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On January 24, 2019, CUPE Local 5430 organized a standing room only town hall meeting in Grenfell to talk about the closure of Grenfell Pioneer Home and the impact the loss of jobs and residents has had on the community. Speakers included NDP MLA and health critic Vicki Mowat, NDP seniors’ critic Danielle Chartier, CUPE 5430 President Sandra Seitz and community residents Lois Warner and Joyce Maier. The event was emceed by Region 3 General Vice President Scott McDonald.
Talks between the University of Saskatchewan and CUPE Local 1975 have further deteriorated after the Employer tabled a proposal to eliminate the Defined Benefit Plan and replace it with an inferior Defined Contribution or Target Benefit Plan. The local has informed the provincial Mediator that bargaining is at a standstill.
On January 18, 2019 representatives from CUPE Local 5430 met with Greg Ottenbreit, Yorkton MLA and Minister for Rural and Remote Health to discuss our concerns with workload and chronic under-staffing.
CUPE is inviting applications for temporary relief secretary clerical support positions in CUPE National Offices in Saskatchewan located in Regina, Saskatoon and Prince Albert.
Late last year, the Government of Saskatchewan conducted a secretive library review. They held a series of meetings with employer groups, but library workers and the public were not included in the process.
The Government of Saskatchewan has finally decided to let the public have a say. They are accepting public comments on the future of our provincial libraries until January 24.
The survey covers eight themes, as identified by the review panel: Funding Structure and Predictability, Provincial Public Library Strategic Plan, One Card, One Province, Communication with Provincial Library, Governance Training, Indigenization, Value of Public Libraries and Legislation.
While the report outlines several important areas, there are important issues that the government did not include in its report. It is important that we raise our voice now to ensure that the government’s library review reflects the issues facing front line workers.
We would like to ask our members and supporters to include statements on the following issues:
- Develop library specific OH&S strategies for workers;
- End precarious work and create stable full time jobs;
- Amend legislation to create elected, publicly accountable library boards;
- The government should investigate how the closure of STC has impacted libraries and compensate libraries for any extra shipping and delivery costs incurred;
- Let the government know how important stable, long term provincial funding is for libraries.
You can complete the survey here: https://www.saskatchewan.ca/government/public-consultations/report-of-saskatchewan-public-libraries-engagement-survey
Members of CUPE Local 9-01 have strongly approved a new three-year contract. At a ratification meeting this week, members voted 85% to approve the new deal. Although management decided to use a labour relations consultant, the negotiation process was described as respectful.
The new contract will see all classifications receive a 40 cent per hour raise in each of the three years (2018, 2019 and 2020). In agreeing to the pay increases, both sides felt that any wage increases should be based on an hourly rate.
“Many of our members are working for very low wages,” says Stacey Landin, President of Local 9-01. “If we fought for a wage increase based on percentage, many of our members would not have received much of an increase at all. This new contract ensures that over the next three years, every one of our members will see more money for their families.”
The decision by Regina and Saskatoon Public Board Trustees to give themselves hefty raises, while at the same time presiding over budget cuts to education, is completely unacceptable, according to the Chairperson of the CUPE Saskatchewan Education Workers Steering Committee (EWSC).
“The timing of the raises couldn’t be worse”, says Jackie Christianson, Chairperson of the CUPE SK EWSC. “We have watched tens of millions of dollars cut from our classrooms at a time when thousands of new students have entered the system. For them to vote so easily on a big pay raise while at the same time freezing teachers’ and support workers’ wages and asking them to wait two years for a tiny raise shows a lack of respect.”
A recent survey conducted for CUPE Saskatchewan has revealed that 85.1% of residents across the province believe the Moe Government should increase investments in green energy. Only 9.8% of Saskatchewan residents are opposed to more green energy in the province.
The surprising results were just a small part of an annual poll conducted for CUPE Saskatchewan and is part of their ongoing efforts to consult with workers and the public. It also comes at a time when Premier Moe has joined other conservative governments in federal court to aggressively oppose the federal government’s plan to address the issue.
The survey is also timely because a recent report from The Saskatchewan Environmental Society strongly criticized the Moe Government for not taking important action to reduce carbon emissions. This survey shows that most people in this province want action as well.
Last year, the provincial government originally announced its plan to cut nearly $5 million in funding to libraries across Saskatchewan, a decision that was later reversed after much public pressure and read-in protests that were held in front of MLA offices across the province. After the funding cuts were restored, the provincial government announced it would hold a review of library funding led by Canora-Pelly MLA Terry Dennis.
CUPE is deeply concerned to learn that this provincial library review is reportedly occurring in the absence of any consultation with the public, library workers and the unions that represent library workers.
In correspondence issued to Library Boards across Saskatchewan, CUPE is urging for consultation with library workers. After all, library workers are on the frontline and understand the day-to-day needs of their patrons, their workplaces and the impact of implementing changes to library structures, governance and systems.


Pet Health Guides and First Aid Kits
The Red Cross provides up-to-date authoritative guides, reference books, and first aid kits for pet owners. First Aid Books and DVDs can help owners know how to handle emergencies like choking, bleeding, trauma, and poisoning. The Red Cross Pet First Aid Kit comes with supplies to treat your pet in an emergency.
By being prepared with the most up-to-date guides, you will know what to do in almost any pet emergency. The First Aid Guide Books and DVDs give pet owners two ways to learn how help their pet if they are bleeding, choking, or have accidentally ingested something poisonous. The complete First Aid Kit is full of supplies that any pet owner should always keep handy.
Benefits of Red Cross First Aid Supplies
- Authoritative first aid reference guides for pet owners
- Different guide books tailored to the needs of dogs and cats
- Instructional materials for how to handle pet emergencies
- Pet First Aid Kit is great to have on hand during an evacuation
- Reference guides come with instructional DVDs


This test is based on the CPT Standard Edition code book and covers some of the basic parameters of CPT coding, both in a doctor's office environment and hospital setting. The test also covers the use of the CPT coding book to look up information and how to use the appendices and glossary to find answers. It also deals with some of the Medicare codes with modifiers that are used in billing today. * Having a 2015 CPT Standard Edition coding book available as a reference is recommended. For additional information regarding possible manuals, see the American Medical Association (AMA).


Our participants, Judith Howes and Helen Robson from Box Road, had a productive weekend at our community access program. Just last Sunday, we invited them for a day of fun and learning at the Sutherland Library in Belmont St.
The two ladies were struck by the beauty of the library’s architecture and enjoyed checking out the selections of books available. The library staff also taught them how to find books in the library collection and how to use the scanner. Judith and Helen borrowed some titles they were interested in and took them home to read.
After the fun library tour, we had a delicious lunch out at Cronulla where they enjoyed their favourite meals.
At Sunnyhaven, we’re committed to helping our participants improve their lifestyle and quality of life. We encourage them to participate in different activities that allow them to explore the community, learn new skills and enhance the abilities they already have.


- Book 9
- 9. La Lepra Nacional
Carl Hertzog (cont.)
Hertzog’s first book, undertaken for McMath, was La Lepra Nacional by Gonzalo de la Parra (Chihuahua, 1923). Serving as the personal secretary to President Obregon of Mexico, de la Parra used this propagandistic book to speak out against the spirit of revolution and plead for the restoration of stability to the country. Though the title page claims Chihuahua, Mexico as the place of publication, the printing actually occurred in the United States to avoid the possibility of prepublication leaks. When the books were finished, de la Parra loaded them into a taxi and disappeared.
(Click the right arrow to continue with Carl Hertzog or select 'Exhibit Home' to select a new exhibit case.)


