Years ago, I discovered the value of the information presented in a phonebook. While working on my next novel, I rediscovered the value when I found an 1865 San Francisco directory. Of course, it didn’t include phone numbers, but it did include residents’ names and addresses. It also included the resident’s job and annotated whether the person was colored. The latter was helpful in my search for an 1865 San Francisco hotel that served African-Americans.
In the 1865 directory, I noticed the name Barney Fletcher several times associated with colored organizations in the yellow pages. His name kept popping up. According to the directory, Barney Fletcher was an African-American janitor at San Francisco’s Exchange Building in the 1860s. He also served as a trustee at the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church, Vice-President of the California Contraband Relief Association, Secretary of (Masonic) Hannibal Lodge No. 1, Secretary of the Ladies Union Beneficial Society (Colored; aid sick members), and President of the Young Men’s Union Beneficial Society (Col’d; aid sick members).
The AME Church has long been associated with the 19th century abolitionist movement and the name “Contraband Relief Association” speaks for itself. I wondered if Barney Fletcher was a black abolitionist. I needed to look beyond the directory. Looking at the names of Barney’s fellow organization officers, I discovered that Barney ran with the San Francisco’s prominent black abolitionists, including
Barney also served briefly as the pastor of the AME church in Oakland in 1862. One report indicated that Barney was associated with the Sacramento Zouaves formed in 1863 in San Francisco; there first public event occurred on January 1, 1868 in San Francisco. Barney actively sought to improve the education of black children and participated in California’s colored conventions.
One could argue that Barney Fletcher was one of San Francisco’s prominent black activists during the city’s pioneer days. One can only wonder what else Barney would have accomplished if equal opportunities existed in California in the 19th century. --Mig
 Phonebook: a relic of the 20th century that contained names, addresses, and telephone numbers that was printed annually by telecommunication companies and distributed to their customers.
 Yellow pages: a section of antiquated phonebooks printed on yellow paper that listed businesses and other organizations.
 The San Francisco Directory 1865, pp. 179, 599, 606, 609, 611, and 613 (accessed May 22, 2022, https://archive.org/details/sanfranciscodire1865lang/page/179/mode/2up).
 The Poetical Works of James Madison Bell, p. 8, 1901, reaffirmed Bell’s association with Barnet Fletcher while Bell was in San Francisco between 1860 and 1865.
 Guy Washington, California Pioneers of African Descent, National Park Service, December 17, 2010, pp. 74-75 (accessed May 22, 2022, https://www.nps.gov/npgallery/GetAsset/a8faefce-d534-4728-9c47-0a4f291627af).
 The San Francisco Directory 1865, p. 12 presents an estimated “total permanent population of 110,100, of which 3,000 were Chinese and 2,100 (2%) were colored.
 Michael Stolp-Smith, “Saint Andrews African Methodist Episcopal Church, Sacramento, California,” March 16, 2010 (accessed 5/23/2022, https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/st-andrews-ame-church-1850).
 African American Citywide Historic Context Statement (draft), prepared for the City and County of San Francisco, January2016, p. 34 (accessed May 23, 2022, https://default.sfplanning.org/Preservation/african_american_HCS/AfricanAmericanHistoricContextStatement_Draft_Jan2016.pdf).
 Martha C. Taylor, From Labor to Reward, pp. 8 and 18, June 24, 2016 (accessed May 23, 2022, books.google.com).
 William Burg, “Black History in Sacramento Part 1” [video: 48:07-49:30], July 15, 2020 (accessed May 23, 2022, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaDXlvTR44s).
 “Call for a State Convention of the Colored Citizens of California,” The Elevator, July 14, 1865, p. 2 (accessed June 21, 2022, https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=EL18650714.2.8&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1).
My intent is to offer occasional short comments on my writing, our history, or your questions. Let me know what you think, Mig


In this quarter's issue...
A final word from SQ...
Well kindly readers, the final issue of Spinners' Quarterly is out as of September 2009. For its contents, and in fact for all the contents ever published in SQ, have a look at the complete index.
Spinners' Quarterly was a fun way to bring together different voices, ideas, and enthusiasm about the role of handspinning in the modern world. From exploring the magnitude of spinning's impact on a world leader such as Gandhi ("Gandhi's peaceful spin", July 04) to the marvelous minutia of buttons ("Buttons: more than just doer uppers", Dec 09), SQ has endeavoured to lead us to the joy that is handspinning. I am pretty sure that spinning makes the world a better place, and I can only hope that SQ does, too.
I would like to sincerely thank the many subscribers, contributors, designers, and spinners who made SQ what it is. If you are interested in back issues, or if you just want to keep in touch, I'm still here and spinning away so by all means give a shout.


WHAT THE EXPERTS SAY ABOUT fearless media
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"Lively and informative. Csathy has long been the go-to expert for writers to make sense of the rapidly evolving media landscape. A great guide to the 'tech-tonic' shifts to come."
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synopsis of FEARLESS MEDIA
“FEARLESS MEDIA” IS PETER CSATHY’S CALL TO ACTION & INSIDER’S GUIDE TO OUR NEW FUNDAMENTALLY TRANSFORMED MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT WORLD (& WHERE IT’S GOING)
“Media 2.0” represents our tech-transformed new media and entertainment world, the ever-accelerating pace of which is astounding. Media 2.0 impacts all of us. In ways we realize, but many (most?) we don’t, and won’t until we look back years from now. “Fearless Media“ is a call for bold and even sometimes audacious action to beat back hyper-competition and thrive amidst Media 2.0’s frenetic waters.
Peter Csathy's upcoming new book, FEARLESS MEDIA, features exclusive interviews with more than 30 key CEOs, investors & influencers and takes you on a journey of how technology has transformed the world of content, offering a detailed snapshot of today’s new media world — including Internet-driven over-the-top (OTT) video, music, virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), eSports, and tech-transformed live events. Csathy identifies today’s new media leaders, identifies their strengths and vulnerabilities, highlights 2018’s Media 2.0 headline stories, and names his “Fearless Five” companies that made the boldest and most audacious Media 2.0 moves in 2018.
Csathy also lays out a detailed roadmap of where the digital media world is going in 2019 and beyond via his renowned “Top 10” predictions — and identifies concrete strategies and actions to immediately leverage the power of Media 2.0. To take action, and be fearless!


