Date: 2018-02-07 18:32
The Civil War is the central event in America's historical consciousness. While the Revolution of 6776-6788 created the United States, the Civil War of 6866-6865 determined what kind of nation it would be. 755,555 men and women died in the American Civil War but the tragedy was magnified by disrespectful burial practices where large numbers of bodies were unidentified and deposited into trenches. Enemy soldiers were frequently not buried at all. This program will review how after the war, Federal and State governments, aided by large numbers of women, sought to rectify the matter by re-burying the soldiers with dignity. Discussion will also include the issue of Civil War statues and monuments, many of which have become a subject of controversy today.
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“ Good-bye, lad. You did well, destroying the telekhines. I’ll always remember you for that. ” Hephaestus to Percy, in The Battle of the Labyrinth
When Percy and Annabeth get there, they climb down a ladder into the sewers and find an underground cavern. There they meet Cacus and he tries to sell them watches and clothes, which Annabeth quickly notes are fake. When Percy asks for the caduceus back, Cacus claims he will figure out how it works and become the god of traveling salesmen, mostly by forcing George and Martha to listen to him. Annabeth and Percy go on the attack, with Annabeth stabbing him in the back of the knee and Percy stabbing his leg. However, Cacus backs her and Percy into a corner, destroys Annabeth's shield, and is about to turn her to stone when George and Martha turn into a cell phone. They escape the cavern when Percy calls thousands of gallons of New York sewage to him and it pushes them to the surface.
Shortly after Gaea and the Giants ' defeat in The Blood of Olympus , Percy was asked by a publisher in New York to write down what he knows about the Olympian gods, to which the demigod agreed, reasoning that it would help inexperienced demigods survive any unexpected divine encounters with a major Olympian. Percy proceeds to compile all of the stories that the demigods of Camp Half-Blood and Camp Jupiter told him over the years.
Chris Pinnella will perform some of the most powerful, melodic, and inspiring songs ever written. Join Pinnella and the Gary Mazzaroppi Trio as they showcase stunning new arrangement&rsquo s by Pinnella and Broadway Musical Director /Composer, Justin Hornback, currently the Conductor of Hello Dolly on Broadway.
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The main objective of this guide, which we have just published in our documentation section on COVID-19 , is to facilitate and support research with biological samples from patients with COVID-19 and, in general, with samples from all types of subjects in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. This guide addresses the collection and shipment of samples to the biobank , the containment levels to be applied for each type of sample, the disinfection methods and the storage of the samples. It also has two annexes (available in the same section ), of technical recommendations on the quality of the samples in this context (Annex I) and of management of the biological risk in the laboratories that handle them (Annex II). All of this is the result of collaborative work with the Spanish Biosafety Association ( AEBioS ) and the Instituto de Salud Carlos III.
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- M.A. in Public History, Middle Tennessee State University (2022), Thesis on Black Power in Chattanooga
- B.A. in History and Sociology, University of North Carolina at Greensboro (2020)
Public History Experience
Roberson Project on Slavery, Race, and Reconciliation Graduate Research Assistant (March 2021- ) | As a part of a team, I helped with the creation of a digital community archive website (blacksewanee.org) and to help promote the project through social media. Our goal is to help Sewanee, University of the South face its white supremist history by researching the black history of the campus and town and presenting it in a way where it is incorporated into the main narrative of the campus and town. I also help with the planning and implementing of public programming around campus to help promote the project and teach about black history and lost cause narratives on campus. We are also working with the community to create historical markers and a website that memorializes important spaces within their historic black neighborhood. I also am currently helping with the building of a new interinstitutional archive that documents Confederate and lost cause memorials on college campuses in the South.
MTSU Teaching with Primary Sources Graduate Research Assistant (August 2020-August 2022) | I create educational resources for Tennessee social studies teachers that include primary resources from the Library of Congress website. Our goal is to help teachers teach more from primary sources rather than textbooks so that students can have experience working with such documents. I also help with our Civil Rights Fellowship, which is a group of teachers coming together to have dialogue on the best way to teach an inclusive curriculum on the long arc of civil rights.
LGBTQ+ Religious Archives Network Education Resource Intern (June 2020-August 2020) | I created educational resources for their online exhibit on the Upstairs Lounge Fire. Our final product was a discussion guide that could be used by high school and college students to tackle questions about media bias, LGBTQ+ Discrimination, and gaps in LGBTQ+ History in the classroom. I also got the opportunity to interview LGBTQ+ Religious leaders and write biographical entries on them for the Archives website.
UNCG Transforming & UNCG History & UNCG Media Studies Unsung Heroes Project Researcher (August 2019-March 2020) | As a part of a team, I interviewed Greensboro, North Carolina residents who participated in civil rights movements in the 60s and 70s (sit-ins, marches, black publications, etc.) to capture their stories that are not widely told in history. Throughout this project I learned more about the interview process and documentary film techniques.
UNCG Digital Library of American Slavery People Not Property Researcher (November 2018-October 2019) | I examined deeds in Surry County, North Carolina, identified the ones that mentioned slaves, and indexed the deed in a table that included the grantee name(s), grantor name(s), enslaved person(s) name(s), their gender, their race, and age. I also was able to participate and present at the 2019 African American Historical and Genealogical Conference on behalf of this project.
Digital Humanities Unbound (May 2022) | I presented on the Locating Slavery’s Legacies Database. I talked about how we built the archive with Omeka S software, the way we created a data dictionary, and I demoed the site so that participants could see the way that we incorporated custom vocabulary and linked open data within the archive.
Universities Studying Slavery (April 2022) | I presented as part of a panel on digital humanities projects being done at the University of the South by the Roberson Project on Slavery, Race, and Reconciliation. I presented on the Locating Slavery’s Legacies Database focusing on how we built the archive and demoing the site so that participants could see the way that we incorporated custom vocabulary and linked open data within the archive.
African American Historical and Genealogical Conference (October 2019) | I presented as part of a panel of undergraduate researchers on the People Not Property project. My fellow student researchers and I talked about our experience with the deeds and the indexing process as well as how this project and database can be helpful to genealogists and their research involving enslaved peoples in North Carolina. (more information on this project can be found in the undergraduate research section)


Excerpted from “The White Devil’s Daughters: The Women Who Fought Slavery in San Francisco’s Chinatown” by Julia Flynn Siler. Copyright © 2019 by Julia Flynn Siler. Excerpted with permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Penguin Random House LLC.
A ghost story first led me to the edge of Chinatown. One crisp morning, I dodged the crowds in Union Square and walked past a pair of stone lions up a hill. I had an address — 920 Sacramento Street — and a description. I was looking for a five-story structure built with misshapen red bricks — some salvaged from the earthquake and firestorms that razed much of the city in 1906.
Passing a church and a YMCA, I came to an old building with metal grates on its lower windows. Above the main entryway, I peered up at century-old lettering that read:
Presbyterian Mission House
On a Plexiglas sign mounted onto the bricks at eye level, I read
I climbed the steps and pressed an intercom button. A lock clicked. I pushed one of the tall doors open and walked into a dark, wood paneled foyer.
I first visited Cameron House in 2013; by then, it was mostly famous for being haunted. A staffer would later tell me he’d once sensed a ghost in its musty basement. There, he said, terrified former slaves — nearly all of them Chinese girls who’d been sold or kidnapped — had hidden in one of its dark corners from their former owners. The girls and young women had lived there under the care of two remarkable immigrant women — Donaldina Cameron, the youngest daughter of a Scottish sheep farmer, and Tien Fuh Wu, a former household slave sold by her father to pay his gambling debts. Cameron served as legal guardian to most of the girls and teens living in the home. They called her Lo Mo, or “Mother.” She, in turn, often referred to them as her daughters. But Cameron’s enemies used a racist epithet to describe her: the White Devil of Chinatown.