The Starter Kit will allow you to put to use the KSAL library of products and make use of the KSAL 360 assessment. We hope you will make use of the significantly reduced kit cost to engage an individual in a coaching relationship and test drive the materials.
We will contact you to orient you to the Qualified Administrator dashboard so you can get started when you are ready to use the 360 assessment.
You will love our “have it your way” approach with the five different reports you can generate from the KSA 360 platform. We encourage you to download all of the reports so you can see the full range of materials available. And you may run as many reports as you like at no extra charge.
As you may know, a best practice is to use the sort cards to help a leader get use to the language of the KSAL Library of Roles and Practices before launching the assessment. In many cases, a card sort is used to select the key Practices that a Leader really wants feedback on, rather than the entire library……though we recommend the entire library.
While the KSAL HELLO! is designed for interviewing candidates, it is also excellent to use in conversations with your coachee. Use selected Roles or Practice interview protocols to explore the depth of learning about a Practice. The power of the open-ended props in a coaching conversation can be very illuminating….”Tell me about a time when…..”
Our placemats provide an overview of the library and relative developmental difficulty of developing skills in a given Practice.
Because KSAL is designed for Leaders, the end of each chapter has a “Tune Up” plan, as our research indicates that Leaders are at the top of an organization and as a rule don’t respond to developmental tips; rather, they want to plan a way to “Tune Up” a Practice. Better still is our deep dive into a developmental plan at the end of DIY: Develop It Yourself.
Let us know how it goes by contacting us any time.


How to Close a Deal Like Warren Buffett
Lessons from the World’s Greatest Dealmaker
Book by Tom Searcy, and Henry DeVries
- Amazon #1 Best Seller
- ExecRank Top Business Book of 2012
- Silver Medal for 2012 Top Sales and Marketing Book from TopSalesAwards.com
Revealed: the winning blueprint for making deals like The Oracle of Omaha
How to Close A Deal like Warren Buffett offers an original spin on Buffett’s near-mythic dealmaking prowess that will catch the attention of millions of Buffet fans worldwide. Here, Tom Searcy and Henry DeVries, acknowledge leaders in sales and sales training and deconstruct the Buffett approach for deal making to give readers a wealth of Warren wisdom to help close every deal.
Praise for How to Close a Deal Like Warren Buffett
Tom Searcy and Henry DeVries have done a masterful job of distilling Buffett’s wisdom into a highly readable book you’ll want to refer to again and again. A must-have for deal makers!
Co-Author of The One Minute Manager® and Leading at a Higher Level
Searcy and DeVries have made their own science of dissecting how persuasion leads to decisions leads to big deals. This book is Dale Carnegie re-configured for the business world.
Thomas Barnett, contributing editor of Esquire
Author of Great Powers: America and the World After Bush
Almost anybody interested in deal making, from sales people to CEOs, will find something of interest here. Simply the most important new book on deal making and big account sales strategy.
Marshall Goldsmith, million-selling author or editor of 32 books, including the New York Times bestsellers, MOJO and What Got You Here Won’t Get You There
Read this inspiring, advice-filled book to discover how you can leverage Warren Buffett’s deal-making strategies to negotiate and win big contracts.
Jill Konrath, author of SNAP Selling and Selling to Big Companies
Tom Searcy and Henry DeVries uncover Warren Buffett secrets to closing the biggest deals in the world. They’ll teach you the skills to make your first million dollar deal.
Dan Waldschmidt, author of Edgy Conversations
When you walk through the Omaha airport, there is a picture of Warren Buffet’s graduating class from the University of Nebraska and his quote, “Invest in yourself.” Once you understand that there is an art and a science to making the deal, at once you’ll understand the value of Warren Buffett’s quote. Investing in yourself not an option, it’s an imperative, and investing in this book is exactly the same. Getting the wisdom and thinking behind Warren Buffet’s deals will help you gain insight into the art and science of making your deals.
Author of The Little Read Book of Selling


A government App is available, with links to resources
Beyond Blue COVID-19 resources: Beyond Blue has produced a series of helpful resources on looking after your mental health during
Head to Health COVID-19 Mental Health Support
MINDSPOT : A range of online
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UPDATE: This is a short story I had written as an entry to the L. Ron Hubbard Writers and Illustrators of the Future contest. It did not win, as most obviously don’t. But, I was proud of the story and wanted to share it with you. If you like this story and want to see other writings I’ve done so far, go check out my first Short Story collection “Bill Baker’s Dozen Vol. 1 – Fresh Baked” (under my name as the Author…my last name means “baker” and I thought it cute to include in the “Baker’s Dozen”) and keep an eye out for an eventual second volume that I will self publish which will include the below story.
I also have a science fiction detective novel I’m in the process of hunting for an traditional print Agent and Publisher for. I’ve been looking for about a year (not full time, because I sadly have a life outside of writing). Failing to find one by the end of the year I will likely self publish it.
So, here we go…
The Next Turn
by William Boulanger
Jun NicKeen remembered the last flying of the Turn. She remembered being a little redheaded girl made fun of by the other Asiatic kids because of the strange color, which she got from her mother Keen NicSage. She had never been made fun of for it before kindergarten and she remembered the shame was a new sensation – that’s how she marked the date of the last flying of the Turn.
She also recalled the sight of them, rising from the clouds at the base Asiat City, as they flapped the flipper arms with impossible grace to elevate them upward toward the blue sky, many with heavy deposits of what the television announcers called Earth, from which large plants grew in a way that look unlike any of the fungus or moss she’d seen from the depths of the city, where her father worked from an office managing janitors and Repairmen.
No one knew where they flew to as they rose up into the heavens, though some have claimed to have seen them return in smaller numbers in the night, sinking below the cloud base that the ancient city rose out of. But no one believed them. They said when the Turn left, they were gone forever – only for another generation to ascend roughly two decades later.
The ancient lantern festival to welcome the Turn was just days away. Skiff pilots near the clouds had seen the Turn near the surface, hunting the Oni-Fuka, wild sharks the fishermen usually catch to provide meat to the city’s residences. The traditions say that when the fishers begin to see the Turn, it is only days until they fly.
Now warned, the lanterns needed to be painted in the traditional method. Jun’s mother, Keen, had taught her how to do it as a child, having learned it in the previous flying of the Turn herself.
“Jun,” she had told her, “I am so excited for your first lantern festival. It’s only my second, unlike your father. We don’t celebrate with lanterns in my city. This is so much fun.”
“What do you do in your city?” Jun recalled asking her mother in wonder. Okaasan was from the Westerlands, in a city called na h-Alba. She rarely spoke of her city or her people, nor how she had met her father.
“We would burn the Clavie and dance around it as the Turn flew by.” She explained. “Clavie are barrels made of trees found deep in the clouds, discarded by the Turn as they fly away.”
“What are trees?” she remembered asking, to which her mother showed a tattoo on her arm. Jun did not understand what she was seeing until she had seen it again upon the shelled back of a Turn. The giant green creature was magical in its flight. But the tree on its back did not droop all the way down and wrap into the roots that held it to the earth on its back.
Her mother explained this was because the tattoo on her arm was an ancient mark of her people, that told of the cycle of life and the connection of all things. “Like In and Yo!”
“Yes.” Her mother had rewarded her with a Wester-cookie of baked dough and chocolate chips as they watched the paper lantern covered in depictions of Turns float glowing into the sky with the beasts.
Jun was a woman now, almost 26 years old. She knelt in front of the small shrine for her mother, with the black and white photo of her Okaasan painted into color and the smell of incense burning.
At the end of her prayer she clapped her hands together twice, indicating she was done with her whispered remembrance of her dead mother. Then, her familial duty complete, she went out to the balcony to prepare to launch her lantern for that year’s festival.
She had no children to share this festival with, a fact her father disapproved of. Already in her early twenties, she not only hadn’t married, but had chosen to go to University – as had become common for unmarried women of her generation.
Jun looked down from her balcony alone, her father celebrating with his friends at the local izakaya – a pub of sorts that she learned was like what they had in her mother’s homeland, where they served free food called “tapas” while you drank beer that was very different than that of her city.
At the base of the city, below the forbidden levels long since abandoned to prehistory, the rolling clouds crept in all directions to the horizon. A large cloud-ship drifted between the skyscrapers, no doubt full of tourists. Normally such ships were used for Oni-Fuka watching and the tourists would keep an eye out for the large sharks to crest out above the mist.
But, today, they were waiting to get close ups of the Turn.
“What a waste of Yen-Yaun.” Jun commented to herself. “But what do you expect from Basement Dwellers?”
Everywhere in Asiat would get a good look at the Turn in flight except those who lived just below the cloud line. People there were so rural and provincial – harvesting the lichen and moss growing on the old pipes coming from the forbidden undercity and operating the massive hydroponic farms that provided all of the vegetable and fruit produce.
Scientists said that most of that could be grown above cloud – in the light of the sun – without using nearly as many resources. But, above the clouds were for urbanites and people of culture and not those who’d grown used to the artificial ultraviolet farm lights and otherwise lived in the fluorescent lights of homes without blocked windows.
Between the Sharkers and the Dwellers, Jun and the elite were able to have the good life, a life her father had worked hard to provide her through his work at the Company, managing the systems power and outfitting the adventurous Repairmen who delved into the forbidden city to keep the ancient systems in operation – many of whom did not come back alive due to what Jun’s father called “classified dangers.”
Jun thought about her Okaasan again. “Mother, you wouldn’t approve of me thinking poorly of Dwellers and Sharkers. You said they were honorable ways to live in your city.”
She was of two heritages but knew very little of those of her mother’s city, where they worshiped the sustenance provided by their undercity and told stories of a bottom deep below whence the Turn lived on a substance like the earth they carried on their back – in forests of ancient trees.
Horns began to blow from the lower depths of the city, echoing off the building walls. The horns grew in a cacophony, warning of the rising of the Turn.
“Okaasan,” Jun prayed as she made a decision, “forgive me for my ill thoughts to the Dwellers and the Sharkers. Watch over them and the Repairmen who delve deep. Help me to use my new education to find a way to honor the Turn and their home.”
Two claps and she lit the lantern. Shadows grew from the clouds far below.
Jun released the lantern so that it and her wishes, in line with the traditions of her father’s people, would rise to the heavens with the Turn to be blessed by the Gods.
Then they began to emerge! Long and oval, the Turn began to slip out of the clouds. Their shells were streamlined, with colors ranging from olive-green, to yellow, to browns and blacks. Their large limbs, like the flippers Jun wore at the rooftop pools on campus, flapped in the wind with impossible grace. A nubby tail stuck out from each shell, beyond the rear limbs, scaled like the heads with their black beaded eyes.
They made no sound of their own as they flew. Only the creaking of the trees upon their back interrupted the silence that followed the heralding horns. That and the gusts of wind as they pushed upward into the sky.
Somewhere down below, if her mother’s legends could be believed, there were shells of Turns yet to be born, like snake eggs grown by the Dwellers. Somewhere on the surface of a sub-cumulous world of legend.
Jun watched in wonder as they soared up and up above the buildings toward the sun amidst lantern after lantern – a sight that would become even more brilliant as the sun set and the Turn continued to emerge for days on end.
She made a vow to match her prayer. She would finish her degree as a power-maintenance engineer. But, unlike her father who operated from the safety of an office, she would join the ranks of the Repairmen – something no woman had done – and she would go deeper than any other and find the truth below. She would go and meet the Gods of her mother.


