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Poèmes 34 Poems. Ed. and translation by J.B. Gerald. Introduction by René Tavernier. Bilingual edition. Moody / New York, J.B.Gerald & J.Maas, 1984. ISBN 0-941917-07-X.
le problème de l'éthique dans l'evolution de la pensée humaine / the difficulty of ethics in the evolution of human thought, translation by J.B.Gerald. Preface by Rhena Schweitzer Miller. French text: Revue des Travaux de l'Académie des Sciences Morales & Politiques. Bilingual edition. Moody Maine, J.B.Gerald & J.Maas, 1985. ISBN 0-941917-10-X.
The Crime of Genocide & Bill of Human Rights: U.N. Texts (ed. J.B.Gerald). Offset, staplebound. 59 pages. Moody Maine, Editions Gerald & Maas, 1989. ISBN 0-941917-12-6.
Common Rights and Expectations: United Nations texts of primary treaties concerning rights of people, ed. & foreword, J.B.Gerald. (Canadian revised edition) Ottawa, editions Gerald and Maas, 1996. ISBN 0-941917-18-5.
Online edition Nightslantern genocide warnings.
John Bart Geraldpoetry
First edition. Typed, offset. 52 pages. New York City, author published, 1981. ISBN 0-941917-03-7.
Second edition. Calligraphy by Julie Maas. Hand-lettered, offset. 56 pages. New York City, author & artist, 1982. ISBN 0-941917-04-5.
Plainsongs, poems. With blockprints and calligraphy by Julie Maas. Moody Maine, author & artist / J.B.Gerald & J.Maas, 1985. 54 pages. ISBN 0-941917-09-6
Country Poems. With drawings by Julie Maas. Moody Maine, author & artist, Editions Gerald & Maas, 1991. 64 pages. ISBN 0-941917-14-2.
37 Poems 53 pages. 4.5" x 5.5" offset, staplebound.
Handrubbed blockprint cover by Julie Maas. Ottawa, Gerald and Maas, 1998. Paper. ISBN 0-941917-19-3.
"a small telling treasure..." - Puckerbrush Review
"He's new..." - ARC
Poems from a River City49 pages. 4.5" x 5.5" staplebound. Ottawa, Gerald and Maas, 2000. Paper. ISBN 0-941917-20-7.
River with Lights, poems. With drawings by Julie Maas. 70 pages. First edition of 250 copies. Offset printing, perfectbound. Ottawa, Gerald and Maas, 2005. Paper. ISBN 0-9731090-1-7.
"Your art gives wings to our striving..." Daniel Berrigan
"It is heartening in an age of surprising apathy, to encounter poetry so committed to the union of art and life. These poems are rarely about just one thing, but are pointing to the interconnectedness of all things. They bring home the web of history, race, economics, exploitation, and stifling conformity which surrounds us. These are really songs of resistance, whose harsh truths are tempered by the nobility of action and the beauty of the natural world." - Keith Althaus
“A great little book of great little poems, some personal, some political, all heartfelt. Hauntingly illustrated. Inspirational.” - Michael Mandel
"Published just before the end of 2005, this collection of poems is dedicated to the disappeared and encompasses colonial oppression, wars of liberation, prison, those who died on 9/11 and in the 'war on terror,' lies of politicians, but also love, natural beauty, and truth. This book reminds busy activists of the power of just a few words and art to touch people on a different level than articles and speeches can." - Ruth Benn, Nonviolent Activist
"It is always a pleasure to see what can be accomplished by Canadians when they passionately engage all their talents and resources to shape their dreams. Your efforts have produced a wonderful collection, as well as beautiful drawings, that can be enjoyed by Canadians across the country." - Michaëlle Jean as Governor General of Canada.
Early novels with Viking Press (A Thousand Thousand Mornings,, 1964) and Farrar Straus & Giroux (Conventional Wisdom, 1972). Short stories with Harper's, Atlantic Monthly, The Best American Short Stories of 1969 and 1970, reviews and anthologies.
Applegather, a mythical American underground, a novel. Calligraphy and etching reproductions by Julie Maas. New York City, author & artist, 1978. ISBN 0-941917-00-2.
"Bravo" -Grace Paley.
"John Bart Gerald is a good writer..." -Bernard Malamud.
"Both the typography and illustrations allow one to appreciate this book as an art work alone." - Jacob Lawrence.
"...wonderfully poetic...the etchings are a just complement..."- Romare Bearden.
"...Hauntingly elusive...with characteristic lyric intensity..." - Stanley Kunitz.
"...cast of hundreds; abundant invention, happy mingling of fantasy and reality, punchy humor..." -Puckerbrush Review.
Conscience, a novel. With scratchboard illustrations by Julie Maas. 132 pages, typed. Perfectbind. Moody / New York, author & artist, J.B.Gerald & J.Maas, 1984. ISBN 0-941917-08-8.
"Jungles of the mind and heart, jungles of the land and academe ...an offbeat read which will challenge your brain cells...."-Hornidge, Rockland Courier-Gazette.
Soul Game, an American novel. Unreviewed. New York City, author published, 1980. First and second printing. ISBN 0-941917-01-0.
Truth and Maud, a modern allegory. Moody Maine, J.B.Gerald & J.Maas, 1987. ISBN 0-941917-1.8.
Geometry, or the Unwanted Man, a novel. With two handrubbed blockprints by Julie Maas bound in. Numbered edition of 300, signed by author & artist. Moody Maine, Editions Gerald and Maas, 1989. ISBN 0-941917-13-4.
Internal Exile, 10 short stories. Drawings by Julie Maas. Moody Maine, Editions J.B.Gerald & J. Maas, 1992. 72 pages. ISBN 0-941917-15-0.
New Englanders,10 short stories. ISBN 0-941917-16-9. Blockprints by Julie Maas. Moody Maine, Editions J.B.Gerald & J. Maas, 1992. 52 pages.
"...goes to the very bone of existence..." - Maine in Print.
Early Lessons,10 short stories. Graphic art by Julie Maas. Moody Maine, Editions J.B.Gerald & J. Maas, 1992. 64 pages. ISBN 0-941917-17-7.
"...is a good book...the art works like the stories, are simple, beautiful and worth the time to get to know." Anarchy magazine.
Dissident Accounts. New York City, author published, 1980. First and second printings.ISBN 0-941917-02-9.
On Resistance. New York City, author published 1982. ISBN 0-941917-05-3.
Lectures for Nonconformists, essays. Drawings by Julie Maas. Moody & New York, author & artist, J.B.Gerald & J.Maas, 1983. ISBN 0-941917-06-1.
Arguments with the Thought Police, essays. With drawings by Julie Maas; printed, bound, published by author & artist. First edition of 125 copies, 128 pages with an additional 20 un-numbered pages of drawings. 7" by 7", hand stitched, soft cover and dustjacket. Ottawa, Gerald and Maas, 2002. Paper. ISBN 0-9731090-0-9.
Online edition, ISBN 0-941917-21-5.
Manifest, essays. Genocides we are living through and where they come from. With drawings by Julie Maas. 7" x 7" softcover, printed, hand-stitched in-house. 74 pages. Ottawa: Gerald and Maas, 2007. ISBN 978-0-9731090-2-3.
"... powerful and enlightening in these dark times of the downfall of empire..." Daniel Berrigan
Sources of Contemporary Genocide, with graphics by Julie Maas. Imprint John Bart Gerald & Julie Maas, Montreal, and Tablo PTY Ltd., 2020. ISBN 9781922439604. 458 page, paperback. ISBN 9781922439598 e-book.
Night's Lantern. A website concerned with the prevention of genocide, by John Bart Gerald with graphics by Julie Maas and guest contributions as credited. Canada, Gerald and Maas, 2001- ongoing [access:< https://www.nightslantern.ca >].
Julie MaasHer early illustrations can be found in The Vegetarian Epicure (1 & 2), Spring She Said, and other cookbooks, children's books and poetry. Her graphics and artwork appear throughout Gerald and Maas books and webpages.
A Alphabet. 28 pages. First edition. 5.5" x 7" softcover. Printed, hand-stitched, bound, in-house. Ottawa, Gerald and Maas, 2007. Paper, ISBN 978-0-9731090-3-0. Digital edition ISBN 978-0-9731090-5-4.
"Maas redefines body language...The only words in Alphabet are the title, author's name and publication data. The font speaks for itself." -Amphora, Journal of the Alcuin Society
The Adventures of a Cat. 4" x 5". 28 pages. Ottawa, Gerald and Maas, 2009. Thread bound. Edition of thirty.
Lost painting" Gaza
etchings, prints and other
works on paper
folio 1.. Three etchings with watercolour. "Real books,""Night thoughts,""42nd street." Numbered edition of 50 (stopped at 33), 1981.
folio 2. Two etchings with watercolour. "Disappeared" and "Green comb." Edition of 50 (stopped at 24), 1982.
folio 3. Two etchings with watercolour. "Greetings from New England" and "Hats and Masks." Edition of 50 (stopped at 9), 1983.
folio 4. "an alphabet" (1 & 2). 1983. Available at Fitch-Febvrel Gallery
folio 5. 4 etchings with aquatint, gardens in Menton: "Menton night," "Dream Palm," "Foliage," "Datura." Edition of 7. 1984.
folio 6. Ten blockprints for Plainsongs. Unnumbered, 1986.
folio 7. The 14 etchings from applegather, collected from early work.
folio 8. Two etchings about etching. Edition of 7, 1985.
folio 9.. Two etchings with watercolour. "Sandbar" and "Tide." Edition of 10, 1986.
folio 10. 3 small etchings with watercolour, on two pages. "Spirit of the Squash." Edition of 13, 1986.
folio 11. Exiles, two etchings with aquatint. "Cafe" and "Bar." Edition of 20, 1989.
folio 12. 5 blockprints, 3 colour on cover and 4 portraits, "Earth,""Air,""Fire,""Water." Edition of 15 (incomplete), 1990.
folio 13."Carnival world," 4 etchings w. chine collée & stamps. 4" x 4". Edition of 12 (incomplete), 2010.
"lowertown." Colour etching (3 plates). Image size 7.5" x 9" +/-. Edition of 10. 1997.
"because upstairs they are crazy." Image size 7.5" x 9" +/-. Edition of 22. 2006.
"october." Image size 8.75" x 7.5" +/-. Edition of 10. 1999.
"new year horse." Etching with chine-collé. image size 4" x4". 2002.
"cold spring." Color etching (3 plates)/ aquatint, with bird stamps. Image size 9" x 7.25". 1997.
"dog & the moon." Etching from applegather. 4" x 6". 1978
"ferris wheel." Etching. 4"x 4". 2008
print city Unique blockprint, approximately 33" by 47" built with the artist's linocuts and found objects on one sheet of handmade paper, completed 2005.
posters and broadsheets
"7 posters." Poems by John Bart Gerald, graphics by Julie Maas. 11" x 14. Folio. Museum board protective cover. Ottawa, Gerald and Maas, 2004.
Gerald and Maas posters and broadsheets with graphics by Julie Maas.


The Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism Journal is an open access and peer-reviewed Journal, whose goal is to publish scientific articles in the field of clinical nutrition and metabolism. Therefore, the Journal publishes articles about different biochemical processes, specifically about energetic metabolism and nutritional regulations, nutritional therapy (enteral nutrition, parenteral nutrition, oral supplements, vitamin supplements), and the relationship between nutrition and disease.
The Journal will consider articles which present results from clinical studies that show the mechanisms, the effectiveness, and the advancements in the different stages of nutritional care: 1. Screening and assessment of nutritional status, 2. Diagnosis and nutritional plan, 3. Nutritional therapy (oral, enteral, or parenteral), 4. Monitoring and evaluation, and 5. Documentation.
Studies about dietary interventions in the context of prevention or treatment of chronic or acute diseases will also be considered. It is sought to encourage epidemiologic and public health studies related to clinical nutrition, as well as experimental or basic sciences research which use approaches from the “omic” sciences (epigenetics, and genomic, proteomic, or metabolomics studies). Publishing of opinion and research articles on epistemologic, historic, ethical, and sociological subjects in relation
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The Journal is edited every six months (May and October) with a multidisciplinary approach and a content of original articles, clinical cases, controversies, opinion and others (review articles, guest editorials, book reviews, interviews and letters to the Editor). Translations of guides and international consensuses are also part of the Journal. It receives works in Spanish, English, and Portuguese for publishing, and it possesses printed and online versions.
The Journal offers its production in an upright online (open access) fashion for the scientific community. Likewise, it doesn’t charge any fee throughout the editorial process for the publication
of the articles.
Conflict of interest policy
Online version ISSN : 2619-3906
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Here's a review of the book The Corporation That Changed the World- How the East India Company Shaped the Modern Multinational, by Nick Robins, that I had done a little while ago:
Nostalgia, it is said that, never hurts. For the victims, however, it is painful, though sometimes blunted. Walking down the memory lane of history, though hurting, has become a necessity, for lessons are to be learnt and to take a solemn vow not to repeat the gory mistakes of the ancestors. Writing a book on history solicits a lot of research and analysis of facts and subsequent empirical verification of the authenticity, in a social perspective. History is not chronological listing of events of the past; but is collation of happenings in the lives of people. Nick Robins has done all these in the narration of the events during the life of East India Company.
There exists a plethora of books on the history of East India Company. But none have looked into the life of The Company from the "Corporate's Social Responsibility" perspective. The author has attempted from that angle with a view to fill that void, as stated in the Introduction, and has been successful. The book is neatly organized with nine chapters. The narration is simple and elegant. A small number of maps and tables are used; however, a few more pictures and tables would have added more charm. He has taken enormous pains in collecting information pertaining to the East India Company and referred to a host of published material, which are listed in the Notes.
The appealing fact about the book is that it is plain in narration and a sort of neutrality has been maintained. For a serious reader, however, the condescending albeit dull pain of the authour is clearly visible. For, there was an intelligent design in the formation of the East India Company and the motif was a simple six-letter word called "Profit". Nick Robins has been successful in convincing the readers of the disastrous effects of corporate greed to Societies - inland and afar.
Formed in London in the year1599, by a Royal Charter, with an intent to "astonish Europe" by its consignment of Asian wealth to the London docks and until it was formally wound up in 1858 again by a Royal Charter, immediately after the "Sepoy Mutiny" or The First Indian War of Independence in 1857, the East India Company being cited as the most opulent company of the world, inflicted unparalleled damage to India and impoverished it to the extent that recovery be made distant. The author takes us through the formation of the company and its role in London, India, China and Indonesia eruditely. Entering India as a mere parcel of trading merchants, the transformation of the East India Company as a formidable martial Government in India has been described in the book and for the sake of clarity in presentation he traverses chronologically back and forth between and within chapters.
The company's directors, it is said that, aimed to flourish by espousing high standards of corporate practice with righteousness embedded at its roots, corruption was ever present in its practice and operations, but had always been kept at a manageable level. When confronted on issues of excesses by certain democratic voices in London, the rhetoric that "trade and trade only was their business" and some despotic alliances at home culled the murmurs of opposition. However, the critics of East India Company ensured that their voices are heard against the process of globalization and cohoots in London. Nick Robins quotes Adam Smith's concern on the company's practices as "whatever is gained by the monopolising company, in the high prices at which it was enabled to sell, or the low prices at which it was enabled to buy, was all lost by its dilatory, negligent and wasteful management". Taking cue on this, the author elegantly puts forth his argument that corporations are not self-correcting and there is nothing in their design to call a halt to further market expansion, or desist from political interventions that rig the market in their favour. He further emphasizes that there is an urgent need for external mechanisms to bring corporate malpractice to account. Highlighting the need for a more granular analysis, he points out that markets move at the margin, and the key to the drain lies in its impact on relative patterns of consumption. He asserts that in India, the drain depressed consumption and diverted its already small savings rate, while enabling Britain to live beyond its means, to consume, trade and invest at a greater rate than its own internal economy would allow. Making note of the present day Indian economic scenario, he states that those parts of India which have been longest under British rule are the poorest today, picking out Bengal, Bihar and Orissa for particular mention.
Special mention needs to be made of the critics of the company's practices in India, like Edmund Burke, Karl Marx and Adam Smith. As early as in 1785, Burke viewed the company's governors and their creditors as inexpugnable tapeworms that eat up the bowels of India.
The author quotes Edmund Burke as the real champion of India's identity, for, Burke believed that each society had its own intrinsic value which should not be sacrificed to the interests of profit or power and that history is not a civilizational contest between primitive and progressive nations.
In the process of narrating the rise and fall of East India Company which paved the way for British rule in India, Nick Robins argues, citing the company as a pioneer mega-corporation (multinational or MNC in today's parlance), that the need of the hour is to downsize corporations as greed for profit is the underlying phenomenon in any corporate and when a company is small the damage that it could inflict is relatively limited. He pooh-poohs the advocacy of corporate reforms like imbibing corporate accountability and social responsibility in the cultures of giant corporates, as in most cases, corporate responsibility becomes another term for enlightened self-interest - that good conduct towards customers, regulators and communities help to generate a "licence to operate".
Summarily, the voyage of reading this powerful book is immensely pleasing, with no dramatic pauses. The conclusion is poignant. The story of East India Company is ultimately a tragedy, the tale of an institution that generated great wealth, but also great harm, an institution that was ultimately doomed by the flaws in its corporate design.


From Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick
“Booker T. Washington said once that you must not judge a man by the heights to which he has risen, but by the depths from which he came,” wrote Zora Neale Hurston in her 1942 autobiography, Dust Tracks on a Road. Born in Notasulga, Alabama, Hurston moved to Eatonville, Florida, with her family when she was a child. As a young woman, she attended Howard, which “is to the Negro what Harvard is to the whites.” She went on to Barnard, where she studied anthropology under Franz Boaz (whom she and her fellow students referred to colloquially as “Papa Franz”). She went on to become one of the central figures of the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s and ’30s, and her 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God has found a place as a canonical text in American literature. “It was a long step for the waif of Eatonville,” she writes in her autobiography. “From the depth of my inner heart I appreciated the fact that the world had not been altogether unkind to Mama’s child.”
However far “the waif of Eatonville” came from her humble beginnings, Hurston never forgot her people or the influences that made her into a writer; she continued to explore themes of Black life in the U.S. over the course of novels, nonfiction, and short stories. Perhaps her background in anthropology explains, to some extent, the folk idiom that pervades her work, her penchant for examining the lives of poor Black Southerners in a way that rendered them, in the words of David Levering Lewis, “both mythic and palpably real.”
One of Hurston’s great subjects was the status of women, especially in relation to the menfolk who surround them. Hurston’s men are frequently brutal, selfish, and entitled, arguably none more so than Sykes, the husband of protagonist Delia Jones in “Sweat.”
Though it is apparent that when they first met, well before the opening of Hurston’s story, Delia was enamoured of Sykes, in all his virility and manliness, the bloom has long since come off that particular rose. “Delia and Sykes fought all the time now with no peaceful interludes,” Hurston writes. “They slept and ate in silence. Two or three times Delia had attempted a timid friendliness, but she was repulsed each time.” The word “repulsed,” with its dual connotations of “pushed away” and “disgusted,” carries a lot of weight in this sentence.
It doesn’t help that Sykes is conducting an affair with a “big Black greasy Mogul” named Bertha. “He’s allus been crazy ’bout fat women,” says one of the town men during a typical gossip session. “He’d a’ been tied up wid one long time ago if he could a’ found one tuh have him.”
The first thing that is apparent here is the tenor of the dialogue, which is conveyed phonetically to represent the regional dialect of the Black speakers. This has the effect of immediately locating the characters in a place (the American South) and a socioeconomic stratum. The risk in this kind of approach is in laying it on too thick, and there are places in “Sweat” where the apostrophes and neologisms clutter the page. But it’s hard not to appreciate the specificity of the vernacular in lines like, “We oughter take Syke an’ dat stray ’oman uh his’n down in Lake Howell swamp an’ lay on de rawhide till they cain’t say ‘Lawd a’ mussy.’ ”
What is most interesting is that the village men don’t have any more affection for Sykes than Delia does. “Syke Jones aint wuth de shot an’ powder hit would tek tuh kill ’em,” opines one of the men lounging in the heat on Joe Clarke’s porch. Delia, the men agree, used to be pretty, but her looks have suffered at the hands of Sykes’s mistreatment: “Too much knockin’ will ruin any ’oman. He done beat huh ’nough tuh kill three women, let ’lone change they looks.”
Sykes’s sadism and petulance stand in marked contrast to Delia, who works long hours laundering white people’s clothes to keep her and her husband fed and sheltered. “Ah been married to you fur fifteen years, and Ah been takin’ in washin’ fur fifteen years,” she tells him in a fit of pique. “Sweat, sweat, sweat! Work and sweat, cry and sweat, pray and sweat!” The story’s title is not simply a reference to the dog days of summer during which the narrative unfolds; it encapsulates the conditions under which Delia toils away for small recompense and no regard from her loutish husband.
Far from thanking her for her hard work or striving to make things better for the two of them, Sykes continually goads Delia, preying especially on her fear of snakes. He first throws a bullwhip over her shoulders while her back is turned, frightening her out of her wits, then later hides a literal rattlesnake in Delia’s laundry basket. Psychologically, Sykes is a master manipulator, knowing precisely which buttons to push in order to get a rise out of his wife. His version of masculinity is the kind that in the 21st century would come with the adjective “toxic” attached to it.
Sykes gets his comeuppance when the rattler bites him – “Orlando with its doctors was too far” is the elliptical manner in which the man’s ultimate fate is conveyed. Hurston is not one to allow her women characters’ suffering to go unavenged, though Delia also succumbs to a “surge of pity too strong to support” when she stumbles across her husband with “his horribly swollen neck and his one open eye shining away with hope.” In his final moments, Sykes hopes for deliverance from Delia, notwithstanding the pain – both physical and emotional – he has inflicted on her. The conclusion of “Sweat” offers not so much triumph as a kind of rough poetic justice. As in Galatians, so too in Hurston’s story: a man reaps what he sows.


An Icon Passes on, Pa J.D ‘Okhai Ojekere
In Africa we say that when an old person dies, it is as if a library has burnt down. But Pa Ojeikere has left a vast library of images that will enrich our cultural knowledge for generations to come.
Pa J.D. ‘Okhai Ojekere, an Icon in Photography passed away on the 2nd of February. He was 83 years old.
J.D. ‘Okhai Ojeikere
Rest in Peace


Congratulations to Dr. Jenny Wang for her new book titled "Farewell to infertility" (告别不孕症)!
Dr. Wang is a life member of CCMSBC, who has been practicing as an obstetrician/ Gynecologist in China, US and Canada. She is currently working at Grace Fertility Center.
Knowing the infertility is more and more common among Chinese couples, and most Chinese women lack of the basic knowledge of their own reproductive system, she wrote this book to help.
This book explains the basic anatomy and physiology of women’s reproductive system; the possible causes of infertility; The basic knowledge of Assisted Reproductive Technology and how to have a healthy pregnancy and a healthy baby.


Create a Wide Area Network
GOAL: The goal of this solution is to leverage the resources of local libraries to expand their services through connectivity and digital content. This is achieved by developing a wide area network (WAN) to provide connectivity to other public/community locations expanding the physical reach of the library services.
DESCRIPTION:Libraries are a critical asset in any community, but they are often cornerstones in underserved communities. Over the past decade digital resources and internet connectivity have grown to be very important resources for libraries. Many libraries find that they simply do not have the physical space, computers and devices to meet the needs of their patrons.
Expanding the physical area, by which a library can serve, has never been easier. Utilizing any number of network technologies a library can expand its services and reach by offering services in other public or community locations. These expanded networks can be deployed utilizing any number of technologies. However wireless networks could be the most economical and lowest overhead deployment
By Expanding the libraries network to park pavilions, community centers, kiosks, bus stops, etc. the library can expand where and how the public accesses library internet services and digital content.
With libraries having access to e-rate funds, costs to implement could be offset, and both connectivity and equipment might be eligible costs
Develop a project team, ideally, a Public-Private Partnership would likely offer the greatest opportunity. The team should include: library representations, ISPs, and other relevant community leaders.
Identify location/s for library service extension
Develop a network deployment plan, and select the network technology that suits the community best.
Deploy the network
Communicate and Promote
Community Technology Team
Gigabit Libraries Network: Has worked with several libraries throughout the country on similar projects. Their focus has been to use White Space fixed wireless technologies to develop the network that feeds the extended library network. giglibraries.net
Carlson Wireless Technologies: Carlson’s RuralConnect products have been utilized for these projects. https://www.carlsonwireless.com/ruralconnect/


