Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s life is a story of how a Victorian Poet developed her creativity using an expressive art form that contributed to her overall wellness and helped build the courage needed to leave a corrosive family enviornment. Through her poetry and love for learning new things, Browning enlightens others on the deep emotions and struggles of humanity, and applauds choosing a loving, supportive relationship over toxic connections of the past.
Intellectual wellness is one of the 8 Dimensions of Wellness which is being able to recognize your creative abilities and finding ways to expand knowledge and skills. This dimension involves having curiosity about the world around you and being a lifelong learner.
Interesting facts about EBB:
- By her twelfth year, she had written her first "epic" poem, which consisted of four books of rhyming couplets. Two years later, Elizabeth developed a lung ailment that plagued her for the rest of her life. Doctors began treating her with morphine, which she would take until her death. While saddling a pony when she was fifteen, Elizabeth also suffered a spinal injury. Despite her ailments, her education continued to flourish.
- Elizabeth often researched new subjects she was interested in like learning Hebrew so she could read the original Old Testament.
- Gaining attention for her work in the 1830s, Elizabeth continued to live in her father's London house under his tyrannical rule. He began sending Elizabeth's younger siblings to Jamaica to help with the family's estates. Elizabeth bitterly opposed slavery and did not want her siblings sent away. (Both sides of her family historically supported slave labor.)
- She came from a family of power, wealth and influence.
- Her morals and values were not in alignment with those of the generations before her.
- Elisabeth's brother Edward drowned while sailing at Torquay, and [she] returned home emotionally broken, becoming an invalid and a recluse. She spent the next five years in her bedroom at her father's home. She continued writing, however, and in 1844 produced a collection entitled simply "Poems". This volume gained the attention of poet Robert Browning, whose work Elizabeth had praised in one of her poems, and he wrote her a letter.
- Her skill of being about to convert feelings to words helped her to become, not only well known, but was noticed by her future husband.
- She had a choice at this point to remain trapped in a toxic home environment with her father, or accept the invitation from her dear friend, mutual love interest, and supporter, Robert Browning.
- Elizabeth and Robert, who was six years her junior, exchanged 574 letters over the next twenty months. Their romance was bitterly opposed by her father, who did not want any of his children to marry. In 1846, the couple eloped and settled in Florence, Italy, where Elizabeth's health improved and she bore a son, Robert Wideman Browning. Her father never spoke to her again.
- Robert Browning spoke life, love and freedom into Elizabeth and gave her hope for a better future.
- A mixture of support from her siblings, having goals for her future, and Robert's pure love for her smoothed the path ahead for a huge life transition.
- Her father disowned her for choosing to marry and leave the family (or can I be as bold to say, he was bitter and jealous because he no longer had control over her life).
- In many cultures, even if a grown child makes a decision outside the blessing or consent of the parents, they are often cut off from the wealth or influence that family is connected to. This is a major barrier to survivors of domestic violence and a reason why they may choose to stay with their family of origin.
- Elizabeth had enough protective and promotive factors in her life at this point to help her make an informed decision to leave home and enter a life of safety and security with Robert.
It can be overwhelming to grow up in a home full of power, control and manipulation. When broken relationships are all you have known, forming new bonds with positive and uplifting individuals can feel like a breath of mountain-fresh air. However, leaving the past behind you is not as easy as it seems. It is perfectly normal to experience feelings of loss or grief even if you are separating from abusive relationships. When we are curious about life, ask questions, and seek opportunities to learn how to increase our understanding, we become empowered and hope for a better future seems a little more attainable for us. "Knowledge is Power". This power can supply us the strength and courage we need to take a leap of faith in the right direction, like getting help from a loved one or community program like Care Lodge.
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“Interesting facts” content was found on poets.org
Want to dive deeper into this topic? Check out the movie “The Barretts of Wimpole Street” and see how the Browning family began and how the power of real love heals and breaks the cycle of violence.
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AYIN BEIS | Existence Unplugged
Chapter 25 (part 1): Ideas and Details
A second example for the emanation of the ten revealed sefirot from their root in the ten hidden sefirot.
Details of an intellectual concept is a second example (similar to the example of the letters of a word) to understand the relationship between the ten revealed sefirot to their root in the pre-tzimtzum ten hidden sefirot: Every idea is comprised of details, and it must be transmitted from teacher to student piecemeal, detail by detail. The teacher comprehends the entire concept and is able to see the big picture in every detail. However the student comprehends only the specific detail, not the entire picture and not how this detail is part of the big concept. Even if he understand the bigger picture, it is limited and defined compared to the pristine perspective of the teacher.
This example can explain the ten sefirot: The Source — the Divine Emanator — has an inner purpose which is fulfilled through the emanation of Atzilus and its ten sefirot. [Overall, the purpose is to bestow goodness on the creatures, and they recognize His majesty and cling to Him, or that the divine powers should be actualized]. The hidden sefirot (before the tzimtzum) are completely encompassed in, and are simply an expression of, this inner purpose; all the sefirot sense, like the idea in the mind of the teahcer, only the utterly formless divine pre-tzimtzum energy. By contrast, when a single sefirah emerges after the tzimtzum, it only senses, like the student, the energy within this detail, within this specific sefirah. The detailed sefirah does indeed reflect its part of the entire concept, and it even reveals to us the higher purpose of the sefirot in the root of the energies (which is to allow Him to be known; ohr pnimi), but in a diminished form compared to the revelation of the hidden sefirot of energy prior to the tzimtzum.
The first example (of the letter beis in the word boruch) teaches us that the detailed letter reflects the diminished energy in one specific sefirah compared to its source (the entire word). While the second example demonstrates the diminished awareness of the higher purpose of the sefirot: 1) that He be known, 2) that the world should understand and feel the divine, 3) the interconnectivity of the sefirot reflect the all-complete and all-perfect divine.
Revealed and Hidden Sefirot.
Whereas in the first example (letters of a word) the letters are mere containers, which do not carry the energy of the idea expressed by the word, this second example demonstrates that energy has two levels: 1) the way it is in the source (the teacher), where all the details are permeated with the overall concept. 2) the way it is in existence (the student), where the details emerge and only reflect the energy within that particular sefirah, and do not comprehend the entire picture in its full intensity.
The question is, why do we need the first example after we have the second one? At the end of the chapter he says that the first example teaches us that the detailed letter (beis) reflects the diminished energy in one specific sefirah compared to its source (the entire word). While the second example demonstrates the diminished awareness of the higher purpose of the sefirot. But what remains unclear is that both these insights are reflected in the second example, as well as in the first one. So why the need for both examples?
Perhaps example one explains better the “distance” (yesh m’ayin) of the energy in the revealed sefirah (in the single letter) from the source (in the hidden sefirot), like the distance of a single letter to an entire word. And example two explains better the “closeness” (gilu ha’helem) of the revealed energies (sefirot) to their source.
Or the other way around: Example one emphasizes how the energy reaches and is integrated and tailored to a specific entity (chochma), like the idea within a word is spoonfed to a child with one letter. The focus is on the individuality of the sefirah. And the second example demonstrates how the student can also relate to the general purpose of the sefirot, as they stand in their root. The focus is on the overall divine purpose of existence.


The South Orange & Maplewood School District, ELA Department are happy to announce a reading book distribution to support middle school students reading at home. The books will be available for pick-up from your child’s school on March 6th. The range of books selected aims to match each reader, and it instills the love of reading shared by the student’s teacher. The book bundle supports both fiction and nonfiction reading at the heart of all disciplines across all grade levels. Students and/or parents are invited to come during their school’s allotted timeframe to pick-up their curated book selection. Students/families should attend pick-up locations at their respective schools during the timeframes shared below. Additional grade-levels will be added in the future.