Learn from the best, these are the top selling books and extremely useful guides on home studio recording and music production.
A review of the best large diaphragm condenser mics on the market. Part 3 of our ultimate guide to condenser microphones for home studios.
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Want choose a good large diaphragm condenser mic? Compare all the best condenser mics in 2020 by price & spec in our 3-part guide to condenser microphones for your home recording studio.
This is EVERYTHING you need to know about microphones: condenser, ribbon, dynamic, USB … plus a useful jargon buster.
Discover the difference between closed-back, open-back and semi-open headphones and find out which are best for recording and mixing.


The HPL book talks are an opportunity for 3rd graders and up to get together, talk
and blog/video about books!
When you read a good book, it’s only natural to want to share it with others. Book talks are simple, informal presentations designed to inspire others to read a book you enjoyed. You're probably already doing it! Word-of-mouth is extremely effective, especially when kids receive recommendation from their peers!
*Fill out the book report form beforehand, bring it and your book with you to the library.
We plan on meeting on the 2nd Thursday of the month! Snacks will be provide by the library!
Junie B. First Grade at Last
What are the Hartington Public Library Book Talks?
The Hartington Public Library Book Talks are an opportunity for kids to get together at the Library and to share and talk about the book they read. Once you've read your book, you fill out the Book Report Form and bring it with you to the event at the Library. There, you can share what you've written about the book and hear about the books other kids have read.
Need a blank "Book Report Form"?


|Two and a Half Pages of Bizarre!|
First 2 columns normal: Last two in style of Alexandrinus!
|76-7 verso: Click to Enlarge, backbutton to return|
Just as Mr. Scrivener has described Alexandrinus on his blog, we see the first letters of paragraphs fully 'outdented' into the margin, and enlarged! What is Scribe A doing? He finishes this page and also the whole last folio of the Quire (76) in the same format (this shows by the way that the text was written Quire by Quire: the next Quire begins again with the expected 'regular' style).
The answer is obvious, but not welcome. Scribe A has slipped into his own habitual way of copying MSS. He's forgotten what he's doing. He completes the Quire without even noticing this major gaffe.
But this is the most important and stunning piece of information we have yet gathered about Scribe A, the scriptorium, and specifically, the date of the manuscript's manufacture.
As Mr. Scrivener has noted for us, Alexandrinus was made no earlier than about 380 A.D. (Dating Alexandrinus) This was the time that this style of calligraphy was popular and even standard, and not before. Scribe A has tipped his hand, and perhaps not accidentally at that, but even slyly. And Scribe D has not noticed this boner, but it is such a disfigurement of the style of the codex that surely Scribe D would have yanked out the bottom sheet of the Quire and replaced the 1st and 8th folios to fix it.
Why then were the Scribes trying carefully to copy the style of a manuscript written about 100 years earlier? The answer is obvious here too. They wanted to give it the look and feel, the prestige, perhaps even the authority of an earlier manuscript. Why? Because this is what the rich patron who was paying for this expensive copy wanted. Like an early Roman copy of Greek 'gods', this manuscript is actually a reproduction, not a real early 4th century manuscript.
Is it a forgery? No. Not exactly. In fact, as a comparison to Codex B shows, the scribes were indeed copying from a much older master-copy, presenting a very early text. Thus it is in some sense just what it purporting to be: the text of an early 4th century manuscript. This was probably a stylistic choice dictated by the artistic vogue of the later period. But the point is, its just an early reproduction.
Hort Knew Sinaiticus was Late:
This fact did not pass unnoticed, even by Hort himself. He did not dare openly suggest a date 80 years later than the one supposed by Tischendorf and accepted by most other critics on his authority. But Hort carefully and quite clearly indicated that he knew this codex was much later than Codex Vaticanus. As Mr. Scrivener noted in another context on his blog ( copy generations ) :
[Hort] does say a few things [re: Aleph/B]:Hort here clearly indicates that the subsequent history (post common-ancestor) of Codex Vaticanus is relatively short and direct. This is in contradistinction to Codex Sinaiticus, for which he posits a longer and more complex history for the text it contains. But this would make little sense if they are really closely contemporary and from the same scriptorium.
a) B and Aleph are entirely different in regard to their subsequent history, i.e., 'post-nearest common ancestor'. For Vaticanus he makes incredible claims of purity and FEWNESS of generations:
"The ancestry of B posterior to the common archetype was probably a chain of very few links indeed;..." (Hort, Introduction, ¶ 328. pg 248-9, ).
Again, speaking primarily of B's unique/subsingular readings, he says,
"the sources of corruption in B are for the most part of a sporadic and indeterminate character (cf. ¶ 204)." (Hort, Intro, ¶ 328, p.250)
It makes perfect sense however, if Sinaiticus is actually a reproduction, made in the same or a similar scriptorium, but 80-100 years later. The original master used by Vaticanus was probably now long gone, but a copy several generations later was still available, reflecting essentially the same archetype as Vaticanus, but with subsequent layers of copying errors.
Thus Hort knew that Sinaiticus betrayed itself as a later text with a subsequent accumulation of further corruption, explaining well its differences from Vaticanus, and Hort's own preference for Vaticanus.
What other manuscripts also exhibit this similar and quite unique style of "outdenting"?
Codex Φ (Beratinus, GA-043) from the 6th century also displays the same style, with marginal notes placed around the Outdented Letters in the very same way:
Although this manuscript Codex Φ (GA-043) is in very bad shape, you can see that it was once a beautiful piece of caligraphy in the same style as Alexandrinus (5th cent.) and these unusual pages of Sinaiticus from Quire 76.