There has never been a better time for you to get started with genealogy.
Where once the access to historic records was only available offline, the digitization of records and their online availability have contributed greatly to driving interest in genealogy. Tools, platforms, resources are continuously being introduced and enhanced.
Yet for the beginner to genealogy, this vast number of access points and choice can be daunting. There are so many different paths to pursue.
Where to begin? What are the best (and free) resources? How do you research a common Irish surname? What if you know you have Irish ancestry but you're not sure from where in Ireland? What side of the family should you research first? How should you get organized with research? These are many of the common questions the beginner asks.
Does this sound familiar to you?
Have you done some searches, accessed a few sites but you're craving a roadmap, a baseline to make it a little less overwhelming?
While there are workshops and conferences they may not coincide with your schedule or learning style but what you do know...
You know that you want to get started on this journey now. You know you want to explore your family history and your Irish heritage.
So it then becomes about about simplifying this journey. How?
Sleuthability Lab, the online course for beginners to Irish genealogy.
Sleuthability Lab, is the new online course for beginners to Irish genealogy. Borne out of an interest and passion in genealogy and to inspire beginners to get started, instructor, Bridget Bray created this learning opportunity.
The course is structured to provide key information to get started, a centralized approach for content and a pace set by YOU. Content is provided through presentation slides, accompanied by audio as well as downloadable reference guides and worksheets. A dedicated section, the Library, houses all downloadable documents and includes additional reference materials.
Sleuthability Lab presents five modules, within which a series of short lessons break down the module focus. The modules are:
- Module 1: Introduction
- Module 2: Getting Organized
- Module 3: Building the Foundation
- Module 4: Launching the Research Plan
- Module 5: Setting the Future Direction
Sleuthability Lab is desktop, tablet and mobile enabled, enabling ease of learning.
The foundation to getting started with Irish genealogy
Course accessibility via multiple devices: smartphone, tablet or desktop
Learning at your own pace - to stop, start, continue the course at any time
The identification of free before paid tools and resources
Content via slides (with audio), downloadable reference guides and worksheets
The path to getting organized, building your knowledge and launching your research plan
The centralization of information pertaining to tips, tools, resources
Series of short lessons highlighting the most important "what you need to know" points
Welcome and introduction to Sleuthability Lab for Beginners to Irish Genealogy, outlining the course content, focus, format and structure.
Sets the stage for the beginner genealogist to getting organized. From factors to consider in selecting paper or digital organization options, to identifying the key organizational priorities, this module outlines the various choices and proposes best strategies when getting started.
Provides the foundation for key areas of importance when beginning with Irish genealogy research. The lessons detail what to know when getting started, provides an overview on key details regarding Irish history and geography, offers context when researching other regions of the world, and concludes with an overview on various name types and naming patterns.
Begins with a focus on research goals and the management of expectations when getting started. The initial research steps are outlined alongside with the identification of search tools and tips and a selection of various research resources.
The last module follows the completion of the beginner genealogy roadmap outlined in Module 4. The focus turns to setting the future direction of the research and provides a series of options for next steps with recommendations on how to achieve them.
Note: Downloadable reference guides and worksheets are placed within the Library. The Library is a separate section within the course that houses all course reference guides and worksheets plus additional content for use.
Do ANY of the following sound like you?
You are a beginner to Irish genealogy with some or no research conducted to date
You are interested in optimizing use of free before paid sources
You are interested in the convenience of learning at your own pace
You are looking to streamline time in identifying resources and steps in research
You have or believe to have ancestors in Ireland
Your schedule doesn't always align with the dates of genealogy conferences or events
You seek a foundation to Irish genealogy to identify key focus areas with which to begin
You welcome a short course that highlights key points without overwhelm
You have not already built your family tree to 500 A.D!
Accessing the course on your desktop, tablet or mobile device
Having the ability to stop, start, continue, pause, fast forward, rewind at any point, when you wish
Accessing learning content via presentation slides, audio, downloadable reference guides and worksheets
Learning in your own space, at your own pace
- Gaining a foundation of how to get started, what tools and steps to undertake - and hunting for your ancestors - in as little as an afternoon of learning!
Sleuthability Lab offers a flexible, accessible and multi-media course designed to enable a custom learning experience.
What experience level is this course directed to?
Sleuthability Lab is geared for beginners to Irish genealogy interested in gaining a baseline of information, tips and recommendations. The course is aimed for those that have just started, done little to no research to date and are new to building out the family tree.
How is the course designed?
Sleuthability Lab is a five module course with a series of short and focused lessons per module. The course provides a foundation to getting started in Irish genealogy. Content is delivered visually (slides) with accompanying audio. Downloadable worksheets and reference guides are also provided.
What is the cost of the course?
The introductory rate for Sleuthability Lab, for beginners to Irish genealogy is $97 USD and includes the course content (five modules with a series of lessons per module), 29 course reference guides and worksheets.
Does this course apply to those whose Irish ancestors may be two or more generations back?
The course sets the foundation of knowledge for the beginner genealogist regardless of whether their own starting point is in Ireland or elsewhere. It is aimed for those interested in learning more about Irish genealogy. Please also see reference to timeframe question.
What timeframe does this course cover?
The course provides learning opportunities beyond just the historical timeframe eg. getting organized, search tools and operators, etc. The primary focus on Irish history and records is from the 1700s onwards.
Who is the instructor of the course?
The course design and delivery is by Bridget Bray, the founder of The Genealogy Event, a multi-year, multi-location genealogy and DNA focused event that has taken place both in the US and Ireland. She also founded and runs the NYC based Irish / British Genealogy Group - to highlight and place the spotlight on various learning and event opportunities in the genealogy and history space. She has led workshops and masterclasses in both the US and Ireland for many Irish organizations such as the Irish Arts Center, New York Irish Center, the Department of Foreign Affairs (Ireland) on getting started with Irish genealogy.
What is the support provided throughout the course?
The course is self-led to allow learning at your own pace. However course support may be directed to the instructor, Bridget Bray via email as well as via the course's private Facebook membership community.
What is the refund policy?
There is a 30 day refund policy. Please refer to the course refund policy for full details, which is found within the course terms and conditions.
How long is there access to the course?
Access to Sleuthability Lab for beginners to Irish genealogy is 12 months from date of enrollment.
Bridget Bray, pictured by the gravestone of her ancestors in co. Limerick, optimizing the 'sleuthability' look...of course!
Just over ten years ago, Bridget uncovered that part of her ancestry was Irish. Having never asked older generations about the family history when they were alive, there was little to no information with which to begin. There was no knowledge from where in Ireland, no appreciation of the path (and twists and turns) of researching a common surname (and many first names) or where and how best to begin.
Determined to find out more, she researched, read and used numerous genealogy resources, attended conferences, conducted multiple research trips to Ireland, connected with locals, networked with the professional genealogy community and used creative strategies to build out the family tree and story.
In doing so, it spurred an interest and passion to inspire, engage and create opportunities for others to get started with their own research.
In 2009, she formed the New York City based Irish / British Genealogy membership group; in 2012 launched The Genealogy Event, sourcing speakers and building out programs in genealogy and DNA for many years in both the US and Ireland.
She began undertaking speaking engagements across the Irish community at the Irish Arts Center, the New York Irish Center, several The Genealogy Events and at the Department of Foreign Affairs (of Ireland) 2016 commemoration of the Easter Rising.
As the interest continued to grow in Irish genealogy and more people came forward looking to get started, it sparked an idea. The idea: the creation of a flexible digital learning opportunity that provided a foundation to getting started: Sleuthability Lab.
Sleuthability Lab is now a way for Bridget to continue to inspire others to begin with Irish genealogy.


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Bengaluru’s Rivers (ಬೆಂಗಳೂರಿನ ನದಿಗಳು)
Bengaluru’s Rivers (working title) is an exploratory research project seeking to chart histories of migration, settlement and socio-casteist hierarchies along the rivers that feed Bengaluru/
Walking with rivers or tracing rivers has a strong tradition within contemporary art as well as within urban studies, environmental studies, anthropology, etc. The act of tracing rivers and river paths is understood here as a form of reconnecting with the organic world and as an attempt to observe the ever-shifting nature of boundaries reconfigured through acts of erasure and urban development. This sense of impermanence, the ever-present threat of being rewritten and being in a constant state of peril that guides our lived spaces or pre-lived/post-lived spaces highlights not only the futility of attempting to cage nature but also of controlling and governing citizens by setting limits to how, where, and why they interact with the natural world. From this emerges the persistent emphasis that the natural world is something that exists “outside the notions of what constitutes a city” and the creation and perpetuation of a standardised model of human habitation, one that always favours capital over any human desire to maintain proximity to the organic world. The myths surrounding this model allow for boundaries to replicate themselves within the grid-like system of control exerted on people within its outposts.
Among the many stories of Bangalore/Bengaluru, from its origin as a loose coalition of small villages and hamlets to a British cantonment to, in more recent times, the Silicon Valley of the East, one story is often overlooked: the story of the water flowing to the city and where it accumulates. Historically, over 100 lakes and tanks were built by Kempe Gowda (1510–1596) and his successors to feed and sustain a growing settlement. Yet little is told about the story of the migratory waters, from rainfall to springs to channels to canals, the cyclical journey from tank to river and back. But I am interested in the waters themselves as a metaphor, as a way of acknowledging the people living in proximity to these waters through tracing the confines of their travel. The rivers that flow to Bengaluru assimilate the rich histories of the communities into its waters in an attempt to feed the constantly growing metropolis.
While this project is research heavy, it primarily expresses a desire to document and create a personal archive through conversational and gestural modes of communication between subaltern and bahujan (note: umbrella term for marginalised castes in South Asia) communities like mine and those that live along these rivers. It is intended as a long-term project without any concrete outcome, without a desire to appropriate or assimilate. And I imagine through the building of these conversations, a shape may emerge. Or not.
Among the many questions I hope to find answers to, the most important one is “Can these rivers that hold our histories also liberate us from caste and capital?”
Vishal Kumaraswamy is an artist based in Bangalore. He works with text, film, sound, performance, and computational arts moving between theoretical references, news media, and caste realities. Over the last three years, Vishal has been actively engaged in the development of a critical pedagogical framework titled Subaltern Futurism, a container for artistic research, practice, and the technological education of contextualised subaltern communities.
Vishal’s works have been shown at several international exhibitions including The Venice Biennale’s Research Pavilion, Athens Digital Arts Festival, CCS Bard College, Vector Festival, The Royal College of Art & Furtherfield, and have been distributed by VIVO Media Arts, Vancouver. He has previously been an artist in residence with the US Consulate General Mumbai, Contemporary Calgary in Alberta, SAVAC Toronto, Vital Capacities videoclub UK, and Onassis AiR. Vishal is a recipient of the Australia Council for the Arts Transmitter Delhi X Darwin Grant and the Warehouse421 Artistic Research Grant (2021) and is a 2022 Research Associate at the Centre for Contemporary Art Derry~Londonderry. Vishal is currently developing works for SITE Gallery Sheffield and Contemporary Calgary, Canada.
Vishal is the founder of the international artist collective Now You Have Authority (www.nyhacollective.com), a collaborative practice through which he has curated exhibitions, residencies, and delivered workshops at the Tate Modern’s Tate Exchange Programme, Tanzfest Aarau, and The Sluice Biennial. He also develops independent curatorial projects with a focus on contemporary South-Asian artistic practices and his most recent project www.the-lack-of.com was shown as part of The Wrong Biennale in 2019-2020.Editing: Kali Thaker