Frida Kahlo Essay
By: Heather Waldroup
Frida Kahlo was a female Mexican painter of mixed heritage, born on July 6, 1907 and lived 47 painful years before passing away on July 13, 1954. Within her short life, Frida was slightly crippled from polio, suffered from a serious streetcar accident that left her infertile, married famous muralist Diego Rivera, divorced, remarried Rivera, became a political activist and rose to fame through her oil paintings all before succumbing to her poor health. She was an intelligent female in a society that wanted women to be pretty, submissive wives and mothers. She struggled with cultural demands of her gender in a time when women were demanding a change in their role. All these aspects of her life, and more, affected her art. She was a modern woman but her art had an indigenous background. Her most common genre was self-portrait and through a dramatic views of herself, she was capable of showing her view of the world. Frida was an active member of global society and was a powerful speaker for her beliefs through her art. Her art was controversial and attracted attention. She gained global recognition of her work because it’s complex and provocative, demanding discussion.
Frida Kahlo’s art seems very closely tied to the ups and downs of her marriage and her health. Her and her husband, Diego Rivera, had an unconventional, rocky relationship. There was a lack of fidelity on both parts. Diego was a well-known womanizer and it is thought that Kahlo reacted in kind as vengeance. A struggle exists between an artist and their work, I can only imagine the battles that occur when two artist marry. Within the beginning of their marriage, Frida painted Frida and Diego Rivera (Figure 1). At the time, Rivera was already a well known muralist twenty years her senior and her painting was thought to be no more than a hobby for a quiet wife. Throughout the years they knew each other, they continually painted the other. Frida overlaid his face on her forehead in Diego on my Mind (Figure 2) within which she also wears a dramatic, traditional Mexican headdress. Often times, in her self-portraits she’s wearing traditional Tahuana dress, as in Figure 1. Their marriage seemed to deteriorate in time with Kahlo’s rising success (Lindauer, 1999) until they divorced in 1939. Often times she has been criticized for focusing too much on her work instead of being the docile wife expected of her. The two remarried later that year but it was a financial arrangement and they did not share a marital bed.
While her husband is a common theme so are issues of her health. She often depicted her physical pain and struggle with graphic self-portraits. She “usually located narrative impact . . . directly onto her own body.” (Zavala, 2010) During her accident, she was impaled by a metal pole in her torso that exited through her vagina, breaking her pelvis in the process. She had extreme pain and struggled with the aftermath of her accident. The Broken Column (Figure 3) shows Kahlo’s nude torso with nails in her skin and her torso torn open to reveal a cracked column. The cracked pillar could be representative of the “broken column” of her spine. She was told she would most likely never carry a pregnancy to full term and this turned out to be true, unfortunately. After one of her miscarriages, Kahlo painted Henry Ford Hospital (Figure 4). It depicts the once again nude Kahlo on a bloody hospital bed, crying and holding images of a baby and a pelvis. She went through over 30 surgeries to try to repair the damage and she was just left in more pain. She’d started to lose faith in medicine when she painted Tree of Hope (Figure 5) where a prone, assumed Frida lies cut up and bleeding on a gurney while another Frida in a traditional dress holds a back brace. These self-portraits were a way for her to process the pain she felt. “In Frida’s work oil paint mixes with the blood of her inner monologue.” (Tibol, 1993) They are disturbing images that invoke fear in the viewer. Her pain is so blatantly displayed in her blood and nakedness that can be felt so strongly by the viewer. She demands you feel it with her direct stare.
Kahlo invoked such strong reactions to her work because they challenged traditional values with modern ideas, mixed with often violent and sexualized imagery. She used her art to bring attention to the mistreatment of women and to aid the feminist movement. A Few Small Nips (Figure 6) was painted after she read in the newspaper about a man who stabbed his cheating wife. Frida was herself a sexually promiscuous woman who’d had affairs with both men and women (Lindauer, 1999) so she would feel invested in how such women are viewed. She fought against the expectation of the meek female dressed up in lace and bows. She painted Self-Portrait with Cropped Hair (Figure 7) in which she’s wearing a man’s suit and has sheared her hair off. Men felt extremely threatened by this and took it as an assault on all males after her divorce from Rivera. They insinuated her to be a fallen woman and their fury further showed the social imbalance (Lindauer, 1999).
There was an excess of disparity in her art between the traditional and the modern. This is shown most clearly in two of her pieces: My Dress Hangs There (Figure 8) and Self-Portrait on the Border between Mexico and the United States (Figure 9). Both paintings have clear American references, as well as other global iconography, as drastic comparisons to traditional Mexican culture. In Figure 8, the US capitol is centered and the Statue of Liberty is in the background. Capitalist iconography is represented by the billboard of a well-dressed woman and the gas pump, all placed in a metropolitan setting with the populous barely noticeable at the bottom of the painting. The artist’s Tehuana dress hangs in the center, offering the juxtaposition of the two. Figure 9 shows the inequality between the two nations with the artist straddling the line separating them. On the Mexican side there are symbols representing ancient Mexican religion and flowers are growing out of the dirt. The American side is completely urbanized. The paintings are considered her most politically explicit because they “portray the corruption, alienation and/or dehumanization” of Americans (Lindauer, 1999). Both of these pieces would’ve sparked discussion in the early 1930’s when they were painted. Nothing makes a topic more well known than controversy.
Frida Kahlo’s harsh life produced provocative images that challenged society. She was wise beyond her years and was a fiery, rebellious spirit. She was a member of las pelonas in college, a group of young, Mexican women who cut their hair, learned how to drive cars and wore androgynous clothing. While consulting a specialist on another serious spinal surgery, she told her physicians to send him every, to write him letters describing her character, so he would understand that she’s a fighter (Lindauer, 1999). She taught painting to youth across Mexico, affecting hundreds of lives with her mentorship. In her final days she left the hospital, despite doctors’ orders, to participate in a political protest. She was in a wheelchair, having lost a leg to gangrene, sickly thin, with colorful yarn tied into her hair. The things she saw and experienced led to the dramatic works that flowed from her brush. She hadn’t planned to follow in the artistic footsteps of her photographer father and grandfather. Yet, look at the silver lining of the tragedy of her accident. Instead of becoming a doctor, she painted pictures that made people talk and discuss. She is now recognizable worldwide for her unique self-portraits.
Zavala, Adriana. Becoming Modern, Becoming Tradition: Women, Gender, and
Representation in Mexican Art. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State UP,
Lindauer, Margaret A. Devouring Frida: The Art History and Popular Celebrity of Frida
Kahlo. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan UP, 1999. Print.
Tibol, Raquel. Frida Kahlo: An Open Life. University of New Mexico Press, 1993. Print.


Google Doodle is celebrating Anna Mani's 104th birthday.
Today is the 104th birthday of India's very famous physicist and meteorologist Anna Mani.
On this special occasion, Google has prepared a very special Doodle for Anna Mani.
Anna Mani was born on 23 August 1918 in Kerala and died on 16 August 2001 in Thiruvananthapuram.
Anna Mani had read all the books of the Malayalam Public Library in the first eight years of his life.
Anna Mani did his B.Sc from Presidency College in 1939.
He graduated in Physics and Chemistry in 1945 and then went to Imperial College London to pursue his graduation in Physics in 1945.
Anna Mani set up a workshop to measure wind speed and solar energy in Bangalore.
After that, she also researched the ozone layer and became a member of the International Ozone Association.
Anna Mani was awarded the INSA K. R. Ramanathan Medal in 1987.


Dois excelente livros da UA Press - Athabasca University totalmente grátis para download.
Mobile Learning: Transforming the Delivery of Education and Training ( editado por Mohamed Ally)
This collection is for anyone interested in the use of mobile technology for various distance learning applications. Readers will discover how to design learning materials for delivery on mobile technology and become familiar with the best practices of other educators, trainers, and researchers in the field, as well as the most recent initiatives in mobile learning research. Businesses and governments can learn how to deliver timely information to staff using mobile devices. Professors can use this book as a textbook for courses on distance education, mobile learning, and educational technology.
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The Theory and Practice of Online Learning, second edition. (editado por Terry Anderson)
Every chapter in the widely distributed first edition has been updated, and four new chapters on current issues such as connectivism and social software innovations have been added. Essays by practitioners and scholars active in the complex, diverse, and rapidly evolving field of distance education blend scholarship and research; practical attention to the details of teaching and learning; and mindful attention to the economics of the business of education.
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Decision Making in the Church SHARE
Robert’s Rules of Order have long been a standard for Baptists in congregation led churches. The original book was published in 1876 by General Henry M. Robert; but ultimately is drawn from hundreds of years of parliamentary procedure put in practice by governments throughout western civilization. The foundation of these rules has continued to prove to be the difference between societies of freedom and individual equality to those under the control of oppressive regime and social hierarchy.
The book is divided into two parts. The first examines in 11 articles the rules that should guide the formal process of setting forth motions, guide debates, administer votes, and the proper recording of meeting proceedings. The second part examines the authority of organizational policy in regard to the rights of individuals as protected by law. In the 1951 edition that was reviewed, the remaining pages contain a lesson plan for studying the parliamentary law in greater detail through a topical framework. The book is admittedly identified as a reference work. The introduction to this lesson plan also acknowledges that “no amount of theoretical knowledge without practice will make a person a good practical parliamentarian.”1 It is therefore recommended to use the book along with observed practice drills in a group setting. The main function of the book and the goal of the student is to know “how to find the correct ruling on any point that may arise.”2
The strengths of this book are in its careful study and scrupulous application to organizational polity. The rules are meant to provide a fair playing field and a way to establish unity of purpose and direction. For groups of any size, this standard is of vital necessity. The book is clearly written from a lifetime of experience and study and the continued revision that comes from contextual parliamentary practice. It is thorough without being overly specific. From a church perspective, it is encouraging to know that this book was originally written as a solution after Robert “presided over a turbulent meeting of his church.”3 Using his education and experience as a military leader he was able to appropriately translate procedure for the potentially religious environment.
However, the religious environment is not always so tame as to be hedged in by procedural guidelines developed in the realms of law and business. Coming from my own experience in the local church business meetings, items of a religious nature do not always translate well into motions or votes. When someone feels led in a matter of faith and seeks to make this matter known in the form of a motion, the rules tend to inhibit the full explanation and reception of these views. The rules do give an opportunity for these matters to be voiced, but they also make these matters vulnerable to opposition. Essentially, the rules level the playing field not just between individuals or committees but also between convictions of faith and volatile emotions. I have also experienced specific scenarios where certain parties used their more in-depth knowledge of the rules (and or the lack in knowledge of the other parties) to leverage a motion and potentially stack a vote in their favor. The true Biblical nature of a church does not align with the structure of business or of civil government. They may have similarities, but each of these are distinct in nature. Robert does acknowledge this, but his unread followers often do not.
Robert’s Rules are seemingly held up as a guard against infallibility, especially in local Baptist churches. Essentially, the use and application of the rules gives an edge to those members who have more knowledge and experience. Granted, these individuals are often the ones with developed leadership and a more thorough understanding of faith, it is not always the case. The Bible is full of examples of the unlikely and unworthy being used by God to further His purposes on the earth. While it is surely within the power of God to use a congregational framework based on Robert’s Rules, this filter and leveling of the field give ample opportunity for the free will of sinful humanity to intervene wherever God allows and often causes the work of the church to be more focused on unraveling disagreements within than bringing peace and truth to those without. Robert’s Rules of Order should never be allowed as a substitute for the leading of the Holy Spirit through the testimony of Scripture or through those called to His service.
- Henry M. Robert, Robert’s Rules of Order, 75th Anniversary ed. (Chicago, Ill: Scott, Foresman and Company, 1951), 305.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica, “Henry Martyn Robert,” Encyclopædia Britannica, February 12, 2014, , accessed March 22, 2018, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Henry-Martyn-Robert.
Rev. Josiah Antill
Book Review #2 of
Robert’s Rules of Order
By Henry M. Robert
Submitted to Dr. David M. Helms
In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements of
DIVI 8040 The Life and Work of the Minister
Campbell University Divinity School
Buies Creek, North Carolina