Roar into the 1920s
Enjoy these stories from historians and hockey fans.
1920s-Hugo ‘Hezzie’ Van Camp/ ‘Jackie Flowers’
Hugo ‘Hezzie’ Van Camp grew up on Kellogg Street during the 1920s and alongside his friends and schoolmates caught the ‘hockey bug’ upon its introduction by the coach’s son, Albert ‘Bert’ Prettyman, Jr. Van Camp was a talented skater who became a member of the first Clinton High School hockey squads. Although no photos of Van Camp playing hockey survive, his boxing acumen led to a post-graduate career as a professional fighter known as ‘Jackie Flowers’. … Continued
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THE ART OF PRESTIGE: THE FORMATIVE YEARS AT KNOPF, 1915–1929
Launched in 1915, the Alfred A. Knopf publishing house quickly established a reputation for excellence. My book captures the little-known early history of the firm, from acquisitions to graphic design, retail sales, direct marketing, and advertising, during a vibrant era for those aspects of book publishing. Long before the dawn of digital, founders Blanche Wolf Knopf and Alfred Abraham Knopf crafted a brand strategy that has endured well into the 21st century.
Published by the University of Massachusetts Press, The Art of Prestige is also available through your bookseller.
Above: 36 Bedford Square, home of Alfred A. Knopf's short-lived London branch
Image of Russian wolfhounds, the mark of Alfred A. Knopf’s Borzoi Books, by Jagodka Photography
"This is the first book-length scholarly study of Knopf, and it provides an excellent account of the early development of a firm that is widely regarded as one of the finest and most significant American publishers."―Gordon Neavill, Wayne State University
Research for this project drew heavily on the Knopf archives at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center in Austin and at the New York Public Library. I also spent a summer examining several hundred early Knopf volumes in the Tanselle Collection of American Imprints at Yale University's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.


Welcome to the Hewitson Library
The Library dates from 1876 following the appointment of William Salmond as first professor of the newly established Theological Hall. In 1909 the theological collection moved into the newly opened Theological Hall at Knox College.
The present building in which the Library is housed was erected to mark the 1948 centenary of the Presbyterian Church in Otago and Southland, and was opened and dedicated by the Right Rev. Principal J A Allan on 12 Nov 1955. Due to an expanding collection it was agreed in 1976 to extend the Library, as the centennial project for the Theological Hall. The new extension was dedicated and opened on 30 May 1984 by the Right Rev. Tama Takao.
Today the Library supports the Knox Centre for Ministry and Leadership and the Otago University’s Department of Theology & Religious Studies teaching programmes, as well as the resident and non-resident members of Knox College; Ministers and laity; members of the wider Church and the public.
Welcome again and we look forward to working with you.


I have come across several especially tragic stories involving Connecticut families during the Civil War in the past two years. The Wadhams family of Litchfield lost three sons in battles in Virginia within an 18-day span in the summer of 1864, and the Bacon family of Berlin lost two sons -- one in battle at the Wilderness and another at a Confederate prisoner-of-war camp in Florence, S.C.
|In a letter published in the Hartford Courant|
on Oct. 29, 1862, Alvin Flint Sr. lamented the
death of his 18-year-old son at Antietam. "My boy
was brutally murdered by
a band of midnight assassins," he wrote.
I first read about the Flints nearly 30 years ago in William Frassanito's excellent book, "Antietam: The Photographic History of America's Bloodiest Day." Tapping into the 1860 census and other sources, Frassanito did a masterful job detailing Alvin Flint Jr.'s service in the Union army and the history of the family.
One of two sons of Alvin and Lucy Flint, Alvin Jr. enlisted as a private in Company D in the 11th Connecticut Infantry on Oct. 1, 1861. He was just 17 years old. Perhaps the young soldier from East Hartford was acquainted with George Bronson, a hospital steward in the 11th Connecticut from nearby Berlin whose story I told in this post.
On Dec. 6, 10 days before young Alvin Jr. departed Hartford for the war, his mother died of consumption. She was nearly 50 years old. While serving at the front in North Carolina in mid-January, Alvin received word of another family tragedy: his 15-year-old sister, Evaline, had also died of consumption back in East Hartford. (1)
By September 1862, Alvin Jr. undoubtedly was well aware that a Confederate army under Robert E. Lee moving north. The Union army would move from its encampments around Washington for Maryland, where it fought Lee's army at the Battle of South Mountain, near Boonsboro, Md. At Fox's Gap on Sept. 14, 1862, the 11th Connecticut was not heavily engaged.
Three days later, on the bloodiest day in American history, the 11th Connecticut was ordered to cross a stone bridge and attack Confederate forces atop the heights overlooking Antietam Creek. Sometime during the charge across the creek, 18-year-old Alvin Flint Jr. was killed, one of 36 soldiers in the 11th Connecticut to die during the Battle of Antietam on Sept. 17, 1862. That stone bridge would become one of the most famous sites of the war: Burnside Bridge.
|The Flints in the 1860 U.S. census, compiled on July 23, 1860. Nearly 2 1/2 years later, |
they all were dead. Alvin Jr. was killed near Burnside Bridge at Antietam.
"I do not know the name of the creek," George Bronson wrote his wife, Mary Anne, after the battle, "but I have named it the creek of death. Such slaughter I hope never to witness again. The ﬁght was very severe."
For Alvin Flint Sr., the death of a third member of his family within a year must have been excruciating. In August 1862, Flint Sr. and his youngest son, 13-year-old George, had also enlisted, in the 21st Connecticut Infantry. Flint Sr., a papermaker before the war, happened to be serving near Sharpsburg after the battle and went to search for the grave of his son. According to Frassanito's account, he never found the grave, but Flint Jr.'s body was eventually sent back to East Hartford by someone for burial. (2)
In a letter to the Hartford Courant a little more than a month after the battle, Flint Sr. lamented the loss of his oldest son.
|The Flints are buried in Center Cemetery in East Hartford. The cemetery dates to 1709.|
"You doubtless are aware that I have come to the land of Dixie, to engage in this killing business," he wrote. "Three weeks ago last Sunday night, at 12 o'clock, we were called up by the beat of the drum, to receive orders. We were sent to Frederick City, where we remained two days and thence marched to Sharpsburg.. We arrived Saturday night, near what I call "Antie-Dam," where my boy was brutally murdered by a band of midnight assassins. Oh that I could revenge on them, as Sampson did upon the Philistines! I was leaning upon that dear boy, as a prop in my declining years; but if my life is spared, I shall knock out some of the props that hold up this uncalled for, and worse than hellish, wicked rebellion. Hardly had the sadness of the death of my dear daughter in January worn off, when this sad, sad calamity should come upon me."
|Civil War monument in Center Cemetery.|
Alvin Flint Jr, Alvin Flint Sr. and George
Flint are listed on the monument.
Incredibly, tragedy hit the Flint family again. Alvin Flint Sr., 53, died of typhoid fever on Jan. 10, 1863, while the Union army was encamped near Fredericksburg, Va. Five days later, young George also died of the same illness. (3)
Earlier this afternoon, I made a 25-minute drive to East Hartford to find the final resting place of Alvin Flint Jr. Center Cemetery, just off Main Street in East Hartford, is one of older cemeteries in the state, dating to 1709. It looks it. The grounds are not well-maintained and many of the gravestones, including several for Revolutionary War veterans, are cracked or broken.
On a knoll 25 yards from the entrance to the cemetery stands a large brownstone monument dedicated to the citizens of East Hartford who died during the Civil War. The names of Alvin Jr., Alvin Sr. and George are listed on one side of the monument.
I didn't know the exact location of the grave of Alvin Jr., and in a cemetery of several thousand headstones, one would expect the search for Flint's to take at least an hour. But I seem to have a sixth sense for finding Civil War graves in Connecticut. Sure enough, I quickly found Alvin Jr., just 20 yards or so down a path near the East Hartford Civil War memorial. He is buried near his brother George, father Alvin Sr., sister Evaline and mother Lucy.
It was nice to finally meet him.
|Private Alvin Flint Jr. (upper right) is buried near his brother, George, and father, |
Alvin Sr., at Center Cemtery in East Hartford, Conn. His mother and sister,
both of whom died of consumption in the winter of 1861, are also buried nearby.
(2) Ibid, Page 234
(3) Ibid, Page 235