The Penn Club occupies three interlinking houses in an early Georgian terrace built in the 1800s and retains many of its original features.
Previous occupants of the building include Jane Franklin, wife of Sir John Franklin the polar explorer, and John Wyndham, author of several books including ‘Day of the Triffids’, who lived and wrote at the Club during the 1940s and 50s.
The Penn Club offers comfortable overnight accommodation for both members and non-members and facilities for members to use during the day even when not staying. Accommodation is on 4 floors of the building. Unfortunately, the age of the building means there is no lift (elevator).
Free wireless access is available throughout the building for guests with their own laptops. For those without a laptop, there is a computer that guests can access free of charge.
How We Work At The Penn Club
The Penn Club is owned by its members and is a not-for-profit organisation. This means that we are not responsible to any commercial overlord.
Members, guests and staff are treated equally and fairly. Simplicity and value for money are combined with a friendly, approachable atmosphere to foster a spirit of fellowship.
Bedrooms do not have televisions or telephones, but these facilities are available to all members and guests in the public areas. There is a communal table available at breakfast for guests who wish to sit together.
Started by members of the Friends Ambulance Unit in 1920, the Club maintains its Quaker connection.
The Edward Cadbury Room is a spacious and peaceful sitting room. With its traditional furnishings, daily newspapers and extensive library, this room allows guests time to sit and read or just relax in quiet surroundings.
The TV Lounge also has daily newspapers, a large selection of paperback books for borrowing, board games to suit a range of ages, a large traditional-style desk for writing or using your laptop and plenty of space to sit and chat with friends.
The Dining Room is where breakfast is served. Complimentary tea and coffee is available 24 hours and a small selection of snacks may be purchased. A microwave, fridge and freezer are available for guests’ use.
After breakfast, several tables are left clear for those who wish to work and to take advantage of our free wireless connection.


I bought The Alchemist for a friend who later gave it to me after reading it. When I started reading it, I was expecting it to be a book about some wise sage whose world wise ways would have earned him the dubious title, "The Alchemist." And the alchemy in this case would be knowledge about how the world and especially the human condition, works and unravels.
My expectations were was a little off the mark. Instead of presenting a framework about how individuals can advance themselves beyond their mundane existence and overcome challenges and realize their fullest potential, its Paulo Coehlo's attempt at presenting his own worldview. A spiritual kind of metaphysics. A panpsychist world of omens and legends. Panpsychism is the theory that all matter has some form of consciousness.
Before reading The Alchemist , I had read Paulo Coehlo's Manual of the Warrior of light. It left some lingering interest about what that writer could write and hence my reading of the Alchemist, which is more reknown, notably read even by Bill Clinton.
The Alchemist is a captivating story written in metaphors, some explained through an interview that appears at the back of the book, some unexplained, or some the author is not aware of, or is not interested in interpreting and would rather the reader decides what the metaphor means to them. And whether they are metaphors at all.
It is a beautifully written story about a Shepherd boy whose journey for his personal legend leads him to meet the alchemist, someone who knows the soul of world. The storyline is fine but at the end, it is just an empty story that leaves the reader wondering what is there to learn about the events. It reads like a religious tract because it mostly talks of one believing and offers no tangible explanation, or more importantly, verifiable evidence that the world has a soul for instance, that water and stones have a soul and so on. So in a sense, it is mystical. There is nothing wrong with being mystical but I expected better from a writer of Coehlo's calibre. I now think that he is a man who has travelled far in his spiritual journey but he has wrapped his questions into boxes of mysteries and he now surrounds himself with these boxes. He now sees some of the boxes as gifts from his lessons and his struggles. Boxes that he leaves unopened and he looks at with wonderment and love yet he does not understand what is contained in them. Or what they can unravel.
I think he stopped asking himself the hard questions, or he found the quest so difficult and tiring that at one point, he stopped asking further questions and decided instead to enjoy them for what they are and trust that what they contain is good and beautiful. He crafted for himself a metaphysical worldview that explains boxes and their unseen contents and contented himself with basking in its glow rather than pick a hammer and tong and have a go at the boxes, one after the other.
As an illustration, at one point in an excerpted interview, he is asked whether human souls and souls of stones are different. He answers by saying he doesn’t know but that "I only know that I am alive...But I try to find good questions and not good answers"
This is where we part ways. This is manure. It is an attitude that fosters laziness and encourages an idle acceptance of our gaps of knowledge rather than a relentless pursuit for an understanding of the world and our existence. I am disappointed that Paulo Coehlo can sit up there and tell us that it is okay not to know and to content ourselves with "mysteries" and "spiritualism." That I find unacceptable. Scientists are engaged in serious research and this author who is advertised as some sort of guru tells us answers are not that important? All I can say to him and his ilk is "step aside." Because when you stop searching, your story is over.
If I would have bought the answer “you can’t know everything” to questions like “who created God?” when I started my personal journey, my journey could have ended in blissful ignorance in a few days. I strongly feel Coehlo does not live up to his billing. Examining one's life requires patience, courage, fortitude and patience and it is hard work through and through. Shortcuts and settling for what sounds good and beautiful should be left for feel-good religions and new age hucksters. The Alchemist sells Coehlo as the latter.


Gunsmoke - Henry McDonald’s True Colours, by Paul LarkinA review of Henry McDonald’s book Gunsmoke and Mirrors (How Sinn Fein dressed up defeat as victory).
Henry McDonald is Ireland Correspondent for the Guardian newspaper.
All quotes from the book refer to the hardback version published by Gill and MacMillan, 2008. This review also contains quotes from McDonald's “autobiography” Colours (Ireland from bombs to boom) in the Mainstream Publishing paperback version of 2005. There is a short glossary at the end of this review which explains some of the acronyms used - Paul Larkin, Baile Átha Cliath/Dublin, Mí an Mhárta/March 2009.
GUNSMOKE AND MIRRORS
Having worked as a journalist and film maker for BBC Northern Ireland’s investigative programme Spotlight in the late 1980s through to 1994, and having also written a book about collusion between the British intelligence services and loyalist paramilitaries, I have had occasion to read a good many books about the most recent round of the Irish Troubles. Even the poorest of these books has had some redeeming quality, some insight, which for me, as an informed reader, provided a new understanding of some aspect of the Troubles. I regret to say that Henry McDonald’s latest book has no such redeeming feature. It is not that McDonald is without talents as a writer, Colours, for example, McDonald’s account of his upbringing in the Markets area of Belfast in the 1970s and 80s, contains some well drawn and imaginative descriptions of the extreme tensions and emergent youth cultures which pertained at that time. However, the very fact that this reviewer had to consult Colours to establish McDonald's own political antecedents and beliefs reveals one of the major failings of Gunsmoke. The subjects McDonald declines to discuss in Gunsmoke are the very things which would have saved it from being nothing more than a slapdash and badly written exercise in Provo baiting. Léigh an t-alt uilig - Read Full Article....