1. Total number of books I own:
I have no idea! Thousands, the house is groaning under the weight of them all. I find it very difficult to part with books even if I know I'll never read them again cause they're complete trash.
2. Last Book I bought:
Well that'd be books, as I never buy them singly. Let's see...
Almost a Gentleman, by Pam Rosenthal
Moongazer by Marianne Mancusi
Wired by Liz Maverick
The Vinter's Luck by Elizabeth Knox
Let Dai by Sooyeon Wan
Banana Fish Vol 6 by Akimi Yoshida
Cantarella by You Higuri
and Lovers in the Night by Fumi Yoshinga
No comments on them yet as I'm still trying to find the time to read them, although I have made a start on Almost a Gentleman and Let Dai.
3. Last Book I read:
That'd be the one I just finished writing, ie Phantasmagoria, prior to that it was Gorgeous Carat by You Higuri. Beautiful artwork, and lovely complex characters. Ah, but poor Florien...
4. Five books that mean a lot to me: (in no particular order)
1. Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien - I devoured this book when I was about thirteen. The history, the characters, the epic journey and the background. Wow... It never fails to captivate me. I've read it about 20 times.
2. The Sunne in Splendour by Sharon K Penman - Why did Edmund have to die... snuffle... I love this book. It combines loads of elements I love, family history, political machinations, history, romance and dubious morals.
3. Tale of a Vampire by Anne Rice - homoerotic vampires, need I say more.
4. The Poldark Series by Winston Graham - Not strictly a book, but a whole series. Actually, I've enjoyed everything I've read by Winston Graham. His characters are often quirky, but they are completely real and multi-faceted. I aspire to his greatness.
5. Yellow by Makoto Tateno - This is the series that really got me hooked on reading manga, and probably one of the most frustrating things I've ever read as I had to wait for each instalment to come out. I adore the way Taki wriggles his way out of encounters with Goh.
For others taking part check out QB's blog.


1996 EFOIA Amendments: Legislative History
Electronic Freedom of Information Amendments of 1996
Official Title As Introduced:
"A bill to amend section 552 of title 5, United States Code, popularly known as the Freedom of Information Act, to provide for public access to information in an electronic format, and for other purposes."
Primary Sponsor: Rep Tate, (introduced 07/12/96)
Rep Horn - 07/12/96
Rep Maloney - 07/12/96
Rep Peterson, C. - 07/12/96
III. COMMITTEE REPORTS
IV. CHRONOLOGY OF CONGRESSIONAL CONSIDERATION
H.R. 3802 referred to the House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight.
Introductory remarks on Measure. Cong. Rec. E1280-1281
Referred to the Subcommittee on Government Management, Information and Technology.
Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee by Voice Vote. July 25, 1996: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
July 25, 1996:
Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
Reported to House (Amended) by House Committee on
Government Reform. H. Rept. 104-795. Cong. Rec. H10523
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 433. Called up by House under suspension of the rules.Cong. Rec. H10447
Considered by House as unfinished business.Cong. Rec. H10447-10452, H10493-10494
Passed House (Amended) by Yea-Nay Vote: 402 - 0 (Roll no. 414).
Cong. Rec. H10494
Full text of Measure as passed House printed. Cong. Rec. H10447-10449
Enrolled Measure signed in House. Cong. Rec. H10762
Senate floor discussion of S. 1090, Electronic Freedom of Information Improvement Act of 1996, which contains provisions similar to those later enacted in EFOIA Amendments, Cong. Rec. S10713-S10717
H.R. 3802 is received in the Senate, read twice, considered, read the third time, and passed without amendment by Unanimous Consent. Cong. Rec. S10893-108943
Message on Senate action sent to the House.
Enrolled Measure signed in Senate. Cong. Rec. S11089
Cleared for White House.
Presented to President. Cong. Rec. H11045 (Sept. 24, 1996)
Signed by President
President's signing statement
Became Public Law No: 104-231 Cong. Rec. D1056 (Oct. 21, 1996)


Alessandro Masnaghetti is one of the most respected wine writers in the world – he is even highly respected in Bordeaux, which is something for an Italian!
From being the first editor of the Veronelli Guide to Italian Wines in 1990 to producing his own Wine Letter, Enogea, to the present day, he has been instrumental in bringing to international notice, the finest of Italian wines and their producers.
For the last eight years, Alessandro has been producing vineyard maps of the best Italian Crus (and some Bordeaux Crus) in painstaking detail, with notes on the vineyards and their owners, resulting in not only a product of esoteric beauty, but also an educational guide to the student and enthusiast alike. I have the privilege of being Alessandro’s exclusive UK agent for his maps.
Now Alessandro has come up with the ultimate in illustrated wine books, written in both Italian and English, embracing detailed personal knowledge of every facet of one of his favourite wine producing areas – Barolo. This lavishly illustrated book is a “must” for all wine lovers – and for lovers of Barolo – the Holy Grail!


Every Monday until October 24
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
You are welcome and invited to come! The WISE (Welcoming, Inclusive, Supportive, Engaged) mental health team is hosting a book study of “Blessed are the Crazy” led by Ryan Collins on Monday nights at 7 in the church’s new library by the downstairs entrance.
We’ll begin October 3 and meet through October 24, talking about how mental health challenges affect us, those in our church, and those in the community and how our church can widen its welcome to those who struggle with mental health issues.
We are planning a special presentation and Q&A session with the author, the Rev. Dr. Sarah Lund, date TBA. Lund is the national UCC’s Minister for Disabilities and Mental Health Justice.
Books are available through nearby library systems or online book retailers, so get yours now!