F or decades, Cameron and Wu engaged in what they called “rescue work”— freeing women and girls from sex slavery and other forms of bondage. An unlikely pair, they defied the conventions of their time and even, occasionally, broke laws to help other women gain their freedom. The home they ran at 920 Sacramento Street was one of the pioneering “rescue missions” in the United States, established more than a decade before the world’s first settlement house, Toynbee Hall in London’s East End, and fifteen years before Jane Addams co-founded Hull House to offer aid to Chicago’s immigrants.
Starting in 1874, and continuing over the decades, thousands of mostly Chinese girls and women entered the home. Many came from San Francisco’s Chinatown, the ghetto of roughly eight square blocks that was North America’s largest and oldest Chinese settlement. In the latter decades of the nineteenth century, many women in Chinatown ended up working as prostitutes, some because they were tricked or sold outright by their families. They were forbidden to come and go as they pleased, and if they refused the wishes of their owners, they faced brutal punishments, even death.
From often-dusty records, I learned that the efforts of the home’s founders, Victorian-era churchwomen, with their bustles, corsets and elaborate piles of hair, were driven by compassion toward these enslaved women. They provided food, shelter and the teachings of the Christian faith to members of an embattled immigrant community who faced discrimination and violence in San Francisco and across the West. Displaying grit and ingenuity, the home’s founders overcame considerable resistance to build their rescue home at the edge of Chinatown, which was then considered by many to be the most dangerous section of the city.
Those who fled there were taking a leap of faith. The desperate conditions that led thousands of women to take shelter at the home are among the most searing stories from the saga of Chinese immigration to America. A decade after the Thirteenth Amendment abolished the slavery of African Americans, this “other slavery” — the trafficking of young Asian women — was flourishing in San Francisco and throughout the West. And because Chinatown was in the original heart of the city, this brazen trade in human flesh was taking place just a few blocks away from both San Francisco’s financial district and its most exclusive neighborhood, Nob Hill. Today, the barest outlines of these brave women’s stories fill a large bound ledger that still sits in a small, locked archive room on its top floor. In careful handwritten script, the book lists more than eight hundred names of women and girls who took refuge at the Mission Home from its founding in 1874 until January 1909. Nearly a thousand more women’s names from the decades after that are recorded in its case files. Further clues about their lives are buried in immigration records at the National Archives, and a few of its residents, such as Wu, left moving firsthand accounts.
The house at 920 Sacramento Street has a haunted history. Few people are aware of it, because human trafficking and sex slavery, until recently, have been largely unexamined corners of the American experience. Yet the story of how the home offered a gateway to so many “daughters of joy,” as prostitutes were sometimes called, is contained within the lined pages of its ledger book and offers tangible proof of the astonishing journeys these women made. They escaped their bondage, they found refuge in an ungainly brick house on Sacramento Street, and they embarked on a fight for freedom that continues today.
It was nearly dusk on December 14, 1933, when a teenage girl walked toward a hairdresser’s shop in Chinatown. Around her, laundry dangled from metal fire escapes, chickens squawked in bamboo cages on the sidewalk, and the scents of dried fish drifted through a neighborhood known as Little Canton.
Even in the depths of the Great Depression, San Francisco’s Chinese quarter drew tourists, who came to see its swaying red lanterns and taste its pork dumplings. But for Jeung Gwai Ying, who had arrived in America that summer, it was a place of degradation. For months, the teen had been imprisoned in a second-floor apartment and repeatedly raped.
So, as Jeung left the cold street and entered the warm beauty parlor with its acrid scents of perming agents and scorched hair, she hit upon a plan. She did not speak the language of the largely white world that surrounded Chinatown, but she realized that her brief outing to the hairdresser — one of the few instances when she was left to her own devices — gave her the chance she needed to escape.
Jeung’s journey to the United States had begun that summer with hope and a ruse. The people who had arranged her trip had promised her a well-paid job in San Francisco. But for more than fifty years, exclusion laws had barred most Chinese from entering the United States, so they had also given her a story about a Chinese American family she was supposedly rejoining in the States. As she crossed the Pacific aboard the SS President Cleveland, Jeung studied the more than one hundred pages of a “coaching book” containing notes on her false family’s history. When she arrived in July 1933, she flung the book into the sea, as instructed, and successfully passed through immigration by reciting the details she’d memorized.
She soon realized the job she’d expected was not waiting for her. Instead, she was led to an apartment in Chinatown and ordered to strip naked as bidders examined the swell of her breasts and the curve of her narrow hips. She had high cheekbones and full lips and looked several years younger than her real age of eighteen, making her a valuable prize. But the first set of potential buyers balked at closing a deal to purchase her, perhaps sensing she might cause them trouble.
Jeung endured the same humiliating ritual again and then for a third time. The slave trader, Wong See Duck, threatened to brutally punish or kill her if she did not act meekly and comply. If she refused to submit, he warned her that he would take her to “a very dark place.”
Reluctantly, Jeung abandoned her defiant stance. If she hadn’t, she feared she would never be able to return home to her family. The price the buyers paid for her was $4,500 — more than ten times what the procurer had given her mother in China as an advance on her supposed earnings.
Soon after her sale, Jeung was moved into a second-floor apartment on Jackson Street. Her owners, a pair of women with severely pulled-back hair and penciled brows, set about making Jeung more appealing to men in America. They outfitted her in fashionable clothes and escorted her to the beauty shop down the street, where the hairdresser bobbed her hair, tucking her black locks behind her ears. For Jeung, who was raised as a traditional Chinese girl, having her long hair cut off was the first of many violations.
Jeung’s value to her owners lay in her earning potential as a prostitute. With her bobbed hair and alluring clothes, Jeung commanded $25 a night and turned over all but $4 of her nightly earnings to her owners. Twenty-five dollars a night was a high sum in Depression-era America, where the average wage for a female garment maker was just $30 a month. Put another way, Jeung could earn more for her owners in a single evening than most women, hunched over their sewing machines in tenements throughout Chinatown, could make for themselves in weeks.
Jeung’s ostensible purpose in visiting the beauty shop that afternoon was to have her hair “marcelled,” a technique named after a French hairdresser in which waves would be pressed into her hair with a hot iron. She had been instructed to get her hair done to prepare herself for a trip later that evening to San Jose, fifty miles south of San Francisco, where she would entertain a group of men at a banquet.
Was it the thought of the long evening ahead that made her run? Did she dread the prospect of stepping into her silk gown, only to step out of it hours later, entertaining the first of one or more customers that evening? Five months pregnant, she was certainly aware of the risks to the child growing inside her.
I t was one of the few times she’d been left alone since arriving in America, and Jeung had just half an hour in the shop before one of the women would return to collect her.
The streets had darkened. The minutes passed. She had nowhere to go if she attempted to flee. If she were recaptured, she would likely be beaten as punishment or forced into a drugged passivity from which she might never escape. Slave owners intentionally spread rumors of girls who had run away from their owners to the homes in Chinatown run by missionaries, only to die of eating poisoned food there.
She urged the hairdresser to work faster by curling only the ends of her hair, hoping she could slip out of the shop before her owners came back for her. If there was a clock ticking on the wall, Jeung must have watched it with rising dread. She was calm enough to put her coat back on before leaving the shop, but she did not take the few extra seconds needed to button it up — perhaps because her swelling belly strained the fabric.
She darted south, through the crowded sidewalks of the quarter, her coat flying open. She had one goal in mind: to reach the place of safety that her owners had warned her not to go.