Makhi (Incubus Enforcers Series Book #1) By Mahalia Levey
Available In: E-Book*
Word Count: 36600
Special Content: Some Light BDSM
Source And Purchase: Liquid Silver Books (link to purchase HERE)
Age: Adult 18+*
*I added e-book, genre, and age restriction. The e-book, genre, and age restriction was not provided by Liquid Silver Books.
Enforcer Makhi didn’t expect to fall for a woman. However, one look at the new female in need of defending brings out the dead emotions of his incubus. Be it the fates will to bless him as her counterpart, he plans to teach her the fine art of self-control and satisfy her on every level imaginable.
Kamaria Valentin is scared for her life. Blackouts, strange cravings for violence and blood have plagued her for the last two years. Add hot sex dreams with a nameless face and she’s one hot mess. Ready to break, the need for answers pushes her to free herself from the prison holding her a drugged captive.
Caedon Bolton searches for the lost. Deities looking for home, for sanctuary. One night a vulnerable soul screams out to him in her dreams, he must find her and save her from the brink of death. Once he has Kama in his arms, Caedon realizes only he can give her the emotional support she craves.
Mahalia has written one HOT story. Not only is there some HOT action and a ménage à trois going on, but there is also at the heart of this story, a broken young woman who must find the courage to drag herself out of her fear filled nightmare and trust that the two men who have sworn to protect her will not betray her. She must accept the fact that she is not crazy nor alone and start to realize that who she is, is a rare mix of succubus and hell kitten who is worthy of receiving and giving love without repercussions. What I also enjoyed about Makhi was that I got to revisit Demonic Persuasion (a club in Demonic Persuasion (Prophesies Implied Trilogy Book #1) in a sense. Makhi, Kama, and Caedon make for a dynamic threesome. They each have qualities that bring out the best in the others. Mahalia never stops impressing me with her ability to tap into and infuse such strong emotions like fear and love and make you truly feel them as if they were your own emotions. On a scale from 1-10 I give Makhi a 10 and look forward to book #2 in the series, as well as, book #2 in her Demonic Persuasion (Prophesies Implied Trilogy).


Earlier this week, Major League Soccer followed suit with other sports leagues in America and around the world in announcing it was suspending its 2020 season. So, how do fans of the beautiful game satisfy their fix in the meantime?
Well, they could try playing FIFA or watching old games. But why not try reading one of the many great soccer books out there.
Here are three that I would recommend in my limited sample size of books on the world’s game along with a fourth I have yet to read but as someone who grew up with the NASL, yes I totally dated myself, is one I will crack open soon.
Links to the books on Amazon are added.
THREE TO CHECK OUT
The Keeper (2015)
An autobiography of former US national team, MLS and Premier League goalkeeper Tim Howard gives a great account into his time with the Stars and Stripes as well as abroad.
Howard was a highly likable fellow even before he came to MLS late in his playing career. In fact, I remember him coming to Frisco with Everton for a mid-summer friendly back in 2007, a team that also featured Aussie legend, Tim Cahill.
This book is a pretty easy read but provides a nice glimpse into one of the best keepers ever to play between the posts for the US and a pretty good dude too. Unfortunately, the concept of “Keeper Island” was never discussed because rule number one about Keeper Island is that no one talks about Keeper Island, even those who know about it. But this is still a fine read anyway.
An Epic Swindle (2012)
Liverpool FC fans have probably read this one cover-to-cover or maybe they don’t need to because they lived it, the era when former Dallas Stars, Texas Rangers, and Mesquite Rodeo owner Tom Hicks diversified his ownership portfolio by purchasing Liverpool with near-disastrous results.
Brian Reade’s amazing novel is dubbed “44 Months with a pair of Cowboys” and features ample accounts from Liverpool players and supporters alike about the ill-fated Hicks era. Even if you’re not a Liverpool fan, this one is a must-read from the standpoint of how bad things can truly get when the ownership of a club at any level of play or in any country is truly out of touch with their fans and also out of their depth.
Both Feet on the Ground (2003)
There have been several other books on David Beckham in the years since his autobiography hit the shelves and this one precludes Sir David’s time in MLS with the Los Angeles Galaxy, but it’s a good read because it shows his rise from a young player to the national team and into prominence on both the club and international scenes.
Beckham’s auto also delivers a chilling glance into the price of fame, namely the threats against his wife, Victoria, and children, and how he and those closest to him adapted accordingly. This title provides a solid look at the early career of one of the game’s biggest personalities, another one worth your time.
Rock ‘n’ Roll Soccer (2014)
With a tagline of “The short life and fast times of the North American Soccer League,” this title hooked me instantly with NASL in the title. That’s because growing up in Tulsa, my dad and I, who also coached me in rec soccer, were huge fans of the NASL’s Roughnecks.
We were regulars in the north end zone of Skelly Stadium and at their indoor games played at several different venues in T-Town. I even remember running into the Roughnecks at the Atlanta airport as they were coming back from playing the Atlanta Chiefs. I was wearing my soccer jersey and they recognized I was from Tulsa, a pretty cool moment, but I digress.
Acclaimed soccer writer Ian Plenderleith authors this look at the NASL during its 1970s heyday when the likes of Pele, Franz Beckenbauer, Giorgio Chinaglia, Johan Cruyff and other soccer luminaries ventured across the pond to play stateside.
Of course, the huge crowds and big salaries didn’t last forever and by the mid-80s, NASL eventually went the way of the Marathon Bar, gone forever. But it was a fun ride while it lasted, something this book is sure to capture.
While this started as Steve’s list, I couldn’t help adding a few picks of my own.
The Miracle of Castel di Sangro (2000)
The best soccer book I’ve ever ready. The Miracle of Castel di Sangro: A Tale of Passion and Folly in the Heart of Italy was written by Joe McGinniss and is ostensibly about the rise through the Italian ranks of a misfit team from the remote Italian village of Castel di Sangro. It’s a story of triumph and perseverance… right up until it’s not.
McGinniss is allowed to embed with the team and he develops relationships with the players. It’s a fantastic look behind the scenes in Italian soccer.
This dive into the history, lore, and tactics of soccer – as well as the history of the World Cup from 1930 to 1994 – is by legendary Soccer America columnist Paul Gardner.
This is less a story and more of a guide and chronicle to the evolution of tactics in the world of soccer. From where the game started up to the mid-90s. If you want to know how we got to the game we have today, this is the book for you.
Fever Pitch (1998)
This book is quite famous and has even been made into a movie (good) or two (meh).
Unlike the rest of the books on this list, this one is (mostly) fictional. Based on writer Nick Hornby’s own life (yes, the guy who wrote High Fidelity), sort of, it’s about an Arsenal fan’s struggles in life wrapped around and obsessive footbal fandom. Funny, charming, and thoroughly enjoyable.


- For a couple of years, I have been wanting a tablet computer that I hold in my hands and sit in a comfy chair and surf the web, read RSS feeds, read Web comics, maybe read eBooks. The iPad seemed to be just that.
- My wife loves her iPhone. She has hated every other computer, including a mac, that the has ever had. She reads books on it, and browses the web for hours on it. An iPad seemed like a great idea for her as well.
- a button that locks the screen orientation, I would presume for lying on your side and reading in bed.
- a soft button next to the "slide to unlock" that makes it a digital picture frame. Just as the iPhone replaced many devices (it's a flashlight! it's a metronome! it's a guitar tuner! ...), you wonder what devices the iPad will replace.
The apps so far:
- the free iBooks reader from Apple. I like this much better than the kindle. The contrast is so much better, and the larger size I also like much better. They give you one sample book, "Winnie the Pooh". The color illustrations are great. In portrait mode you read a single page, in landscape, two pages (the book is open). Tap the screen to get controls at the top for Table of Contents, and changing contrast, font size and font face, and a slider at the bottom for jumping to any page. But what I really liked was: you double tap a word, you get choices: dictionary gives you a dictionary entry; bookmark creates a bookmark there, which then shows up with the TOC; and Search will find all occurrences of the word in the book, or will search google or wikipedia! What a way to read non-fiction or scientific material, a true hyperbook.
- ABC player (free) to go with YouTube. Recent series episodes with limited commercials. I think everyone's fingers are crossed for Hulu to show up.
- Nat Geo World Atlas ($2) to go with Maps. Also free Weather Channel and WeatherBug. Maps look great.
- USA Today, NPR, NY Times Editors choice, Bloomberg financial app -- all free. Readers are very clear and easy to read. The Bloomberg app is beautiful.
- wikipanion, epicurious (recipes), pandora, free books (23,000 classics -- the reader is not near as nice as iBooks, no reason why it couldn't be), dragon dictation -- all free. Wolfram Alpha 1.99, Voice recorder 0.99.
- The Elements, my most expensive purchase at $13.99. An interactive coffee table book on the periodic table, with two pages per element. Tons of pictures and video, really cool.
- IMDb movie database; Adobe ideas and another free Draw program; all free.
- A bunch of games, $9.99 to free: crosswords, scrabble, sudoku, mahjong, labyrinth, magic piano. They all look great.
- A marvel comics reader (free) - guilty as charged.
Overall, viewing content on this thing is great. The downsides:
- it is definitely a little heavy. My left hand cramped a few times holding it yesterday.
- the typing is not great (I am a touch typist). In portrait mode, I can type OK with my thumbs like I do on the iPhone -- a person with smaller hands could not. In landscape, I was kind of touch typing the right hand keys and hunt and pecking the left hand keys with my right hand. After I went back to my iPhone, it was like "Wow, it's so light! And so easy to hold! And so much easier to type!". So, iPad is much better for reading, if you want to do serious input I would figure on getting the bluetooth keypad. I saw one review with the guy complaining how anti-web 2.0 -- the web of participation -- the iPad was, because input is hard.
I will advise if it does wind up just being a paper weight.