The Museum Library has a unique rare books collection, the oldest of which dates back to the 17th century. Focused on the culture, industrial arts and crafts of the time as well as the early history of Mumbai – its development, natural environment and geography, this collection is in the process of being catalogued, digitized and restored. The archive of books on 19th century Mumbai supplements the Museum’s history and collections. The Library also has an unrivalled collection of more recent publications on the city, and on modern and contemporary art subjects. Researchers and scholars are welcome to access the Museum Library on request.
Please note that the Library is currently closed to all visitors due to Covid-19.
Library and Research Guidelines
- The Library is open from 10:30 am – 5:30 pm for reference purposes, except on Wednesdays and Sundays.
- The Library will be accessible to research scholars, students from the Museum’s MCIACS course and Friends of the Museum.
- Requests for referencing the Library should be made at least 4 weeks in advance via email@example.com. We request researchers to write us a brief note about their research and how they intend to use the materials or collection accessed at the Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum in their proposal.
- Mobile phones should be turned off or kept on silent mode in the Library.
- Foods & drinks are not permitted in the Library.
- No baggage, cases, parcels etc., are permitted in the Library.
- All instructions and decisions by the Library staff must be accepted.
Library Access Rules
- Library materials including books, newspapers, magazines or journals can neither be issued nor be taken out of the Library.
- The list of books acquired every month will be displayed on the Notice Board of the Library.
- Access to all books will be limited to those that are in good condition. Those deemed too fragile or damaged will not be accessible.
- The reference collection published prior to 1970 is part of the Museum’s permanent collection. It will be made available subject to permission of the Honorary Director.
- The Library catalogue can be accessed with the help of the Library staff.
- All books and material referred should be handed back to the Library staff.
- Kindly note, access to the library may be charged in case of commercial publications. These charges are discussed upon request.
Reference and Handling Rules
- The Museum should be duly acknowledged in any research published by the researcher/ student referring the Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum library.
- Members are requested to handle Library books with care. Dog-earring pages, highlighting, writing on books, defacing pages or any physical damage to books will result in monetary penalties, while repeated violation will result in cancellation of membership.
- Pressure must not be exerted on any Library materials, including leaning on, tracing, or writing on them.
- To mark a page paper flags must be used. Please ask the Library staff for assistance. Post-it notes may not be used on the rare collection. No marking or writing in ink or pencil should be made on books or reference materials.
- Tablets and laptop computers are permitted.
- No CDs, pen drives or other portable data devices may be used on the Library computers.
- Photocopying is only permitted on books that can be safely photocopied or are in good condition.
- The reference collection published prior to 1970 cannot be photocopied.
- Photocopy charges for the students will be Rs. 1 per page for b/w copy and Rs. 10 per page for colored photocopy. Payment must be made in advance in cash only. .
- Cameras or mobile phones with cameras and other photo duplication devices are not permitted for use in the Library.
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Publishing audio from Streamio works similar to publishing video.
Go to the Library and select “Audio”.
Click on the audio track you want to publish and look under the heading “Publish”
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Bishop Ramsey School's Somme Remembrance Concert
On the evening of Thursday, June 30th. the school held its concert entitled Keep the Home Fires Burning - Words And Music For Remembrance. Before the concert visitors were invited to look at the display in the Atrium of WW1 memorabilia and art work by students which included a cluster of clay poppies fashioned by Year 7.
Act 1 was presented in the Atrium and began with the haunting sound of a military whistle - a sound which would have signalled to the soldiers in the Somme at 7.30 am on July 1st. 1916 that it was time to go over the top into battle on that fateful day. The voices of students were heard from various places stationed around the Atrium reading the words of : Sir Edward Gray, Foreign Secretary, reflecting on the coming of war; the poem The Soldier by Rupert Brooke; Mrs. Berridge, a mother of eight sons, five of whom never returned home. Later students presented Church Parade, an extract from Joan Littlewood's Oh What A Lovely War!
After the interval Act 2 took place in the school hall. It began with a reading by a senior student of Wilfred Owen's evocative poem (often referred to as the gas poem) Dulce et Decorum Est. This was followed by the Glee Club's rendition of Hanging On The Old Barbed Wire, an ironic reflection on the contrasting war experiences of senior officers and private soldiers.
Although, by its very nature, the concert was a sombre occasion, there were some more light-hearted moments. There were opportunities for the audience to join the choir in the singing of songs popular at the time such as Tipperary and Pack Up
One notable performance of the evening was given by Nathan Pike, Year 8 and Chris Tarsey, Year 9 (pictured above) who sang They Wouldn't Believe Me,another ironic composition of the times.
The other memorable performance came from Miss Elaine Neal who read the very poignant poem Perhaps by Vera Brittain which she wrote following the death of her fiance, Roland Aubrey Leighton, in 1915.
The audience then joined the choir in singing Keep The Home Fires Burning as poppy petals descended from above. Mr. Andrew Wilcock, Head Teacher, then read the famous poem In Flanders Field by John McCrae. The concert then drew to a close with Land Of Hope And Glory. There was a retiring collection for The British Legion Poppy Fund.
The concert was devised by Miss Elaine Neal (Senior Librarian), Mr. Andy Jeffries (Head of History) and Mrs. Helen Simmons (Head of Drama) with assistance from other members of staff. It was a fitting tribute to the thousands of men who gave their lives for king and country in the bloodiest battle in British military history.


World of Warcraft Classic: The History of the Blood Elves
World of Warcraft Classic will soon reintroduce players to the Burning Crusade expansion as it moves forward a step in the game's timeline. Along with new locations, adventures and enemies, Burning Crusade presents two new playable races to take on the challenges Azeroth and Outland offer. The Draenei and Blood Elves will both become available when Classic makes the move to Burning Crusade. Here's some history worth catching up on for the Blood Elves.To get more news about buy wow gold eu, you can visit lootwowgold official website.
World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade was initially released in January of 2007 as the first sequel expansion to 2004's World of Warcraft. Developed and published by Blizzard Entertainment, the expansion sold well over three million copies in its first month of release, becoming the fastest-selling PC game of the time.
Ten thousand years before World of Warcraft takes place, the races of Elves shared a common ancestry known as the Kaldorei. The Kaldorei's upper class, the Highborne, found favor with Queen Azshara by offering their exceptional aptitude for arcane magic. The Queen, seeking to preserve her rule with these powerful magic users, began offering preferential status to the Highborne, leading the sect to develop a position of arrogance and greed. The Highborne willfully drew power from the Well of Eternity, an immensely powerful reservoir of arcane power, despite these actions being viewed as heretical by other members of the Elven race.
The Highborne would do all in their ability to distance themselves from other members of their race and restrict the Well of Eternity to only themselves, slowly growing addicted to the arcane energies the Well offered. Over time, the Highborne used the knowledge and power gained from the Well of Eternity to promote the Kaldorei to lofty new heights, but they continued to plumb the Well recklessly to achieve their ambitions.
Eventually, the Well of Eternity's energy, and the continued use of its power, attracted the Burning Legion. The limitless powers offered by Sargeras seduced Queen Azshara, and she resolved to open a way for the Legion's entry into Azeroth. She commanded the Highborne to create a portal using the Well of Eternity, and the armies of the Burning Legion entered Azeroth. What followed would become known as the War of the Ancients, and millions would perish in the conflict. It would only end when Malfurion Stormrage, during battle with Azshara, collapsed the Well of Eternity and sealed the demon's entryway.
Many Highborne survived the war and were brought back into Elf society under the new rule of Malfurion. Though allowed to reside with their kin, the Highborne were no longer at the height of their people. When Illidan Stormrage created a new Well of Eternity, the Highborne quickly tried to sway the other Elves. Despite the practice of arcane magic being declared a crime punishable by death, the Highborne unleashed a magic storm in Ashenvale. When it came time to resolve punishment for their crimes, the Elves could not bring themselves to kill so many of their own and instead moved to exile the Highborne.


