Kindle Fire HD Comic Book Reader Graphic Novels and Comics
Welcome to the ultimate guide to the Kindle Fire HD Comic Book Reader to Kindle Graphic Novels and Comics. One of the most overlooked features with the Kindle tablet is the ability to natively browse, purchase and read comics, graphic novels and comic strips as you would other ebook and Kindle published content. The first Kindle Fire wasn’t the most ideal comic book reader, but an HD screen, updated interface and a year later make a big difference.
Kindle Fire HD Comic Book Reader Pros
- Looks sharp on device and reads well even though at smaller size than print counterparts.
- Ability to sample and easily purchase full version.
- Ebook leading features you come to expect from Kindle: page syncing, sharing and favorites.
- Good entry level selection of popular DC, Marvel and independent works like The Living Dead.
- Economical device and content pricing.
- Seamless integration with device ecosystem.
Kindle Fire HD Comic Book Reader Cons
- Does not rotate out of portrait reading experience, even for 2 page spreads.
- Limited options and preferences to customize the comic reading experience compared with other comic book readers.
- Not an extremely deep catalog – but getting better with additional of Marvel catalog.
- Did I mention no landscape orientation? ^_^
Kindle Fire HD Comic Book Reader Frequently Asked Questions
Q: What comic book file formats are Kindle comics? Are they downloads that I can manage like CBR, CBZ or PDF files?
A: Graphic novels and comics available in the Kindle store are in the Kindle Format for viewing by a Kindle family device or Kindle App. They are NOT CBR, CBZ or PDF files, but the Kindle device family or Kindle App allows you to download, transfer and manage from the cloud through your amazon account.
Q: Can I view graphic novels and comics that I have purchased in the Kindle Store on other devices, like an iPad?
A: Yes – but only through a Kindle App – which is available for most major platforms, including Android & iOS. The store purchase and sampling experience may not be as seamless, but all prior purchases are available on the cloud.
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Q: Can you read comics in landscape orientation?
A: In my experience on the Kindle Fire, Kindle Fire HD and apps on Android and iOS, the answer appears to be No. I don’t want to overly emphasize this point, but everyone reads a little bit differently.
Kindle Fire HD Comic Book Reader Download
Kindle ebook readers were one of the biggest first successes in digital reading, so its no surprise to see comics on the Kindle Fire. Expanding the Kindle offering to an Android powered base on an HD tablet, the Kindle Fire HD – 7″ makes for a solid digital comic book reader.
While the 7″ form factor is smaller than typically published comic size, the images are sharp and rich and the text highly legible. The device aspect ratio is obviously geared toward HD Video and noticeable during comics reading, but its not an overall negative – especially if portability is highly prized. Its like reading an Archie Double Digest on an HD screen – it scales down surprisingly well.
Amazon does everything to make the purchase ecosystem as seamless and frictionless as possible. Graphic Novels and Comics content is given the same treatment as Apps and other Features in the device ecosystem. Samples with a small handful of pages are easily available via Amazon Whispernet and enable a quick “In App” style purchase once you have breezed through. Full purchases are direct counterparts to the published graphic novel – not sequenced comics, its exactly like “picking up the trade”.
Favorite features from the Kindle reading experience are here including page syncing between Kindle Reading Apps, Sharing Notes and Highlights via Facebook and Twitter, and marking favorites and go to a specific page / location. From a page perspective, its a really solid reading experience that can make hundreds of fly by without a thought… until you hit double page spread. There is no getting around its awkward, and locking the device into portrait mode for reading comics doesn’t feels additional restrictive, but reality is simply constrained by the device size.
The other constraint is on the content side – the library is simply not as extensive as Amazon’s print offerings. Like with print trade paperbacks, content appears to be released in batches. Best sellers, historical classics and the New 52 are available from DC with a starter selection of independents, most notably lead by The Walking Dead. But the good news is this is changing for the better with recent offerings from Marvel and expanding to monthly comics beyond just digital trade paperbacks. For those who want to conveniently read some of the best comics has to offer, its a well groomed path. But for those who taste run deeper its can feel like half the universe is missing without some key offerings.
Something I left out of the Pro / Con list was panel reading. Amazon calls out on select titles: “Kindle Panel View for a magnified, panel-by-panel presentation of the story.” Its a completely different approach to panel reading compared to comiXology Guided ViewTM Technology. A panel on page is blown up while the others remain dimmed, but viewable and the whole page is kept in perspective. ComiXology Guided View ™ turns the panels into pages while the Kindle Panel View shifts the focus of each page by enlarging the panels in sequence.
I am a bit agnostic about which way I prefer viewing panels on a 7″ device. It makes no sense to me on a 10″ device, but its clearly the only way to view on a phone. But in between… well, it makes me feel in between. If there was a particular panel layout targeted by the artist for digital (like a widescreen emphasis famously showcased by Bryan Hitch in the Ultimates), then I could get behind a preference. Since the vast majority of scripts and layouts are still page driven designs, I see the panel to panel as a stop gap measure until comics embrace digital fully – like with Marvel Infinite Comics. Otherwise, the comics that will look and function best in panel view are movie storyboards.
Regardless of panels or not, the biggest benefit of the Kindle Fire HD with Kindle Comics & Graphic Novels is simply economics. The tablet itself is competitively priced in addition to the content. A quick survey of titles available on other services confirmed at the the time of this review that Kindle Store prices were the lowest.
For someone dabbling in comics, an avid amazon fan or looking for some of the best deals in comic book reader content and HD tablets – I heartily recommend picking up a Kindle Fire HD and visiting Kindle Comics & Graphic Novels.
Comics & Graphic Novels on Kindle Store & More
With a Kindle Fire Tablet, natively browse, purchase and read a great selection of comics and graphic novels from Marvel, DC Comics and many independents. Some suggestions for getting started with your Kindle Fire HD Comic Book Reader:
There you go. What do you think? Let the world know in the comments.
- Comic Book Reader Guy
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We will be holding a sharing session for anyone interested in joining the Advisory Board of the new Prep Athletic Club. It will take place on Thursday, May 26, at 7pm in the student commons (the old library). Refreshments will be served. Please rsvp to Coach Cantafio at firstname.lastname@example.org by Monday, May 23. Looking forward to seeing you all!!
Join Father A. J. Rizzo S.J. and Coach Cantafio for a nine day fall tour of Italy, October 17- October 25, 2022. Visit Venice, Padova, Siena, Rome, Florence & San Gimignano.
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From the Greek compound philo (love) and logos (word), philology means the love of words, or more specifically the study of language. Although the immediate connection between the “love of words” generally and a Christian love of the word of God, the eternal logos (John 1:1), should be readily apparent, further exploration of the lost art of philology discovers even deeper resonances.
Like philosophy (the love of wisdom), philology posits first the ethical distance between the student and the word. The learner of logos must first be a lover of logos, the learner and lover of language. Without love, there is no knowledge. Love opens one up to language, etc. The importance of this becomes immense once one realizes how the foundation of facticity is language itself. As the German Philosopher Martin Heidegger famously said: “Die Sprache ist das Haus des Seins” (language is the house of being). And as Scripture teaches, we are “worded” creatures, created by the speech of God (Gen. 1); the whole universe is upheld by the “word of his power” (Heb. 1:3).
Therefore if ours is a “worded” world then the logic of language is of utmost importance. In fact, nothing is more powerful than speech itself; nothing is more important than words, nor more dynamic than discourse. Our lives and loves are always already condition, contained, and even constituted by the limits of language. And so to learn language is to learn to live; to learn to love. And to love words is an entrance into the whole world. Hence, the mystic romance of the philologist.