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- run script 'menu\sql\<dbms>\alter_table(2015-09-20).sql' to rename 'mnu_user.language_code' to 'mnu_user.language_id'.
- fixed bug in std.update1.inc which erroneously called the getInitialData() method after the PASTE button was pressed.
- modified 'std.treenode.xsl' to allow additional names in 'css_class' to be added to the node description.
- fixed bug in 'std.multi5.inc' which caused the call to $dbinner->setParentData() to initialise $inner_data.
- updated 'std.search1.inc' to set $dbobject->no_foreign_data = FALSE instead of TRUE. This is because I have found it necessary to change it to FALSE more often than to leave it as TRUE, so the default setting should be the one that is most commonly used.
- updated 'std.filepicker1.inc' so that it automatically includes the quicksearch area for file or directory names. This removes the need for a separate 'Search' button on the navigation bar.
- updated 'include.xml.php5.inc' and 'std.data_field.xsl' to allow custom buttons to be specifed by either the <input> or <button> controls. If you currently use any 'button' controls these may have to be changed to 'input' due to the way that the button text is displayed in the screen.
- fixed bug in 'std.multi2/3/4/5.inc' which caused a popup in the inner entity to return its result to the wrong row.
- updated 'include.xml.php5.inc' to allow 'rdc_fieldspecs' to be an alias of 'rdc_fieldspec', and to allow either to be used in the '_cm_formatData)' method as well as the '_cm_post_getData()' method.
- fixed bug in 'std.multi4.inc' which caused scrolling for the outer entity to fail.
- renamed column 'language_code' to 'language_id' in the MNU_USER table to be consistent with the MNU_LANGUAGE table.
- fixed bug in 'mnu_subsystem_s01.class.inc' which caused an invalid query to be generated when trying to export from the 'mnu_user_role' table.
- updated TCPDF library to version 6.2.12
- updated TINYMCE library to version 4.2.6


By: Kimberlyn Bennet
The colloquium spring semester series put on by the Center for Humanities features the evolution of the book from print to the digital age.
“[It’s] really a fascination between how digital technology can able our rediscovery of the book,” said Dr. Rebecca Prime, who coordinates the colloquium series.
The series, which changes every year and was started in 1990, theme is developed based on the college curriculum.
“We make an effort to make a connection between the speakers and classes offered,” Prime said. Students find that the series has provided this.
“I like to attend them because a lot of the subjects are interesting. I’m an archaeology major and so it goes along with my major already and I like that they focus on the book going from print to digital,” said freshman Amanda Shaffery.
This particular theme was suggested based on the debate about the introduction of the iPads into the Hood College learning environment.
“[We wanted] to provide some historical context for these debates,” Prime said.
Additionally, Prime believes that the series enhances the college community.
“We really see this as a way to enrich the cultural student experience, “ Prime said.
The next event in the colloquium will highlight Will Nole, curator of manuscripts and rare books at theWaltersArt Museum, whom Prime describes as a “charming and engaging Englishman.”
Nole’s lecture, entitled “Archimedes and Friends: the Digital Recovery of Ancient Texts,” will explain the discovery of erased texts within Archimedes’s, the Greek mathematician, inventor and physicist, 13th century prayer book.
The erased texts include the Method and Stomachion treaties, which have been found in no other writings prior to this unearthing. Also, the speeches by Hyperides, an Athenian orator from the fourth century B.C., and a commentary on Aristotle’s Categories from third century A.D. were found within the erased texts.
Nole will in addition discuss the influence of digitalizing medieval manuscripts on studies of history and literature before the 15th century.
The event will take place in the Marx center at 7 p.m. on March 1.


1. Look at the API from the eyes of a naive user
The most important thing is to have empathy with your primary target audience and constantly ask yourself what makes most sense for them in their perspective. This applies to everything, from the first moments reading the README.md examples to the corner-case use cases of the API. The Principle of Least Surprise applies strongly here. Designing a library API is quite similar to designing a physical product or anything else in the real world.
2. Define the purpose and level of abstraction of your library
First, define the purpose of your library: what problem does it solve? Note, however, that problems may cover different levels of abstraction. “We need to format currency numbers for different locales” is a problem, but so is “we need to build neatly-organized web apps” and so is “our company needs to be efficient”. Notice that the first problem is low level, while the others are progressively higher.
It is perfectly valid to have a library that covers a higher-level problem. But usually tools that solve high-level programming problems are frameworks or languages. Once the level of abstraction is chosen, the goal is to solve that problem in that particular level of abstraction and solve it well. For instance, if the level of abstraction is low and you are solving formatting of currency numbers, then you shouldn’t go into the realm of providing solutions for formatting dates and time. If the level of abstraction is high and the problem is to make frontend development easy, don’t attempt to make backend development easy with the same tool.
As a corollary, don’t support everything. Keep the purpose and the level of abstraction in mind and don’t be shy to reject feature requests. Just politely reply. I’m kind of repeating myself from this other blog post, so if you want to dive deeper into this aspect, read that.
3. Tradeoffs always exist, but unimportant disadvantages also exist
After your library is built, you can describe its tradeoffs: the pros and cons. Pros should outweigh Cons for the specific purpose you set for the library. Otherwise, it doesn’t make sense to adopt the library.
People often use the fact that “tradeoffs always exist” to defend how all tools are equal. This doesn’t make sense. You need to keep a close eye on the Cons of your library, and make sure that these Cons are irrelevant or harmless for the original purpose.
For instance, RxJS Observables do not have good backpressure properties (a disadvantage), but offer a composable and declarative API for events and asynchronous programming (an advantage). There is a tradeoff, but the disadvantage doesn’t matter for frontend programming use cases. Backpressure concerns are an artificial problem and don’t affect UI programming much. The Pros outweigh the Cons.
Without a clear and defined purpose, you cannot be sure that the disadvantages are irrelevant for that purpose. Don’t make everything important (because you cannot).
4. Make the correct way easy, make the wrong way possible
When it comes to naming of the functions/methods, make the correct way simple and easy, while making the wrong way possible, cumbersome, and explicit. As a rule of thumb, library users are more comfortable using functions with short and familiar names like
push, etc, and are cautious to use functions with long names like
replacePreviousAndPop. Your goal, with naming, should be to keep the library user comfortable in using your library in the right way, while making him cautious in using the library in the wrong way. Short names are comfortable, long names are cumbersome.
The wrong way can also be made more explicit with names like
shamefullySendNext. It’s useful to make the wrong way explicit because (1) it teaches that it is the wrong way, (2) it makes it easy to spot the wrong way in code reviews. Imagine if the wrong way would be complex yet possible, then detecting wrong usage would be hard in code review. Also, library users will eventually try to optimize for code elegance, and an explicitly bad name is an obstacle for that.
A counterexample of this is the RxJS operator
zip. Even though it is a perfectly valid operator with valid use cases, it is frequently the wrong choice when combining two source Observables in many use cases. I suspect people are drawn to
zip because it has a short and mnemonic name, alluding to how zippers work. However, since it is rarely applicable, it would have been better to name it
sequentialCombine or something similar, while naming
combineLatest as just
combine, since its use is very common and important.
That said, “the wrong way” is usually a property of thick libraries or frameworks. Small libraries usually export one or a handful of functions, and there isn’t usually a wrong function. The “wrong way” for those libraries usually pertains to the types of the arguments of functions, which leads us to the next point.
5. Be always mindful of the types
You don’t need to write your library in TypeScript or Flow or PureScript (even though you should), but you must carefully consider the types involved in your library’s API. The reason is that the types are there anyway. A function that expects a string probably won’t work at all when given a number. Eventually, you will have to declare the type signature, at least in the docs when explaining how the API works for your users. In other cases, you throw a warning exception that shows wrong types in the browser’s developer tools.
So, write the type signatures. This process will make it more explicit to you and to everyone what is “going on”. It will help show possibly redundant functions, with overlapping purposes. It will help show potentially confusing APIs. Type signatures are metadata for your API, and give you more information about the API, which means more support information when making decisions about the interface.
Composability may express itself in many ways, and type signatures help show what kind of composability strategy you are using. Maybe the return type of one function can be the input type of another, which is a typical choice in Functional Programming. Maybe there are OOP classes that share some traits in common, which can be expressed as TypeScript interfaces.
Maybe an OOP class has many methods that return the
this instance, such as in jQuery, allowing a chainable usage. For instance
.before() returns the
this object; other functions, though, like
.html() return a primitive such as a String. Clearly, while some functions are transformative and stay in the realm of the instance (
.before()), other functions “exit” the instance by returning another type (
Mixing the composability strategy is usually accidental (not intentional) API design. Writing the type signatures makes it easier to track which composability strategy is used, and consistently apply them throughout the library. Consistency is desireable because of the Principle of Least Surprise.
Even if you ignore type signatures, designing an API will anyway relate to types. You can’t escape the real existence of types as contracts.
6. Cooperate with the host language
Don’t let your library look alien. It should be easy for your library to interoperate easily with existing code and other libraries. For that, try keeping your library idiomatic with the language and the community. Reuse the standard library, follow the code style, use the language’s power instead of reinventing the wheel. Again, the Principle of Least Surprise applies to this aspect as well.
For example, don’t build your own linked list data structure if you can use Array (unless your library is exactly just a linked list). “Increment” the ecosystem, don’t attempt to replace it.
7. Be open to feedback
If your library is somewhat popular, eventually people will come with feedback on how to improve, augment, and sometimes, deprecate your library. It takes some mental effort to categorize received feedback into buckets:
It’s rarely obvious which case it is. I suggest using knowledge of the XY Problem and my heuristic for accurate diagnosis in layers of abstractions (6:30). If users are asking for more features, then you either need to support more features or reject them as out of scope.
If the API can be simplified or has fundamental flaws, don’t exclude rewriting your library with an entirely different API. Just don’t forget to make a breaking change for that. If it’s very different, you can even just release an entirely separate library.
To conclude, go back to the first point I mentioned. It’s all about having empathy with the user of your library and giving them a good experience with an interface that frequently “makes sense”.
Copyright (C) 2017 Andre 'Staltz' Medeiros, licensed under Creative Commons BY-NC 4.0, translations to other languages allowed.


