Put a sign up post on your blog or (dedicate
a Goodreads shelf or LibraryThing)and link it in the linky below. Make sure it’s public.
·The goal is to read at least twelve (12) books from the library, but you can read more. While twelve is
the minimum, there is no maximum limit. See the different levels below
and pick the one that works best for you.
·Any format will work for this
challenge (prints, ebooks, or audios); as long as you checked
it out from the library, it counts.
·Books can be any genre (fiction,
nonfiction, romance, fantasy, mystery, thriller, horror, etc.).
·Crossovers from other reading
challenges are allowed, including re-reads. The goal is to support your local library and save
·As an added bonus: I’m offering up a GIVEAWAY with this Challenge. Winner will be picked at
the end of the year!! Their are a few freebie entries just
for signing up to join the challenge and then the main entries throughout the
year will be the direct links to your book reviews. You will have until
Jan. 4th, 2020 to enter your reviews in the Linky/Rafflecopter.Go
here to enter your reviews & the giveaway:2019 Library Love Challenge Review
·(Optional) Mid-Year Library Check In: This year (2019) I plan on posting a Mid-Year
Library Check In Post sometime in June or July. This post is to showcase what
you have done so far in the Library Love Challenge. I’ll be offering up a
separate giveaway for the Mid-Year Library Check In.
·(Optional) Reviews: Write a review to enter the giveaway – 2 sentences or an essay, whatever works for
you, but there is a minimum of 2 sentences. Not sure what to write? How about
something like, “The plot was a delight, but the characters didn’t
capture me.” “I enjoyed the story and really liked the characters.”
·Please use #LibraryLoveChallenge when sharing your reviews, library


A fascinating history......
Many villages manage a small pamphlet about their history, but Ramsden has been more ambitious.
The Ramsden Village Story is a record of the village’s 2000 year history which started out as a Millenium Project, was renamed the Ramsden Domesday Project, and is the result of almost 13 years of painstaking research by a dedicated team.
Regrettably, four members of the original team have since died and the average age of the remaining team is ‘ nearer to 80, than 70’, according to editor, Dick Williamson. The book is beautifully produced with colour photographs and drawings by villagers. The chapter on ‘working life’, for example, has detailed illustrations explaining how a Wychwood saw pit worked, and showing a cross-section of a clay pipe.
The village was a source of blue-grey Lower Oxford clay, now dreaded by gardeners! But, it put Ramsden on the map as a centre for pipe-making and readers’ understanding is enhanced by a reconstruction of a pipe maker’s gin-press. Before the 20th century, it was wood from the forest that dominated village life; people were loading old carts and prams with firewood until 1965, when a new law put an end to the custom.
As for the women, there was gloving, which one villager continued well into the 1970s. Interestingly, the chapter on agriculture suggests that forest is returning to some previously cultivated land.’
THE OXFORD TIMES 12th JULY 2012
The Ramsden Village Story – Poachers, Priests and Patriots
Edited by Dick Williamson, this is a wonderful read for local residents and all who take an interest in English rural history.
And at just £25.00 per copy, it's a bargain.


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South West Africa 1974 Twyfelfontein Rock-engravings Set
The so-called “White Lady” in a cave in the Brandberg/Daureb in western Namibia is regarded as one of the most emblematic figures of the rich rock art landscape in southern Africa. The expeditions of the archaeologist Abbé Henri Breuil and his collaborator Mary Boyle between 1947 and 1950 made the figure internationally famous. The archives of the expedition photographers Anneliese and Ernst Rudolf Scherz provide unusual insights into a period when the “White Lady” and many other rock paintings were discovered scientifically and rendered visible by means of the camera.” was produced, an artistic portrait of Mary Boyle as photographed by Anneliese Scherz – a pronounced visual echo of the “White Lady.”
Otto Schroeder and Ernst Rudolph Scherz staging shadows in the Brandberg, Namibia, 1948.
Photographer: Anneliese Scherz, BAB Personal Archives PA. 4