J.R.R. Tolkien understood this perhaps better than most during the 20th century. In fact he did not see himself to primarily be a story teller, or a fiction writer. Rather, he understood himself primarily to be a philologist. And it was philology itself that provided the performative context for his mythology. He loved stories, but he realized that even they were constituted by something more primary, namely language. Therefore, it was nouns and names that Tolkien loved most passionately; the love of words and their elusive histories, meanings, and powers. “The invention of languages is the foundation,” wrote Tolkien of his myths. “The ‘stories’ were made rather to provide a world for the languages than the reverse” (Letters, p. 219). This comes through in a letter to his son Christopher regarding the later’s poem on Attila the Hun:
I suddenly realized that I am a pure philologist. I like history, and am moved by it, but its finest moments for me are those in which it throws light on words and names! Several people (and I agree) spoke to me of the art with which you made the beady-eyed Attila on his couch almost vividly present. Yet oddly, I find the thing that thrills my nerves is the one you mentioned casually: atta, attila. Without those syllables the whole great drama both of history and legent loses savour for me (Letters, p. 264).
What is Tolkien talking about? Why are the syllables of atta, attila, so much more important than anything else about the story? Could so much possibly be hidden within a few syllables, cognates, nouns, or names? How much is in a name anyway? How much meaning in a word? The answer: more than most modern people care to realize. In fact, it is the words themselves that give the greatest clues into the stories; it is the names in their specificity that open up the narratives. Tom Shippey, explains:
The point is that Attila, though a Hun, an enemy of the Goths under Theodorid and a byword for bloody ferocity, nevertheless does not appear to bear a barbarian name. ‘Attila’ is the diminutive form of the Gothic word for ‘father’, atta: it means ‘little father’, or even ‘dad’, and it suggests very strongly the presence of many Goths in Attila’s conquering armies who found loot and success much more attractive than any questions of saving the West, Rome or Civilization! ….. Atta, Attila: what’s in a name? One answer is, a total revaluation of history (The Road to Middle Earth, p. 16).
By calling this tyrant and destroyer Attila the Goths gave the most poetic expression to the complete turnover of their culture and civilization. They called their worst enemy affectionately, “daddy.” Any further words would fail to transcend the sublime simplicity of these subtle sounds. The syllables say it all.
As Christians we also can appreciate this love for language and its importance in discovering the depths of significance embedded into the Holy Scriptures. We may even take the significance of names as an example (the sensitivity to which modernity has left us almost entirely bereft).
God has revealed himself throughout Scripture through both his actions and his names. And the names are no less significant than the actions! Rather they are integrally connected and powerfully combined. In fact nothing is more powerful than the word of the LORD, nor anything more glorious than his name. And from the beginning of the entire history of salvation, God’s name was holy and dangerous; unpronounceable, and not to be blasphemed. But in Genesis God acts in providing for his friend Abraham, and Abraham named that spot, “Yahweh will provide” (Gen. 22:8, 14). And later God reveals himself to Moses as “I am who I am” (Ex. 3) and then says: “for this purpose I have raised you up, to show you my power, so that my name may be proclaimed in all the earth” (Ex. 9:13). Likewise, the names of the leaders of Israel are significant too, of course. Joshua, for example, means the LORD saves.
All of this comes to a head in the New Testament when we hear that “his name will be Jesus (Joshua) because he will save his people from their sins. Here the names Yahweh, Joshua, and Jesus are identified. And most notably, the title, Christ (Messiah, which means anointed) harkens back to the entire history of the anointed servant of the Lord. In the New Testament world, all a Jew (or Samaritan) had to do is say the title “Messiah” and instantly a whole history of significance was brought to the mind. Thus to say, “Jesus is the Christ” was the most historically freighted of statements. For by nominating Jesus with title “Christ” one was making a revaluation of history itself.
But we need to be lovers of language if we are to learn any of this; lovers of words and lovers of the worlds they create. We need to practice philology, to whatever extent that is still possible anymore. Ultimately, this is how we love the world of our neighbors; the world of our ancestors, and the texts they’ve written down for us; and ultimately this is how we love the eternal logos of God. Indeed, all these things go together.
For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him. And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together (Col 1:16-17).


This book left me speechless. My mind is ruminating on all I have just read and I scour through my notes. I have ferociously scribbled and highlighted, and It is so lovely to be introduced to Melinda Gates foremost and her story is beyond admirable. It is profound.
The first time I heard of Melinda Gates was via The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. As a Management Consultant at the time, I was on a project that took me to Northern Nigeria, Kano State to carry out an assessment of the Board of the Primary Health Care Development Agency.
This project involved visiting primary health care centers, and extensive interviews with the Board to assess their effectiveness for the role. I remember when i saw the client sponsoring this project; “Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation”, I was truly surprised. I did some research on the foundation, and saw the tremendous work they had done at the time towards eradicating polio in Nigeria, and was further inspired when it eventually happened. I saw the investment of resources; time, funding, network, medication, that this foundation gave to problem that “wasn’t theirs”. It was so profound to me.
Fast forward six years later, my senior friend (my friend uses this term for her mentors and i love it), gave me this book as a gift. She mentioned I had said I enjoyed Michelle Obama’s book - Becoming, and thought I might like to read this. I remember her saying she finds both women’s story unique and different. After reading it, i share the same sentiment.
This book wasn’t a straight read for me, it took me a while. I read this book in roughly two months. This wasn’t because the book wasn’t great, it was! But for a few other reasons. One, my schedule has been a bit hectic, so finding time to read at a stretch has been hard. I mean, i want to read and i can't because i need the time for something else.
Secondly, it was a hard copy book and it was harder to carry around than a kindle, but i did miss reading hard copy and honestly, it is way more experiential. Finally, and most importantly, I had a lot of notes to take while reading this book. At some point, I had to switch to a highlighter. There are so many gems.
For me, I was pleasantly surprised to be introduced to Melinda Gates. I never knew who she really was, beyond an accompanying name of a massive foundation, and boy - is she much more than that. Her personality comes so strongly (not loudly) in the book, as someone who is so deeply in touch with her core self, and who she is. She comes across as an introvert, and an empathetic person. I admire her spirit from the words that I read.
Melinda touches a lot with this book, and really untangles and deconstructs the poignant realities of women's suffering across her outreaches with the foundation.
She also touches on her personal life, on gender roles and expectations, women in the workplace and marriage dynamics. Most of the book cover more precarious eventualities with her work at Bill and Melinda Gates like legal restrictions against women, physical abuse in marriages, child marriage, lack of access to contraceptives for women, lack of access to education, female genital mutilation among other grave consequences of the subjugation of women. Melinda does an amazing job of clearly showing the thread that unites all these great ills - bias against women.
She shares stories of brave women in incredibly difficult situations, she empathizes and humanizes them throughout the book. There are so many heartbreaking stories in the book, and very quickly you realize your own privilege to be holding a book, merely reading about these great ills that have befallen women, and continue to befall them.
Melinda is also honest and talks about her own journey towards equality in her marriage, her journey with gender equity and her faith as a catholic, and how religion is used as a major (and potent) tool to perpetuating the imbalance.
Here are a few quotes i highlighted. There are so many amazing quotes that didn't make it here.
On A Little Girl Who Dared To Ask For Education
“It takes courage to ask for what you want, especially when it is more than what people think you should have”
On Unmasking Stigma
“I’ve come to learn that stigma is always an effort to suppress someone’s voice. It forces people to hide in shame. The best way to fight back is to speak up, to say openly the very thing that others stigmatize. It is a direct attack on the self censorship that stigma needs to survive”
“The first defense against a culture that hates you, is a person who loves you”
“One of the defining features of hierarchy is that you take the powerful and exciting jobs for yourself and impose the crummy tasks on others.”