The exact Countach from the Cannonball Run is on display at the National Mall in Washington D.C.
The 1979 Lamborghini Countach that starred in the 1981 classic ‘The Cannonball Run’ has been added to the National Historic Vehicle Register of the United States Library of Congress.
When The Cannonball Run was released in June 1981, few foresaw the enormous success it would have and its importance in the history of American culture.
The film was based on the real-life secret race across the continent, from downtown Manhattan in New York to a marina on the Pacific Ocean at Redondo Beach in California.
Those were the years in the U.S. when a speed limit of 55 mph (88 kmh) was in effect and where the dream of any kind of speed, even just slightly higher, was strictly repressed by the police.
The protagonist of the film was the 1979 Countach LP400 S, black with mustard interior, and the eventual winner. The three-minute opening chase scene basically cemented the Lamborghini as the poster car of the ‘80s, no doubt helped in part by Tara Buckman and Adrienne Barbeau driving it to the win.
During the film’s development, the Countach was slightly modified with the addition of a front spoiler, twin spotlights, three antennas and 12 exhaust pipes.
Ron Rice, founder of the sunscreen brand Hawaiian Tropic, famous for its motorsport sponsorships, supplied a number of models for the movie. He fell in love with the Countach and bought it on the spot.
He kept it until 2004, when it was sold to attorney and Lamborghini aficionado Jeff Ippoliti of Florida, who still owns it.
In celebration of being added to the register, the Countach will be displayed in a glass case on the National Mall in Washington D.C., near the Lincoln Memorial and Washington Monument.
All the information regarding the car, its history, a 3D scan of it and copies of all its documentation will be preserved in the Library of Congress: the oldest cultural institution in the United States, an official body of the United States Congress and America’s national library.


HISTORICAL MARKER IN EUREKA CEMETERY
Text printed on Historical Marker is listed below.
Settlement in this area began in the 1840s. J. F. and J. M. Floyd, members of the local Richland Associate Reform Presbyterian Church organized in 1876, donated land here in 1878 for church and graveyard purposes. The first recorded burial was that of infant Nellie E. Sloan in 1885. The cemetery has been enlarged over the years and in 1995 contained about 13 acres. Buried here are local religious, education, and business leaders, elected officials, and veterans of conflicts ranging from the Civil War to World War II. The cemetery is maintained by the Eureka Cemetery Association. Sesquicentennial of Texas Statehood 1845 - 1995
Placed in Memory of Franklin L. Hodge by His Family
Historical Information About Eureka
EUREKA, TEXAS (Navarro County). Eureka is at the junction of U.S. Highway 287 and Farm roads 637 and 3243, eleven miles southeast of Corsicana in southeastern Navarro County. The settlement developed around a log schoolhouse known as Dunn's School just before the Civil War. In 1870 residents applied for a post office, and at a Grange meeting decided on the name Eureka. That same year a post office was opened in the home of P. Anderson, and within a few years a small town grew up there. By 1885 Eureka reported several steam gristmills and cotton gins, two churches, a district school, and an estimated population of twenty-five. In 1914 its population was about 100. Three local schools were in operation by 1906-two for white students, with a total enrollment of eighty-five, and one for black students, with an enrollment of sixty-one. In the mid-1930s Eureka had a school and six businesses. The Eureka school was consolidated with that of Mildred after World War II. The community's population continued to be estimated at about 100 until the mid-1960s, when it was reported as 125. At that time two churches and several businesses still remained at Eureka. In the early 1990s Eureka was a dispersed rural community with an estimated population of 243.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Annie Carpenter Love, History of Navarro County (Dallas: Southwestern, 1933). Wyvonne Putman, comp., Navarro County History (5 vols., Quanah, Texas: Nortex, 1975-84). Alva Taylor, History and Photographs of Corsicana and Navarro County (Corsicana, Texas, 1959; rev. ed., Navarro County History and Photographs, Corsicana, 1962).


EECS 482: Introduction to Operating Systems
12/01: "PThread Primer link was invalid *again*". Fixed it. Thanks...
12/01: only 14 days left until the last day of classes. i'm thankful i got
to teach this semester but i'm sad that i don't get to teach next semester.
thank u all!
Extra Information on Various Topics
Textbooks and Additional Book References
i own all these books. if you are interested in any of the books and
would like to check out the content (before you buy one for youself),
send me an mail and i would bring it to the discussion section. this
extra material is for the curious ones and not in any way required...
- A. Tanenbaum, "Modern Operating
Systems", 2nd edition <-- your required textbook
- A. Silberschatz and P. Galvin, "Operating
System Concepts", 5th edition
- W. Stevens, "Advanced
Programming in the UNIX Environement" (this is an excellent
reference book on the UNIX Operating Systems. I highly recommend it!)
- S. Qualline, "Practical C++
Programming" (when I had to brush up on the basic concept of the
C++ language for this class, I bought this book.)
- B. Stroustrup, "The C++
Programming Language" (this book is by the creator of C++
language and i bought it to use as a reference guide.)
- S. Meyers, "Effective C++: 50
specific ways to improve your programs and designs" (a book of
'gotchas' in C++)
- D. Musser, "STL Tutorial and
Refernce Guide", 2nd edition
- S. Meyers, "Effective STL: 50
specific ways to improve your use of the Standart Template Library"
(similar to "Effective C++"
book, the author presents the 'gotchas' of STL)
- D. Butenhof, "Programming with
- S. Kleiman, D. Shah, and B. Smaalders, "Programming with threads"
- B. Lewis, "PThread Primer"
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2018-2019 St. Mary Book Club Selections
The St. Mary Book Club is a group of enthusiastic Catholic Christians seeking to deepen their understanding of and appreciation for our Catholic faith. As a group, we select books by prominent Catholic writers in keeping with the Magisterium of the Church. We explore conversion stories, lives of the saints, the Liturgy of the Mass, Our Blessed Mother and new evangelization efforts. Authors we have read include Scott Hahn, Edward Sri, Donna Marie Cooper O’Boyle, C.S. Lewis, Matthew Kelly, Pope Francis, Pope John Paul II, and many more. We look forward to another interesting and fun year of lively discussions.
We meet the first Monday of the month, September through May, with a break in January. In December, we discuss a film.
Our meetings typically last 1 ½ hours, with one member volunteering to lead the discussion of each book.
Parishioners are welcome to join us for any or all of our meetings!
For more information, please contact Claire Burkhart at firstname.lastname@example.org. Many of our books are available at our bookstore. Some titles are special ordered.
Planned Reading Schedule & Selections


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.driftignore is a simple way to ignore resources, you put resources in a
.driftignore file like a
If you need only to exclude a set of resources you should use .driftignore, if you need something more advanced, check filter rules.
Create the .driftignore file where you launch driftctl (usually the root of your IaC repo).
Each line must be of kind
resource_type.resource_id, resource_id could be a wildcard to exclude all resources of a given type.
resource_type.resource_id.path.to.FieldName, resource_id can be wildcard to ignore a drift on given field for a given type, path could also contain wildcards.
Fields are not case-sensitive.
If your resource id or the path of a field contains dot or backslash you can escape them with backslashes:
The above mechanism to ignore resources can be used in combination with filter rules. Bear in mind that if the same resource is included by a filter rule and excluded inside the .driftignore file, driftctl will just ignore this resource.