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The Aberdeen Bestiary website gives access to a digitised version of the entire manuscript of the Aberdeen Bestiary (Aberdeen University Library MS 24), considered to be one of the best examples of its type. The manuscript, written and illuminated in England around 1200, ended up in the possession of Aberdeen University in the 19th century. It is of added interest since it contains notes, sketches and other evidence of the way it was designed and executed. The site's home page gives access to the Bestiary, its history and codicology, and an extensive bibliography. There is also information about bestiaries generally. The entire manuscript has been digitised using Photo-CD technology, thus creating a surrogate, while allowing greater access to the text itself. The digitised version, offering the display of full-page images and of detailed views of illustrations and other significant features, is complemented by a series of commentaries, which include art history material, and a transcription and translation of the original Latin. The Bestiary can also be searched by keyword. This project is funded under the Joint Funding Councils Libraries Review Group: Specialised Research Collections in the Humanities initiative. The project is a collaborative effort between Aberdeen University Library, the Department of History of Art and the Centre for Computer Based Learning in Land Use and Environmental Sciences (CLUES).
This is a website maintained by the History Department at the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain. It is written in Gallegan. The website has not been updated since 1996, but contains some useful information for scholars interested in Galician palaeography, diplomatic and codicology. There is a directory of all the ecclesiastical, regional and municipal archives in Galicia providing good descriptions of each historical archive, content and mode of access. The pages on the history of writing in Galicia provide an overview of the main historical scripts in use in the Middle Ages. Each script is illustrated with one or more digital examples of documents. There is also a brief online bibliography and a gateway of links to related resources on the web.
The Auchinleck Manuscript website features an online edition of the manuscript held by the National Library of Scotland. Produced in London during the 1330s, the manuscript contains verses and poems spanning a wide range of genres including: romance; hagiography; doctrinal instruction; a chronicle; satire; complaint; and humorous tales. According to popular myth, Chaucer himself may have read the manuscript, and his 'Tale of Sir Thopas' may have been influenced by the Auchinleck's stanzaic 'Guy of Warwick'. But it is for romances in particular that the manuscript is renowned. There are eighteen romances, including: 'Reinbroun'; 'Of Arthour & of Merlin'; 'Roland and Vernagu'; 'Sir Tristrem'; 'Kyng Alisaunder'; 'Sir Orfeo'; 'The King of Tars'; 'Amis and Amiloun'; and 'Horn Childe and Maiden Rimnild'. All of the poems are in English. As well as containing the transcribed texts (and page images) of the manuscript, the website includes a history of manuscript and a page about its physical make up. There is also a glossary and a lexicon, as well as bibliographies for each text and topic, and links to other relevant websites. This is an excellent example of a manuscript Internet resource, which should be of great value to scholars engaged in manuscript studies or researching Middle English literature. It is also possible to download the manuscript from the Oxford Text Archive site.
Bibliografía Codicología is a straightforward online bibliography useful for those studying codicological aspects of medieval manuscripts. It is compiled under the auspices of Grafos: seminario permanente de cultura escrita, which holds regular scholarly events and activities at the Universidad Complutense (Madrid). The bibliography is very extensive and authoritative and covers a large spectrum of material in all languages. The bibliography can be browsed easily on the web by scrolling up and down on the same page. Several sections break the content usefully into methodology, basic reference works, quantitative codicology, comparative codicology, periodicals.
The Codices Electronici Sangallenses (CESG) website gives access to high resolution digital images of medieval codices in the Abbey Library of St Gallen in Switzerland (now a UNESCO World Heritage Centre). The aim is to bring these codices to a wider audience, and to partially replace the use of the fragile originals in the library. The codices available are shown in their entirety (including images of their binding), in high enough resolution to facilitate close study of their makeup as well as their content. Manuscripts represented range from: bibles; calendars; and antiphonals to: saints' lives; histories of the crusades; and a book of German pre-reformation songs. The site is available in French, German, English and Italian and includes a description of the CESG project and a brief history of the Abbey Library. The images are available for educational and research use, providing that the source is correctly cited, and are accompanied by detailed descriptions. This site would be of great interest to anyone studying medieval manuscripts and codices, and also to students of medieval palaeography, theology and philosophy.
The website "Equipe de Recherche de Médiévistique" belongs to the CNRS research team on the Middle Ages affiliated with the Universite de Nancy 2. This research unit brings together medievalists, historians, linguists and archeologists from Universite de Nancy 2 in collaboration with researchers from other universities in France, such as Strasbourg, Metz and Reims. The site gives details of the current research projects of the team, which focus on medieval manuscript studies, diplomatics and codicology, medieval archives and online applications for medieval studies. There are also sections dedicated to publications, with introductions of books and volumes, and to the participation in other projects. This information is of interest to advanced researchers in the field of medieval studies and manuscript studies.
The site dedicated to the manuscripts and rarities in the University Library of the Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) in Budapest describes the holdings of the library and provides the digitised versions of 36 medieval codices. The digitisation project includes 8 Hungarian and 28 Latin manuscripts as well as a fourteenth century early illuminated manuscript of the Divina Commedia (Cod. Ital. 1), which is one of the main assets of the library. Each digitised manuscript has a library description of its author; date of creation; codicological data; and library catalogue number. Permanent URLs have been assigned to each digitised version. The quality of the images is very good although they cannot be enlarged. Among the manuscripts in the collections of this library the site mentions the handwritten catalogues of documents compiled by Jesuits scholars in the eighteenth century, particularly the ones written by György Pray. Volume no. 30 of his books is also digitised and available online. The rarities in the library include early books and incunabulae but these are merely described on the site.
The website "Gazette du livre médiéval" is the online edition of this quarterly bulletin published by the Association Paléographique Internationale: Culture, Écriture, Société (APICES). This journal has been in print since 1982 and represents the contribution of medievalists from various countries. The website provides access to an online journal subscription form, a browsable list of tables of contents for all the journal issues from the beginning to the most current, and links to the full-text of selected articles from various issues. There is a selection of articles, grouped under different categories. The site has a bibliography section, which offers access to a bibliography of manuscript collection catalogues, and a bibliography of manuscripts published in facsimile. The entire datafile can be downloaded in compressed text file.
The Life of King Edward the Confessor website gives access to a digitised version of the only copy of an illustrated Anglo-Norman verse life of St Edward the Confessor, probably originally written in the later 1230s or early 1240s. The manuscript is held by Cambridge University Library (Cambridge University Library MS.Ee.3.59), and consists of thirty-seven folios, with a total of sixty-four pictures. The images are of good quality, allowing the user to zoom in to areas closely, and each folio is accompanied by a brief description. Folios can be browsed from start to finish, or via a summary page showing thumbnails of the images, with their descriptions. The website provides a brief introduction to the manuscript, and suggestions for additional reading. This site would be of interest to scholars studying: art history; manuscript history; religious texts or medieval history.
The Llanbeblig Book of Hours is an online digital facsimile of manuscript NLW MS 17520A at the National Library of Wales. The resource forms part of the National Library of Wales' Digital Mirror Web pages, which provide access to some of the most important items in the Library's collections. A short history of the manuscript is provided, with an overview of its contents and some suggested further reading. The manuscript itself can be viewed folio by folio, or as a gallery of some of the main illuminated pages. Images can be enlarged to allow for better viewing of the Latin text. The images are clear and detailed, and would be of interest to those studying medieval manuscript production or medieval art and iconography.
The website "Mediaevum.de" is a portal created and maintained by four medieval German scholars as a private enterprise dedicated to students, academic researchers and the general public interested in medieval German and Latin culture. The website compiles and provides access to extensive and authoritative information, sources and tools on the web for the study of these literatures in the high middle ages and the later middle ages and humanistic periods. All the links have descriptions with details of content and quality. The language of the site is German with an English introduction to the top-level pages. No full English version of the portal is currently being planned.
Piers Plowman is an online electronic facsimile of a fifteenth-century manuscript copy of William Langland's famous devotional poem. The manuscript (NLW MS 733B) is held by the National Library of Wales, and the facsimile forms part of the Library's 'Digital Mirror', which provides images of some of the institution's most important holdings. The manuscript is incomplete, but contains an unusual variant of the poem, which is thought by some to illustrate the evolution of the text. The digital images are large and clear, but the manuscript itself is sometimes hard to read, having been originally copied onto poor-quality parchment. Along with the images, the site provides: biographical information on Langland; a short description of the poem; and a brief history and description of the manuscript. This resource would be of interest to Langland scholars, or those studying medieval literature and manuscripts more generally.
The Quadrivium Project is an online resource for training doctoral students in Medieval English textual studies. The site is hosted by the Faculty of Arts at the University of Glasgow and is run in partnership with the Universities of: York; Birmingham; Queen Mary's London; and Queen's University in Belfast. The site provides a portal to training materials on: language (mainly Middle English); palaeography and codicology; and textual criticism and editorial practices. Another section on 'socio-historical context' is also under construction at the time of writing. The types of materials available on the site range from links to catalogues of medieval manuscripts and digitised manuscripts, to brief discussions on textual editing processes. The project also provides links to the partner projects and institutions, and to other related websites. This resource would be of interest to postgraduates working in: Medieval English; history; or manuscript studies.
This website outlines a three year AHRC-funded project to create a digital copy of the important Vernon Manuscript in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. The “biggest and most important surviving late medieval English manuscript”, access to the extensive and lavishly illuminated Vernon Manuscript is currently very limited for reasons of conservation and the “sheer scale of the volume”. This project will publish a DVD-format digital copy, with full colour images and searchable descriptions and transcriptions of every page. The website gives details of the project team and partners.
This website describes the Wollaton collection at the University of Nottingham, and the Heritage Lottery Fund and AHRC funded work to conserve, catalogue and provide access to and raise awareness of this important manuscript collection. The collection comprises "a rare and significant corpus of medieval textual and material artefacts", which once formed part of the Willoughby family's collections at Wollaton Hall, Nottingham. The collections significant is found in ten medieval manuscripts "which include a number of important vernacular literary texts from the 13th to 15th centuries. Works in English, French and Anglo Norman, and two texts in Latin, range in subject from romance and poetry to moral literature for the laity and lives of saints". With a long association with the Willoughby family, these manuscripts, although fragile, have little modern conservation and maintain evidence of their medieval creation. There are a further 42 rare printed books. The website includes descriptions of key items in the collection as well as information about the complimentary Heritage Lottery Fund (focussing on conservation, cataloguing a digitisation) and AHRC (examining the significance of the medieval manuscripts and the importance of the library as a whole) research projects.