“It means society is governed by a false hierarchy where power and opportunity are awarded according to gender, age, wealth and privilege not according to skill, effort, talent or accomplishments”
A man who is dominant is probably not going to say “hey, let's be equal, take some of my power”
On Inclusion and Gender Bias
“I believe that when people who are bound by the rules have no role in shaping the rules, moral blind spots become the law, and the powerless bear the burden”
“It's a clear choice, challenge the bias or perpetuate them”
“When I meet women who have faced heavy gender bias, I often see it in the way they look at me. Or don’t look at me. It’s not easy to unlearn a lifetime of being meek”
“Discrimination against women is perpetuated not only in the laws that exclude women but also in the absence of laws that support women”
On Building Male Allies
“But women can’t do it alone. Every successful effort to bring in outsiders has always had help from insider activists who do the work of reform from within”
These quotes and review do not do this book justice, so I suggest you read the book.
I definitely recommend.
I'm officially putting it into the universe that I would love to sit, and have coffee with Melinda Gates.
Read My Review of Michelle Obama's - Becoming


The following suggestions are to give you some ideas of book on different topics or books of the Bible to help with personal study or if you are working in a discipleship relationship.
- Dave Ramsey “Total Money Makeover”
- Faith and Finances by Tim Rosen
- Free of Charge: Giving and Forgiving in a Culture Stripped of Grace by Miroslav Volf
- Marriage on the Rocks by Jimmy and Karen Evans
- Mingling of Souls by Matt and Lauren Chandler
- You and Me Forever by Francis Chan and Lisa Chan
- The Meaning of Marriage by Tim Keller
- Love and Respect by Dr. Emerson Eggerichs
- Sacred Marriage by Gary L. Thomas
- The Art of Marriage by FamilyLife
- Five Love Languages Gary Chapman
- His Needs Her Needs Willard F. Harley Jr.
- Gospel-Powered Parenting by William Farley
- Shepherding a Child’s Heart by Tedd Tripp
- What Every Son Wishes His Father Had Told Him by Byron Yawn
- Raising a Modern Day Knight by Robert Lewis
- Give them Grace by Elyse Fitzpatrick
- Don’t Make Me Count to Three by Ginger Plowman
- Bringing up Girls OR Bringing up Boys by James Dobson
- Praying Circles Around Your Children by Mark Batterson
- Grace Based Parenting by Tim Kimmel
- Anger: Handling a Powerful Emotion in a Healthy Way by Gary Chapman
- Uprooting Anger by Robert D. Jones
Surrender to God
- Breaking Free by Beth Moore
- Crazy Love by Francis Chan
- Absolute Surrender by Andrew Murray
- Radical by David Platt
- The Pursuit of God by AW Tozer
How to Study the Bible
- How To Read the Bible for All Its Worth by Gordon D. Fee
- Knowing Scripture by R.C. Sproul
- Rick Warren’s Bible Study Methods
- Personal Disciplemaking by Christopher Adsit
- Multiply by Francis Chan
- Building a Discipling Culture by Mike Breen
- The Master Plan for Evangelism by Robert Coleman
- Real-Life Discipleship Jim Putman (Must have)
- Disciplines of a Godly Man by R. Kent Hughes
- Disciplines of a Godly Woman by Barbara Hughes
- Spiritual Disciplines for a Godly Life by Donald S. Whitney
- Made for More by Hannah Anderson
- Abba’s Child by Brennan Manning
- Search for Significance by Robert McGee
- The Bondage Breaker by Neil T. Anderson
- The Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren
- Experiencing God by Henry Blackaby
Understanding What you Believe
- Reason for God by Tim Keller
- Mere Christianity by CS Lewis
Work/Life Balance – Healthy Boundaries
- Boundaries by Henry Cloud
- The Best Yes by Lysa Terkeurst
- Made to Crave by Lysa Terkeurst
- Eat with Joy by Rachel Marie Stone
- Love to Eat, Hate to Eat by Elyse Fitzpatrick
- Life’s Healing Choices by John Baker
- Breaking Free by Beth Moore
- Addiction: A Banquet in the Grave by Edward T. Welch
- A Man’s Strategy for Conquering Temptation by Bob Vereen
- Overcoming Lust by Jim Vanderspeck
- Finally Free by Heath Lambert
- Prayer by Tim Keller
- Lord, Teach us To Pray by Rev. Andrew Murray
- Forgotten God by Francis Chan
Bible Studies – Helping you choose a book of the Bible that meets your Huddle’s needs.
Ephesians: Identity in Christ- How grace and the gospel define who you are and how you should live.
- How Do You Walk the Walk you Talk? Kay Arthur
- NAVPRESS – Ephesians LifeChange Bible Study Series
Hebrews: What is faith? How does it direct how we live, love and serve?
Philippians: Confidence in Christ – finding peace and joy in the midst of difficult circumstances.
- NAVPRESS – Philippians LifeChange Bible Study Series
Acts: How did the Church begin? What is your mission? How does God want to use you to build His Church?
John: Who is Jesus? A teacher? A Prophet? Or the true Son of God?
- Steve Severance’s John Study
Mark: Who is Jesus? What is the gospel?
Romans: Understanding what Christians believe – a clear discussion of Christian doctrine that Paul presented to the Romans. How does what God did through Jesus inform how we live?


Are you Stressed? Burnt Out? Depressed?
If you are in the service industry, working hard as a caregiver or nurse, you are probably suffering from Compassion Fatigue!
- This is secondary trauma, which you can get just from being around your patients.
- It affects carers much like the symptoms of post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
- More and more caregivers and nurses are having to take time off or quit because they do not know how to deal with the problem!
Are you suffering from Compassion Fatigue?
Unfortunately, Compassion Fatigue is One-Stop away from Burnout and Depression!
If you find yourself struggling with Compassion Fatigue, Burnout or Depression, you are not alone. Many caregivers and nurses struggle to find the time to care for themselves and rejuvenate. They are pulled in so many different directions. Lack of resources and not feeling like they are achieving all they should achieve are just a few of the problems they will face.
The Solution – Better Problem Solving
Our 100+ page guide is designed to help you overcome common caregiver problems and bring organization and control back into your life! You will learn how to cope with stress better, meaning you will be better at your job and more likely to receive that promotion, when the time comes!
There are 10 chapters which help you deal with all the problems you might face as a caregiver. The quizzes and exercises are created to help you identify personal problems so that you can overcome compassion fatigue and burnout. This book could save your job, make for more pleasant interactions between your loved one, give you a stress-free life and much more…
FEATURES: include our Quick Answers Box on page 7 of the book, Quizzes, and beautiful mandalas to color in.
Quizzes to Identify Problems
Relax: Color In Pictures
Check out what others are saying about this 100-page guide
“This book is an incredible resource for a population of people that are so frequently overlooked. Caregivers for the elderly and the sick do great things and sacrifice so much of their free time for the ones they love who need help. I can speak from personal experience as a caregiver when I say that the information in this book is important. The author brings up some really significant topics, like caregiver burnout, and how taking care of yourself can help you take better care of your loved one. We can’t get lost in the shuffle and forget that we are people too! I also really appreciated the hands on activities included in this book. It really helped me take the information from the page and really apply it to my life. It’s practical and sounds like common sense, but is so incredibly important for caregivers to maintain self esteem, self respect, and self care. This book will help you do just that.
“If you need to feel replenished, restore your happiness, and take a break from your life to do something for yourself, this book will help you do that. It’s essential for being the best caregiver you can be!”
“…this should be required reading for anyone becoming a caregiver. The book is sort of a companion when you don’t have someone with 20 years experience to be at your side to answer questions. 5 Stars
“I loved the way the book was laid out. Especially the internal guide to see page 19 or see page 42 for more info etc. because it is more beneficial to answering your questions then reading 30 pages before you do. This should be required reading for any caregiver who isn’t going to have someone by their side with 20 plus years experience. It answers the tough questions and how to deal with emotions and more importantly lets you see that you are not alone.”
“Caregivers Guide to Wellness provides caregivers with a step-by-step guide to taking back control of their lives and, by extension, improve the care they give to their recipients. This book includes exercises, quizzes, graphs/charts, and websites to help readers evaluate their lives and get themselves back on track. These tools combined with the illustrations provide a hands-on experience for those who learn more by doing than by reading.