I got back from Greenland one week ago, yet I find myself caught in the transition between fieldwork mode and the “real world”. I am still shaking the impulse to pack a fleece, hat and rain gear when I head out the door for short errands on these indisputably beautiful summer days. I am struggling to convey to friends and family all the big and small things that made my 6 weeks in the tundra absolutely wonderful — like how thrilling it feels to dig and hit flat, smooth frozen soil, or how, when isolated without internet in the tundra, Courtney and I turned to Courtne-pedia and Juli-pedia as the most reliable (and entertaining, if not credible) sources of information.
To smooth the transition I seek out the things that bridge my summer of science and adventure with the world that has gone on without me. For this reason, I found myself at an exhibit of Ruth Gruber’s photographs at the International Center of Photography in my home town of New York City.
Gruber is a photojournalist who spent time in Alaska and the Soviet Arctic during the 1930’s and 1940’s. The exhibit had amazing documentation from her travels – pictures of Juneau, AK as a small frontier town on the precipice of the Alaskan wilderness and film footage of a native Alaskan cutting a child’s hair during a boat ride.
The most stunning photos were a series of color photos which are thought to be the earliest color images of Alaska, and were developed for the first time for this particular exhibit. The series is full of vibrant red and yellow tones that convey the conundrum of how much and how little has changed in the past 60 years. The single image that struck me most was one of a native woman reading an issue of Life magazine: her face and fur hood are lite up by the Arctic sun and a famous baseball player is poised on the magazine cover.
Looking at the photo I could almost feel the Arctic air on my own cheeks; I felt the profound significance of the merging cultures that now define Alaska.
In addition to the enthralling content of her photographs, I could not help but be impressed by Gruber’s life story. In 1931, at the age of 20, she became the youngest person (male or female!) to earn a PhD. Shortly after, she became the first journalist (again, male or female!) to travel into the Soviet Arctic and later, with a letter of reference from the famous polar explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson, was assigned by the U.S. Secretary of the Interior to report on the conditions of the remote Arctic frontier. On display in the ICP exhibit was video footage of an interview with Gruber from earlier this year. At 100 years old, she is engaging and provides animated reflections on her own career. She did not harp on her early scholarly success and did not even mention the innumerable challenges that she surely must have faced as an intelligent and ambitious young woman working in extreme conditions. Instead, she talked about how the Arctic forced her to reevaluate her native New Yorker instinct to speed through life and showed her how to exist in the present. She spoke about how her greatest moments came out of her dedication to the greater cause of human rights; photojournalism just happens to be her tool. I am inspired to learn Gruber’s story, to see the Arctic through her lens and, most of all, to hear her reflections on a lifetime of astounding success.


Lots of Soldiers Work for Civilians They don't Like, but these Romans had It Worse than Most-- Their Commanders were Blue-Skinned Aliens!
A follow on to the excellent RANKS OF BRONZE by David Drake, published by Baen Books sometime back in the 1980s. The premise is that a ruthless syndicate of intergalactic traders kidnap Crassus' legion that was historically captured and enslaved by the Parthians (during the Roman Civil War era). The syndicate is governed by a Star Trek style non-interference edict that dictates use of crude technology on low-tech worlds. The Romans, naturally, are very, very good at this kind of warfare.
The follow-up, FOREIGN LEGIONS, is not a novel but a collection of novellas and the first short story that was the inspiration for RANKS OF BRONZE. The rest of the book is penned by other writers (not Drake).
These are the stories included:
RANKS OF BRONZE
SIR GEORGE AND THE DRAGON
LAMBS TO THE SLAUGHTER
A CLEAR SIGNAL
THE THREE WALLS--32nd CAMPAIGN
CARTHAGO DELENDA EST
Of the novellas included, Sir George (by Eric Flint) was the best-- basically a retelling of Ranks of Bronze, only about 900 years later or so, during the time of Edward III. Lambs to the Slaughter (by S.M. Stirling, who I usually don't like) was short and sweet, a story about a plot to destroy the Legion and what one hard-nosed centurion does to prevent it. A Clear Signal really sucked; it was anachronistic and rather silly in the midst of the others. The Three Walls was rather good, if somewhat jingoistic. Carthago Delenda Est (By David Weber) is rather good, but strains the concept far too much... though the idea of portraying what happens to Earth when the Romans who escaped in THE RANKS OF BRONZE come home is a good one.
Summary: Enjoyable, to be sure, but very uneven. Somewhat brought down by the modern era story, which was trite and hackneyed. Still, I got it for a couple bucks used, so who am I to complain?


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The opening to John Berger’s most famous written work, the 1972 book Ways of Seeing, offered not just an idea but also an invitation to see and know the world differently: “The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled,” he wrote.
Berger, who died on January 2 at the age of 90, has had a profound influence on the popular understanding of art and the visual image. He was also a vibrant example of the public intellectual, using his position to speak out against social injustices and to lend his support to artists and activists across the world.
Berger’s approach to art came most directly into the public eye in four-part BBC TV series, Ways of Seeing in 1972, produced by Mike Dibb and which preceded the book. Yet his style of blending Marxist sensibility and art theory with attention to small gestures, scenes and personal stories developed much earlier, in essays for the independent, weekly magazine New Stateman (between 1951 and 1961) and also in his first novel A Painter of Our Time, published in 1958.
The BBC programmes brought to life and democratised scholarly ideas and texts through dramatic, often witty, visual techniques that raised searching questions about how images – from European oil painting to photography and modern advertising – inform and seep into everyday life and help constitute its inequities. What do we see? How are we seen? Might we see differently?
“Berger’s theoretical legacy”, the Indian academic Rashmi Doraiswamy wrote recently, “is in situating the look in the context of political otherness”. Berger’s idea that looking is a political act, perhaps even a historically constructed process – such that where and when we see something will affect what we see – comes across most powerfully in the second episode of Ways of Seeing – which focused on the male gaze.
Here Berger showed the continuities between post-Renaissance European paintings of women and imagery from latter-day posters and girly magazines, by juxtaposing the different images – showing how they similarly rendered women as objects. Berger argued that this continuity constrained how certain forms of femininity are understood, and therefore the terms on which women are able to live their lives. He identified a splitting of the European woman’s consciousness, in which she:
has to survey everything she is and everything she does because how she appears to others, and ultimately how she appears to men, is of crucial importance for what is normally thought of as the success of her life.
How we see
Historical context, scale, and how we see were recurring themes in Berger’s writing, films, performance and in his collaborative photographic essays with Jean Mohr, Anne Michaels, Tereza Stehliková and others.
Berger’s essays and books on the photograph worry at the political ambiguity of meaning in an image. He taught us that photographs always need language, and require a narrative of some sort, to make sense.
He also took care to differentiate how our reaction to photographs of loved ones depends on our relationship to the person portrayed. In A Seventh Man, a collaborative book with Jean Mohr on Turkish migrant workers to Germany in the 1970s, he put it simply:
A photograph of a boy in the rain, a boy unknown to you or me. Seen in the darkroom when making the print or seen in this book when reading it, the image conjures up the vivid presence of the unknown boy. To his father it would define the boy’s absence.
Under the skin
Because he had been a painter, Berger was always a visual thinker and writer. In conversation with the novelist Michael Ondaatje he remarked that the capabilities of cinematographic editing had influenced his writing. He identified cinema’s ability to move from expansive vistas to close-up shots as that to which he most related and aspired.
Certainly Berger’s work is infused with a sensitivity to how long views – the narratives of history – come alive only with the addition of “close-up” stories of human relationships, that retell the narrative but from a different angle. For instance, writing about Frida Kahlo’s compulsion to paint on smooth skin-like surfaces, Berger suggested that it was Kahlo’s pain and disability (she had spina bifida and had gone through treatments following a bad road accident) that “made her aware of the skin of everything alive —- trees, fruit, water, birds, and naturally, other women and men”.
The character in Ondaatje’s novel, In the Skin of a Lion, to whom he gave the name Caravaggio, was partly inspired by Berger’s essay on the painter. In that essay, Berger wrote of a feeling of “complicity” with the Renaissance Italian artist Caravaggio, the “painter of life” who does not “depict the world for others: his vision is one that he shares with it”.
Berger’s writerly inclinations and sensitivities seem to echo something of the “overall intensity, the lack of proper distance” for which Caravaggio was so criticised – and which Berger so admired. This intensity was not a simple theatricality, nor a search for something truer to life, but a philosophical stance springing from his pursuit of equality. He gave us permission to dwell on those aspects of our research or our lives that capture us intensely, and to trust that sensitivity. His was an affirmative politics in this sense. It started with a trust in one’s intuitions, along with the imperative to open these up to explore ourselves as situated within wider social and historical processes.
Reflecting on his written work, Berger wrote in the recent Penguin collection Confabulations:
What has prompted me to write over the years is the hunch that something needs to be told and that, if I don’t try to tell it, it risks not being told.
He knew very well that writing has its limitations. By itself, writing cannot rebalance the inequities of the present or establish new ways of seeing. Yet he wrote with hope. He showed us in his work and – by example – other possibilities for living a life that was committed to criticising inequality, while celebrating the beauty in the world, giving attention to its colour, rhythm and joyous surprises. We remain endowed and indebted to him.