They call Chicago the Windy City for a reason. But Chicagoans are resilient and a little wind and snow didn’t stop Mairin + James from throwing a great wedding.
I’m pleased to unveil a my newest creation: a music video that combines live sound with music. Special thanks to Victoria Sprung for the closing image. I liked that picture so much I had to include it in the video.
If the video is slow, click the blue “HD” to play in Standard Definition.
Ceremony: St Hyacinth in Logan Square
Reception: Newberry Library
Photography: Victoria Sprung Photography
Flowers: Flora Chicago


Dr. Sonu Shamdasani provides a brief overview of the Red Book. Professor Sonu Shamdasani introduces the creation and significance of Carl Jung’s Red Book. On view to the public for the first time, the book is the center piece of the exhibition The Red Book of C. G. Jung: Creation of a New Cosmology at The… Read More »
Murray Stein and Karin Jironet contributed a chapter to The Transforming Leader: New Approaches to Leadership for the Twenty-First Century They are planning a series of workshops in Europe based on the methodology they have developed and described in that chapter 15. The Transforming Leader Published on Feb 4, 2013 Leadership today is no longer just about… Read More »
Carl Gustav Jung was a Swiss psychiatrist, influential thinker, and founder of analytical psychology. Here he speaks about Death and the Human Psyche.


Story by Isa D'Arleans
Once upon the time, in a far, far away galaxy, twirled a beautiful little planet by the name of Earth.
At her humble beginnings, Earth was lusciously green and bountiful, but the little planet started to experience uneasiness when her habitants began engaging in wars and trivial unions in order to access more of her resources. Trusting that her habitants would eventually recognize the tremendous value of her gifts, the little planet eagerly gave and gave, offering her clean and fresh water, her minerals and precious metals, her natural beauty. As she spun around the sun in the freedom of her magical essence, she rejoiced in nourishing her habitants with the love and selflessness of a mother to her children.
But soon decades became centuries and the Earth family grew at a speed that started threatening the equilibrium of their mother’s fine and sensitive balance. Her efforts to feed and serve her habitants started slowly depleting her of her once colossal strength and plentiful resources. She started showing signs of fatigue, overwhelmed by the ever amounting toxins she had to absorb.
In all her years of existence, her habitants had never stopped fighting. Their greedy instincts left her puzzled. How could such destructive behavior possibly help them in the long run? Still she continued to give as much as she could.
Eventually, starting to feel the disastrous results of her continuous efforts, she found herself reaching out for the help of her galaxy friends, THE PROGRESSORS, who had kept a worried eye on her irresponsible habitants for quite some time. The Cabinet of THE PROGRESSORS were ready to take action. After a quick meeting and a concise plan, they started their descent to Earth with a heavy sense of urgency.
Upon their arrival, they were relieved to find out that millions of Earth’s habitants had started organizing themselves in groups and coalitions in an effort to better their world and start building a more vibrant future.
The work was vast and the effort was grand.
This story is to acknowledge the power of community and the vibrancy and importance of connectedness.