She ran a block and a half to a house on Washington Street with an arched brick entryway lit by a Chinese lantern. She climbed the steps and pressed the bell in hope of being let in. She arrived only to discover that she had come to the wrong place. Her fear and frustration were evident. The white woman who answered the door took pity on her and led her through the streets to the place she hoped to find.
They hurried toward Nob Hill, where the grand mansions of California’s railroad and mining barons had been replaced by hotels with names like Fairmont and Mark Hopkins. Their size and sheer opulence were almost unimaginable to a girl raised in poverty in Hong Kong. After pushing through shoppers and workers returning home, they climbed the five steps to the bolted door of 920 Sacramento Street, a squat building straddling a steep hill.
Jeung caught her breath at the entrance to the house that had served as a door to freedom for thousands of enslaved and vulnerable girls and women. To her right, heavy metal bars protected the windows. She didn’t know it at the time, but the windows of the home were barred not to keep the residents of the home inside but to prevent the women’s former owners from smashing through the glass to retrieve their human property.
By now, it was nightfall and too late to turn back. Jeung had no other options. She pushed the doorbell once and then again. The doorkeeper peered through the grated window. She saw a young Chinese woman standing outside, her coat unbuttoned despite the cold, and swung open the heavy wood doors to let her in. Two women came into the foyer to meet her. One was a white woman in her sixties with a halo of silver hair, the other a bespectacled younger woman who spoke to Jeung in Cantonese. Listening carefully to the frantic girl’s pleas, the Chinese woman translated her words into English.
“Protect me!” she cried.
The women were the home’s superintendent, Donaldina Cameron, and her longtime aide, Tien Fuh Wu, who had worked together for four decades to protect some of the city’s most scorned residents. They led Jeung to an adjoining parlor, which had a comforting Chinese carpet on the floor and Cantonese hangings on the walls. The scent of Chinese food drifted through the house. Once they were seated, Wu and Cameron gently urged the teenager: tell us your story.


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Get Started with HMusicCentre
Folder Metadata: HMusicCentre works with files being held in specially named folders that are defined in the HMusicCentre.ini file, it has seven folder it needs to know about for Audio files, Cover images, Singer images, Biographies, Playlists, Background images and Lyrics. The example below shows how these are arranged on my HMusicCentre system:
The HMusicCentre.exe executable lives in the HMusicCentre folder, along with the HMusicCentre.ini file and the code libraries for BASS and the LAME executable.
The HMusicCentre MP3 files are held in the Audio folder. Below the Audio folder is a folder for every Artist with each Artist folder possibly having one or more folders for Albums by that Artist - in that folder are the Tracks of the Album. So the path for Audio can be expressed as: <AudioRoot>\<Artist>\<Album>\<TrackOne (01).mp3>. Of course, HMusicCentre will rip CDs directly into this format, so you have very little to worry about.
The HMusicCentre Cover files are held in the Covers folder. All Covers are either .JPG or .BMP files - they should be square if possible but will be stretched to be square anyway - and are named in the format: <Artist - Album.Extension> - there are no subdirectories under the Covers folder. Downloads of new Covers from Amazon will be in .JPG format and will be placed into the Covers folder with the correct filename.
The HMusicCentre Singer images files are held in the SingerImages folder. All Singer images are either .JPG or .BMP files - they should be of a size 426 x 104 pixels if possible and are named in the format: <Artist (Number).Extension> - there can be up to 9 Singer images per Artist. There are no subdirectories under the SingerImages folder.
The HMusicCentre Background image files are held in the Background Images folder. All Background images are in .JPG format to cut down on file sizes, although .BMP files can be used - they will be stretched to fill a squarish area on the HMusicCentre Lyrics screen. They are named in the format: <Filename.Extension> - there are no subdirectories under the Background Images folder. HMusicCentre does not download any Background images, that is up to the user... after all, they could be a very personal thing.
The HMusicCentre Lyrics and Timings files are held in the Lyrics folder. Below the Lyrics folder is a folder for every Artist with each Artist folder possibly having one or more folders for Albums by that Artist - very similar to the Audio folder - in that folder are the files for any Tracks that have Lyrics <TrackName (TrackNumber).txt> and files for any Tracks that have Timings for those Lyrics: <TrackName (TrackNumber).tim>. When HMusicCentre downloads Lyrics for Tracks it will will create the files in the correct location and with the correct name. Likewise, when the user teaches HMusicCentre the Timings for a Track, they will automatically be saved to the appropriate file.
With this information, you are now ready to get started with HMusicCentre. When you run the program for the first time you may not have got all of your folders created properly or referenced in the HMusicCentre.ini file and the following screen will appear to allow you to set up HMusicCentre properly.
Upon running HMusicCentre for the first time, it is unlikely that you will have an Audio folder with any Artist and Album folders - i.e. you need to start ripping your CD collection into HMusicCentre. HMusicCentre will tell you this and you can rip your first CD by right-clicking on the CDs icon in the bottom left-hand corner.
There are four context menus within HMusicCentre - these are accessed by right-clicking the mouse in different areas of the screen. The menus allow access to some more detailed settings and configuration possibilities for HMusicCentre...
Here are some examples... firstly, the Lyrics Teaching Menu...
And the Settings Menu...
And the Album Popup Menu...


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Doug TenNapel has worked in Television Animation & Video Games. He is the author of over 18 graphic novels.
Doug TenNapel is the acclaimed author and illustrator of GHOSTOPOLIS, BAD ISLAND, CARDBOARD and TOMMYSAURUS REX, all published by Graphix. Among other honors, GHOSTOPOLIS was an ALA 2011 Top Ten Great Graphic Novel for Teens, a 2010 Kirkus Best Book of the Year, and a School Library Journal Top Ten Graphic Novel for 2011 and a 2012 ALA Great Graphic Novels for Teens selection. CARDBOARD was named to the list of School Library Journal Top Ten Graphic Novels of 2012.
Doug also publishes comic books independently. You can find out more at the Doug TenNapel Comics website.
Doug is also the creator of the hugely popular character Earthworm Jim. He lives is Franklin, Tennessee, with his wife and their four children.


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Crime investigation looking at the victims and the suspects connected to the Hammersmith Nude Murders of the 1960s.
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THE BRITISH UFO FILES
The British UFO Files reveals for the first time the secret history of alien aircraft investigations led by the most powerful forces within the British government. Featuring eye-witness accounts by top ranking military personnel, previously undisclosed top secret documentation and rare archive, and examines in detail a cache of information ranging from the alleged production of Nazi UFOs to the landing of an alien spacecraft at a British air-force base.


of the Hundreds
Prolegomena to Current Martial Rule
Matters concerning His Lawful assembly
The Non-Statutory Abatement Handbook
the several bondmen and unprofitable servants
of our Lord and Saviour Jesus the Christ
Dedication and Acknowledgment
Published under the Authority of our Lord and Saviour Jesus the Christ
to edify His whole Lawful assembly,
on this Glorious day of His Eternal Reign
We give thanks to our Lord and Saviour Jesus the Christ for showing us the Way for us to walk in; for being, expressing and revealing the Truth in Love to us; for being the Life and revealing to all what it means to live for our Father, Abba; and confirming all of the foregoing by paying the ultimate price for all of us who believe on Him, Who now has made manifest all Righteous Judgment of and by the Father. We also give thanks to Him for the diligent labors of our fellow-servants -- our Brothers and Sisters of His assemblies throughout His Everlasting Kingdom -- who, without their vast and continuing fellowship, exhortation, and knowledge concerning His Word and the Power thereof, this book would not otherwise be. We also give thanks to Him for their loving and supporting wives and little ones, for without their support and love for their husbands and fathers, the house is divided and cannot stand. Glory be to God for having them maintain their houses under the Blessed Lordship of Jesus the Christ. They are truly a sanctified and peculiar people worthy of the High and Noble calling of "the Christ's bondmen and unprofitable servants." We give thanks to God our Father and His Anointed One for bringing to us His children's love and fellowship, and ask that His called-out ones keep us in their prayers, as we keep them in ours.