‘Taarab’ CD album
Chiku~Taku Records CHITA 01
Taarab Music runs all down the coast of East Africa and inland some ways. But it is in Zanzibar where the Arab and African worlds of music meet to the most powerful effect. Add Latin and Indian rhythms to this string laden music and you have a heady mix of sound from the Spice Island.
There is a long tradition of music in Zanzibar, going back to the latter part of the 19th century when the Sultan Seyyid Barghash bin Said first brought in Egyptian musicians to entertain at court.
In 1905 Nada Ikhwani Safaa, a form of gentleman’s club was founded. In time they took up instruments and started the tradition of large Taarab Orchestras on the Island.
Siti Binti Saad, the working class potter turned singer Africanised the music and popularised it with often highly charged political and social comment. From 1928 until her death in 1950 she recorded some 150 shellac records and is by far the most important individual figure in Taarab, even to this day.
It is this long tradition that Mohamed Ilyas draws on and he is undoubtedly the finest exponent of the Taarab singing still performing. He has a deep rich voice that can still soar, never twice phrasing in exactly the same way, and always articulating the poetry of Taarab, with an accuracy and depth of emotion that is now unmatched in the tradition.
For many years he was a stalwart of Nada Ikhwani Safaa, before forming his own group Twinkling Stars, co-starring with the doyenne of Zanzibari music Bi Kidude, the last direct musical descendant of Siti Binti Saad.
Mohamed lived the life of a star performer through his own dark years, during which his life fell in tatters reflecting the despair often expressed in the poetry that he sang. He never stopped writing and performing however, though he was rarely afforded the opportunity to record during this time.
But there were those who kept faith with him and he has now emerged with a group of mostly younger musicians, including the multi instrumentalist Mohamed Issa Matona and the new king of the ganun Rajab Suleiman. Augmented by the very adventurous contra bass playing of Øystein Bru Frantzen and reintroducing the cello to the music with Hanna Trondalen, both Norwegian, this 17 piece group were captured live in the Sauti za Zanzibar Radio Studio in Stone Town over a week of sessions in 2008.
The studio was a real discovery and engineer Adam Skeaping, who has worked with all of the major classical orchestras in Britain, was heard to say that it was indeed one of the finest rooms he had ever worked in. This allowed the whole orchestra to be cut live off the floor.
So the Nyota Zameremeta Orchestra of Zanzibar was born in a welter of rehearsal, drama and line up changes, all orchestrated by the indomitable Mariam Hamdani, one time partner of Mohamed Ilyas, who despite it all kept the faith.
Mohamed Ilyas and the Noyota Zameremeta Orchestra of Zanzibar. © Fenstein
So this either is the last great Taarab record or the start of a new era for this epic music. As the tyranny of the keyboard and drum machine, aligned with the most crass of approaches to the lyrics and music, takes over locally, the tradition of the large string orchestra maybe has to seek an audience elsewhere. The allegorical lyrics still retain their force in certain quarters, but gone are the days of the spectacular concerts attended by thousands of people, in which the society acted out it’s affairs, politics and disagreements in a very public but subtle manner through the words and music of the Taarab.
All of this is on the Mohamed Ilyas album, but played here with a rhythmic accent that has always been there in the music but often left understated. The romantic heart is still expressed however, but more than ever contrasted with the turbulent undertow that is the very essence of Zanzibari society ~ an intensely Island culture shouting it’s music in a very intense but elegant way.
His Excellency Ali Juma Shamuhuna, Deputy Chief Minister of the Zanzibar Government and Minister for Information, Culture and Sport visits Sauti ya Tanzania Zanzibar Studio during the recording by Mohamed Ilyas with Nyota Zameremeta Orchestra of Zanzibar [As reported by the Zanzibar Leo]
If you like Mohamed Ilyas, then Chiku~Taku recommends that you check out these classic recordings from 1988.


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Navigating the digital landscape: universities partnering for change (NIAGARA)
01.01.2023 - 31.12.2025
The main aim of the project Navigating the digital landscape: universities partnering for change (NIAGARA) is to utilize the partnership between universities in Zambia, Tanzania, Poland and Norway to improve and expand information services by developing libraries’ ICT infrastructure and librarians’ digital competencies.
The specific objectives of the project are as follows:
- to strengthen the digital infrastructure in partner university libraries in Tanzania and Zambia that will benefit all students and staff and ensure inclusive and equal access to library and information services;
- to examine current digital competencies needed for efficient provision of library and information services;
- to develop and implement short-term courses.
The primary target groups are the HEI-librarians and LIS-students in Zambia and Tanzania. Further target beneficiaries are all students and faculty members (including those with fewer opportunities) working in the noted countries.
Some important outputs are open courses and interactive learning materials on digital competency and data management. Information and outputs will be accessible through the project website and social media. Knowledge gained from the project will be informative for policy makers and leaders in higher education as well as governing bodies in regions that are looking to increase citizens’ digital competencies and even out digital divides. The results will be transferable to other HEIs, library and information science educators, and academic libraries and will contribute to scholarly discussions and research on issues related to open access and accessibility.
Contact / Kontakt
Dr Sabina Cisek, the coordinator of NIAGARA project at the Jagiellonian University / koordynator projektu NIAGARA w Uniwersytecie Jagiellońskim
More information / Więcej informacji
The NIAGARA team at ISI UJ / Zespół projektu NIAGARA w ISI UJ


Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, all visitors to the hospital are required to wear a mask.
The Misericordia Weinlos Library has a small collection of approximately 1000 titles on medicine, nursing and allied health topics. Covenant Health staff and physicians access electronic information resources through the Alberta Health Services Knowledge Resource Service website.
Library fines and other payments may be paid at this location in person, via cash or cheque (payable to Misericordia Community Hospital, Weinlos Library).
Phone: (780) 735-2708
Sharna Polard, Manager, Library Services
Abi Wojcicki, Library Clerk
Jennifer Seitz, Library Technician
Tara Sommerfeld, Library Technician
Misericordia Community Hospital
Weinlos Library, Room 1W-45-3
16940 – 87 Avenue
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T5R 4H5
The Misericordia Community Hospital is located to the east of the West Edmonton Mall. The Library is in Room 1W-45-3 in the north-west wing of the main floor. Paid parking is available on the south side of the hospital.