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Performs in-depth collection analysis under the direction of the Collection Development Manager; monitors collection use and generates statistical reports for this purpose; responsible for the development and maintenance of assigned library collections at the assigned location, under the direction of the Branch Manager; recommends library materials for purchase as assigned.
May perform specialized duties related to a specific area of library service, such as young adult services, systems automation, programming, statistics, social media and online content or collection development.
May assist a Library Administrator with systems administration tasks. May oversee activities in the absence of an administrative superior.
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How did the kindly Christian saint, good Bishop Nicholas, become a roly-poly red-suited American symbol for merry holiday festivity and commercial activity? History tells the tale.The first Europeans to arrive in the New World brought St. Nicholas. Vikings dedicated their cathedral to him in Greenland. On his first voyage, Columbus named a Haitian port for St. Nicholas on December 6, 1492. Read more
From the earliest memories of our childhood, many of us can remember hearing the phrase “no two snowflakes are alike”. This discovery was made in the small rural town of Jericho, Vermont by Wilson A. Bentley (1865-1931). A self educated farmer, Bentley attracted world attention with his pioneering work in the area of photomicrography, most notably his extensive work with snow crystals (commonly known as snowflakes). By adapting a microscope to a bellows camera, and years of trial and error, he became the first person to photograph a single snow crystal in 1885. Read more
Likely to become a seasonal classic, Wright’s story does what good Christmas stories do. It pulls at the heartstrings, taut from the grind of the world, and warms the bones with promises of hope and brotherly love. The main character of the story is a young woman, purposefully named Hope. Read more
At first, jean cloth was made from a mixture of things. However, in the 18th century as trade, slave labor, and cotton plantations increased, jean cloth was made completely from cotton. Workers wore it because the material was very strong and it did not wear out easily. It was usually dyed with indigo, a dye taken from plants in the Americas and India, which made jean cloth a dark blue color. Read more