We know the battle is the Lord's, and that all time, space, and reality is in His Mighty Hand to command as He sees fit. Who can stay it? or who commands Him Who holds the worlds, and their destinies, in His Righteous Hand? Now unto the King Eternal, Immortal, Invisible, the only Wise God, be Honour and Glory for ever and ever. So be it, so be it.
of England and America
It is from "the Hundreds" of ancient England that the title of this book is derived. It is only the title and this Preface that directs its attention to the Hundreds for the purpose of demonstrating the fact that when our Father's "old paths" are abandoned, all of His children (as it was with the children of Israel) fall into captivity under the lordship and despotism of merchandising men.
Long ago in England, while that remote island, at large, was under the rule of the Anglo-Saxon kings of the earth, small groups of Godly men and their families gathered together within their shire (later, the king's county) to deal with that which they knew is upon our Lord's shoulder -- government. Within these shires, groups of families called tithings (ten families) further united into ten tithings under the Lordship of the Christ to form what we know today as "the Hundred." In this, they were aware of our Father's Proverb, "Many wait on the favor of rulers, but justice comes to a man from the Lord" Proverbs 29:26 (LXX). Therefore, the members of each Hundred, as a whole, took responsibility for the crimes and defaults of each and every one of its members, and were therefore diligent as to who remained within their Hundred and who did not belong. With each and every member involved, they formed their own hundred and shire courts, chose their own constable of the hundred and reeve of the shire (later, the king's constable and sheriff), etc., all independent of the so-called "king's prerogative," and dispensed justice as The Word directed.
That was the way it was for several centuries, until the subsequent generations composing the Hundred began "to look to the favor of rulers." Though there is little known concerning the specifics of the change that came about, we must recognize that those subsequent generations must have forgotten, as their forefathers never forgot, that their lives were not their own but belonged to the King of Kings, and not to the merchant kings of the earth and their swarms of officers.
Hereafter within this Preface is a short history of what is known today of the transition from a government that was upon the Christ's shoulder (the light yoke), to a government that joined itself to the kings and merchants of the earth (the heavy yoke), and took on the burdens that men put upon other men's backs. In its transition, we see how and why we are left with still another history of the un-Godly governments of men contained in the next 92 pages of this book. In Truth, we but only need to look to The Word to know these things, and thereby avoid them before they come about:
"If thou sit to sup at the table of a prince, [*Satan is the prince of this world] consider attentively the things set before thee: and apply thine hand, knowing that it behooves thee to prepare such: but if thou art very insatiable, desire not his provisions; for these belong to a false life." Proverbs 23:1-3 (LXX)
The following condensed history of the transition from a Godly government within the Hundreds, to a false life under the rulership of earthly kings, and their merchant churches, governors, presidents, etc., is from a book titled "The Hundred and The Hundred Rolls" (1930) 296 pp., by Helen Cam:
"Superceded by the Poor Law Union and the Urban and Rural District, the Hundred has receded so rapidly into the mists of the past that the first associations to be called up by its name are likely to be those of remote antiquity--of the Germany of Tacitus, the Gaul of Clovis or the England of Edgar the Peaceable.
Both the hundred and the shire courts were held at stated intervals (once a month) during the time of the Anglo-Saxons. Before the Norman conquest of 1066 judicial activities, both secular and spiritual, had been concentrated in these local assemblies, at which the local custom was declared and enforced, titles to property were established, and violence condemned, if not punished. Justice was administered and law declared by those who attended the court. The shire-moot (shire court) and hundred-moot (hundred court) met in the open air.
By declaring custom and determining procedure in doubtful cases these courts were in effect making law, though law of only local application; in the Middle Ages no clear dividing line could be drawn between jurisdiction and legislation. The shire-moots of the tenth and eleventh centuries are sometimes referred to as the witan of such or such a shire; they were indeed as organs of self-government of far more practical importance than the central witan--that indeterminate collection of nobles and clergy whose powers varied inversely with those of the Anglo-Saxon kings. Out of the early hundreds came the office of constable who was responsible for keeping the peace, the maintenance of watches, and, for the mustering of the armed men of the hundred. And, while the shire itself did not escape its share of public duties, the men of the hundred had personal status that was outside the purview of the king's law.
Then after 1066, William the Conqueror called on the shire-moot for co-operation. For a king who had from the first steadily maintained that he was the lawful heir of the Confessor, and who stood for the principles of justice in accordance with the laws of God and of man, the shire-moot was bound to be the tribunal for settling controversies as to the claims of Norman bishops and earls who had been granted all the lands and the rights of English predecessors. Not only the Archbishop of Canterbury but many other men between 1066 and 1087 made good their claims in a shire court by the witness of the good men, or, more particularly, the old men, of the shire, a specially appointed royal delegate presiding to see that justice was done and to record the judgment. By 1086 the shires must have been used to the sight of the king's justice sitting in their court, and to the new procedure of the sworn inquest as a means of getting definite answers to definite questions. William's successors continued to use the hundred-moot and shire-moot for their own purposes.
With the advent of Henry I, it was decided by royal proclamation that it was necessary to forbid sheriffs to summon extraordinary shire-moots and hundred-moots without royal warrant. Under Henry I, as visits of royal justices became more regular, the transformation of shire-moot into king's court must have become a stereotyped process. At a special joint assembly of the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk before a royal steward in 1148, or thereabouts, the old knight whose testimony settles the matter observes incidentally that for fifty years he has been attending shire courts and hundred courts, since before the days of King Henry, when peace and justice flourished in the land.
But Henry II did more than return to his grandfather's tradition: he took the decisive step which drew the courts of the shire into the main stream of constitutional development. It was not merely to use its old procedure on the king's behalf; it was to be taught a new procedure: the suitors of the court were to become not only judges but jurors. The king's justice's, now sitting in the shire court, were to call upon the knights of the shire and the men of the hundred to give answer, in sworn dozens, to questions put to them--not only to specific questions as to royal dues, but to sweeping questions such as: 'Is there anybody in your hundred whom you suspect to be a thief or a receiver of thieves?' Gradually there opened up by means of these juries of presentment a way for the complaints and wishes of the country-side to reach the king. The demand for information was in effect transformable into an invitation to complain; and complaints came to the king's court of a fullness that would have been embarrassing if they had been seriously taken as a programme for action. The contact was established, not merely a personal but an official contact, between the courts of the shire and the king's court.
By 1258, the king was far off; the earls and barons were usually absentees, represented in the county by their stewards; it was the knights who ran the local government, both as holders in turn of the post of sheriff as coroners, and as suitors and controllers of the county court, where their duties were steadily increasing as the century advanced. Here they were required to discuss taxation, to hear the king's letters and ordinances, to elect the county coroners, to serve on special juries and inquests, and to appoint plenipotentiaries to speak for the whole county in the king's court, both on fiscal and on political matters. Alongside the sheriff and his clerk, concerned with the batch of writs to be dealt with, of legal business to be got through, of criminal inquiries to be made, of debts to be collected, if possible before the court broke up, and of royal proclamations to be published, we can see the body of knights, jealous for the custom of the county and their own rights as suitors, not above bribing the sheriff to favour their individual causes, but ready in a moment to sink their differences in defense of the vested interests of their body, and to draft common petitions or representations to the king if any magnate or official had attacked those interests. Thus we find the gentlemen of Devon drawing up the list of charges still preserved at Oxford against their sheriff, Roga of Pridias, in 1272, accusing him of oppression of both rich and poor and of invasion of the liberties of the shire, winding up with the complaint that he is not a native of the county and a demand for his dismissal. The shire courts, in becoming an agent of the central government, had not ceased to be the articulate embodiment of local esprit de corps.