It is also the time people make New Year’s resolutions, or the press makes them for you. The most frequent is exercise. Join the YMCA, or any other health club to get in shape, lose weight and tone up from the holiday cookies.
Plan and eat better than you did last year. So many diet books to try. Some are “Blue Zones Diets,” “Mayo Clinic Diet,” “21 Day Tummy,” “25 Days” and many, many more.
Why not declutter your life? Clean out the garage, your closet, and maybe your entire house. Live more with less, just like tiny house living.
Try and take some stress out of your life. Learn to deal with your boss and avoid ulcers. Relax and don’t let personal or family relationships cause more stress than the good you receive from them. Work on a relationship that is centered on mindfulness. Enjoy the moment.
Spend more time with family. Depending on you, this may cause more stress.
Take in more arts. Start seeing those plays you saw advertised for so long and just never got around to seeing. Attend an orchestral performance. Listen to some local musicians. Slow down and enjoy.
Try a new workout. Change your routine to a whole new experience. Break away from the everyday and start a whole new approach with better results, mentally and physically.
Be kind to yourself. Do things just for you because you want to and you feel better afterwards.
Start meditating, not medicating. What will this do for a hurried, busy life? Maybe bring calm for not much time spent every day.
Sleep better, learn patience, learn new recipes — at least once a week, buy fewer material things —declutter, put down your phone, try something new every day.
Where will you find time for all this? Try the library. We have so many things you can learn and experience. Educate yourself, travel anywhere you want, ask a question, use a computer, Wi-Fi, sample great coffee, meeting rooms and all for free.
What have you missed so far this year? Well there is Minecraft, “Back to the Future” escape room, Downtown Beats and bullet journaling to name a few. One little card takes you so many places and gives you so much. You will never find a card that pays you with no interest.
Rowan Public Library headquarters and branches will be closed Jan. 15 for Martin Luther King Jr. Day, with regular hours resuming Jan. 16.
“Oh, look at that …” scavenger hunt: Jan. 2-Feb. 28, East branch. Olaf’s body has come apart yet again. Can you put all nine pieces back together again before he melts? Find the pieces and be entered into a raffle contest for a literary-themed prize. For more information, contact Tammie Foster at 704-216-7842.
Random Fandom: Celebrate your favorite fandoms with a mix of games, crafts, snacks and screenings. For more information, contact Hope at 704-216-8258. Minecraft, Jan. 22, 6:30 p.m., East. Star Wars Feb. 5, East, 6:30 p.m.; FEb. 5, headquarters, 4:30 p.m.; South, Feb. 7, 6 p.m.
Bullet Journaling: Jan. 22, 2 p.m., South. Bullet journaling is a free, fun and simple organizational system to turn any blank book into your ideal planner, journal, tracker and diary. Want to start 2018 off right? Bring a blank book to our free event and we’ll share the tools and the tricks to help you stay on top of all the things you’ve got going on in your life, from your job, to your family, your health, your finances and more. Contact Amy at 704-216-7731.
Early Release Matinee: “The Emoji Movie,” Jan. 19, 2 p.m., East. Explore the world inside your phone. Friday is an early release day for Rowan County, so stop by after school with the whole family and enjoy free refreshments. This 2017 film is rated PG and has a runtime of 86 mins. For more details, call 704-216-7842.
Beginning Genealogy: Headquarters, Jan. 20, 10 a.m. This event, co-hosted by the Genealogical Society of Rowan County and RPL’s Edith M. Clark History Room, is free and open to the public. Staff will provide an overview of essentials like census records, marriage records and death certificates as well as some of the best genealogy websites and databases.
Children’s weekly storytimes and programs resume Monday. Other programs resume Feb. 5.
Baby Time: Birth-23 months. Highly interactive 30-minute program for children and their adult caregivers. Headquarters, Wednesdays, 10 a.m.; East, Mondays, 10 a.m.; South, Tuesdays, 10:30 a.m.
Toddler Time: 18 to 35 months. Highly interactive 30-minute program for children and their adult caregivers. Headquarters, Tuesdays, 10:30 a.m.; East, Mondays, 11 a.m.; South, Wednesdays, 10:30 a.m.
Preschoolers: 3-5 years. Highly interactive 30-minute program for children and their adult caregivers. Headquarters, Thursdays, 10:30 a.m.; East, Thursdays, 10:30 a.m.; South, Mondays, 10 a.m.
Tail Waggin’ Tutors: 7 to 9 years old. Children can practice reading skills in a relaxed, dog-friendly atmosphere. Canine listeners provided by Therapy Dogs International. Headquarters, selected Tuesdays, 4 p.m. Call 704-216-8234 for details. East, selected Mondays, 3:30 p.m., Call 704-216-7842 for details.
Lego Saturdays: Jan. 13, 10 a.m.-noon, headquarters and at East. Legos available for free play. This program is for children.
Winter Storytime with Mr. Robert: Jan. 20, headquarters, 11 a.m. Geared for ages 3-5, though all children are welcome.
PJ Storytime: Jan. 22, 6:30 p.m., headquarters. Put on your pajamas, grab a blanket, your favorite stuffed animal, and join us for a special evening storytime. Recommended for children 3-11 years old, though all children are welcome.
Teen programs resume for sixth- through 12th-graders who are 11-18 years old.
Adulting 101: When you’re a kid, you think the grown ups have it all figured out, but now you’re almost a grownup and you have no idea what you’re doing. Come join us for this new series that will teach you about how to become a functioning adult without having to call mom for help. January’s program will focus on cooking. Headquarters, Jan. 16, 4:30 p.m.; South, Jan. 17, 6 p.m.
Escape at the Library: RPL now has its own escape room. See if you can solve the clues and codes to get out of the room before the timer hits zero! January’s escape room is “Back to the Future: Save the Clock Tower!” February’s escape room is Escape the DEATH STAR, a Star Wars escape room. Headquarters: Jan. 23, Feb. 20, 4:30 p.m.; East, Jan. 29, Feb. 19, 6:30 p.m.; South, Jan. 24, Feb. 21, 6 p.m.
Give Back Saturdays: Help us give back to the community through various crafts and projects, which we’ll donate to local charities. Teens can count participation to meet community service requirements for school or other organizations. Headquarters, Feb. 10, 11 a.m.
Chocolate Festival: Celebrate Valentine’s Day and all things chocolate with games, trivia and a chocolate fountain. Headquarters, Feb. 13, 4:30 p.m.; East, Feb. 12, 6:30 p.m.; South, Feb. 14, 6 p.m.
Teen Board: Want to be part of a Teen Advisory Board and make decisions about upcoming teen library programs? Or just want to play some board games? Now you can do both. Headquarters, Jan. 30, 4:30 p.m.
Tech Tuesdays: iPad basics, South, Jan. 23, 7 p.m. This one-hour computer class, held in South’s conference room, introduces participants to their iPads. Space is limited, so registration is required. For more information or to register, contact Paul at Paul.Birkhead@rowancountync.gov or 704-216-7737.
Displays: Headquarters, student art from West Rowan High School art classes and Salisbury Symphony exhibit. East, music boxes by Michelle Earnhardt; South, student art from South Rowan High School art classes.
Literacy: Call the Rowan County Literacy Council at 704-216-8266 for more information on teaching or receiving literacy tutoring for English speakers or for those for whom English is a second language.