“One of the best things about this book is that it goes beyond how to provide better care. Yes, it gives advice on how to boost the care recipient’s self-worth and manage his/her household. However, this guide goes far beyond the caregiving environment. It helps caregivers think of ways to make themselves happy and successful, from getting organized to asking for help to self-improvement.
“Caregivers Guide to Wellness is a must-read. Whether you’re paid or just caring for a loved one, this book will bring balance and organization to your life. It’s not a definitive guide; instead, you can personalize the advice to your situation and needs. After all, we are each unique specimens with unique needs, as is each caregiver and recipient. Shouldn’t advice be unique and customizable as well?”
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- Funded By: Association of Research Libraries (ARL)
- Target: The citizens of the United States
- Benefits: $1,000
- Level or Degree: Master degree
- Disciplines/Subjects: Library and information science (MLIS)
- Host Institution: Any institution – USA
- Deadline: Expired 1388 days ago
To honor the memory and extend the legacy of longtime ARL staff member Julia Blixrud, the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Organization is pleased to announce the Julia C. Blixrud Scholarship.The program is open to current master of library and information science (MLIS) students or graduate students.The ARL influences the changing environment of scholarly communication and the public policies that affect research libraries and the diverse communities they serve.
The award recipient will receive a scholarship of $1,000 plus registration to attend the Fall Forum.The award also covers the registration fee for the ARL Fall Forum.
Level and Area of Studies
Master degree library and information science (MLIS).
Place of Study
In the United States of America.
Eligibility and Criteria
The current master of library and information science (MLIS) students or graduate students, who are within two years of graduation, are welcome to apply.
The United States of Amercan’s citizens are invited to apply.
To apply, the candidates are required to complete the online application form, and upload your essay or visualization along with your resume(CV).


BHBA Barristers, in association with L.A. Law Library, host Lawyers in the Library on October 25, 2014, in conjunction with the Library's annual Pro Bono Week.
The Lawyers in the Library clinic offers complimentary 20 – 30 minute consultations to members of the public who are in need of legal advice, and is held at the L.A. Law Library, on a monthly basis. The special Pro Bono Week edition of the clinic will run from 12:00 to 4:00 p.m. on Saturday, October 25, 2014.
The BHBA has pledged to serve the 100+ members of the public attending the clinic, so we need YOU to volunteer for this fantastic opportunity to give back!
Each volunteer only needs to commit to a one-hour timeslot on Saturday, October 25th between 12:00 and 4:00 p.m. (though you are able to volunteer for the entire four-hour clinic, or any portion thereof, if you so desire).
Volunteering for Lawyers in the Library is an amazing opportunity to reach people throughout the county who need our help most by providing pro bono legal services. Our collective efforts are helping to improve access to justice for all. Moreover, this event is a perfect way to give back, both for newer attorneys looking for great experience, as well as for more seasoned attorneys who are seeking pro bono opportunities that are sufficiently limited in scope and time to fit into a busy schedule.
Pro Bono Committee Co-Chairs and Program Chairs:
As the number of self-represented litigants is growing exponentially because the cost of legal representation continues to exceed the financial reach of most of the County’s population, this program focuses on low income and individuals of modest means in Los Angeles County that are desperately in need of legal assistance, yet often lack the resources, information, and tools to find the help they need. Public Law Libraries are on the front lines of providing access to justice for these individuals. However, while the L.A. Law Library staff is able to provide educational and self-help services, they cannot provide legal advice.
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United Way of Cowlitz & Wahkiakum Counties is proud to champion:
Dolly Parton's Imagination Library Program
to children in Cowlitz and Wahkiakum Counties!
The program offers Cowlitz or Wahkiakum resident children ages birth-5 years old, a brand new, age appropriate book every single month until their 5th birthday month.
Books are delivered directly to the child's home! Dolly Parton's Imagination Library is considered a world-class program for childhood success and preparing children to enter kindergarten ready! Data has shown participating children have higher kindergarten assessment scores that non-participants. United Way's dedicated to ensuring that by 2032, 80% of local children in Cowlitz & Wahkiakum Counties are prepared for kindergarten. By investing in our children, we are investing in the strength of our community for generations to come.
How to help:
This program was able to take flight because of our amazing founding sponsors, the Rotary Clubs of Cowlitz County, but we need other community members and businesses to join in to make this a sustainable program.
*Help our community get organized to sign up more children, please be a part of our Imagination Library Committee .
*Become a sponsor, donate today
*Share the information to all parents/guardians with eligible children. Sign up a child here
*Sign-up a visually impaired child for accessible books in print/braille and audio formats
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Liz Copas’ gift to cider enthusiasts and lovers of rural places
Herefordshire. Somerset. Devonshire. These are the places the well-informed American cider drinker thinks of when talk turns to English cider and apples. The wonderful new book by Liz Copas, The Lost Orchards – Rediscovering the forgotten cider apples of Dorset, is destined to add Dorset to the list.
There are many in the British cider community that might consider Liz Copas something of a national treasure. She has spent decades working with apples, orchardists and cider in southwestern England, first as part of the team of researchers at the Long Ashton Research Service near Bristol, then, after the untimely closing of LARS, as a consultant. Her knowledge is both broad and deep as is well demonstrated by her previous book on Somerset, Cider Apples – The New Pomona.
For The Lost Orchards, Copas teamed up with Dorset cidermaker Nick Poole. Together they have spent years combing the Dorset countryside for pockets of orchards or their long-forgotten remnants. They’ve dug deeply into archives and collected oral histories from the old timers, the folks with the tales that often go unrecorded but that enrich our understanding of a time and place in a way that bare facts cannot. When it was possible, Copas and Poole used their many years of experience to identify known named varieties, supplemented by comparative DNA analysis.
Many of the old trees had no recorded name, however, though clearly planted and used with cider in mind. In these cases, Copas and Poole christened the apples based on their original location or some other salient quality. Yaffle, a large yellow-green bittersweet, was given the West Country nickname for a green woodpecker; an old late-ripening bittersweet growing in a hedge was named Mutton Street Marvel for its ability to somehow survive an annual flailing by local tractors as they passed by. Each apple is a story, and each story creates a little piece of the world around it. The resulting book is not just a pomona of Dorset apples but a rich exploration of the region itself.
Situated on the southern coast along the English channel, Dorset has been inhabited by humans for many millennia. Its natural harbors made it a logical landing spot for the Celtic peoples moving in from the mainland, for the Romans who followed and conquered them, and the Saxons that moved in after the Romans left. Some of these people certainly brought apples with them, and there is an argument to be made that it is Dorset that was the birthplace of cider in the British Isles. The authors make a good case for this idea, spending the latter half of the book exploring the history of apples and cider and their impact, both ancient and modern, on Dorset and its neighbors.
The text has been exquisitely researched, but the true pleasure is in the writing, which is a joy to read. Copas’ prose is both warm and assured, leaving the reader with the feeling that she can see the countryside, hear the birdsong and feel the apple blossom–scented breeze on her cheeks. It is a book that will appeal to both the consummate cider enthusiast and lover of rural places alike.


**Note: these discussion questions contain spoilers.**
Reading Group Guide for The Reservoir: Discussion questions
1. The Reservoir is set in 1885, twenty years after the end of the Civil War. How does the memory of the war infuse the narrative? What evidence do you see that the South is still recovering?
2. Tommie and Willie are raised in large part by their aunt Jane instead of their parents. How do you think this affected the boys? What kind of a surrogate mother is Jane? Lillie also had to leave her parents at a young age—does this affect her in the same way?
3. When he finds the watch key at the reservoir, why does Mr. Lucas keep it? What meaning does it have for him, and why does he ultimately decide to give it up?