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How Social Enterprise Connects People with Jobs & Jobs with People
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The Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering at The University of Alabama (UA) invites applications for two tenure-track faculty positions consistent with building upon and expanding the strengths of our faculty (http://cce.eng.ua.edu/). Area of interest: transportation systems engineering. Candidates will be considered for appointment at the rank of assistant professor and associate professor commensurate with experience and qualifications. Both candidates are expected to have backgrounds necessary to conduct research focused on connected, automated, and autonomous vehicles (CAVs). Expertise and interest in the following areas and how they relate to CAVs will be given strong consideration: sustainability, resiliency, planning and policy, operations, safety, human factors, rural accessibility, humanitarian and emergency logistics, and drones and other unmanned delivery systems. Requisition #0812276. Apply electronically at facultyjobs.ua.edu. Applicants must have earned a doctorate (Ph.D.) in civil engineering or a closely related field by the beginning of the appointment, which will be August 2020. The University of Alabama is an EE/EEO institution. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, genetic information, disability, or protected veteran status, and will not be discriminated against because of their protected status.
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All locations are in Maine, unless otherwise noted.
Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance: Seminar "Public Speaking Survival Skills for Authors." This was the last in-person talk I gave before the onset of the pandemic.
Clark University, Worcester , MA: Guest lecture: "The Power of Story," discussed the use of narrative in marketing
CEI Maine: "How to Connect Through the Power of Story," a four-week webinar on the use of story to promote small businesses
Portland Press Herald, "This Date In Maine History": Provided a segment on behalf of the Portland nonprofit Cooking For Community, where I volunteer
Midcoast Community Alliance Set for Success 2020 : Featured performer for their online fundraiser
SCORE: Webinar, "The Power of Story"
Maine College of Art: ongoing story training
Jobs for Maine’s Graduates, Management Team training in critical listening and critiquing skills
Portland Chamber of Commerce, “Women of the Chamber” series. Delivered a keynote entitled the "Power of Presence" to a sold-out house -- during a hurricane.
Maine College of Art: Presented a series of lectures aimed at training young artists how to speak about their work
Jobs for Maine’s Graduates: Presentation to the Board of Directors
Bay Path University’s Summer Writing Seminar, Dingle, Ireland
I joined authors Andre Dubus III, Ann Hood, among other talented writers to serve as faculty in this storybook town on Ireland’s southwest coast.
Jobs for Maine’s Graduates all-staff training day, Sugarloaf, USA: Keynote
Jobs For America’s Graduates National Training Seminar, Orlando, FL: keynote
Jobs for Maine’s Graduates all-staff training day, Waterville: keynote,
Avesta Housing all-staff training day, Pineland Farms: keynote
Maine College of Art: senior presentation speech training
Black Fly Spring Writing Retreat, Grand Lake Stream: faculty
University of Maine Fort Kent Scholars Symposium: keynote
Guest Author, Live! Word Buzz, Rolling Fatties, Kingfield. There were burritos and beer involved. That’s all I needed to know.
Literary Lunch, Portland Public Library: a conversation with author Catharine Murray about memoir writing and her book Now You See the Sky
Keynote speaker, Maine Public Relations Council Annual Conference
Open Studio talk, as part of my month-long Monson Arts Residency
Author talk, in conjunction with my Illustration Institute residency, Peaks Island
Featured speaker at Fill the Plate Breakfast to benefit Meals on Wheels, sponsored by SeniorsPlus, Western Maine’s designated Agency on Aging
Memoir Instructor, Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance annual Black Fly spring writing retreat, Grand Lake Stream
Guest lecturer, Gifted Young Writers series. A daylong workshop held at Bates College for select Lewiston/Auburn-area high school students. My fourth repeat performance for this group.
Two-week run of my one-woman show, My Mother’s Clothes Are Not My Mother, at the Public Theatre, Lewiston (please click on the “My Mother’s Clothes” button for a full performance history)
27th Annual Maine Geriatrics Conference, Bar Harbor: I performed an abbreviated version of my show and led a discussion group about caregiving and end-of-life issues.
Maine State Bar Association’s Leadership Institute: Conducted a public-speaking intensive for emerging attorneys.
Maine Health, Farmington: My Mother’s Clothes performance and discussion
Guest lecturer, Stonecoast MFA winter residency
Featured speaker, Belfast (Maine) Book Festival
Maine State Bar Association’s Leadership Institute: public-speaking intensive
ADDITIONAL LECTURES AND TALKS:
“The Unlikely Making of a Maine Writer,” George Stevens Academy Summer Speakers Series, Blue Hill
Maine Festival of the Book: “Laughter From the Underbrush”
"Three Class Acts" an evening of poetry and performance with me, poet Gary Lawless and national slam champ (and former teammate) Taylor Mali to benefit the Cobscook Community Learning Center
"Bath Girls Who Write Books," with author Morgan Callan Rogers, Morse High School and the Patton Free Library, Bath.
“Finding ME” – an original performance piece that tells the story of how two very different women came to call the Pine Tree State home – Strand Theatre, Rockland, August, 2010
Norway Summer Festival, “Poets on the Porch” reading series that included such poetry luminaries as Baron Wormser, Gary Lawless and Arizona Zipper.
York County Retired Educators Association annual meeting
Maine Retired Teachers Association annual meeting
Maine Media Women
Fifth Maine Regiment Museum lecture series, Peaks Island
66th annual Chautauqua-by-the-Sea Writers Conference, Ocean Park
Bath/Brunswick Area Arts and Cultural Alliance reading, Curtis Memorial Library, Brunswick
“Meet a Maine Author,” Carey Memorial Library, Wayne
Sebasco Estates, Phippsburg
Clairemont Hotel, Southwest Harbor
Friends of Scarborough Library annual meeting
University of Southern Maine’s Stonecoast MFA Winter Residency: “Take My Workshop… Please: Some Thoughts On Humor Writing,” and paired in the instructor’s evening reading series with author Rick Bass
Pine Manor College Solstice Summer Writers' Conference, “The Power of Place”
Maine College of Art, memoir-writing program
“Seniors to Seniors,” a memoir-writing program I developed to pair senior citizens and high school seniors to help the elder seniors tell and preserve their life stories. Pilot program sponsored through Graves Library, Kennebunkport, where the students and seniors gave a community presentation in June.
Maine Writers and Publishers Black Fly spring writing retreat, Grand Lake Stream: memoir writing
Seniors’ Memoir Workshop, Betsy Ross House, South Portland: a six week intensive on memoir and storytelling that culminated in an open performance reading for residents and staff. Designed to be self-sustaining, the workshop continues with senior participants running the meetings on their own.
Patten Free Library, Bath: memoir-writing workshop in my old hometown
Memoir Writing, Pasco Lecture Series at Graves Library, Kennebunkport
Bay Path College, Longmeadow, MA. Performance of My Mother’s Clothes culminated my week as writer-in-residence.
Maine launch of Glorious Slow Going, Portland Museum of Art
Boston launch of Glorious Slow Going, Pucker Gallery, Newbury Street
Author talk, Glorious Slow Going, Camden Public Library.
Author talk, Glorious Slow Going, Thos. Moser Gallery, Freeport.
Graves Library, Kennebunkport, Pasco Lecture Series
Portland Public Library’s Brown Bag Lecture series (2004, 2006 and 2012)
Books & Blooms, Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, Boothbay
L.L. Bean, Maine Coast Books, book signing
Longfellow Books, Gulf of Maine Books, Books Etc., reading and signing
Panelist on the MPBN program Maine Calling, discussing why we keep stuff and why we have trouble letting go.
Frequent guest on the WCSH-TV program, “207,” including as a panelist on the “207 Book Club”
Award-winning slam poet and a member of the 1995 Maine Slam Team, which came in fourth at the Slam Nationals
Maine Funeral Director's Association annual meeting. I was the entertainment. I am not kidding.
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Sur France Culture, le 24 août 2017 de 9h00 à 10h00.
Quatrième émission ce matin consacrée aux histoires du Moyen Âge, la cartographie.
La redécouverte de l'oeuvre du géographe alexandrin Ptolémée à la fin du XIVe siècle a pu laisser penser que le Moyen Âge n'avait pas produit de savoirs cartographiques ; il n'en est rien !
Un débat historiographique co-animé par Victor Macé de Lépinay
avec Emmanuelle Vagnon, Chargée de recherche CNRS au LAMOP et Jean-Charles Ducene, Directeur d'études à l'École Pratique des Hautes Etudes.
Lien : https://www.franceculture.fr/emissions/la-fabrique-de-lhistoire/histoires-du-moyen-age-45-la-cartographie-medievale
For the full details of the recent International Conference on the
History of Cartography, Belo Horizonte, 9-14 July (ICHC 2017) see the
official record, compiled as usual by Peter van der Krogt at http://www.explokart.eu/ichc/2017.html.
This includes the full list of papers and posters, as well as details of
the three exhibitions.
T. Čelkis, V. Karpova-Čelkienė (Vilnius) Reading signs: manuscript cartography sources of the 16th-19th century from the Vilnius University Library
G. Mihalakopoulos (Corfu) Alexandros Massavetas's 'Going back to Constantinople-Istanbul: A City of Absences': mapping the past and the present through literature
Ch. J. J. Thiry (Golden CO) GIS-based discovery interface to paper map sets
K. Kozica (Warsaw) Different states of the sea chart of the Gulf of Riga by Lucas Janszoon Waghenaer (1534-1606) from his first sea atlas Spiegel der Zeevaert (1583 / 1585) in the Niewodniczański Collection Imago Poloniae at the Royal Castle in Warsaw
N. B. Piekielek (State College, PA) Best practices for georeferencing large scale historical fire insurance maps of the USA
The Directors of Imago Mundi Ltd are delighted to announce that the seventh Imago Mundi Prize has been awarded to Federico Ferretti for A New Map of the Franco-Brazilian Border Dispute (1900), which appeared in Imago Mundi 67:2 (2015): 229–41. Dr Federico Ferretti is a lecturer at the School of Geography, University College, Dublin.
The author has made a convincing and novel contribution to the history of cartography in the the service of diplomacy conducted over the border dispute between French Guiana and Brazil and arbitrated by Swiss scholars in 1900. Based on the newly discovered maps and archives of the explorer Henri Coudreau (1859-1899) and the geographer Élisée Reclus (1830-1905), the author reveals the political usefulness of the maps and shows them in a more subversive role rather than the more usual one exemplifying the power of the state.
The prize is offered every two years. This award covers volumes 67 (2015) and 68 (2016). The winning article is the one judged 'to have made the most significant contribution to the discipline'. Only full-length articles, which are automatically subjected to the (anonymous) external refereeing process before acceptance for publication, are eligible for the prize.
The prize is USD 1000.00 and qualified the recipient for a J. B. Harley Travel Award to the biennial International Conference on the History of Cartography (Belo Horizonte, Brazil), where the prize was presented on 14 July 2017.
The Imago Mundi Prize is generously sponsored by Kenneth Nebenzahl. By courtesy of our publishers, Routledge Journals (Taylor & Francis), Federico Ferretti's article is being made available free of charge at http://www.tandfonline.com/imagomundi (click on the pictorial link in the left margin).
Received from Tony Campbell, Chairman, Imago Mundi Ltd
This exhibition is by no means a mere display of maps (although the true map lover will of course frown at the words 'mere' and 'maps' in one sentence!).
Quite the contrary: the whole context in which these maps were made is illustrated with a multitude of objects, all of them beautifully displayed in an appealing scenography with multimedia and touchscreens. Just to make clear this is an exhibition you can take the whole family to, even the kids: everyone will find something interesting there. You will learn about the creation of the VOC and the political economical background, about the first voyages to Cape Good Hope, then further to Ceylon and India, to Indonesia, Malaysia, Japan and China. The life on board is explained, the contacts with the locals and their effect, the discovery of new plants, animals, spices. But also the slave trade and the often brutal behaviour of the European participants to these 'explorations' is shown. All of this documented with original letters, books, deeds and … maps, of course!
These maps range from the 16th to the 18th century, including city plans, vista's and charts and are almost exclusively manuscript or in any case unique. There is also a special section on navigation and cartography. For a list of the maps on display: click here.
The exhibition language is Dutch but a tablet available in English can guide you through the exhibits. The Dutch United East India Company Book isn't a real catalogue, but much more than that: it gives you the background to what you will see. Available on the spot and in bookshops at EUR 29.95.
This exhibition is a very good introduction to our international conference! Find the conference programme here.
Issue 98 (Spring 2017), consisting of 80 pages, was published in March 2017
and is in distribution to all paid subscribers and members in good standing
of the Washington Map Society. Copies are available for purchase.
2016 Ristow Prize Winner Ana del Cid Mendoza explores orientalist
cartographies, with emphasis on Granada and the Alhambra in Spain. Matthew B. Gilmore describes the impact of Frederick Law Olmsted and the Olmsted Firm
had on the current road system in Washington DC. Cheryl LaRoche uses maps
to explain the functioning of the Underground Railroad and routes taken
northward by American slaves to escape bondage during the US Civil War.
Joseph Schirò traces the pedigree of a fascinating atlas. Bert Johnson
shares the most recent news from the upcoming ICHC in Brazil. Ralph
Ehrenberg receives tributes on his retirement, and Paulette Hasier, his
successor at the Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress, is
introduced and interviewed. There are two book reviews, and more.
I had previously contacted you with a grandiose idea of celebrating the 250th anniversary of Cook’s discovery of the east coast of Australia, in Sydney, with a Historic Cartography meeting in Sydney that would attract attention across the spectrum of bodies representing interest in the discipline. The key person is Maggie Patton of the State Library, and she has been on long service leave. Her support of course was essential. She has agreed to be the primary sponsor, and has booked the Libraries facilities for September 7-9. It is probable that we will have a post conference trip to Canberra with a visit to the NLA, and its wonderful collection.I know that you need dates for planning. I do hope you see this as an unusual opportunity, and can now decide exactly the level of interest your organisations may have in being part of this.
This is a major occasion in Australia, and there will be much to do. September is a good time to be in Sydney, and of course the State Library is the collection of Pacific material. The major exhibition related to Cook is being held over at the Library for the meeting. I would encourage you to communicate with Maggie, but i am happy to help in any way I can.
With best wishes,
Emeritus Professor Robert Clancy AM FRS(N), (e): email@example.com, (m): 0402 130 445
4 April 2017
A. C. Metcalf, Who Cares Who Made the Map? La Carta del Cantino and its anonymous maker.
T. W. Shawa, Guidelines for Creating Historical Geospatial Boundary Data
A. Blackler, Conference Review – First International Workshop on the Origin and Evolution of Portolan Charts - Lisbon
As witnessed by the recent exhibition of the world maps of Matteo Ricci and Ferdinand Verbiest at the San Francisco Asian Art Museum, Jesuit cartography still arouses public curiosity centuries after the maps were made. While Jesuit science and mathematics have been the subject of much study, especially in the context of East Asia, the broader and more diverse practices of Jesuit cartography around the world have proven more elusive. At the same time, significant scholarly and public interest remains about both the nature of Jesuit cartography and the longer-term influence it had on the process of imagining localities, nations, empires and cosmologies. Is there coherence to the category 'Jesuit cartography'? If so, what created this coherence aside from the Jesuit order itself? How did Jesuit cartography emerge in tandem with indigenous mapping traditions? And finally, why did Jesuit cartography have such important effects on both national and global scales?
The Journal of Jesuit Studies seeks to publish an issue devoted to Jesuit Cartography that will include an overview of the current state of the field of Jesuit cartography along with six topical articles in August 2018. Abstracts of proposed submissions should be 500 words or less, and are due by Friday 19 May 2017. Full articles should be approximately 7000 words, including footnotes, and will be due by 1 October 2017. A summary article and bibliography by the issue editor on the historiography of Jesuit cartography will be available to contributors.
Contributions might focus on particular maps, cosmological or geographical mapping, particular cartographers and groups of cartographers, mapping and printing techniques, indirect influences of Jesuit mapping in places like Korea, Russia or Japan or on cartographic techniques in places with Jesuit schools like France, transcultural cooperation in creating and disseminating maps, maps as establishing relations between fields of study (cartography and mathematics, linguistics, natural history, aesthetics, or religion), and institutional practices as observatories in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries among other topics. Papers that combine novel archival work and a broader engagement with conceptual or theoretical approaches to Jesuit cartography are especially welcome. Geographic diversity and use of comparative approaches to different regions will factor into considerations of the issue as a whole. Potential contributors should consult the comparative, historical and critical approaches pioneered in J. B. Harley and David Woodward's The History of Cartography (1987+) as well as J. B. Harley's seminal article The Map as Mission (1991), more recent work on the sociology of knowledge and science, and/or data- and simulation-driven digital humanities and historical geography models as baselines for methodology. All papers will be published in English, although help with translation can be arranged.
Color and black and white images are possible and should be tentatively proposed with the abstract as a list (separate from the word count). Acquisition of publication-quality image files and rights to reproduce are the responsibility of the author. A permanent website resource separate from the journal will be available to contributors who wish to publish extra reference images.
The Journal of Jesuit Studies is published in cooperation with the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies at Boston College. It has four issues per year, three of which are thematic and one of which is open JJS is published by Brill and is peer reviewed, fully open access and is part of Reuters Thomson Web of Science Indexing (see http://www.brill.com/products/journal/journal-jesuit-studies). Questions about the issue and abstract submissions should be addressed to Robert Batchelor, firstname.lastname@example.org.
Robert Batchelor, Professor of History and Director of Digital Humanities, Georgia Southern University Forest Drive Building (Office 1211, 5539 Forest Drive) PO 8054 Statesboro, GA 30460.