With an office in downtown Oak Hill, in the Bellann Building, JJN Multimedia is proud to call Oak Hill our home. So when we were asked to put together a video to promote all of the amazing things to do in Oak Hill, we jumped at the chance!
The City of Oak Hill’s Community and Economic Development Coordinator, Erin Reid, reached out to JJN Multimedia to develop a video to highlight everything Oak Hill has to offer. From outdoor adventures to family-friendly events, we spent three days filming around town – check out some of our stops below.
We started our shoot off at Blooms by Bessie’s. There we met one of the florists named Johnathan who put together a beautiful arrangement while we filmed the process. With a mix of roses, greenery, and daisies, it was really fascinating to watch a florist at work!
When we wrapped up at Blooms by Bessie’s, we headed over to the White Oak Rail Trail to get some bicycling shots and wandered our way into the Rail Trail Expo. We got to check out a number of the vendors and watched a young family get their face painted.
Then it was over to The Frozen Barn for some ice cream. Frozen Barn Employees Madison, Grace, and Bethany showed us all of the ice cream options and how they make their own waffle cones. (The JJN crew might have taken a quick ice cream break and taste-tested a few of the flavors once we were done getting the footage.)
After a quick drive around town getting shots of the Oak Hill carved bears, the JJN crew decided to take a little unplanned detour and checked out all of the notable Hank Williams-related locations in town. Our videographer Seth did a little research and we stopped by Skyline Drive-In, known as “Hank’s Last Stop”, and the memorial marker in front of the town library. We then headed over to Cafe One Ten for dinner and to get some shots of their amazing meals and ended our day over at ACE Adventure Resort. First we filmed the Hayslette Family hiking around the property and checking out the overlook.
Over at Mountain Music Festival, we got some great footage of the musicians and performers that were putting on one heck of a show! Between fire dancers, stilt walkers, and live music – it was an awesome event!
Our second day of shooting started at 7 am at the dog park in Oak Hill – but playing with a dog is always a great reason to get up early! We got to meet Zeus (and his owners) and play some early morning fetch.
Then we headed back to ACE to check out the waterpark. We met up with a group of teens and handed them some GoPros to help us get some action shots. The City of Oak Hill’s own Community and Economic Development Coordinator, Erin Reid, helped us paddle a raft through all of the waterpark. Her son Carter even jumped off the tallest “iceberg” to help us get the most epic shot!
After grabbing lunch at The Lost Paddle, we stopped by a few Airbnb rental locations to get interior and exterior shots of vacation rentals available in the Oak Hill area. Then it was time for some bowling!
Over at Pinheads, we met up with the Hines Family for bowling and pizza. Things got a little competitive between the Hines family members, but we had an awesome time!
We finished out our Oak Hill production with a quick trip over to Needleseye Park to film the Wolff family. We hiked back to one of their favorite climbing spots and got some great shots of each family member in action – even their 4-year-old and 6-year-old got to the time of the route.
Visit the Oak Hill Facebook page to check out the final product!


Author: Laure Eve
Series: Fearsome Dreamer #1
UK Publisher: Hot Key Books
Published: October 2013
Format: Paperback (review copy)
There is a world where gods you've never heard of have wound themselves into hearts, and choice has led its history down a different path. Here a fiercely independent country called Angle Tar holds its own against the mass of technologically advanced nations that is World. Apprentice hedgewitch Vela Rue has had strange dreams all her life; vivid and mysterious and incredibly real. Now she knows that her dreams mean something more, that she has a talent - and that her government will do anything to train her in it. White is a teenage boy whose unbelievable gifts force him to flee from the fiercely unforgiving World to Angle Tar. There he is taken under the wing of Frith, a government spy who sees him as a prodigy; perhaps even the ultimate weapon they have been waiting for. But Frith has his own secret motives; and when Rue and White meet, their electric attraction may spell disaster, or change everything.
This book possibly has the most fabulous world building that I have ever read; from the off I was engrossed in this new alternate dystopian Earth consisting of Angle Tar and World - I wanted to know more, and Eve was most definitely producing more. Bits of information were scattered everywhere throughout the book with regards to the history, politics and running of the different parts of the world that there was possibly not one thing that I had any questions about. Both Angle Tar and World were described in such excruciating detail that I just felt immersed in the reading experience.
I was about three quarters of the way through when I realised that nothing was actually happening; as much as the world building was fantastic, this overshadowed the story which seemed to take a back seat. You could definitely feel the plot growing through the world building, but the story itself seemed to be more of an introduction to things that were going to happen in future books, rather than focusing on the book at hand which was disappointing.
The romance between Rue and White, as fleeting as it was, was very charming and enchanting; it reminded me to a certain extent of Celia and Marco from The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern. It was filled with tension and unsaid thoughts which were reflected on both sides with the dual narrative that was present in the book. There was spark and chemistry, and something entirely different to other love stories that I have read of which created something that I was quite curious to see progress. I'm not a sucker for a good love story - as they are very rare in my eyes - but this was one that I most definitely was not unhappy with.
This book has left me a little confused, however, as the story just seemed to end. There was no final resolve, and although there was a cliff hanger as such, it wasn't one that had me begging for the next book in the series. I felt a little bit of confusion, and to a certain extent, resentment for just stopping mid story, and I just don't see how it could end like that. Despite this, I will be picking up the next book in the series, if not for the world itself, but to see if it truly does start to pick up and go somewhere. The story has so much promise it's unreal.