4. On page 154, Tommie thinks about how he “doesn’t know if he loved [Lillie] because she desired him and held him in high esteem, or because she was so desirable herself that he melted at the thought of the smallest part of her body.” Which do you think it is? Is either of those options really love?
5. Is Lillie innocent, or does she share some part of the responsibility for all that came to pass between Tommie and her?
6. With his advanced education and budding law career, Tommie seems to be headed for success before his arrest. What do you think his life would have looked like if not for Lillie’s death? Would he have found trouble in some other way?
7. What is Tommie’s relationship with God and religion? Does Tommie take comfort in God or does he hide behind Him?
8. Why do you think the novel is structured the way that it is, alternating between the past and the present? How does that shape the way you perceive the characters?
9. On page 323, Tommie tells Willie, “You can’t undo the wrong you did. You can only do other good things. I wish I could explain that. Everybody ends up paying with their life for what they did wrong.” Do you agree with him?
10. Do you believe that Tommie is contrite at the end of the novel?
11. John Milliken Thompson based The Reservoir on a real case. How does the element of historical accuracy affect your perception of the crime committed in the novel?
12. Throughout this novel, we see characters struggle to find the truth of things. Tommie wonders “what truth [the jury is] on to” (212), and Willie has to decide whether Tommie’s account of Lillie’s death is completely true. Why is truth so hard to come by in this novel? What do you think really happened that night at the reservoir?


“A Toast to Glory: The Prohibition Party Flirts With Greatness” is now available for Amazon Kindle. Darcy Richardson’s latest work is an examination of the 1932 Prohibition Party’s efforts to recruit a major-name candidate to serve as their Presidential nominee.
For much of its history, the Prohibition Party has fancied itself as a significant entity in American politics — and occasionally it proved to be precisely that. Though twice rebuffed by an aging William Jennings Bryan, who graciously declined the party’s presidential nomination in 1916 and again in 1920, the Prohibitionists demonstrated considerable political savvy before and during the period of national prohibition.
The 1932 presidential campaign was no exception.
As the Great Depression deepened, resulting in a record number of business defaults and home foreclosures, more than 5,000 bank failures and an ever-climbing jobless rate that would eventually peak at 25 percent, the Prohibitionists — after more than six decades of political penury — believed that they had not only landed a formidable candidate for the presidency, but also had a genuine shot at winning the White House.
In addition to the devastating collapse of the U.S. economy, the 1932 presidential election took on even greater importance for the Prohibitionists due to the growing clamor for repeal of national prohibition, the party’s raison d’être.
“A Toast to Glory” takes readers back to that exciting, pivotal and often-overlooked campaign.
The book is a relatively short 60 pages and available for only $2.99 on Amazon.com — it’s a fun and easy read that’s well worth checking out if you have any interest in history, third parties or Prohibition era politics.


Ibn-Husein Muhammad was born in Brattleboro Vermont on
January 30, 1980 and raised in the Mason Square
Neighborhood of Springfield Massachusetts by his mother
with his two brothers. Husein (H) is the first author/illustrator
and founder of HBOOKZ publishing company.
He attended Springfield Central High School and upon his
graduation in 1998 enlisted in the U.S Army. Husein was
honorably discharged in 2001 and returned home where he worked for various companies for the next 5 years. Unable to find steady work which he enjoyed, Husein started to write, and he produced and self published his first 3 picture books; The Spider, Bologna Sandwich and The Man.
In 2010 after taking a 4 year break from writing Husein wrote 5 more books with renewed passion and determination to create a publishing company in his community that would be a lasting creative outlet for many years to come.
The New Beginning...
Bologna sandwich is a story about a boy who learned to use his imagination.
The Man is a story about a man that used what he was given to become successful.
Gold Mine is a story about a man on his journey for riches and how he was able to find his own natural resource with the help of his dog.


Welcome to the fifth Make Cycle in the 2014 Making Learning Connected Collaboration! We are the Maker Jawn Initiative from the Free Library of Philadelphia and are excited to introduce ourselves and learn with this community! This week we’re inviting you to think about how you can tell a story using light. We thought this would make a great transition from last week’s Hack Your Writing Make Cycle. We’ll be deepening the conversation by moving it towards using light in general, taking projects out of our notebooks, and connecting with stories in our wider communities.
Who/What is Maker Jawn?
The Maker Jawn Initiative at the Free Library of Philadelphia is a team of artists, engineers, designers, and thinkers who work in libraries. We are united in our dedication to mentoring non-dominant youth in creative technology at Philadelphia neighborhood libraries. We are also proud to be part of the YOUmedia nation, a network that grew out of an IMLS/MacArthur planning grant focusing on reinventing libraries and museums for teens.
Maker Jawn experiments with creating replicable, scalable spaces and programs that prioritize the creativity, cultural heritage, and interests of diverse communities, embedded directly within the fabric of the library. We cheer-lead latent enthusiasts by providing resources, tools, and an encouraging space. Programming is geared towards for interest driven projects that develop skills, build persistence, and open up new trajectories. We currently offer daily youth Maker programming in ten libraries across Philadelphia.
Teaching the Maker Mindset
Rather than prescribing specific step-by-step instructions to complete a project, we expose youth to tools and materials, and encourage them to engage in playing and tinkering, with their peers, alone, and with Mentors (members of the Maker Jawn team). Creativity is always the priority. The goal is not only to embrace technology, crafts, and fine art, but to cultivate a nimble perspective towards problem solving, and identify cool solutions and intervention. We try to communicate to youth that technology should be embraced as a tool, rather than an end in itself. At the end of the day, we’re more excited about how you can tell a story with an iPad, not how many iPads you can get in circulation. Technology is secondary to having an enriched environment with supportive, caring adults that facilitate multiple levels of entry points and engagement.
Connected Learning on the Library Floor
We realized while developing programming that we had already been following many of the principles of Connected Learning. Our approach is to encourage youth to identify their own personal interest in using technology creatively. When youth have opportunities to create and share something that has personal meaning, they are much more likely to engage in a project, develop skills, and see things through to completion. Storytelling often serves as an entrypoint—wanting to record an original song, make an animated self-portrait, or create a lit-up poster for an event motivates youth to explore and master new tools. Working on self-designed, personally-relevant and expressive collaborative projects encourages them to engage at a deeper level, and discover things that they would not have come to on their own. It introduces them to a way of examining the world and their own lives on a more critical level, while being able to respond to rapid change and develop innovative solutions. By taking the interests teens come in with and combining them with the interests they will develop through working with peers, mentors, and the materials around them, we’ve also found that this has helped broaden their academically-oriented senses.
As a team, Maker Jawn has a lot of conversations about who gets to be an educator. Daily we observe teens teaching teens, teens teaching mentors, mentors teaching library staff, as well as mentors teaching mentors. Acknowledging this democracy of knowledge sharing is powerful, and enables us, and the teens, to drop any sense of hierarchy. It also establishes everyone as a learner. This brings up other questions about the spaces that we occupy: what is the role of the library now in a community? What sort of place should a library strive to be? We see it as a place of learning that begins with the people in the community, that reflects directly the community’s needs and interests. This makes the process of engaging with the community (whether it’s through maker activities or conversation) truly democratic and participatory.
Make With Me! Tell a story with light
Using some sort of light source, and any materials of your choosing, we want you to tell a story.
Some tools we have used in the past for this project include LEDs (we source them through Amazon), coin cell batteries, and various arts and crafts supplies. We like to use recycled, found materials as much as possible, and occasionally our prototyping lab looks like a thrift store exploded.
We like to use recycled materials not only because they’re cheap, but because there’s less at stake for a learner to risk if they ruin an old pizza box, as opposed to an expensive construction kit. Our activities are designed to be not only low-cost, but low-barrier to entry.
We introduced 70 college-bound students this summer to different kinds of zines, including the 1-page, single-sided zine.