As for the hundreds, royal proclamations became the recognized law, and it was the sheriff's business to summon twice a year each hundred to the great court, or tourn, where a much larger attendance was exacted; and it was an event of some importance to the central government, for it produced a good deal of revenue. But the outstanding significance of the tourn is that it linked up the hundred to the royal system of police and criminal law, just as the local inquests in land cases linked it to the new royal justice in civil matters." The Hundred and Hundred Rolls, excerpts from pages 1-19.
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- The Overview
- Riches to Rags: The Decline of the Power of the Church
- An Act for Establishing Religious Freedom
- The Rise of Humanism
- From Cottage to Factory
- Enter the Dragon
- THE NEW NATIONALISM
- A Newer, Even a Better Deal?
- Final Remarks
- Commerce vs. Unalienable Rights
- The Simplicity as to the Christ, Part One
- The Simplicity as to the Christ, Part Two, the general post-office
- Reviving the general post office
- Letter of Appointment -- the general post-office
- Engrafted Evidence -- Who do you express?
- Fictions of law -- Human beings and other Humanist creations
- The Dark Side of Common Law -- The Law Merchant
- Consent: Implied and Express
- It's All in the Name!!!
- That Knock on the Door
- Myths of the "Patriot Movement"
- The Long Road Out of Commerce
- The Unincorporated Church so-called
- The Merchants of the Earth and their Merchandisers
- Bank Accounts
- The Alternatives
- From the Beginning it was Not So
- The State's "church"
- The Separation of Church and State?
- Rebutting Presumptions
- Another Daniel in the Lion's Den
- Another Daniel in the Lion's Den again
- Another Daniel in the Lion's Den again (continued)
- The Power of His Word
- The Power of His Word... continued
- How Unlawful Courts Gain Jurisdiction
- Fourth Edition Section
- Who Non-Statutory Abatements are for
- Who Non-Statutory Abatements are not for
- What Non-Statutory Abatements Do
- Faith in God Works
- Non-Statutory Abatements: What They Are and What They Were Never Meant To Be
- What Abatements Are
- What They Were Never Meant To Be
- The General Guidelines
- Plea Out of Bar
- On Appearance
- The Rules of English
- What's in a Word?
- Letters from the provisional Government
- Response Tactics of Imperial Powers
- Response Tactics of the bondservant of Christ
- Kitchen Sinkers
- On the Uniform Commercial Code
- Conflict of Laws
- Recognizing Defective Process
- Address vs. Location
- Serve It, Don't File It!!!
- God's superior court?
- Serving Non-Statutory Abatement Processes
- Actions Against Women
- general post-office
- Additional Non-Statutory Abatement Information
- Older Non-Statutory Abatement and Processes
- Serving the Non-Statutory Abatement Processes
- Commentary on the Older Non-Statutory Abatement
- Executing the Process
- Check List for the Non-Statutory Abatement Process
- Sample (Older) Abatement
- Commentary on the changes to the Default and Default Judgment
- Sample (Older) Default and Default Judgment
- The (Older) Public Notices with Commentary
- Abatement of Traffic Ticket, Arrest Warrant or court papers
- Foreclosure Abatement, or other bank related matters
- Coverture Abatement, for wives, children, unmarried Christian sisters and widows
- Notices of Federal Tax Lien or Levy Abatement
- Public Notice: Notice of Default
- Public Notice: Notice of Default and Entry of Default Judgment
- Newest Non-Statutory Abatement Updates
- Various Changes from the Older Abatements
- Letter of Appointment -- for Service of Abatement and Default
- Newest Sample Abatement
- Posting -- Notice of Default
- Sample Default and Default Judgment
- Notice of Default and Entry of Default Judgment
- Notice to All Breaking the close over this land


Metaphysics Main Page
What are the different categories of existing (and possible) things? What kinds of relations exist between these things? What is a person, and what are the constitutive elements of personal identity? What is the nature of causality and agency? What is time and how does it relate to temporal experience? These questions belong in the domain of metaphysics – a branch of philosophy that is concerned with the nature of reality. Metaphysics considers, among others, such basic concepts as existence, causation, possibility, and identity. This course will study these questions from traditional, contemporary and Africana perspectives.
- Taylor, Richard. Metaphysics. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1991.
- Conee, Earl, and Theodore Sider. Riddles of Existence: A Guided Tour of Metaphysics: New Edition. OUP Oxford, 2014.
- Loux, Michael J., and Dean W. Zimmerman, eds. The Oxford handbook of metaphysics. Oxford University Press on Demand, 2005.


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It is with sadness that the family announces the death of a beloved husband, father, grandfather and great-grandfather, Thomas Harley Lashbrook. Harley was born on February 4, 1929 in Rodney, Ontario. He was the son of the late Ernest and Florence (née Fairles) Lashbrook. Survived and dearly loved by his wife, Nancy (née Ward) Lashbrook for 64 years. Sadly missed by daughter, Dawn Lashbrook Chaytor (Paul), London and son, Ward Lashbrook (Colleen), Strathroy and grandchildren, Ryan (Gabrielle) Brett, Calgary, Jayna (Adam) Mansbridge, Okotoks, Alberta, Janessa (Patrick) McNeill, Ingolstadt, Germany and Brett Lashbrook (Abby), Strathroy as well as three great-granddaughters, Pearl, Emmalyn and Madeline. Also remembered fondly by step-grandchildren, Rob Chaytor (Stacy), Georgetown and Lyndsey Knelson (Andy), Wasaga Beach and their children, Jackson, Kaia and Cooper. Brother of Phyllis (Stan), Sarnia. Survived by several nieces and nephews. Predeceased by his brother, Lynn, brothers-in-law, Stanley Thorne and Ted Ward (late Bess) and sister-in-law, Shirley Lashbrook.
Harley worked for 42 years at Mercury-Sun Publications as assistant editor of the West Lorne Sun and the Rodney Mercury newspapers. He was an active member of the West Lorne Kiwanis club for 64 years. He was chairman of the West Lorne Kiwanis Music Festival for over 25 years and recipient of the Mel Osborne Award, the highest honour for a Kiwanian. He spent 25 years on village council – 15 as Councillor and 10 as Reeve. He also served on Elgin County Council for 10 years and on the Elgin County Library Board for 10 years. Harley was a local historian and a member of the West Elgin Genealogy and Historical Society. He was a former member of Rodney United Church as well as the West Lorne United Church. He was a former barbershop singer and a big asset to the Rodney church choir. Harley received the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal for his involvement in the community. He was the author of a few books on local history and assisted with Harvest of Memories put out by Elgin County. In lieu of flowers, donations to the Daffodil Society of West Elgin or Four Counties Health Services Foundation would be appreciated by the family. Visitation will be held at DENNING’S OF WEST LORNE, 202 Main Street, West Lorne (519-785-0810) Wednesday, December 13, 2017 from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. where the Funeral Service will commence at 1:30 p.m. on Thursday, December 14, 2017. Interment in Rodney Cemetery at a later date.
Like a worn out type
He is returned to the Founder
In hopes of being recast
In a better and more perfect mould


Faie Fables: Tales for Women
Authored by Cherie Renae
Illustrated by Cher Odum
What ‘truths’ are women told about who they are and how they should behave? What tales do they tell themselves?
Author Cherie Renae writes:
“We’re told we’re too stupid, too smart, too thin, too fat. We hear that our feet are too big, our bust is too small, our dreams are too large, our hips are too wide. Worst of all, we’ve told ourselves these lies. With these tales, I invite us to shout down our self-denigrating cries. Here is the truth: women are fabulous at every age and size.”