Full disclosure: I was asked to review this book by the publishing company, Packt Publishing, and given a free copy of the book to do the review. You can read the email sent to me by the publisher if you like.
Sublime Text Starter, by Eric Haughee, probably isn’t what you’re looking for to get started with the now-rather-popular programmer’s text editor, Sublime Text 2. As the title suggests, this book intends to get you started with the editor and for three quarters of the book, it really will start you at the very beginning: installation and saving a document.
The book’s downside is that it doesn’t seem to know quite who its audience is. It begins with basic installation instructions – the sort we take for granted and gloss over in all software manuals, especially the ones programmers ignore on a day-to-day basis because we think we know better. After installation, you’re given five pages on how to create, or open and modify, a file, and how to save the results.
This shows how basic the book starts at, which is fair enough for anyone not too used to these tools. However, given Sublime Text 2’s core audience is programmers, it may come across as odd at best and possibly demeaning at worst. Either way, the first 28 pages are likely not intended for programmers. So, we’ll skip past those 28 pages as redundant and get to the parts that don’t pertain to every piece of software intended for modifying some kind of file on the planet.1
We go on to learn about the minimap, multiple cursors, distraction-free mode, vintage mode, the goto panels and the command palette. Except for the explanation of vintage mode, these are all perfectly acceptable and include helpful screenshots and relevant key-bindings. My only complaint with these is that they are more or less covered by Sublime’s front page, as well as likely comprising the subjects of all Sublime Text 2 tutorials. For vintage mode, the book’s explanation only scratches the surface of its use and suggests only Vim users should use it, but I’m not sure a Vim user would read this book, so I’m again unsure who the book is for.
There is minor one downside to vintage mode’s explanation though, a bit of misinformation on the part of the book: it tells users to modify Sublime’s default preferences. This is a no-no, you never modify the default preferences. If you suggest the user modify preferences, you tell them to modify the user preferences, pictured to the right.
For most purposes, this won’t produce a noticeable difference, but it does result in a user unable to easily copy his or her settings over to new installations or versions of Sublime. This might not seem like an issue now, but it will present an issue with the coming release of Sublime Text 3. So, there is a small risk of future frustration involved.
Starter also goes on to mention Package Control, including some perhaps frustrating installation instructions fraught with potential bit-rot. This isn’t likely to be an issue for most people, but typing seven lines of Python into the Sublime Text 2 console is not the most pleasant experience. Thankfully, the author includes a link to the Package Control site as I have above.
The explanation of snippets is mostly sufficient, though the formatting of the book results in some unfortunate line wrapping in the snippet that produces less than eye-catching imagery. In addition, the snippet example provided by the book is invalid and will cause Sublime to insert nothing when using it. This sort of error is par the course for tech books, so I’m inclined to forgive it even if it highlights the sorry state of tech books.
Finally, the book finishes up with macros (never once mentioning how to create your own plugins, but this book is a “starter” and not likely to cover anything advanced despite expecting users to know how to work with XML and JSON). Custom key-bindings are shoehorned in as a part of macros rather than their own rather expressive feature, which is disappointing and perhaps not showing users just how much they can customize their key-bindings to their liking. Either way, the discussion of macros is mostly sufficient, though likely to frustrate users when they discover the limitations of Sublime macros (like certain commands not being recorded or working in macros).
Ultimately, the book seems to expect some level of experience with technology but simultaneously assumes none from the start, so the first chunk of the book might be well-suited for those who don’t know how to install software, but they would be lost in later sections. For those experienced enough to breeze past installation and those who know how to save a document, the rest of the book might work for them, but its brevity leaves something to be desired — again, a byproduct of the book’s attempt to get readers started with Sublime, but never seeming to try to imbue them with the skills needed for further use.
Rather than purchasing the book, either $4.24 for a digital copy or the much more expensive print copy at $19.99 (effectively $20, which is far beyond what anyone ought to pay for 46 pages, 28 of which cover installing an application), I’d recommend waiting for another edition — if you still want to consider this book. Wait for one that cleans up the few errors in the book and goes into enough depth to leave you with the feeling of knowledge gained.
As it is, though the book might be of use to someone, I’m not sure either I or the book know where to find that someone. The audience for the book would have to be someone who doesn’t program, doesn’t know how to install software, and possibly uses Internet Explorer 6. Instead, do as the end of the book suggests and take a gander at Jeffrey Way’s Sublime Text videos, read over the unofficial documentation and for anything else, join the Sublime forums.2
- Except for Emacs, which routinely forgoes the use of conventional key-bindings in favor of more esoteric ones, such as
C-x C-s) for save. [return]
- For those who practice the necromantic art of IRC, you can also find many Sublime Text users, which includes myself, in
#sublimetexton Freenode. [return]


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As a satirical response to the bloated convention of stereotypical fantasy fiction, he created Discworld, a surreal universe of real-life contrivances and flawed characters, which Moving pictures by terry pratchett essay introduced in The Colour of Magic It is the tale of a man named Crucible who finds the Devil in his flat in a cloud of sulphurous smoke.
Pratchett is often labelled as a humanist writer due to the detailed attention he ascribes to human foibles as well as his ability to imbue his unique characters with multi-dimensional personalities.
Pratchett employs a revolving cast of recurring characters that overlap throughout the Discworld narratives and which the author also uses to construct individual series within the larger Discworld series.
While the primary focus of his writing career has been Discworld, Pratchett has experimented with other formats, particularly juvenile fiction. The paperback edition was published by Corgi, an imprint of Transworldin Early life[ edit ] Pratchett was born on 28 April   in Beaconsfield in BuckinghamshireEngland where he attended Holtspur Schoolthe only child of David — and Eileen Pratchett — ,[ dubious — discuss ] of Hay-on-Wye.
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While working on pre-college-level courses inPratchett left school to become a journalist at the local paper, the Bucks Free Press. Such as Victor, the male lead. His first novel, The Carpet People, written for younger audiences, follows the travails of a miniature society that exists within the fibers of a household carpet.
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The book takes place in Discworld's most famous city, Ankh-Morpork and a hill called "Holy Wood".Genre: Fantasy. Moving Pictures, Pratchett's Discworld parody of Hollywood, appeals to me a great deal purely as a cinephile and wannabe film maker but as it's Pratchett it's also brilliant and brilliantly funny filled with wicked caricatures and wonderful characters, and of course evil puns aplenty/5.
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Version 10.3.0-RC1 of the RTF to HTML5 and XHTML converter library ScroogeXHTML for the Java SE 8+ platform is available now.
ScroogeXHTML is a library which converts RTF to HTML5 as markup fragments (for embedding in other documents), or to stand-alone documents.
- Minimizes documents using CSS and default font definitions
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- Output formats: XHTML and HTML5
- Small: less than 150 KB
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- Tested with Java SE 8, 11 and 17
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New in 10.3.0-RC1:
- Add workaround for missing cellXs
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Home page: https://www.scroogexhtml.com
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The online demo converts a RTF document to HTML5, and allows to set many conversion options.
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1 It’s not your classic textbook
This book focusses on the questions that are part of the everyday practicalities of market research, the advice you don’t typically get from a textbook – the type of advice researchers would ideally have a mentor or more experienced colleague to ask – unfortunately not everyone has these support networks.
2 The contributors are practitioners
The content has been prepared by a team of experienced researchers, so the advice is relevant for researchers who are talking to clients, writing proposals, managing projects, developing questionnaires, analysing data, reporting results, etc.
3 A great resource for the generalist or research all-rounder
(Thanks to Sue Bell for emphasising this point.)
Many conferences and events, social media forums, and journals focus on specialist areas. This book, doesn’t cover everything, but aims to give a solid grounding on the basics, written and reviewed by experienced market and social research industry heavy weights who know what you need to know.
4 A balance between traditional and new techniques
The book covers the traditional areas – questionnaire design, qualitative, pricing research, B2B – as well as the emerging techniques, for example, communities and social media research.
5 A variety of views of expressed
In some areas of our profession there is not a consensus view – particularly in new and rapidly developing areas. This book highlights areas where consensus does not exist and presents the differing viewpoints.
6 The Client perspective is explored
Special attention is paid to one of the key relationships in market research, that of client and research provider, with an emphasis on the points of tension.
7 A Global Perspective
Unlike some textbooks, which focus on specific markets or regions, this book recognises many researchers are operating in international markets and also the issues and challenges faced by those working in markets with different levels of economic and technological development.
8 Ethics, Laws, Codes and Guidelines
As could be expected of book put together by ESOMAR, the book explains in simple and clear terms why we have these and how to fit them into everyday research.
9 Advice for both new researchers and more experienced researchers who are new to a topic
Thanks to Phyllis Macfarlane for emphasising this point.
10 It’s great value, at 20 Euros (including postage and packaging)
And, if you like it so much you want to bulk order for colleagues, clients, or students – better prices are available via ESOMAR!
Join us at the book launch
On Wednesday, 22 May, ESOMAR and NewMR are holding a virtual book launch, where contributors to the book will explain the book’s mission, its content, and more about how you can be involved. Click here to find out more details and to register to attend.
So what do you think?
Declaration of interest, I am one of the Editors and Curators of the project (as was NewMR’s Ray Poynter) – Sue York


So, I finally finished Mere Christianity, by C. S. Lewis. It was dense, but I powered through! It was an interesting treatise on Christianity, and I am quite sure that in order to get all of the teachings from that book, I will need to read it again.
I am ready for the next book, and hope you are ready too!
Sitting by my bedside, in a stack of books I have meant to read and re-read is Kahlil Gibran’s masterpiece, The Prophet. The date in the inside flap says 3/98 – meaning that is the first time I read it. I look forward to reading it again. So, The Prophet is the next My52WOW Book Club book.
In the front flap is a quote from the Chicago Post about this book:”Cadenced and vibrant with feeling, the words of Kahlil Gibran bring to one’s ears the majestic rhythm of Ecclesiastes…If there is a man or woman who can read this book without a quiet acceptance of a great man’s philosophy and a singing in the heart as of music born within, that man or woman is indeed dead to life and truth.”
I look forward to reading the music, the poetry, and the wisdom of Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet.
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5 Steps To Becoming Your Own Health Hero For Sustainable Success
How do you become your own health hero? Come find out as Dr, Nandi offers from his best selling book “Ask Dr. Nandi” a simple, sustainable guide to healthful habits. It is a path anyone can follow to longevity, well-being and a joyful life. This book is also the difference between just being alive, and actually THRIVING. (As Aristotle said: “Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.”). In summary, this insight will provide listeners a blueprint for life-long abundance and sustainable success.