Resources | Pencils
Antique, Vintage and Collectable Pencils
The pictures below show pencil cases and pen holders as illustrated in the Army and Navy stores catalogue from 1907, although many of these items would also have been produced in the Victorian period. Pencil lead is made of a combination of graphite and clay to add hardess and graphite deposits were first discovered in Borrowdale, Cumbria, England in 1564, where a new industry developed involving the extraction of graphite and manufacture of wood pencils. In 1858 Hymen Lipman developed the idea of adding an eraser to one end of the wooden cased pencil and quickly made a fortune. The fact that lead pencils needed frequent sharpening and were not intrinsically appealing suggested that there was a possible market for something that retained its writing point and had more appeal. In 1822 Sampson Mordan invented his Everpoint pencil with its lead being propelled by a twisting mechanism. These pencils proved very popular and S. Mordan went on to produce novelty pencils in silver and gold in the shape of a bottle, axe, sword, acorn, piglet, tennis racket, crucifix, rowing boat, owl, fish, pistol, rifle, hunting horn, screw and more besides. Production lasted until 1941 when the work shop in Cheapside, London was destroyed by bombing during the second world war. There were also many other pencil case manufacturers during this period whose pencils now form the basis of pencil collections.
The images above were taken from the book 'Yesterday's Shopping, The Army and Navy Stores Catalogue 1907' a facsimile of the Army and Navy Stores catalogue from 1907 containing over 1200 indexed pages illustrating thousands of items retailed in the Victorian and Edwardian periods. The first edition was printed in 1969 and it was later reprinted in 1980. The pages include hundreds of illustrations of stationery items, writing instruments and accessories that would be of interest to the pen and pencil collector. The book is also a valuable resource for social historians.


Digitized music must contain metadata in order to be licensed, searched, tracked and paid for online usage. Whether factual, cultural (tags and folksonomy), contractual-time-sensitive, content based or usage generated, new norms and standards are being defined to aknowledge the increasing role of music metadata.
The TGIT software project is an indexation platform containing music metadata for the use of creators, performers, producers of sound recordings, record labels.
Download of bilingual version (EN/FR) is available for MAC and Windows.
Thanks to some evolution of metadata information, which is progressively being recognized and used by players in the music industry worldwide, TGIT will allow music to register harmoniously and productively in the new global digital ecosystem. TGIT is not a legal online music service nor an audio file agregator. It is strictly limited to the indexing of digital audio recordings and works metadata within the existing framework. During the first phase, Iconoclaste inc. will develop the basic software (an open source "Music Tagger") for individual (desktop) use. This will allow the initial creators and producers of the copyrighted content to embed the metadata of their works in song files. The software is free for industry professionals. A second phase will involve building a metadata repository in collaboration with the rightsholders sector.
The research on which the TGIT project is based will be published in early 2013. It was carried out by Jean-Robert Bisaillon as part of his master’s degree in Research Practices and Public Action at the Urbanisation Culture Société Research Centre, which is part of the National Institute for Scientific Research (INRS) in Montreal. It sets out the results of a survey conducted on metadata in the field of sound recording, conducted with the support of the Institute’s laboratory / art and society / land and theory department (l / as / tt). This first research project is complemented by a second which focuses more specifically on the knowledge mobilization used in carrying out this research, and the construction and transmission of the results. Beyond this formal academic framework, the project involves a phase of mobilization and implementation which has as its aim the development of the TGIT technical and software capability. The overall aim of the project is to meet the practical needs of industry partners, and, as a logical consequence of research-action, these partners will participate to the new phases of the project.
For the purposes of our study, we have created a list of musical databases which are already in use. At the time of publication, the list contains 60 databases. It is available online under Creative Commons BY-NC-SA, and will be updated repeatedly as the work progresses. http://bit.ly/musicalmetadata
For the purposes of our study, we have also created a cross-referenced table of metadata fields in order to compare the constants and methodological differences of certain stakeholders. At present, this table brings together and compares more than 280 fields of databases and metadata ID3V2, IODA, CDDB2. SoundExchange, SOPROQ, MusicBrainz, and CISAC CWR V1. The table is available on line, and will be updated repeatedly as we go along. http://bit.ly/metadataframes


We will finalize readings and assignments later in the spring. Please be prepared to participate in two weeks of intensive training. Yes, there will be homework.
The day-to-day work of the summer institute will follow a consistent schedule pattern comprised of two morning blocks and two afternoon blocks, separated with breaks and a 1-hour lunch. In the morning, we will begin with the exploration of digital humanities literature and digital resources related to the methodological focus for the day. In the afternoon, we return to a lab setting, where participants will complete a set of exercises designed to train them in the skills for the day, using materials from the rich array of open access art history sources.
- Week 1
- Monday: Introduction to digital humanities and digital art history; establishing an online professional identity
- Tuesday: Surveying major digital art collections; finding, organizing, and analyzing digital sources
- Wednesday: Building digital collections and assessing digital art history projects
- Thursday: Working with non-textual sources and 3D imaging
- Friday: Introduction to data and data visualizations
- Week 2
- Monday: Mapping and spatial history
- Tuesday: Data Mining and Network Analysis
- Wednesday: Sharing authority and GLAMs
- Thursday: Project planning and grant proposal writing
- Friday: Scholarly communication, professionalization, futures of publishing


The objective of this project was to design the set of controls of a usual
Windows GUI which can be conveniently used while creating Web applications, and
built into the code of HTML pages directly.
The result of this project targets the Web application developers and Web
designers. The work resulted in the library developed using Java Script. It
contains a set of GUI controls. They are: different menus, dialog windows,
windows to show the documents, windows to represent the list of documents,
"Drag&Drop" functions, buttons, "check box" controls, icons, etc.
Q: Was it a commercial project?
KB_Soft: Not quite. It was a pilot project. That is why it is worth mentioning
that this library has a number of restrictions. In particular, the implemented
version of the library works correctly only with the Internet Explorer browser
of version 4.0 and higher. The library branch for the Netscape browsers family
was not implemented.
Q: What is the distinctive feature of this project in your
KB_Soft: This tool (the library) targeted Web application developers. We tried
to implement the set of user-friendly GUI controls using the most limited set
of tools. In particular, the Java Script and Dynamic HTML languages. On the one
hand, it led to some restrictions of functionality. But on the other hand, it
provided simplicity of integration and usability.
Q: And what about graphical design? Most of the potential
consumers of such libraries, first of all, want the GUI controls to harmonize
with the common design of their application or site?
KB_Soft: Yes. You are right. To achieve this we tried to supply these controls
with maximum flexibility. For instance, using this library you can create a
well-structured, multilayer menu for your Web application or Web site by adding
just several lines of code into your HTML page. At that the menu will use the
same colors and fonts which the developer or designer chooses for his page. The
same is fair for other controls of this library. For example, it is possible to
define how the scroll bar or the window close button will look. To set the
colors of the title bar for the active window, to draw and use one's own icon