If you’re planning to create a library in your home, you should make sure to incorporate the principles of trendy library interior design into your plans. Here are a few tips: First, make sure you get as many perspectives as possible when thinking about potential designs. This is because close attachment to space will hinder innovation. Secondly, make sure you have a diverse support group that can offer feedback. This will help you measure metrics and get the most out of your library space.
Trendy Library Interior Design – Modern home library
The current trend in home libraries favors streamlined lines and ergonomic interiors. They’re also becoming more space-conscious, as libraries don’t have to take up entire rooms anymore. You can fit one in an attic or a corridor. In addition to their functionality, home libraries can add a touch of whimsy to any home.
Home libraries can be excellent place to spend quality time with family and friends. A stylish home library is a perfect place to relax and read a book. A few stylish ideas can help you create a relaxing reading space. Consider a few tips from interior designers to help you create a home library that meets your needs.
For example, a large cream shelving unit provides an eye-catching accent on a blank wall. The shelves are complemented by a simple metal ladder that allows you to reach the higher shelves. Choose a home library style that complements your home’s style. A large bookshelf will provide ample storage and a cozy reading area.
Incorporating textures, prints and patterns is a great way to bring a sophisticated look to your home library. To achieve the look, you can choose a variety of furniture and decor. Some designers also incorporate bookshelves to create a stylish atmosphere. You can use shelves to store books, magazines, and other items you might want to keep out of sight.
Home libraries are also a good way to showcase your personal book collection. A home library can be as large or as small as you like. Whether you choose to create a large space or a cozy reading nook, your home library can be an oasis of quiet and relaxation.
Sustainable library design
Sustainable trendy library interior design is an increasingly important topic for libraries, because it can help minimize their impact on the environment. By using energy-efficient building materials and reducing waste, libraries can reduce their overall carbon footprint. In addition, sustainable trendy library interior design is important for both the health of users and the environment. This includes proper air flow and insulation. Other environmentally friendly design features include durable products and reduced packaging.
For example, one example of a sustainable trendy library interior design is a Japanese children’s library, which recently underwent extensive renovations to replace outdated furniture and incorporate innovative features. The goal of the new, modern children’s library was to create a greater sense of solidarity while maintaining the traditional elements of the building. For example, a snake-shaped bookcase was replaced with a wooden shelf reminiscent of a large tree trunk. The library’s modernization aims to make it easier for children to access the materials in the library.
Another example of sustainable trendy library interior design is the Tilburg Public Library in The Netherlands, which is built in an old train depot. This building was built in 1932, but it has preserved much of its original structure. In addition to using recycled materials, the Tilburg Public Library also incorporates historic elements, such as train wheels turned into furniture.
The materials used in trendy library interior design must be durable and adaptable. They should be suitable for the library’s intended purpose and should not be too shiny. The materials should be low-VOC, have low embodied energy and be local to the project site. A library must also be flexible, which means that the interior design must be adaptable to meet changing needs of users.
Mobile bookshelves are an important aspect of trendy library interior design. These shelves allow patrons to easily navigate between the shelves and are ideal for libraries with limited floor space. They are lightweight and do not have visible casters, which blend in well with the overall interior design of the building. The only downside to mobile bookshelves is the weight of the items that they store. To move these units, two people must push them.
The history of mobile shelving can be traced back to 1890 when W. E. Gladstone published an article on the topic. Others who wrote on this topic included Henry Petroski and Alan Powers. Both authors were involved in the creation of the first bookcases. Other books that deal with accommodating books at home, such as Living with Books by Alan Powers and Terry Belanger’s Lunacy and the Arrangement of Books, were also influential in the development of mobile shelving.
Using mobile bookshelves in a trendy library interior design is a great way to give the room a grand and open feel. Before implementing mobile bookshelves, measure your space and consider the dimensions of your room. If the space is small, you can use a narrow corner of the room to create a nook for your library. Then you can choose the shelves accordingly.
Library ladders first gained popularity in the mid-1800s in Victorian England. Usually made of solid wood, these ladders were reserved for the upper class. Today, these ladders are available in many different designs. There are rolling ones with rails, wooden step designs, and a few more. They can add a modern touch to a trendy library interior design, which increases patron interest and helps make storage easier.
Customized bookcases are a versatile addition to a trendy library interior design. They can hold an entire library, a collection of art objects, or media equipment. And they’re flexible enough to accommodate new acquisitions. Whether you need a large, open-plan library, a cozy study, or a space to store your favorite books, custom bookcases can accommodate your needs.
One library designer chose a muted interior paint color palette that was inspired by the spines of books. The trendy library interior design features a custom-made rug by designer Marc Phillips. The hanging fixture is trimmed in Samuel & Sons trim. Seating includes an hourglass-form side chair and a slipper chair in a Pollack fabric. The trendy library interior design also includes a secret door that leads to the library’s office.
In the library of the owners’ Long Island home, custom bookcases mimicked the archways of a Belgian castle. The homeowners had inherited a collection of leather-bound books, and the designer introduced inviting color to make it a favorite. The custom sofa was upholstered with wool tartan, which coordinated with the geometric Stark carpet. The room’s armchairs, designed by the designer, are upholstered in blue and orange.
Customized bookcases can be made of wood or MDF. Generally, MDF is cheaper and heavier than wood, but it retains its appearance over time. It can also be constructed out of softwood, though it doesn’t have the same strength-to-weight ratio as hardwood.
A home library is often the perfect place to relax. It can be a retreat from the hectic world of work and family. A custom library can be built without sacrificing valuable living space.
The furnishings in the children’s area of a library should support actual usage patterns and meet the needs of children. After all, they may be the main patrons of activities like reading and family games. Make sure to provide sturdy seating for the children and adequate table space. Using lighter colour palettes can also make the children’s area look warmer and inviting.
The children’s area in a library should be bright and colorful. Using carpet tiles or area rugs can help define the space and add some color. Wall space is another excellent place to hang visually appealing items. And signage should be easy to read. This helps children develop confidence as they navigate the space.
Children’s areas can incorporate various educational tools, such as global games, chess clubs, and blackboard paint. The materials should also be placed at a height where kids can easily see and access them. In addition, the shelf heights should be at least 48″; perimeter shelving can be as high as 66″ if necessary.
Another example of a children’s area in trendy library interior design is the Thomas Hughes Children’s Library. This library features a sensory-sensitive area, and it also includes a nursing room and a family washroom. It has plenty of children’s books, including early literacy ones.
Children’s area in trendy library interior design can also include a play area. This is especially important for libraries with young children. The library’s merchandising and shelving can help to encourage kids to read more.
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Find and Use Historical Web Information with the Internet
Archive Wayback Machine
Date: Friday, December 22, 2023
Time: 1 p.m. - 2 p.m.
Credits: 1.0 G
That is the potential of the Internet Archive Wayback Machine (IAWM), a free web-based tool that provides access to hundreds of billions of archived web pages dating from 1997 to present.
In this webinar, Presenter Nicholas Taylor will:
- Provide background on what IAWM is, how it works, and the scope of content to which it provides access;
- Walk through IAWM features that are useful for the discovery of specific information or web content;
- Review strategies and trends for authentication and admissibility of IAWM evidence in U.S. federal courts; and
- Explain critical differences in the behavior of archived websites accessible through IAWM and “live” websites.
Nicholas Taylor provides expert witness services related to evidence produced from the Internet Archive Wayback Machine, other web archive repositories, and public websites. He is commonly engaged to help determine when particular information or web content may have been published, updated, available, or discoverable on the web, as well as to authenticate and interpret archived web content for evidentiary purposes.
His regular full-time employment is as the Deputy Group Leader for Technology Strategy and Services at the Los Alamos National Laboratory Research Library. In this role, he oversees IT research and development efforts focused on digital repository services, applied information science, and system operations.
Prior to Los Alamos National Laboratory, he managed and supported digital library, digital preservation, library technology, and web archiving programs at Stanford Libraries, the Library of Congress, and the U.S. Supreme Court Library. He possesses an M.A. in Communication, Culture, and Technology from Georgetown University and an M.L.S. from the University of Maryland, College Park.
Originally Recorded: July 8, 2022
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COVID-19 Infection Prevention and Control Practices in Long-Term Care, Residential and Retirement Homes
Health Standards Organization (HSO) and Accreditation Canada are providing complimentary access to a selection of resources to fight COVID-19.
This toolkit has been created by Accreditation Canada (AC) and Health Standards Organization (HSO) to assist long-term care and residential care homes across Canada in understanding how to integrate essential Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) practices into their services in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.
This toolkit draws from a combination of national and international resources on COVID-19 such as the World Health Organization (WHO) and Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) as well as actionable criteria found within HSO’s evidence-based standards.
This toolkit does not replace any jurisdictional legislation or professional regulatory requirements and should be used in conjunction with relevant clinical practice guidelines and other detailed IPC resources.