After learning how to fold an 8 page book out of a single sheet of paper this 8 year old girl made a story about her sister as the “light” in her day.
Check out glowdoodle, designed by Eric Rosenbaum (also creator of MaKey MaKey) at the MIT Media Lab. Another similar resource is long exposure photography, which the Exploratorium covers well in this link.
You could also just design an object and tell a story in an entirely different way!
Places to share
Here are some handy links that might help you with your sharing and connecting:
- In Google +, you should join our Making Learning Connected Community;
- On Twitter, we encourage you to follow and use the #clmooc hashtag this summer;
- Share your examples of this make in the CLMOOC Make Bank;
- You can submit your blog to the Making Learning Connected Blog Hub, which will collect and showcase blog posts from participants.
If you make your story offline please post an image in one of these spaces. Sharing is vital part of the Make Cycle.
On Tuesday, July 15th, from 7-8 p.m. EST, join us for a Make with Me Event where the Maker Jawn team will lead a Make and support participants on reflecting on the stories and learning pathways they’ve been forging through CLMOOC so far.
On Thursday, July 17th, from 7-8 p.m. EST, our #clmooc Twitter chat will reflect on our learning and work in the context of a discussion about libraries as informal learning spaces, through the context of the maker movement.
Need more information?
- Check out our Frequently Asked Questions page.
- Explore the National Writing Project’s Digital Is site for ways to connect digital media with writing and learning.
- Reach out to us with questions or suggestions in the G+ Community.
Enjoy everyone! We’ll see you on G+ and Twitter!


Latest version is 4.7.4 (2021-11-30).
You can get OCILIB from the following sources:
Since version 4.6.4, OCILIB is also available as a nuget packages available on nuget.org Thus, in your VS project, add a dependency to the package “ocilib”. Your project will be automatically configured to reference ocilib headers and link ocilib shared librairies.
Otherwise, you can still process the old way:
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- Validated C compilers : Microsoft C compiler, GCC, MinGW, IMB XLC, LabView, various CCs
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New Book - How The Sumerians Became Rich
How The Sumerians Became Rich
With Sumerian Cuneiform Sign List and Sign Readings Index
John Alan Halloran
November 5, 2021
The book can be ordered here at sumerian.org or from Amazon.com.
Table of Contents
Between 7000 BC and 2000 BC the Sumerians built a high civilization. Seeing their orderly and prosperous lives, their neighbors sought to emulate them. We know about the Sumerians from all the hundreds of thousands of clay tablets that they and their Babylonian successors created.
The Sumerians progressed from proto-writing for accounting purposes to true writing for recording language around 3000 BC. The inhabitants of Sumer and Mesopotamia wrote to each other by impressing their cuneiform signs into clay for the next 3,000 years.
John Halloran has loved the Sumerians and their language since he created in 1983 the first version of his 2006 Sumerian Lexicon dictionary. He now finds it possible to explore and summarize the achievements of the Sumerians using his intimate knowledge of Sumerian language and culture and put it all within a larger framework that contrasts life in a state of nature with life in a state of civilization. You will see for yourself that the Sumerians pioneered long-lasting social and technological solutions to many of the same issues that we face today.
How The Sumerians Became Rich draws upon the latest findings of many archaeologists and scholars, whose works appear listed in the Bibliography, to such an extent that it would have been premature for this book to appear any earlier. This is particularly true of the 100-page Sumerian cuneiform sign list that appears at the end of the book.
You should come to appreciate the dynamism of the independent but networked Sumerian cities. That network gave the best innovations a chance to be tested and to take root. For most of Sumerian history, they lived in uncrowded and peaceful conditions. They welcomed immigrants. However, towards the end, overcrowding led to conflict and war.
This is the second edition. The first edition was sold privately over the summer of 2021 to the sumerian.org customer list. Here are the reactions of some of those readers:
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT
How The Sumerians Became Rich
How the Sumerians Became Rich is an excellent read. It not only explores the evolution of the language, but also the culture and society of the Sumerians. It was well researched, with 16 pages of bibliography references, and a few citations to online articles for those of us that cannot dive too deep in the weeds but would like to learn more. I feel the greatest benefit of owning the book is having the comprehensive sign list. I once asked my professor what the best book would be for Sumerian and I was pointed to an online resource. As far as I know, until now, there was never a published sign list for Sumerian this comprehensive. Even my study guide has only a fraction of the signs that are included in How the Sumerians Became Rich. I would recommend this book to anyone with interest in the Sumerians or their language.
This is an excellent book that should be read by anyone interested in Sumerian society. But it is more than that. Without being tendentious, Halloran has included parallels with modern society, as well. The Sumerians made choices regarding the relative merits of collective vs. individual rights and responsibilities. We face similar pressures. The book is very well documented linguistically, as one would expect from the author of the Sumerian Lexicon. The title may or may not appeal to everyone, but the content is extremely valuable. Scholarship does not have to be boring, nor esoteric. This book is very readable. There is very little available on the Sumerians. Most of the material that is published (and rapidly goes out-of-print) is arcane linguistic trivia. Halloran's books are a very nice exception to this trend.
Fred Lord M.Sc. in Applied Linguistics (and Ancient History enthusiast)
The title of John Alan Halloran's new book says it all: How the Sumerians Became Rich. The Sumerians prospered even though they didn't have a lot of natural resources. Exactly how they managed to do this has never been fully understood by the scholars. Until now. Sumerian civilization was destroyed more than 4,000 years ago, so only a few of their artifacts remain − except for thousands of cuneiform tablets. Fortunately, John Alan Halloran is an expert on the Sumerian language (he is also the author of the Sumerian Lexicon). He uses the Sumerians' own words to describe their expertise in farming, herding, business, and government, showing how they created enough surplus wealth to develop their great civilization (when most of the world was still living in the Stone Age). Halloran also uses modern history and sociology to offer genuine insight into how the Sumerians dealt with the same problems that still exist in the world today. Although this is a scholarly book, Halloran's clear presentation of his ideas is easily understood by all readers. Taken together, both of Halloran's books provide important contributions to the study of Sumerian history. The Sumerian Lexicon is essential to understanding the Sumerian language. How the Sumerians Became Rich is essential to understanding the Sumerian people.
Jerald Jack Starr
How the Sumerians Became Rich by John Halloran is a thorough and thought-provoking reappraisal of the rise of the first civilisation. This ground breaking work could be read as a series of essays on aspects of Sumerian epistemology and in this Halloran succeeds splendidly.
Halloran's perspective focuses on the transition by way of culture of man from a state of nature (and the consequent uncontrolled vagaries of existence) to a state of greater certainty, and therefore of human control. He argues convincingly that economic factors account for the cultural impetus which would result in Sumer's unique achievements.
As well as calling upon archaeological and linguistic evidence and economic theory Halloran draws his thinking from a wide range of disciplines not previously regarded as significant to Sumerology. His arguments are supported by illustrations which are effective in enhancing the message.
The descriptive list of a thousand signs in the final appendix is one of my favourite parts of Halloran's book. It is based upon decades of work by the author and is an extremely useful cuneiform dictionary. It will be appreciated by both novice Sumerologists and those more advanced in the subject.