Winx Club TV Specials DVD Boxset
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Italian air date American air date "Il destino di Bloom"
"The Fate of Bloom"
21 Nov 2011 27 Jun 2011 Bloom, an ordinary girl from Gardenia, is on summer vacation when she stumbles upon a battle between the fairy Stella and an ogre named Knut. Bloom stands against the monster and suddenly discovers that she has magical powers. Stella offers Bloom the opportunity to attend the Alfea College for Fairies, which Bloom and her parents agree to. The two fairies soon meet their roommates: Flora, Tecna, and Musa. After an encounter with the Trix witches from the competing college of Cloud Tower, the fairies decide to form their own group: the Winx Club. "La vendetta delle Trix"
"Revenge of the Trix"
28 Nov 2011 1 Aug 2011 A mysterious nymph named Daphne communicates with Bloom through a dream. During spring break, Bloom returns home and bonds with her parents. While in Gardenia, Bloom dreams about her father rescuing a baby left unharmed in a fire. After telling her parents, Bloom realizes that the event in her dream actually happened, and that she was the baby in the fire. Later on, Bloom visits Cloudtower's library to learn more about herself. Meanwhile, the Trix devise a plan to steal Bloom's Dragon Flame powers. "Battaglia per Magix"
"The Battle for Magix"
5 Dec 2011 18 Sept 2011 After the Trix take Bloom's powers, the three witches take over Cloudtower and take down Headmistress Griffin. Through the power of the Dragon Flame, the Trix summon an Army of Darkness to start a reign of terror. Bloom returns to Alfea, powerless without her Dragon Flame. She teams up with Stella, Sky, Brandon, and Knut to confront the Trix at Cloudtower and reclaim her powers. Once she talks with Daphne, Bloom is able to regain her Dragon Flame and join her friends in a final battle. She faces Icy one-on-one while the other fairies face Darcy and Stormy. After Bloom manages to beat her rival, the friends celebrate, and Bloom and Sky share their first kiss. "La fenice d'ombra"
"The Shadow Phoenix"
12 Dec 2011 16 Oct 2011 Aisha, the princess of Andros and fairy of waves, tries to rescue a group of pixies from the Shadow Phoenix. She is caught by him and is forced down a cliff. Aisha arrives at Alfea where she meets the Winx. Bloom and Stella offer to help her, leaving Flora, Musa, and Tecna to take care of a young pixie named Piff. Meanwhile, the Shadow Phoenix breaks the Trix out of prison. Bloom and Stella duel with the Trix while Aisha saves the pixies. Later, a paladin named Professor Avalon offers to help Bloom uncover more about her past. Avalon brings Bloom to a fortress and reveals his true identity as the Shadow Phoenix. The Winx and Specialists fly to the fortress and eventually defeat the Shadow Phoenix.


Collins gave some of the best years of his career to Palmer & Cay, a prestigious commercial insurance brokerage firm based in the American South. Dubbed “The Ship” by those closest to it, the 135-year-old company was both successful and highly respected in the industry. When first hired as one of three people in the Atlanta office’s benefits division, the author learned that they only had $90,000 in annual revenue on the books. Fifteen years later, through the hard work of his dedicated team, that number had climbed to $10 million, and the group had ballooned to forty-eight staff members. As the division’s Senior Vice President and Managing Partner, Collins was in a comfortable and satisfying position. Then, in the span of just two years, The Ship sank.
In Collin’s analysis, the first sign of trouble on board the Palmer & Cay came in the form of new, outside leadership at the helm. Other personnel changes soon followed in this captain’s wake, and these junior officers, like their skipper, brought with them ways of doing business that were often at odds with the ones that had kept The Ship afloat for over a century. Excessive spending and aggressive expansion combined with poor decision making quickly caused the once sturdy company to flounder.
In a well-written chronicle of events that reads like a novel, the author offers up a candid, no-holds-barred account of Palmer & Cay’s dreadful demise. Collins is not afraid to name names nor to place the blame for the company’s downfall on the shoulders of those he finds responsible. He maintains a good pace throughout the book with short, well-constructed chapters that explore specific subjects with enough depth to inform the reader but never bog down the narrative. Engaging, insightful, and obviously heartfelt, Collins cautionary tale of corporate collapse is a must-read for business leaders.
Reviewed by John E. Roper
Recommended by The US Review of Books
Collins story exemplifies the importance of business leaders understanding and adopting the philosophy of servant leadership. A managerial approach incorporating servant leadership may very well have avoided many of the decisions which appear to have caused the failure of Palmer & Cay
Reviewed by Arn Rubinoff, Attorney and Adjunct Professor, Georgia Tech Scheller College
An outstanding read on every level. The story of Palmer & Cay’s change strategy (both poorly conceived and badly executed) was made dramatic and vivid by the author’s insider view and obvious love for his company and colleagues. He provides the reader an emotional bridge and genuine feelings of loss and betrayal that are rarely found in non-fiction business books. As a consultant who worked with the company during this change process, I can attest to both the accuracy of Mr. Collins’ depiction of the sinking of Palmer & Cay and to his depiction of the deep feelings engendered by that loss. Palmer & Cay was a uniquely superb service organization that understood it’s customers and it’s markets as well as any brokerage firm in the industry. Despite the changes in the regulatory climate and the challenges the insurance industry was facing, it’s quite likely that Palmer & Cay could have continued to thrive and grow with it’s focus on regional leadership, it’s remarkable talent level, and it’s unique servant- leadership culture. However, the banality of it’s motivations for change, the arrogance of it’s new leadership and the speed of it’s demise all make up a cautionary tale for the modern CEO. Mr. Collins final chapter alone is an MBA level discourse on leadership and the critical importance of corporate culture in successful business today. I loved this book of Business.
By Richard Fortieron June 23, 2017


English Learners Parents Advisory Council (ELPAC)
The English Learner Parent Advisory Council is open to parents/guardians of English learners (ELs) in Quincy. The purpose of the ELPAC is to promote and support the success of ELs. ELPACs are intended by law to advise the district and schools regarding matters that impact English learners, including language acquisition programs, educational opportunities for ELs, and improvement plans as they relate to ELs.
What is ELPAC?
A group of parents and guardians of current and former English Learners in Quincy Public Schools who wants to work with school and district leaders to improve the English Learner Education Program. This group meets several times during the school year. The meeting schedule will be put here shortly. The ELPAC Meetings have interpreters available in the following languages: Mandarin, Portuguese, Spanish, and Vietnamese.
What does ELPAC Do?
Advocates for English Learners in Quincy Public Schools
Guides and informs school leaders
Shares information with other parents of English Learners
Mihaela Rusu - President
Bang Tran - Information Technician
If you have any questions or an interest in speaking with other families, please contact the ELPAC on Email: firstname.lastname@example.org
Family liaisons serve as the language and cultural bridge between families, schools, and the community. They welcome new bilingual families to Quincy Public Schools, share community resources with bilingual families, connect families, and work on assessing and addressing needs through communication, connection, and collaboration. They will be present at the central registration office to welcome new families. They also can be present at school events and meetings to connect with the school community and families.
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Check out the September Events and activities at Thomas Crane Public Library. This is a great opportunity to meet new families in the community and for the kids to socialize.
Resources and Language Classes
The Thomas Crane Library in Quincy Center offers FREE conversation and citizenship classes. Learn more at ThomasCraneLibrary.org/Learn-English
The library also offers a web-based language learning program called Transparent.


Some argue that the first novel was The Tale of Genji (Genji Monogatan) written by an 11th century Japanese noblewoman called Murasaki Shikibu. It has been praised as a book of great subtlety and psychological insight. Yet it is also porn. It was written as a series of installments and read to the women of the court to entertain and to titillate. Some of the detail is quite shocking. One of the major plot lines involves Genji’s attraction to a beautiful 10 year-old girl who bears the same name as the author, Murasaki. He kidnaps her to train her as his ideal companion and he consummates their relationship when she is just 12. In another scene he seduces a boy of 12. And all this written by a woman to amuse other women.
The Tale of Genji is regarded as a classic of Japanese literature – the Japanese Shakespeare – and it had an enormous impact on the Japanese erotic imagination, inspiring a substantial body of erotic literature and of course, art, even to this day.
But we need not turn to exotic cultures, to the ‘other’, to find the erotic imagination at play. Within in our own culture we have the transgressive myths of the Greco-Roman tradition, filled with tales of incest, paedophilia, pederasty, bestiality and uninhibited lust. Even in English literature we start with the work of Geoffrey Chaucer and The Canterbury Tales. Everyone knows Chaucer could be bawdy and vulgar, as this example from The Miller’s Tale demonstrates.
Derk was the night as pich, or as the cole,
And at the window out she putte hir hole
And Absolon, him fil no bet ne wers,
But with his mouth he kiste hir naked ers
Ful savourly, er he was war of this.
In the modern porn parlance this is called ‘rimming’, a part of oral/anal play. Rimming in English Literature? Who’d have thunk it?
What all this points to is one simple, and as it turns out, obvious point. That humans have a very vivid sexual imagination and this finds expression in just about every culture and in every historical milieu.
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