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Are you looking to take a deeper dive into the world of corporate governance? We’ve put together a collection of books and reading suggestions for board directors.
Reading Suggestions for Board Directors
This fascinating read by hedge fund manager and adjunct professor at Columbia Business School, Jeff Gramm, digs deep into the ever-evolving relationship between corporate directors and shareholder activists.
“Gramm analyzes different eras and pivotal boardroom battles from the last century to understand the factors that have caused shareholders and management to collide. Throughout, he uses the letters to show how investors interact with directors and managers, how they think about their target companies, and how they plan to profit.”
Who should read? Public company and corporate directors as well as board members with an interest in the history of shareholder activism.
For more than 50 years, Warren Buffet has been leading Berkshire Hathaway while also becoming one of the most successful corporate leaders in the history of American business. Although it is a slightly older collection, these timeless essays get at the heart of corporate leadership and are “comprehensive, non-repetitive, and digestible.”
Who should read? Anyone with interest in corporate leadership.
Board members often get their start by serving on a board of directors for a nonprofit organization. Nonprofits present a unique set of laws and challenges for governance. This book “covers such topics as board structure and process, board member recruitment and orientation, board-staff relations, and financial management.”
It acts as a great go-to guide for new and seasoned nonprofit board members who want to excel as strategic leaders.
Who should read? Anyone who serves on a nonprofit board.
As the scope of board leadership has grown and shifted over the years, corporate directors have had to ask some critical questions—like the ones in the title of this explainer by boardroom veterans Ram Charan, Dennis Carey, and Michael Useem. In this book, which was derived from personal interviews with major business leaders, the authors acknowledge that the boardroom demands more from directors in the 21st century.
However, they also spend some time pointing out the “pitfalls of this new leadership model” and how to avoid them.
Who should read? Board members who want to reflect on the overall performance of their board.
This easy-to-read book presents an inviting window into examples of ways that board members can utilize their unique attributes to bring their best self to board service. Written in a conversational style, this book is far from “boring” and approaches board service from an interpersonal perspective.
Who should read? Anyone serving on a board.


"But please remember, especially in these times of group-think and the right-on chorus, that no person is your friend (or kin) who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow and be perceived as fully blossomed as you were intended. Or who belittles in any fashion the gifts you labour so to bring into the world."
Who better than Alice Walker to kick-off Women's Week! How to describe her work? Many would say feminist, activist etc. … but I think ultimately, her work celebrates humanity in all of it's complex, layered, conflicted, hypocritical, beautiful, disturbing, amazing glory. That often involves talking about what a lot of other people don't talk about and it is there that I have found myself reflected in her work. As a woman, as a black woman, as an artist, as a seeker, as a complicated human being.
Her work reminds me that I am special, significant and interesting, just the way I am. It is with this same affirmation in mind that I have chosen today's quote. A reminder that we are all wonderful the way we are and that nobody should ever succeed in convincing us otherwise. Nor should we give them opportunity to try!
Here's to a fantastic week spent remembering our beauty and strength.
PS There are some truly beautiful photos of Alice Walker here.
PPS In Search of our Mother's Gardens: Womanist Prose is a great Women's Week read. It is a collection of essays celebrating women's stories and spirituality through the ages, their culture and their strength. From continent to continent and generation to generation, she explores the thread linking women writers through history.