Allan Speedy, BCom MCom FRAS
I very much enjoyed this book, and frankly learned a lot. The author has a truly deep knowledge of this subject. The Sumerian people left a profound imprint on human history. Although they had a language unrelated to any other (a language isolate), they invented writing before anyone else, and most writing systems in the world today descend from it. They evolved the world's first complex, diverse, and stratified cities. Throw in accounting, taxes, project management, and religion (from which the trio of Abrahamic religions descended) and the like, and their importance should be obvious. Knowing about them is essential to a good understanding of how the world came to be as it is. The book's 200 page summary of Sumerian history and culture is both concise and wide-ranging, and somewhat idiosyncratically formatted in doublespaced business style paragraphs. However, I found this a strangely effective device; each paragraph functions as a concise essay on a specific topic. Gathered into broad chapters, from the diffusion of the Neolithic and agriculture through culture, trade, and economics, they make a mosaic that conveys a well-rounded sense of the language, invention, and culture of these mysterious people. The chapters are liberally sprinkled with topical vocabulary lists, which give a feel for how thought and language interacted. The book includes a number of appendices on topics like the development of language, cosmetics, tally-sticks, an interlinear text of an important hymn, plus an extensive sign list and sign reading index, plus bibliography. It is a rich companion to Halloran's Sumerian Lexicon, which I have used since it came out in 2006.
I am reading your book one chapter at a time. That way I have time to think about what you're writing and to check some of the articles/books to which you refer. I'm quite impressed by the tremendous amount of effort you've put into collating your extensive knowledge into the book. Certainly, I recognize that our world would most likely be different without the contributions of the Sumerians and these can hardly be overstated.
"A state of nature" is the title of the first chapter of John Halloran's How the Sumerians Became Rich. The title is enough to spark, at least, curiosity about the book and arouses interest in reading it. The chapter begins with a question about the difference between living in a state of nature and living in a state of civilization. Halloran traces the journey upon which a group of people, the proto-Sumerians, embarked about 10,000 years ago, until the fall of the last Sumerian dynasty, around 6,000 years later.
Halloran shows through the book how the agricultural development and other natural resources, the need to keep records, the growing of cities and labour specialization, the invention of writing, the permanent interaction of Sumerian with their Semitic neighbours, took the Sumerian civilization to its apex. But it was not free. As presented in the fifteenth chapter, "Not a Closed System", an environmental and social cost had to be paid.
It is worth to note that all along the book, Halloran complements the text with approaches and quotations from fields like sociology, psychology, public policy, politics, philosophy, system dynamics, ecology, and even science-fiction, making the reading more interesting and captivating.
In summary, How the Sumerians Became Rich is a stimulating, easy to read book that complements other standard books on Sumerian civilization.
Aldo Tamburrino, Ph.D.
John Halloran has a deep love and broad understanding of the Sumerians. He has spent decades researching the seminal contributions of this ancient people to our civilization. If you are fascinated and inspired by the Sumerians, after reading Samuel Noah Kramer's History Begins at Sumer, this volume, How the Sumerians Became Rich, will fill in significant details for a rounded, in-depth picture of Who the Sumerians were and Why they are so important to us.
Jerome Berman, Director, California Museum of Ancient Art
Your new book is very helpful by laying out the history with the language. It sparks my brain with clear images, allowing a better understanding of how things developed. You make sense when you tie the multiple meaning of the words together. I have bought many scholarly books about the Sumerians through Eisenbraun's that I had to use a dictionary to understand what was being written. Your writing is clear, practical and useful.
Thank you for all the work you have done to make this unique era of western civilization understandable and meaningful.
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The royal officials responded to smuggling with open-ended search warrants Writs of Assistance. Playing off traditional fears of peacetime armies, they wondered aloud why Parliament saw fit to garrison troops in North America only after the threat from the French had been removed.
Inthe Thirteen Colonies declared their independence from Britain. This war spanned nine years, but it was known in England as the Seven Years War. Oglethorpe and other English philanthropists secured a royal charter as the Trustees of the colony of Georgia on June 9, To prevent further violence between settlers and Native Americans, the Proclamation sets a western boundary on the American colonies.
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Connecticut was founded in These Acts, coming during the economic slump that followed the French and Indian War, are resented by the colonists and lead to protests. Within this area, societies participated in a high degree of exchange; most activity was conducted along the waterways that served as their major transportation routes.
The colonists were restricted in trading with other European powers, but they found profitable trade partners in the other British colonies, particularly in the Caribbean. They raised corn, squash and beans. Delegates from nine colonies attend the Stamp Act Congress which adopts October 19 a Declaration of Rights and Grievances and petitions Parliament and the king to repeal the Act.
In London, the Rockingham government came to power and Parliament debated whether to repeal the stamp tax or send an army to enforce it. Massachusetts was home to two major causes of the American Revolution, namely the Boston Massacre in and the Boston Tea Party in Officer positions were in high demand among the British aristocracy—the rank of captain or major sold for thousands of pounds, and could be resold once an officer purchased an even higher rank.
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By the beginning ofmost of the stamp distributors had resigned their commissions, many of them under duress. Thirteen colonies were originally part of it, and they are also known as the original states of America. The Patriots included many prominent men of the planter class from Virginia and South Carolina, for instance, who became leaders during the Revolution, and formed the new government at the national and state levels.
By20, had arrived ; many died soon after arrival, but the others found a healthy climate and an ample food supply. However, many colonists were angered when Britain returned Louisbourg to France in return for Madras and other territories.
The British elite, the most heavily taxed of any in Europe, pointed out angrily that the colonists paid little to the royal coffers.
The committees became the leaders of the American resistance to British actions, and largely determined the war effort at the state and local level. In September, at a town meeting in Boston, residents are urged to arm themselves.
A map showing the extent of the Coles Creek cultural period and some important sites. Puritans from the Massachusetts Bay were the first English settlers in the colony, and they founded several colonies within it, making Connecticut one of the most important centers of business and government.
The 13 colonies were divided into three: This effectively negated the will or the legal authority of the colonies to contribute to defense through their militias.What is now known as the United States of America began its formation between the 17th and the 18th century.
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As American life in general changed over the decades of the nineteenth century, so too did society's expectations of women. Before the industrial revolution, men and women worked in the home, which was the center of daily life. With the beginning of industrialization in the early part of the century, entire families worked in factories. The focus of daily life shifted from the home to the workplace. The end result of industrialization in America, which went into full swing in the 1860s, was the separation of the home and the workplace. The men were keepers of the workplace, and the women were keepers of the home. This separation of home and workplace facilitated a sharp distinction between gender roles for men and women. Thus the nineteenth century ideal of the "cult of true womanhood" developed (McDannell, 6-7).
True womanhood dictated that women be meek, mild, pure, and dependent on men. Alongside this was the maternal model for women's proper behavior. The coexistence of the cult of true womanhood with the maternal model meant that women were expected to be both meek and nurturing (McDannell, 129). This nurturing role was filled not only in the home but outside of it as well; therefore, many women took on the role of public mother. During the Civil War (1861-1865), which occurred along side increasing industrialization, women went outside of the home to nurse wounded soldiers (Gifford, 310-311). After the Civil War, women's nurturing outside of the home continued.
Other historical events besides the Civil War fostered women's changing roles and status in society. Religious revivals were frequently supported by women's groups, even though men were the organizers of such events. Women sat by men at revivals, a worship practice new to Protestants, and women were encouraged to speak. The conversion that women experienced at revivals often led them to reform areas of life other than the religious. Hence, women formed social reform groups, the larger goal of which was moral reform (Braude, 45).
Alcohol consumption, mainly that of hard liquor, was a major area of concern for moral reform for nineteenth century women. Women, motivated in part by the desire to preserve the household and in part by economic concerns, became involved in temperance, and a close relationship between temperance movements and feminist movements began and persisted into the twentieth century. In 1874 several women founded the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), whose motto was "for God and home and native land" (Gifford, 309). "Crusading women were certain that intemperance could be eliminated by converting individuals, that woman's moral authority would prevail, and that the gift of the Spirit would usher in the kingdom of God on earth" (Lee, 294). Women also concerned themselves with the elimination of prostitution. Prostitution presented a double standard: women were seen as being sexually impure, but the men who hired prostitutes could retain their moral standing. In their work to reform both the female prostitutes and the men who used them, women would visit brothels to get the names of patrons, which would then be published (Braude, 47). In addition to social reform groups formed by lay women, Catholic women came together as nuns for the purpose of achieving social reform beginning in the 1700s (Braude, 84). By the twentieth century, nuns were teachers and nurses, and they ran care facilities for many marginalized members of American society (Bruade, 86-87). Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and even before then, women were nurturing both their homes and American society.