Faie Fables is a series of one-page fables, beautifully illustrated by female-empowering artist, Cher Odum. It challenges women to re-envision their lives and their dreams. These lyrical, engaging stories are accompanied by Postnotes (with questions) to further engage the reader, and the colorful images are a feast for the eyes.
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OMG…love this book! Faie Fables ….wow. love the stories and the beautiful artwork. This deserves a wider distribution. SO much is in this small work of art. It has touched my heart and soul. Thank you! – Lora Lee Martin
Love this book! It is beautifully illustrated with colorful, playful paintings, and the stories are very inspiring and empowering to women. I really like how the author and illustrator both give their individual perspective and comments on each story/painting. – A. M.
The format would be most ideal for a semi-annual literary journal. “Tin House” watch out, there is a new literary sheriff in town. Stories for splendid females and the people who love them. Gold stars —-encore! – Tim McCormick
I love this book! It is beautifully illustrated, speaks to the empowerment of women, and would make a great gift this holiday season. – Alicia Murray.
Beautifully illustrated and written. One of those books you want to pass on to a dear friend! You also want to have one for future enjoyment so maybe get two! – Becky Forrest
This is delightful, well written – AND wonderful art. All I can say is, it’s wonderful. If you are looking for an unusual, creative book for yourself, your daughter, or other family females…check it out…IT IS ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL. Definitely a keepsake. – Donna Martin
While definitely geared toward the female reader, this book has a universal undercurrent that has something to offer just about anyone who reads it. For women, it’s an undeniable bit of inspiration, the characters persevering in the face of sometimes life-long trials. The message seems to be, “No matter what has gone before, life is ahead and you’ll make it. You got this.” This book being what it is, I don’t suspect there will be many male readers, but for them, it offers a rare insight into the “inner workings” of the feminine mind, a glimpse of the Feminine Divine, and, if one looks close enough, a means to empowering the woman/women in their own lives. – Dave Calhoun
Publication Date: Oct 13 2014
ISBN/EAN13:0692303200 / 9780692303207
Page Count: 44
US Trade: 7″ x 10″
Fiction / Contemporary Women


The Cost of Textbooks Is Rising Faster Than the Price of College Tuition
College students already have to worry about rising tuition costs, but today's students need to be concerned about rising textbooks costs, too. The College Board recently found that the average college student spends $1,200 a year on textbooks and supplies.
Though that's a drop in the bucket for students at pricey private universities, it's 14% of tuition costs at a state-run public college or 39% of tuition costs at a community college. And when you consider the fact that textbook costs have increased by 864% since 1978 — rising faster than tuition prices or the consumer price index — it's no surprise why these essential educational materials are adding to the ballooning problem of student debt.
And publishers aren't helping, as they continue to encourage students to buy new books by releasing updated editions or bundling textbooks with software and other extras. Since textbook requirements are set by professors, students don't have a choice when it comes to what to buy: Unlike opting for a generic version of the same type of TV, for example, students can't shop around for lower-priced alternatives. The end result is that some students, as many as 65%, just don't buy required texts, even though it may put their grades at risk.
How to Save on Textbook Costs
So what's a cash-strapped college student to do? The first step is to chat with your professor. Some professors will lean on textbook readings a lot, and others will only use textbooks as a reference. Depending on how much use specific books are going to get, you could get away with checking certain texts out from the library occasionally or sharing a book (and the cost) with a friend or two in the same course.
If you definitely need your own textbook, however, buying used is the easiest way to save, with prices up to 30% off the original retail cost. If your professor recommends a brand new edition of a book, you can often find the previous edition at an even deeper discount, and probably without many changes, though you'll want to check how different the old and new editions are before you buy. If you do buy an old edition, expect the page numbers to be different if nothing else. This can make reading assignments a hassle, but one that may be worth the savings. Try your campus bookstore or sites like Amazon, Craigslist, or Half.com to pick up used books for less.
Another option is renting a textbook from your college bookstore or an online retailer like Amazon, Chegg, CampusBookRentals, or Collegebookrenter.com. Rental times and prices vary greatly, but no matter what you decide on, expect a significant savings over buying new. The campus library can also be a source of books for no cost at all, but you may face competition from other students doing the same.
Readers, do any of you have your own tips to help students save on textbook costs? Let us know in the comments!


The Ultimate Storyteller
Team Project | Oct 2019
Saga. The adventure awaits!
Getting your children to bed can be a long process, and sometimes the “just one more story” lasts forever...
Introducing Saga the ultimate bedtime storyteller. Bedtime stories are important for both childrens’ literacy and language development, and their moral development; it’s how we’ve passed on knowledge since the beginning of time. Saga is for the “just one more story”, for the nights when you can’t get home from the office. It’s not just another bedtime story, Saga is a world your kids can explore. It gets kids involved in stories and books through it’s master storyteller’s choose-your-own-adventure stories. Saga doesn’t just read the story to the child, it makes them the story teller, allowing the child to choose what the character should do next with both small decisions to increase their vocabulary, and large ones that have moral lessons attached to them.
User Interviews with 2 children and 3 sets of parents
Interview with Alison Gopnik and 2 of her PhD students
Reading >40 children's bedtimes stories
Naming | Mythos | Page Design | Human Voices | Parent Inclusion | Moral Teaching
From the research, we identified key aspects that informed all design decisions.
For naming the book and project, we wanted a strongly mythical name that was associated with words and stories. We researched the names of old gods in different mythologies and voted between Saga (Norse goddess of poets and stories), Adios (God of knowledge), and Lugh (Irish God of Light and Knowledge). We wanted a name associated with a mythos, but not one that was too well known (i.e. Athena). After a vote, Saga was chosen.
Mythos of Saga
Since storytelling, and the passing down of knowledge, has such an axial role in human history we wanted to acknowledge that by building a specific mythos around Saga. The idea of an old tome, reminiscent of a magical spellbook, was used as inspiration and while in Seattle, a group member visited an old book store to understand the designs more. We decided on keeping to an ancient “tome” vibe for the project and make a physically large book form for Saga as a survey of American Households reported that twice as many children preferred physical books
We wanted the pages to be lit to act a nightlight for kids. Stories carry messages, but they end with a happily ever after (or resolution) so that the children can go to sleep. From a survey of 49 stimuli, children listed “the dark” as the third scariest, with 74% of children aged 4-12 being afraid of the dark; we felt it was important to include lights as a key feature. We took inspiration from the accordion style nightlight books that are sold at MOMA in San Francisco.
We spoke on the satisfaction of being able to flip pages and touch physical objects while reading and had original designs which involved thin acrylic pages that would be sanded on both sides so as to carry light down their length. This was not followed through to execution due to the costing of acrylic sheets and due to the technical difficulty of binding pages together within a mechanical book. The pages became one of the biggest design challenges for the project. The accordion design that made it through to the Final version of Saga was closer to the accordion book lights where we first drew inspiration.
Use of non-generated voices
The key of Saga is that is it a story teller.
A significant amount of time was spent recording the stories for Saga. Based on recent research on virtual assistants and their voices, we decided to preserve the storytelling experience by having natural human voices read the stories. While we are entering a new age for voice interaction, we felt that the current state of voice assistants were not naturalistic in their cadence or emphasis which are important in the storytelling process. We looked into generated speech through deep fake speech editors but were not satisfied with their integration at this time.
This required that Saga’s stories to be read in actual voices which required the recording of audio files. It meant that the kids reading Saga would not be able to name pets/items in the stories which limited the questions and interactions they could have - but we felt that the story options would fit well with what was found in our observations of keeping options closed so that the child wouldn’t get too into the story and not go to sleep.