Thursday, July 14, 2022
“The U.S. military is a microcosm of the larger American social and cultural environment and often ends up being the test ground for social change. As the trajectory of women in the military shows, true equality lies in beliefs and values.”
– Marissa Kester –
Well-written book reviews can be invaluable when prioritizing your reading list and when they’re also thought-provoking so much the better. Marissa Kester’s recent book review checks both those boxes and summarizes several key concepts that will interest anyone involved with driving culture change. To learn more, Click here for the article Reviewing Her Cold War: Women in the US Military, 1945-1980.
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Rampart Institute was a Santa Ana-based non-profit educational foundation dedicated to individual liberty, publications of the works of author Robert LeFevre, and the revival of LeFevre’s defunct Rampart College (1963-1975). First envisioned in the late 1970s by Lawrence Samuels, Robert LeFevre, Richard Deyo, and Kenneth Gregg Jr., Rampart Institute incorporated and received its non-profit 501 (c) 3 status by 1980.
Two 16 mm color films of Robert LeFevre were recently discovered. They were produced in 1970 and recently transferred to a digital format and posted on YouTube in Feb. of 2020.
“A Basis for Morality,” Part 1 (1970)
“A Basis for Morality,” Part 2 (1970)
“The Meaning of Responsibility and Obligation” (1970)


Morgan City High Principal Mickey Fabre, right, explains the path the library construction project at his school took to completion. The school held a ribbon-cutting and grand opening ceremony for the $3.55 million, 8,000-square-foot library this morning. Listening, from left, are Donald Aguillard, superintendent; Nedra Tabor, school librarian; Diana Tran, student of the year; Anna Lee Belaire, wife of Al Belaire, who served as principal from 1972-82; and Lisa Thibodeaux, program manager.
(The Daily Review Photo by Crystal Thielepape)
It’s been a decade in the making and more than a year in construction, but the $3.55 million library at Morgan City High officially opened today with a ribbon-cutting ceremony.
Morgan City’s Jaivieanna Jones attempts a kill during the Lady Tigers’ first-round contest against Evangel Christian last week. Morgan City, the No. 16 seed in the Division 3 playoffs, fell 25-15, 25-11, 25-5 to No. 1 seed Teurlings Catholic Monday in Lafayette. Morgan City concludes its season with a 13-26 mark. (Photo credit: Michelle Blanc)
The Morgan City Lady Tigers ran into a buzz saw in Division 3’s top ranked team, Teurlings Catholic, in the first round of the playoffs as the Lady Rebels defeat


October 19, 2017 - Teachers as Readers
Facilitated by Kathleen Dailey, Michelle Kimmy, and Anna Landers
Join us with your reading choice-is it professional or personal? Come and share with friends and colleagues!
Beneifts of Teachers as Readers (NCTE)
*Explore your own literacy
*Share quality literature with colleagues
*Model lifelong reading pleasure
*Gain experience and confidence with book discussion
*Reflect upon and learn from personal experience with books
*Enhance teaching and learning
5:30-7:30 pm at Crossroads, Edinboro, PA
Community Service Earth Day Event
"Dig Into Reading"
Tom Ridge Environmental Center
Please watch for details, plan to volunteer, be a guest reader!
April , 2018
Forty-Ninth Annual KSRA Conference
Seven Springs Mountain Resort
Saturday, Oct. 22 – Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2016
Anna Landers, Conference Chair
For information about last year's conference, check out the 2014 KSRA Conference Wiki
For information about the 2013 conference, check out the 2013 KSRA Conference Wiki


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With this film Andrzej Wajda’s international fame began. This is the second part in the war trilogy, an adaptation of a short story by Jerzy Stefan Stawiński. A terrifying study of the agony of the Warsaw Uprising. A unit of Home Army soldiers is trying to cross the sewers to the still defending Śródmieście. Uprising participants have to live among rats and faeces. The film received a Special Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival.
- 11.10.2021, 17:00 - 19:00, Willa Lentza, Retrospectives – Andrzej Wajda vol.2