The Church and Synagogue Library Association, CSLA, was founded in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, in 1967, by a group of Church Librarians who felt they could benefit by sharing ideas and problems. The idea spread and flourished throughout the years and grew to encompass almost every state of this country and several provinces in Canada with a membership of more than 1464 members, both individual and church memberships. More and more chapters were formed. Chapters and members thrive and grow through participation in annual national conferences, through an excellent journal (Congregational Libraries Today), and many CSLA publications covering library mechanics and creative ideas.
The North Texas Chapter of CSLA was established in 1976 and bravely hosted a national conference in Dallas at Southern Methodist University (SMU) its first year. This was favorably received and attended.
Chapter programs vary. Some are how to workshops, others may be book reviews, or perhaps a field trip to an area library or other points of interest. The opportunity to discuss problems and solutions that relate to Church/Synagogue Libraries is one of the real benefits of membership. Some of the members are professional librarians, but most are not. Nearly all are volunteers.


After having managed to get the children to finish reading a book, we consider the reading objective accomplished. However, the socializing act of what we read is as important as the reading itself.
Sometimes one small act proves to be more effective than many sophisticated activities. In this line we would like to suggest ideas to talk with children about their reading. It is common that, after having managed to get the children to finish reading a book -or having read it together-, we consider the reading objective fulfilled. However, the socializing act of what we read is as important as the reading itself. Reading a book often invites conversation and both parents and mediators want to have good talks with children. Talking to children about their reading is like turning on a flashlight in the middle of a cave: “Have you seen this? … Look over there… let's see what we can find here…”
A good conversation starts with a good question. A good question gets you somewhere in your thinking. Children are often more interested in giving a quick answer than in thinking about the question. So questions like: What has caught your attention? or What do you think of this? They are paths that invite exploration rather than response.
Search for children's points of interest. Many books have more than one theme, so you may be able to find something personal to share with the children.
Direct your questions to make sense of the story. Many children need to understand the story before they understand the meaning of it. Some questions may be intended to review the main plot points. Children who understand stories better become more confident readers, and this confidence will give them greater pleasure in future reading.
Rephrase the questions. If you see that the children do not answer because they have not understood the question, help them. You can use different words, or help with adjectives. What do you think Matilda is like? Is she brave, independent, curious, shy, generous? An important part of the conversation is aimed at developing the ability to use words to express themselves and facilitate children's greater mastery of language.
Make personal connections to the story. What would you have done if the same thing happened to you as the protagonist? These connections help them connect the stories to their lives. Conversing is less talking about the figures or the content of the book than about their meaning.
Be patient. You don't become a good conversationalist overnight. Learn the patience to let children find their way to express themselves, without drowning them out with comments or questions. If you intervene a lot, in the end you will only be the person who comments on the books.
►Give the children time to answer
Listen. If you throw out a question, wait until they have time to think about it and respond. Ask, make a small comment and wait. Show children that you know how to listen and that they are listened to. It is important to have a good conversation.
All the answers are good. Conversing is contrasting points of view, listening to different opinions, and exchanging differences. In this sense, all the answers are good and should be taken into account. Remember that a good conversation is not about the answers but about the questions.
Give your own opinions. A conversation is not so much about what you know about the book, as about what you think. Concentrate your comments on this aspect to have more depth and so that the children are on the same level as you.
Lead the conversation. Don't settle for obvious answers: children have a school habit of trying to answer as quickly as possible. A conversation is a walk, not a run. Help them develop an original and critical spirit.
Don't beat around the bush. Sometimes the conversations drift to topics that have nothing to do with the book. Try to control this with some questions that get you back on track.
A conversation has no end. Don't try to get anywhere, apart from talking about a story. End when you feel like it, when class ends, when it's time for dinner, or when the topic runs out.