Inclusion of the parent
There are falling statistics in parents reading bedtime stories to their children; only 87% of parents currently read bedtime stories to their children, with only 1 out of every 3 parents reading daily to their child. With the rise of e-books, the ease of streaming services, and recent shifts in working culture; it’s become harder to maintain story time. In spite of this, the interaction between parent and child for bonding and secure attachment is highly important for childhood development. Consequently, we wanted to create a way for the parent to become involved in Saga’s stories, without creating an additional technological obligation or changing their existing behaviour around storytime.
We did this by creating a companion application for Saga where the parent can add stories they recorded through the application directly onto Saga. This was in part inspired by the family we spoke to about Saga where the children would “refuse” to go to sleep until their dad had read them a story and how the mum had gone so far as to facetime her partner in order to coax the kids to sleep.
We also added a feature where the parent could see the story’s timeline and what decisions their child had made in the story through the app. In that way the parent could ask, and have conversations with their child, about the events that Saga had read.
The bond between parent and child through the process of storytelling was one that we wanted to preserve with Saga, instead of creating a technology that would act as a replacement for the parent.
It was important for us to have a story for each of us to read. We initially thought to base a story on parts of our lives to keep with the “life morals” goal but ended up finding it difficult to create “choose-your-own-adventure” aspects of what our lives could be like if we have done things differently. As a consequence the stories became quite long and complex and so we went back and started writing based on the current structure of a children’s story. We discussed what we remembered from the stories we read as kids and how they all “taught” something; and drew from the stories of Aesop’s Fables and decided that all the Saga stories would center around a moral lesson.
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The Clever Magician | The Strong Warrior | The Oracle of Life
For story writing we had to keep several pieces in mind. The language had to be simplistic 1, 2 enough to be understood, but complex to support their language development , as well as keeping to a 7 - 15 minute total story time which is the suggested best story length 3.
Keeping with the design system of “moral” stories and the research, we paired three stories with three morals.
The Clever Magician - Knowledge, and Believing in Yourself
The Strong Warrior - Strength, Inclusion and Acceptance of Others
The Oracle of Life - Be Kind
Now, tuck yourself in bed and let me tell you a story,
Of an old kingdom past, and a child destined for glory
This child was like almost every other,
was loved by their siblings, father and mother.
In the far off land of Taelie they grew up so strong
But as with all things in life, nothing every lasts long
One night things changed and the child snuck out
Down a long twisted path they wandered all about
Stumbling into a grove, the child came to a fork in the path;
Right of left, make your choice, you’ll only be wrong by half.
Down to the right is a river with a loosely latched raft -
To the left, a valley sign posted by an old merchant’s staff
This is the moment where you first have to choose
Right or left, make your choice, you have nothing to lose...
Once upon a time in a land, very far away.
Where sun lit up the night, and stars shone all day
It was a wonderful place with mountains so tall
And you could follow the river all the way to a waterfall
There was a king and queen who ruled fair and true
The people were happy and always had something to do
Because the land was green and full of food to eat
And every table there was room for an extra seat
And that, is where we begin our story tonight...
The warrior finally bridged the hill and saw the Oracle.
They didn’t appear as an impressive figure, or have a halo around their head. The clothes they wore was not adorned or made from a precious silk. There was no altar to leave a gift, nor a council table from which they may judge.
1. Berk, L. E., & Winsler, A. (1995). Scaffolding Children's Learning: Vygotsky and Early Childhood Education. NAEYC Research into Practice Series. Volume 7. National Association for the Education of Young Children, 1509 16th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036-1426
2. Chomsky, N. (2000). The Architecture of Language.
Saga's voice recognition components is built using Google Cloud's Speech Recognition API.
Currently each story is organised such that they contain a dictionary with “branch” words as keys and a function that plays the audio file associated with that word.
A story gets selected by a voice command dictating what story wants to be heard. Once this has happened the software knows what dictionary to look up possible branches is. So every following branch/option that is told to the narrator, the software will search within that story's dictionary to fetch the proper branch and read out the rest of the narrative. Every interaction is received through a microphone or an FSR (force sensitive resistor) and gets paired with certain outputs driven by servo motors, the neopixel lights, and the speaker.
Whenever a story wants to be heard
Input: the parent or the child presses down on Saga’s gemstone which triggers the FSR sensor.
the gemstone glows rainbow, cycling through different lights lit up by a single Neopixel behind it.
Saga is then in “awake” mode, and asks, through the speaker, in a soothing voice "what kind of story do you want to hear tonight" and then waits for a response.
The Gemstone fades in and out white light while it waits for a response.
When the child talks to saga to start a story
Input: voice audio received through a mic
Servo Motor turns on and opens the book.
Lights flicker Green once an audio command has been accepted.
Saga finds the story to tell and starts telling it through the Speakers.
For each story, the lights shine a different colour. Currently the warrior story is green and cyan, the magician story is blue and purple, and the oracle is yellow and red.
While the story is being told
Output: neopixel lights glow, fading in and out colours related to the story being told. Once the branch is done and the narrator is waiting for a decision, the lights from the neopixels inside the book glow on and off in “breathing” mode signalling that it is waiting for a response.
When the child picks a fork in the story
Input: voice audio received through a mic
Once the fork is an accepted answer, the lights shine green to show confirmation.
Then the lights go back to fade in and out the colors related to the story.
Audio continues to play through the speakers telling the rest of the story.


This page contains an overview of the Kubernetes API.
The REST API is the fundamental fabric of Kubernetes. All operations and communications between components are REST API calls handled by the API Server, including external user commands. Consequently, everything in the Kubernetes platform is treated as an API object and has a corresponding entry in the API.
Most operations can be performed through the kubectl command-line interface or other command-line tools, such as kubeadm, which in turn use the API. However, the API can also be accessed directly using REST calls.
Consider using one of the client libraries if you are writing an application using the Kubernetes API.
To make it easier to eliminate fields or restructure resource representations, Kubernetes supports
multiple API versions, each at a different API path, such as
The version is set at the API level rather than at the resource or field level to ensure that the API presents a clear, consistent view of system resources and behavior, and to enable controlling access to end-of-life and/or experimental APIs. The JSON and Protobuf serialization schemas follow the same guidelines for schema changes; all descriptions below cover both formats.
Note that API versioning and software versioning are only indirectly related. The API and release versioning proposal describes the relationship between API versioning and software versioning.
Different API versions imply different levels of stability and support. The criteria for each level are described in more detail in the API Changes documentation.
The criteria are summarized here:
Xis an integer.
API groups make it easier to extend the Kubernetes API. The API group is specified in a REST path and in the
apiVersion field of a serialized object.
Currently, there are several API groups in use:
/api/v1and is not specified as part of the
apiVersionfield, for example,
/apis/$GROUP_NAME/$VERSION, and use
apiVersion: $GROUP_NAME/$VERSION(for example,
apiVersion: batch/v1). Full list of supported API groups can be seen in Kubernetes API reference.
There are two supported paths to extending the API with custom resources:
Certain resources and API groups are enabled by default. You can enable or disable them by setting
--runtime-config accepts comma separated values. For example, to disable batch/v1, set
--runtime-config=batch/v1=false, to enable batch/v2alpha1, set
The flag accepts comma separated set of key=value pairs describing runtime configuration of the apiserver.
IMPORTANT: Enabling or disabling groups or resources requires restarting apiserver and controller-manager
to pick up the
DaemonSets, Deployments, HorizontalPodAutoscalers, Ingress, Jobs and ReplicaSets are enabled by default.