Deb Peterson wrote the following:
YOUR OTHER LEFT: A book on unlocking the creativity of your right brain by Bill Donius, former chairman and CEO of Pulaski Bank, is set to be released on Tuesday culminating more than three years of work.
“It’s been a 39-month process,” Donius said in an email today. “Longer than giving birth to an elephant (22 months)!”
The book, “The Thought Revolution: How To Unlock Your Inner Genius ,” is being published by NYC-based Changing Lives Press. Part how-to, part how-I-did-it, Donius says he interviewed hundreds of people — mostly St. Louisans — over a 2 1/2-year period to find out how they worked.
The book is based on work by the late Roger Wolcott Sperry, a neuropsychologist and neurobiologist who won the 1981 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his work with split-brain research, Donius says.
Along with the interviews, Donius conducted more than a dozen workshops and strategic-thinking sessions using the technology and technique described in the book. One of his corporate clients, TOKY Branding + Design, says the insights they gained from one of Donius’ strategy sessions helped them win three national clients.
Donius says the process gives literal meaning to the phrase “thinking differently.”
Friends of the St. Louis Public Library are invited to a free author reception with Donius on March 21 beginning at 6 p.m. at the Schlafly Branch, 225 North Euclid Avenue. Donius will make a presentation and hold a book signing following the reception.


Tuesday, January 27, 2015
First published: 2014
The Blurb: Dracula of the Apes picks up where Bram Stoker’s Dracula left off and Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Tarzan of the Apes began. Genres collide in this thrilling horror/adventure fiction hybrid.
A grieving she-ape whose son was murdered by an ambitious alpha male, mistakes Dracula’s regenerating body for a newborn of her species, so she names the foundling “Gazda” and takes him to her tribe to raise as her own. With only a “child’s mind” and no memory of his true identity, the unusual orphan uses his budding abilities to survive in the jungle and grow from social outcast to trusted member of the tribe. As Gazda matures into a peerless hunter, he wins friends and enemies among the bull apes who compete for dominance; and while his differences raise questions about his origins, the call of the wild overpowers their doubts.
The Review: When I looked at the first book of this series, the Urn, I suggested it was of novella length. This second volume is longer, long enough I’d say to be classed as a novel, and of a very different prose style.
Whilst the first book followed the gypsy Horvat, through his diaries, this is very much a third person journey with Gazda. Before meeting his untimely end, Horvat discovered that the shipwreck had not destroyed the metamorphic goo that was his regenerating master. By the times the intelligent apes (Taylor draws a group of apes, physically akin to gorillas but more intelligent, with language skills and social laws) find the regenerating vampire it was developed enough for a mourning she-ape, Eeda, to adopt him to fill the gap left by her dead offspring.
As he grows his differences are marked, especially as he is a vampire and finds himself feeling sleepy and physically much weaker during the day and active at night. He feeds, at first, by suckling and taking blood from his ape mother, later through night hunts – where he drains his prey and then gives the meat to the tribe. To the other apes he is deemed a night ape. I found the way that Wells Taylor introduced abilities to Gazda, and through him to us, to be really well done. Some occur once and by accident – when Garzda momentarily morphs into a bat – others, his healing for instance, he keeps hidden.
I mentioned in the previous review that I have not read Tarzan. After reading this volume I researched the first Tarzan volume and, from what I can gather, there are enough plot convergences here to make the volume’s roots clear but enough differences to make this its own beast. And what a beast, thoroughly enjoyable and much more vampiric than the first volume I am left anticipating what will occur in volume 3. 7.5 out of 10.


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Chicago Black Authors Network
Chicago Black Authors Network, the premier network of professional black authors in the City of Chicago and in the Midwest, are made of 12 core members and 20 to 25 affiliates of published and unpublished books of cultural significance to the African American community in many fiction, non-fiction, essays, short stories, children’s books and other mediums of literary contributions. The network is a community collaboration consisting of seasoned writers, publishers, editors, and even writing novices. Its goals are to conduct business in the local and national writer’s market, to help establish up and coming writers, and to assist well-established black authors and publishers promote their literary works.
The Chicago Black Authors Network members plan and host book fairs, festivals and attend national events. Their meetings are always open to the public and new members are encouraged to attend and share their writing ideas and network with other writers to support their work.
Founded in November 2009 by Darryl Harvey, the Chicago Black Author’s Network meets the first Saturday of each month at the West Englewood Branch of the Chicago Public Library, 12:00pm – 2:00pm. Mr. Harvey has lifelong experience as a writer and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism from Northern Illinois University. He has written and published four children’s books, and three adult novels.
For more information on the Chicago Black Author’s Network please visit www.chicagoban.blogspot.com and www.darrylharvey-author.com .
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The History of the Chadds Ford Inn 1703-1810
In 1703, an English Quaker from Wiltshire, Francis Chadsey, purchased 500 acres of choice land from William Penn’s Commissioner for land grants. These acres encompass most of present day Chadds Ford. Francis Chadsey’s house is now the Chadds Ford Inn.
Chadsey’s eldest son, John Chad, as he signed his name, came of age in 1717 and took over the responsibility of his father’s estate. The estate included the main house and the ferry that crossed the Brandywine Creek. In 1736 John Chad turned his father’s home into a tavern. He noted on the license the ferry service and a need for a “publick inn.” At that time the area was known as Birmingham, but those who told travelers where to stop and rest soon found themselves saying, “the tavern at Chad’s fording place.” The license was regularly renewed until 1742 when the petition was not allowed. John threatened to suspend ferry service and friends in neighboring communities petitioned in his support. Two and a half months later the tavern license was renewed. (Some things never change).
In 1746 John leased the tavern and the ferry to James House, his brother in law. The tavern license was renewed until the time of the revolution.
John Chad died in 1760 and left the tavern to his nephew, Joseph Davis. It was Davis who entertained the colonial officers in the days preceding the battle of September 11, 1777. When the colonial forces retreated up the valley to Chester the British forces swarmed into the village. Davis was so “plundered” that no tax was due and no tavern licensed was issued until 1810. In 1810 the long history of the Chadds Ford Inn came to life again.
New York Times Article - 36 Hours in the Brandywine Valley