The Minerva suite of tools makes heavy use of three parts of OpenSSL code:
- the Cryptographic Message Syntax (RFC5652)[https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc5652] for interpreting non-constrained (RFC8366)[https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8366] vouchers.
- HTTPS/TLS for communications security with RFC8995
- CoAPS/DTLS for communications security for (Contrained-BRSKI)[https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-anima-constrained-voucher/]
The CMS patches are almost entirely in the ruby-openssl level, creating new interfaces. See, https://github.com/ruby/openssl/pull/236 which languishes because of undiagnosed memory leaks in parts of the system that was never changed.
The OpenSSL DTLS API is inadequate for use by the Fountain JRC. It is interfaced through the ruby-openssl wrapper, plus the coap, david and celluloid-io ruby modules, all of which had to have changes to accomodate DTLS.
A significant problem with patching the OpenSSL libraries is that they are also included in most systems. Updating the system to new versions (putting 1.1.1 on a system that has 1.1.0) is often okay but replacing the 1.1.1 code with newer code is often a disaster. With shared library installation, one can install multiple shared libraries in multiple places, but the challenge is making sure that the right libraries get loaded. Since the ruby interpreter comes with a ruby-openssl gem, and it has been compiled against the system libraries, it is trivially to accidentally get two copies of openssl loaded.
In addition, openssl 3.x has been released, but the work on updating ruby-openssl to work with 3.x is not yet complete. See: https://github.com/ruby/openssl/pull/399.
For this reason the simplest way to do this work is to compile ruby-openssl against a statically linked openssl. It is a bit bigger, since it does not share, but since the code would get loaded only once anyway on a system there isn’t really a big deal.
Unfortunately, the extconf.rb mechanism has no clear way to force linking against .a files except by listing them explicitely by path, so there are some paths hard coded into that file, which is really annoying.
The path selected is “/sandel/3rd/openssl-dtls-api”, which hopefully does not conflict with any other aspect of your system. This path is only needed on the system(s) on which ruby-openssl is compiled.
In the Gemfile for highway, fountain and reach, the relative path “../minerva/ruby-openssl” is used.
Note that the code has been patched up to openssl-1.1.1o, which is the latest as of June 2022.
This has been tested on a bare (Linode) Ubuntu 22.04 (LTS) [which uses ruby 3.x], a (Linode) Debian-11 [which uses ruby 2.7], and also an Ubuntu 20.04 (LTS). It also works on devuan.org beowulf, which is my preferred desktop environment.
So, use the following method to install the needed code bases:
# useradd -m -G sudo minerva
Login as the minerva user:
% sudo mkdir /someplace
% sudo chown $USER /someplace
% cd /someplace
% sudo apt-get update -y
% sudo apt-get install libssl-dev ruby ruby-dev git build-essential postgresql-all libpq-dev libsqlite3-dev curl
% sudo systemctl disable postgresql
% sudo gem install rake-compiler bundler
% sudo mkdir -p /sandel/3rd/openssl-dtls-api
% sudo chown $USER /sandel/3rd/openssl-dtls-api
% git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/AnimaGUS-minerva/highway.git
% git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/AnimaGUS-minerva/fountain.git
% git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/AnimaGUS-minerva/reach.git
% git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/AnimaGUS-minerva/ChariWTs
% mkdir minerva
% cd minerva
% git clone -b dtls-listen-refactor-1.1.1o https://github.com/mcr/openssl.git
% git clone -b dtls-1.1.1o https://github.com/mcr/ruby-openssl.git
% (cd openssl && ./Configure --prefix=/sandel/3rd/openssl-dtls-api -fPIC \
no-idea no-mdc2 no-rc5 no-zlib no-ssl3 no-tests no-shared linux-x86_64 && \
make && make install_sw )
% (cd ruby-openssl && rake install_dependencies )
% (cd ruby-openssl && rake compile -- --with-openssl-dir=/sandel/3rd/openssl-dtls-api )
% ln -s ruby-openssl ruby-openssl-upstreamed
% cd ../fountain && bundle config set --local path 'vendor/bundle' && bundle install && bundle exec rake -T
% cd ../highway && bundle config set --local path 'vendor/bundle' && bundle install && bundle exec rake -T
Some minor bits of explanation.
The rails apps are configured to be able to use sqlite3 or postgresql, so both development libraries are installed.
For development a postgresql cluster is created in the local directory, so the system postgresql is not necessary to run.
For reasons unexplained, if one does “rake install_dependancies”, then gem tries to load dependancies via https, then discovers that it mysteriously does not have a HTTPS mechanism and gives up. Installing “rake-compiler” as root first, seems to solve this.
The Gemfile references “ruby-openssl-upstreamed” for hysterical raisons, thus the symlink.
This uses the system supplied ruby executable, rather than an RVM one which was previously the best way. The use of vendor/bundle does mean that duplicate gems may be installed, but on an R&D machine, this is hardly a concern.
libssl-dev is required, or eventmachine won’t get built with HTTPS support.
The next article details setting up and testing each component.
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Bibliothèque National, Cabinet des Estampes, Paris
Eugène Delacroix (1798 - 1863) France
Known as the foremost French Romantic painter of the period, and particularly famed for his work Liberty Leading the People, Delacroix was also a prolific satirist and cartoonist.
He was engaged in political life and involved in the Paris Commune with Daumier, who, like him, tackled the issue of censorship. Here Delacroix warns of the dangers of the censorship committee and their irrational fears. While the caricatured policeman hacks away at the ground, Delacroix cries, “Watch your rear!!!!” To him the true danger lies in the disbanded censorship committee who are hiding behind the mound.
Is this cartoon a more powerful vehicle of social critique than Liberty Leading the People, being as it meant to facilitate real change in society, rather than to celebrate a past triumph?
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The Famous Five are, certainly, famous. This long-suffering bunch of four kids and a dog have found a secret passage, been kidnapped, and discovered bands of smugglers virtually every school holiday since 1942. Plenty has been written about the quaint picnics and repetitive plots, but not so much I think on the subject I’m aboutContinue reading “Enid Blyton and the Famous Five Frozen in Time – an essay”
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The origins of beer are shrouded in mystery, with various civilizations claiming the title of its inventor. From ancient Mesopotamia to Egypt and beyond, the history of beer is intertwined with human civilization itself.
As we explore the intricate tapestry of beer's past, we begin to unravel the fascinating narrative of its creation and the profound impact it has had on societies throughout the ages.
Join us on a journey through time as we uncover the intriguing story of who may have been the mastermind behind this beloved beverage.
Who invented beer?
Beer, believed to have been invented by ancient civilizations, remains a beverage with a rich and intriguing history. The exact origins of beer are shrouded in mystery, with various cultures claiming to be the inventors.
One theory suggests that beer was accidentally discovered by ancient Mesopotamians around 5,000 BCE when bread left out in the rain fermented into a primitive form of beer. Another theory points to the ancient Egyptians, who brewed beer as early as 4,000 BCE. Additionally, evidence of beer production has been found in China dating back to 7,000 BCE.
Regardless of its exact origins, beer has played a significant role in shaping human civilization and continues to be enjoyed worldwide.
The ancient origins of beer
The historical roots of beer can be traced back to ancient civilizations, revealing a fascinating narrative of discovery and innovation. One of the earliest known records of beer production dates back to ancient Mesopotamia around 5,000 BCE. The Sumerians even had a goddess of beer, Ninkasi, and a hymn to her that included a recipe for brewing. Egyptians brewed beer as early as 4,000 BCE, and it was a staple in their daily diet. Ancient Chinese civilizations also have a long history of brewing beer-like beverages. Below is a table showcasing some key ancient civilizations and their contributions to the origins of beer:
|Earliest known records of beer production
|Beer as a staple in the daily diet
|Long history of brewing beer-like beverages
How beer brewing has evolved over the centuries
Throughout history, the process of brewing fermented beverages has undergone significant transformations, reflecting advancements in technology, ingredients, and brewing techniques. Over the centuries, beer brewing has evolved from a rudimentary process of natural fermentation to a sophisticated art form.
Ancient civilizations brewed beer using basic ingredients like barley, water, and wild yeast, leading to inconsistent flavors and qualities. As societies advanced, brewing methods became more refined, with the introduction of hops in the Middle Ages adding flavor stability and balance to the brew.
The Industrial Revolution brought about further changes, mechanizing many aspects of beer production and enabling mass-scale brewing. Today, modern brewing techniques combine traditional methods with cutting-edge technology to produce a vast array of beer styles with precision and consistency.
Significant milestones in beer history
Over the course of human history, the development of beer has been marked by several significant milestones that have shaped the beverage into what it is today. One of the earliest milestones was the discovery of fermentation, believed to have occurred around 5,000 BCE. This led to the creation of the first beer-like beverage. Fast forward to the Middle Ages, and we see the establishment of monasteries brewing beer, refining techniques, and sharing knowledge. The Industrial Revolution brought about the mechanization of brewing processes, increasing production and consistency. In the 20th century, pasteurization and refrigeration techniques were introduced, further improving the quality and shelf life of beer.
|Discovery of fermentation
|Around 5,000 BCE, fermentation was discovered, leading to the creation of the first beer-like beverage.
|Monasteries brewing beer
|In the Middle Ages, monasteries played a significant role in brewing beer, refining techniques, and sharing knowledge.
|Industrial Revolution mechanization
|The Industrial Revolution brought mechanization to brewing processes, increasing production and consistency.
|Pasteurization and refrigeration techniques
|In the 20th century, pasteurization and refrigeration techniques were introduced to improve beer quality and shelf life.
Beer's impact on culture and society
Beer's integration into societal customs and traditions has profoundly influenced cultural norms and social interactions. The impact of beer on culture and society can be seen in various aspects:
- Social Gatherings: Beer has long been a staple at social events, fostering camaraderie and relaxation among individuals.
- Economic Influence: The beer industry contributes significantly to the economy through production, distribution, and sales.
- Cultural Celebrations: Many cultures have specific rituals and festivals centered around beer, highlighting its importance in traditions.
- Art and Literature: Beer has inspired artists and writers throughout history, appearing in various works of art and literature, reflecting its symbolic significance in society.


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Add "Attendee List" Pod (if not already on screen)
1. In the upper navigation bar, select Pods.
2. Select Attendee List. The pod will appear in the lower left corner of the screen.
Make Host or Presenter
There are 2 methods. You can use the Menu or Drag & Drop.
1. In the "Attendee List" pod, hover the mouse over the participant you wish to promote.
2. When the window pops up, select Make Host or Make Presenter.
Drag & Drop
Click on the person whose role you wish to change. Then drag them into the role to which you would like them to be assigned.
Hosts - Hosts can set up a meeting, invite guests, add content to the library, share content, and add or edit layouts in a meeting room. They can promote other participants to the role of meeting room host or presenter, or give enhanced permissions to a participant without promoting the participant. Hosts can start, stop, join, and leave audio conferences. They can also start and stop broadcasting audio into a meeting room. Hosts are able to create and manage small group breakout rooms within a meeting. They can also perform all the tasks that a presenter or participant can.
Presenters - Presenters can share content already loaded into the meeting room from the library and share content from their computer, including Adobe® Presenter presentations (PPT or PPTX files), Flash® application files (SWF files), images (JPEG files), Adobe PDF files, MP3 files, and FLV files. They can share their screen with all attendees, chat, and broadcast live audio and video. Presenters can mute and unmute audio broadcasts on their computers.
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