You can enable other extensions resources by setting
--runtime-config accepts comma separated values. For example, to disable deployments and jobs, set


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Providing straightforward answers to these complex questions, The Simple Guide to Child Trauma is the perfect starting point for any adult caring for or working with a child who has experienced trauma. It will help them to understand more about a child's emotional and behavioural responses following trauma and provides welcome strategies to aid recovery. Reassuring advice will also rejuvenate adults' abilities to face the challenges of supporting children.
"In this accessible, enlightening little book, Betsy de Thierry recognises both the need to advocate for young people who have experienced trauma and to resource the adults in homes and schools who care for them. Emphasising the need for compassionate, relational responses to these often misunderstood young people, Betsy offers an array of practical strategies and insights to enable those responses, whilst conveying her core subject with confidence and clarity. An important, generous and timely publication".
(Louise Michelle Bombèr, Strategic Attachment Lead Teacher & Therapist)
Betsy de Thierry is a psychotherapist with over 20 years' experience of working with vulnerable children, young people and adults.
“This excellent book explains the continuum of trauma clearly in all its complexity in succinct and straightforward terms, drawing on the latest thinking and research in neuroscience. It shows how teachers, while not specialist mental health professionals, can provide skilled and effective help within school and the classroom to children and young people for them to recover from trauma. It recognises the pressure on teachers and schools to meet national educational objectives, which can all too easily ignore the particular history and personal needs of individual pupils. The knowledge and skills within this book will enable the busiest teachers to both recognise and to effectively respond to these particular needs, and of equal importance to develop their own skills in reflection and shared learning.”
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When you’re checking out a book or two at your local public library, the thought of being under video surveillance may not cross your mind. Most of the time, you may not consider surveillance in public places as a form of security at all. So, when you’re reading at the public library, are there cameras recording you?
Most public libraries have video surveillance systems in place to monitor for suspicious behavior, deter misconduct and crime, help with criminal incident investigations, and improve safety of the facility, its staff, and its visitors. Keeping public libraries safe with surveillance cameras is not meant to, nor should it, infringe upon your privacy.
While being under video surveillance may make you second guess visiting the library, knowing your rights and protections is essential, and can give you the reassurance you need. By being familiar with library privacy laws and their meaning, you will have taken a significant step in understanding your right to privacy in a public library.
Why Are There Cameras in Public Libraries?
Security cameras have been used in public libraries for a very long time for the purpose of public and property safety and to monitor for malicious behavior. Private residences and businesses also use video surveillance systems for the same reason, hoping to prevent crime before it happens or to help with investigations into suspicious incidents.
In a library, however, the balance between safety and privacy is paramount.
Video surveillance in public libraries helps record and store information that may be helpful for legal reasons. A closed-circuit tv system will also allow security personnel or the front desk to strictly monitor what is happening throughout the building to keep its patrons and the property safe. And like in other public places, video surveillance is obviously not allowed in private library areas such as the restrooms.
Library Privacy Laws
Video surveillance has become the norm in many public places, such as at crosswalks, parking lots, in hospitals, and in airports, to name a few. While in public places, there is a general lack of expectation of complete privacy, in a public library, patrons’ rights regarding their privacy and confidentiality are very important and have always been protected.
According to the American Library Association (ALA), a library user’s privacy refers to their right to use library resources for unobstructed research and seeking knowledge in any topic without the subject of their research or interests being questioned. The ALA states that a patron’s right to intellectual freedom from judgment and surveillance is crucial to free thought and speech.
Libraries are also responsible for the confidentiality of their user’s personally identifiable information, whether in physical or digital format.
The same privacy rights for library users and the library’s responsibility for the confidentiality of its users’ personally identifiable information apply when considering video footage from surveillance cameras in a library.
The library system protects the First Amendment in the United States, allowing uninhibited access to free and open information. While this is important to the rights of American citizens, video surveillance may seem like an intrusive conflict of interest and that’s why it is important to have a clear policy in place regarding the use of video surveillance cameras and how the footage will be used, stored, and accessed.
In addition to video surveillance systems, patrons are also protected from being video recorded by other individuals in the library. Removing a patron filming other patrons is a way of dealing with this privacy issue. While there are no consistent laws across all public libraries, it is left up to the discretion of each locality to dictate what is a violation.
In Canada, the Toronto Public Library, the country’s largest public library, follows the guidelines set out by the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario, and the privacy requirements of the Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (MFIPPA), to ensure the privacy of its patrons is protected while maintaining the safety and security of the library facilities, its staff, and visitors.
The three main guidelines of the Toronto Public Library’s video surveillance policy are:
- Surveillance camera use is guided by a goal to limit the intrusion into library facility’s normal operations.
- Video surveillance systems are only used when needed based on predetermined criteria.
- Surveillance footage is only monitored or reviewed for asset protection and safety.
How Do I Know if There Are Cameras in My Library?
When video recording is being used at any public library location, the library staff is responsible for informing users about the presence of surveillance cameras. This is usually in the form of signage that clearly indicates that video surveillance equipment is being used to monitor the facility. This public information will enable visitors to make an informed decision about their personal use of the space.
Library security cameras are also usually installed in clearly visible locations as the use of hidden cameras in public places is illegal in most states. So, if you’re wondering if there are cameras watching you while you’re reading, just look up. You’ll most likely spot one staring right back at you!
Cameras are usually installed throughout the library in areas of high traffic and in some instances, in areas that may be a little more secluded. Monitoring secluded areas ensures that while a person may be out of sight, a camera can still catch any illegal activity or dangerous behavior.
How Can a Library Protect My Privacy?
So, now that you know that most libraries use video surveillance systems, how can you ensure that your privacy is being protected? Since each public library is different, it is vital that they individually decide what measures will be taken to ensure the privacy of their patrons with policies.
Policies may address privacy issues in libraries like:
- The use of practices that keeps the collection of personally identifiable information while using library services to a minimum.
- Developing guidelines and procedures for storage, access, and destruction of security camera footage.
Surveillance recordings are usually stored in a secure location with limited access for a predetermined time (usually 30 days but may be shorter depending on local policy or system storage capacity limitation). After 30 days, the footage is destroyed, unless it was required for an incident investigation or legal dispute, in which case it may be kept for a longer period as required by local and state laws.
By controlling who has access to library records of video surveillance, a public library can assure that their patron’s privacy will be kept safe. The library should limit this access to a minimal number of viewers as necessary. In addition, the library staff should only show the records to law enforcement if it is court-ordered or subpoenaed.
Libraries can further guarantee the privacy of their patrons by implementing policies that deal with visitors filming on their premises, in particular when other visitors are captured, or have the potential of being captured, in the footage. This is one of the common privacy issues in libraries related to the use of video recording devices in libraries.
The degree of limitation on filming in libraries will be different for each library. While some libraries may be sought after as filming locations due to their history or aesthetics and may have policies that are more accommodating to allow visitors to film in the library, and while library patrons have no expectation of privacy in public spaces within the library, library policies should be implemented to make sure that no information regarding patrons’ use of library services, or their research history is revealed in any captured footage.
Lastly, library workers are not entitled to the same privacy rights as library patrons when it comes to being recorded on cameras. This applies to video footage captured by security cameras and to filming by library users or members of the public exercising their First Amendment rights to access and film in any public space. Library workers are however entitled to privacy in private and staff-only spaces, and these areas should display signs that clearly indicate that members of the public are not permitted access.
Video surveillance systems in libraries provide a way to monitor the safety and security of library property, visitors, and staff. However, there are concerns about the privacy aspect of having a camera in an area where patrons are accessing private information.
Access and privacy have long been standards upheld by the public library system in the United States and Canada. When libraries use video surveillance systems and implement policies to ensure that library records are kept private and secure, there will be increased privacy protection for patrons using the library.


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