T his will be about Anne Waldman’s new book of poems, Trickster Feminism, but I want to begin by looking at the background, the context for the emergence of a contemporary poetry of consciousness, of which Waldman is a master. (Throughout, I have punctuated the text with lines from the book, which appear in italics.)
In the introduction to their epochal anthology Poems for the Millennium, Jerome Rothenberg and Pierre Joris feature a quote from the visionary poet-painter William Blake as indicative of an intuition that persists in some of the poetry our own time: “poetry fetter’d, fetters the human race.” If this is true, then the inverse is also true: freeing poetry frees humanity. Allen Ginsberg, himself a scholar of Blake, put it as follows. “A change of poem is a change of mind.” From Blake’s time to the present, the idea has persisted that new forms of language convey new forms of consciousness and can thereby reinvent reality. It’s a romantic notion, but that doesn’t mean it’s wrong.
Thank you poets./ You rescued our minds./ Turned grief into tenderness./ Into a world of tangible things.
For example, at the most basic level of political history, it is practically a cliché to refer to the United States, say, or to the French Republic as “an idea,” in other words, a thing made of language. Free speech makes free nations. The words of Thomas Jefferson kicked off the American Revolution, and the words of Thomas Paine sustained it. Words matter: they have material consequences. The ancient roots of poetry in ritual magic were not mere superstition. We still, now, at every moment call our world into being in and through language. In 1980, Julia Kristeva wrote of “the determinative role of language in the human sciences” as an idea that came to prominence in the post-World-War era, but the idea of language as determinative of reality goes back to the book of Genesis, “and God said,” and the creation hymn of the Rig Veda, where the first poets “found the bond of being within non-being with their heart’s thought.”
What shape, body?/ with what do you inspire devotion?/ how do you construct existence?
In his book The Birth of the Modern Mind, Paul Oppenheimer argues that the invention of the sonnet in the 13th century was evidence of a new mind, a new self-consciousness. The sonnet was the first poem intended to be read silently. The dominant poetic forms of the period were made to be sung in public, but the sonnet was a meditation to be conducted in private. It’s about how “I” feel. It’s a wonderful form capable of containing great beauty, but it is also indicative of the emergence of the isolating narcissism that laid the groundwork in consciousness for the emergence of capitalism. We might say that in order for there to be private property, we first had to invent privacy. The triumph of capital came, in terms of consciousness, in the establishment of the unquestioned and universal sovereign self, every home a castle and every man a king.
In the 1940s, the literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin championed the novel for its democratic, inclusive nature in representing all kinds of people at every level of society, and decried poetry as the aristocracy’s celebration of itself. It is true that what we might call the poetry of “I feel” has presented a strong through-line from the Renaissance to the present, but it is also true that different strains emerged. It is to these that Joris and Rothenberg refer in their Poems for the Millennium.
In the twentieth century, in the USA in particular, there was a shift in poetry away from the sentimental expression of personal feelings and toward the observation of mind, a change of subject from emotions to consciousness. It was not universal, of course, and the poetry of feelings (“confessional” poetry is the conventional term) is still with us, and in many ways is still dominant in those popular media that still present poetry, but beginning in the 19-teens there emerged what was called Objectivism and Imagism, which prioritized, in the words of Ezra Pound, “direct treatment of the thing,” the presentation of the perceptions versus feelings, open form, and an experimental approach to language. In a sense, the subject of poetry became not the self, but language itself. It was in part a reaction against the romantic excesses of the symbolists, and much of it was influenced by Asian sources — for Pound, Confucianism and ancient Chinese verse, and for key figures in the subsequent generation, Buddhism.
Buddhism initially came to the west in the nineteenth century through the writings of missionaries, scholars and colonial officials. It influenced Schopenhauer (1788-1860) as well as the American Transcendentalists and was praised by Nietzsche (1844-1900). The first known Western converts to Buddhism came in the 1880s. Chinese laborers established temples in America in mid-century; in 1893, a Japanese delegation to the World Parliament of Religions included Zen priest Soyen Shaku, and in 1899, Japanese immigrants established the Buddhist Missions of North America. The event that would prepare the way for the widespread influence of Buddhism in America came in 1897, with the arrival of scholar D. T. Suzuki, a student of the aforementioned Soyen Shaku, who would prove to be the most important bearer of Zen to the west. Suzuki’s lectures at Columbia University (1952-57) were attended by emerging figures of the New York Avant-Garde, including John Cage, the Beats, and the New York School painters and poets.
Jack Kerouac popularized Buddhism with his novel Dharma Bums(1959), the hero of which was based on west coast poet Gary Snyder, who had taken Buddhist vows in Kyoto in 1955. In 1959, Zen master Shunryu Suzuki Roshi arrived in San Francisco, attracting many followers among the artists and writers of the area. Alan Watts’s 25 books had an impact, particularly The Way of Zen (1957), which was a bestseller. Following the Chinese crackdown on Tibetan resistance in 1959, a number of Tibetan teachers began coming to the US, and in the 1970s a number of Tibetan Buddhist centers were established. In 1974, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche established the Naropa Institute in Boulder Colorado as the first Buddhist college in America, and his students Allen Ginsberg and Anne Waldman, and Diane Di Prima, who studied with Suzuki Roshi, founded the writing department at the school.
It was not serendipitous that the turn to a poetics of consciousness coincided with the importation and spread of a spiritual practice based in the observation of mind. Thus San Francisco poet Philip Whalen, who became ordained as a Zen teacher in the lineage of Shunryu Suzuki, wrote in 1959, “This poetry is a picture or graph of a mind moving.” The movement of mind is the subject of the poem, not reflection on oneself. The poem is not about me; it’s about consciousness. The thought is the thing, not the thinker.
I once heard a Buddhist monk from Bodh Gaya say, in answer to a question about meditation as a way of finding oneself, “To search for the self is to look for a black cat in a dark room in which it is not.” In a similar vein, Nietzsche had dismissed the doer in favor of the deed before the turn of the 20th century. “There is no ‘being’ behind the deed, its effect and what becomes of it; ‘the doer’ is invented as an after-thought, – the doing is everything” (Genealogy of Morals section 13).
The thinker as after-thought invokes a question Allen Ginsberg used to bring up when looking at students’ poetry: “What were you thinking before you thought you were writing a poem?” It was an extension of his teacher Chögyam Trungpa’s “first thought, best thought” and William Blake’s “First Thought is Best in Art, Second in Other Matters.”
Mind moves; self is a retrospective construction. Charles Olson, writing in 1950, emphasized the importance of the poet realizing that one thought is followed “instanter” by another. “One perception must immediately and directly lead to a further perception.” The job of the poet was to keep it moving. It was a dynamic age. The Futurists, beginning in 1909, had championed a new beauty: speed. By Olson’s time, even the most static of forms, painting, had become “action.” Jazz is another case in point. In its most characteristic moments, it is invented in flight. In the 1960s, the last vestiges of established form were jettisoned altogether in “free jazz.”
All of this harkens back to art’s origins in shamanism, ritual, and performance. 20th century poetry saw a performative turn, specifically in the return of poetry to the voice. After 500 years of poetry as a largely private, silent practice, we had an aural renaissance, beginning in San Francisco in the 1950s, and soon carried to New York with the Beats. With the return of performance came, in various ways in various artists, a return of the sense of the spell, or the sense of poetry as ritual purification, transcendence, and change. For some, it was subtle, a kind of humorous self-deprecation through serious play; for some it was a troubling of established forms linked to a revolutionary agenda; for others it was quite consciously magical incantation; or it was some mix of all of the above.
This brings us to Anne Waldman, one of the most dynamic bearers of the lineage of the Objectivists, Beats, and New York School. As one reviewer has noted, “Waldman’s work is the antithesis of stasis. . . . She is a flame.” Her bibliography lists more than fifty books and pamphlets of poetry. Add to that the anthologies and zines she has edited, the recordings, the performance works and videos, decades of international touring and teaching, her activism for peace and justice, and her co-founding of the Poetry Project in New York in the 60s and the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa in the 70s (both of which she directed for decades), and she appears as a formidable force in the new American poetry of the past half century. And she’s still cooking. Witness the latest book of poems, Trickster Feminism, published in 2018 by Penguin.
Allen Ginsberg called Anne his “spiritual wife.” She is a lineage holder in the Beat, New York School, and Black Mountain streams, but she transcends these because she draws strongly upon feminism and practices poetry intentionally as shamanism, and because she has made her own way.
By way of perspective on how it was to emerge as a woman artist in the mid-twentieth century, I recall hearing the late great Joanne Kyger (also a long-time Buddhist) say that when she became active in poetry circles in San Francisco in the late 1950s, she was told that it wasn’t possible for a woman to be an artist because an artist is a lover of the muse and the muse is a woman. Apparently the possibility of love between women didn’t figure in that view. I also remember a panel discussion about the young Beats and related movements in mid-century poetics, all of which were pretty much boys’ clubs, and someone asking why there weren’t many women, and Gregory Corso saying there were women poets on the scene, but their parents had them committed to insane asylums. Of course there were exceptions, and these cases seem extreme, but they do speak of the obstacles facing women in the arts of the period. Of the circles most influenced by Buddhism, the main female figures are Waldman, Di Prima, and Kyger.
Lyn Hejinian said of Anne’s book Voice’s Daughter of a Heart Yet To Be Born (2016) that it “brings Waldman’s work into the more intimate paradoxical folds of poetic (and prophetic) knowledge.” Her new book Trickster Feminism is of the same stream.
Where there is oppression there is paradox. Trickster feminism is a mode of disarming paradox by performing it. It’s a both/and-neither/nor ontology. It is trans-genus.
No fixed feminine, no fixed constituents cut through this body of difference. . . . Your wounds, your hurricanes, your artifacts. Identities to get by. Genders try you on.
Trickster feminism is a mythology, as in a deconstruction of myths, or a mythos that recognizes itself as such. According to Claude Lévi-Strauss, who analyzed hundreds of myths from indigenous and folk traditions, the function of myth is to reconcile a paradox. Many myths do this by invoking a trickster figure. Apparently irreconcilable opposites like life and death are reconciled in a trickster such as Coyote or Raven; they embody the paradox: they make life out of death (they live on carrion). I would add that Jesus, too, is a trickster; he makes life out of death. Donna Haraway says tricksters are like angels, or like mucous; they occupy the in-between spaces and grease the works. Got lube? It’s all metaphor. What isn’t? Material reality, the suffering of sentient beings. Poetry begins as relief of suffering through magic. What we call world is word magic. Change the words, change the world.
What myth is structuring my imagination? The end of democracy? . . . Take back founding myth of Americas: evil of the Feminine.
This poetry is a mind moving. It shows you your mind unstuck and wily like a coyote, or slippery like an angel, that’s the delight in it. Just don’t get hung up on your feelings. The poet and novelist Bobbie Louise Hawkins used to tell her students, “nobody cares about your feelings, darling.” It’s not that your feelings aren’t important, but that’s not poetry. That’s why so much of the poetry in so many of the magazines is not poetry. Trickster Feminism is poetry. As the poet Lee Ann Brown said to me in another context long ago, “better git it.”
The following article was originally published on Reality Sandwich.