The Raymon Grace Foundation sponsors a seed saver program through the Washington County Library in Virginia.
This allows people interested in gardening and preserving heirloom seeds to receive the seeds, plant and harvest them and then return the surplus to the seed bank at the Library. Click here to join this project.
Over 40 years ago it was said, ‘The time will come that if we eat well, we will have to grow our own food.’ Looks like that time is here!
During those years we have grown most of our food in an organic garden and experimented with various ways of growing food.
For those of you with limited space, you might consider growing in
There this is a short version of it on YouTube. The DVD goes into much greater detail.
We hear a lot about GMO seeds and you can use dowsing to test the
The Raymon Grace Foundation started a seed saver program of heirloom seeds with the local county library and we provide seeds and classes on how to plant and harvest the seeds and return them to the library to share with more people for the next year’s planting.
Now I realize if you live in an apartment in the city, the previous
Faye and I talked about creating another DVD for energizing food but
Please understand folks, it is your ‘intent of a focused mind’
Faye filmed my friend, the late Walt Woods, and I, talking about using
Not all people have access to good quality food but that does not mean
I set out many years ago to clean up the water in the world and my
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Also this week there were many news around Microsoft Azure! Here as always the overview for you: Public preview: SAP S/4HANA events are now available on Azure Event Grid Forrester Total Economic Impact study: Azure Arc delivers 206 percent ROI over 3 years General availability: Azure Sphere OS version 22.10 Generally available: Azure Communication Services…
As we have seen over the last posts, there are multiple ways to learn about Azure. In the past it was common to use Books to learn about technology. When I have a look into my shelf, there are Windows Server Books, System Center Books, etc. – but what about Azure Books?
Challenge with Azure Books
There are some books out there that can help you to understand and learn Microsoft Azure. But the innovation in technology and the speed of change in the Cloud makes it very difficult to write books about it.
When you have a look how books are written, you can see that it normally takes several months to finish a book. Chapters have to be written, lectured and then the book must be published.
For Azure related topics that means at the time the book is published, it may be out-of-date … changes have been made by Microsoft. Other services have been launched.
So keeping books up to date is a hard job. So let’s have a look which books we can find about Azure…
Available Azure eBooks
One good option to publish books about Azure, is to make them available as eBooks. This avoids printing and makes it possible to implement changes faster.
There are plenty of eBooks out there, which you can find on the common platforms.
But there is also a website from Microsoft where they publish a list of available eBooks … as of today you can find 170 eBooks there.
Azure Exam Prep Books
One very common source of books is also Microsoft Press. There you can find a set of printed books as well as eBooks. The most popular books from Microsoft Press when it comes to learning Azure are the Exam-Prep books.
But also here watch out for the date, when those books have been published. As we know the exams are changing fast, and there will be some new changes in February and March. So make sure to take the latest books and watch out for the differences.
Besides the books there are also a lot of Azure Whitepapers that can help you to understand Azure topics better.
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At least four complete volumes and around seven pages of text are missing from Dodgson's 13 diaries. The loss of the volumes remains unexplained; the pages have been deliberately removed by an unknown hand. Most scholars assume the diary material was removed by family members in the interests of preserving the family name, but this has not been proven. All of the missing material, except for a single page, is believed to date from the period between 1853 (when Dodgson was 22) and 1863 (when he was 32).
Many theories have been put forward to explain the missing material. A popular explanation for one particular missing page (June 27, 1863) is that it might have been torn out to conceal the fact that Dodgson had proposed marriage on that day to the 11-year old Alice Liddell. However, there has never been any evidence to suggest this was so, and a paper that came to light in the Dodgson family archive in 1996 provides some evidence to the contrary. This paper, known as the "cut pages in diary document", offers a brief summary of two missing diary pages, including the one for June 27, 1863. It states that there was gossip circulating about Dodgson and the Liddell family's governess, as well as about his relationship with "Ina", presumably Alice's older sister, Lorina Liddell. The "break" with the Liddell family that occurred soon after was presumably in response to this gossip. An alternate interpretation has been made regarding Carroll's rumored involvement with "Ina": Lorina was also the name of Alice Liddell's mother. The reason for the break has never been made clear.
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How to make beer, wine, liqueurs, cider and moonshine whiskey. The author dusts off over 30 years of experience to tell you how it's done. He not only tells how to make darned near any kind of beer, wine, liqueur and whiskey you can imagine, he also tells you how to make the equipment to do it with. Ever wondered how a still is made? There are 8 types illustrated in this book and though it's illegal to build or possess a still, the illustrations are so complete, you could easily do it! This book includes plans and operating instructions from underground moonshiner manuals used in Mid East oil fields. Some are built with components found in most home kitchens. From moonshine, homebrew, wine and liqueur recipes, to stills, make your own cappers, kegs, scales and even a malt factory from an old freezer, it's all here!