The image of the virtuous woman was the true nature of woman, according to the prevailing thought behind women's involvement in social and moral reform movements. Women were seen as being more moral than men and capable of redeeming men (Lee, 293, 300). As women moved out of the home sphere into the public sphere, becoming not just mothers to their own children but also public mothers, they for the most part did not redefine their definition of womanhood (Lee, 309). The only difference between their views and those of the cult of true womanhood was location: in the cult of true womanhood, women were virtuous in the home whereas in women's social reform movements women were virtuous in the public sphere. Despite the strong hold of the cult of true womanhood and the persistent definition of women as moral and virtuous creatures, women's roles began to be questioned at this time. Women were not just the keepers of the home anymore; they were now the keepers of society.
As the eighteenth century passed and the twentieth century began, women sought an ever larger role in American society in general and American religion in particular. One of the big issues within American Christianity has been the oridination of women, beginning on a large scale in the 1960s, even though some denominations were ordaining women as early as the nineteenth century (Braude, 114). A central point in defending a male-only clergy is the maleness of Jesus Christ. An argument in favor of maintaining that status quo is that women cannot adequately represent Christ on earth, since Christ was male. This argument is especially prevalent in Catholic, Episcopal, and Orthodox circles (Braude, 117). Protestants against the ordination of women turn to Biblical passages, such as I Corinthians 1:2-5 (Braude, 122). Other passages used in this argument include the creation story in Genesis and the social codes of the deuteroPauline letters. Christian feminists who support the ordination of women reinterpret these passages in light of other passages that seem to support women's ministry, thus using methods of modern Biblical criticism (Braude, 123-4). The issue of ordaining women is certainly not over. Many denominations do ordain women, whereas some do not. This will continue to be an issue well into the twenty-first century.
Now, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, women are in a unique position: they have made great strides over the past centuries in claiming an elevated social status. Women have choices; they can be wives, mothers, and/or a part of the work force. In many ways, American society has given women new roles; women just have to take them (Wolf, 52). However, one of the last frontiers that women must cross before they can be truly free from oppression is body image. Women can give birth and raise children, they can preach before a congreation of thousands, and they can argue before the Supreme Court, but they might not feel good about themselves or their accomplishments if they do not possess the "perfect body." A poor body image affects women in a fundamental way: it attacks the very core of existence. Women will never be able to fully claim their power until this frontier is crossed.
I'm Nobody! Who are you?
Are you -- Nobody -- Too?
Then there's a pair of us!
Don't tell! they'd advertise -- you know!
How dreary -- to be -- Somebody!
How public -- like a Frog --
To tell one's name -- the livelong June --
To an admiring Bog!


Participants can talk about that first book that caught their attention, which brought them to get interested in beer; or maybe about books that helped develop their local beer scene. There’s also the -bad- role of books that regrettably misinform readers because their authors did not do their work properly. There are many different ways to tackle this topic.
In this world of misattribution, lack of legitimate sources, and not a fact checker in sight, it’s amazing anything is correct anymore.
But then, with longer-form formats like books it sets our hearts at ease to know there are beer historians like ourselves that take historical research VERY seriously. One of those historians is our good friend Garrett Peck. With this post we are writing to the theme of “books that helped develop their local beer scene.”
While Garrett’s 2014 book “Capital Beer: A Heady History of Brewing in Washington, D.C.” didn’t necessarily develop our local scene it did go above and beyond to document the history of the local brewing scene in our nation’s capital. In cataloging that long history of beer, DC’s scene does feel a new sense of legitimacy. For all of the “firsts” that our scene has experienced in the past 5+ years (first production brewery, first cidery/winery, first distillery), We still have an pre-prohibition OG history to celebrate.
DC is by nature a transient city. Representatives are re-elected. Representatives are unseated. New staffers come into town. There is the Presidential Transition Act of 1963 and the Presidential Transition Act 2000. And every summer new interns, “hill rats” as they’re endearingly referred to, flood the district and look for cheap housing. Yet it seems every year affordable housing gets less and less. Gentrification some call it. Others call it ethnic cleansing.
Not to veer too far from beer, Garrett’s book is important because it has informed many brewing projects that are of the utmost import to us as beer historians. We have recreated beers that the historic Washington Brewery at Navy Yard produced in 1812. We have also recreated the lager of the largest-ever and most successful DC-brewery with a pre-prohibition style lager.
Garrett’s book asks big questions like “who was the first Brewer to make lager in Washington?” While this may seem trivial to the casual drinker it is of dire import to beer historians today. Brian Alberts, a PhD Candidate at Purdue University, is currently exploring the rise of lager breweries in the Midwest as a lens to explore how new German immigrants navigated the market revolution and dealt with assimilation into American culture.
While pre-prohibition style lagers gain popularity, and are generally indicative of a beer brewed with rice and/or corn, there were of course all-malt pre-prohibition lagers. Finally, pre-prohibition connotes a time as the genesis of lager brewing is not a monolith. The time frame of lager beer brewing is different in every state. Garrett’s research pinpoints the 1850s as the decade of the very first brewing of lager beer in Washington, D.C. And that means that a pre-prohibition lager in Washington, D.C. could be 160-years-old or 99-years-old at the youngest. The beer brewed in 1856 was called “lager” just as it was in 1917 (the last year of pre-prohibition brewing in Washington, D.C.) but it would be naive to think that the means of production like raw ingredients, brewing materials, and fermentation practices remain unchanged. Lager is not a monolith and neither should the brewing practices and flavor profiles of modern pre-prohibition lagers be all the same.
Garret’s book informs us that the District’s first brewers were immigrants. The first brewers in DC were Scottish, English and eventually German. His book does a fantastic job of documenting the earliest Brewers in DC. But perhaps the most important thing in Garret’s writing is the thirst it imparts to search for further answers to questions as important as “who brewed DC’s first lager?”
While I don’t want to give away Garrett’s book I will post what he writes in regards to his open-ended question:
A June 1856 article in the Evening Star noted that Joseph Davison, owner of the Washington Brewery, had brewed 20,000 gallons of lager the previous winter, meaning that he probably started in late 1855. Davison also advertised in the 1858 Boyd’s Directory that he was brewing lager in addition to his English-style ales.
Charles Gerecke advertised in the Evening Star in November and December 1856 that he was brewing lager at his brewery at Pennsylvania and Nineteenth Street. Gerecke then disappears from Washington’s historical brewing record. He was probably related to the Gerecke family that was importing lager from Philadelphia in the years’ prior, whose advertisements pop up frequently in that same newspaper. (Peck, 34)
It is likely that the first brewer of lager was not even a German, but an enterprising brewer of English ales. Certainly, the story of immigrants assimilating into American culture is classic, but so is the story of appropriating immigrant culture for financial gain. But this blip does not hide a much deeper German-American brewing tradition heralded by DC’s Christian Heurich, one of the longest brewing and most successful of his generation.
Very few people today equate DC as a beer town. But with a closer studying of the facts, DC as a brewing center does have deep historical roots. If indeed, DC’s first lager was brewed in 1855, that’s only 15 years after what is generally accepted as the first lager brewed in America. That distinction “first lager in America” belongs to John Wagner a Bavarian immigrant of Philadelphia.
So, America’s first lager was brewed in Philadelphia 176 years ago. And DC’s first lager was brewed 161 years ago. At least until another beer historian uncovers an earlier lager elsewhere (we’ll be looking).


Why Firearms Michigan
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History of Firearms in Michigan
Michigan’s history is steeply rooted in the use of firearms. From early settlers and fur traders to modern-day sportsmen, firearms have been an integral part of the state’s heritage. The evolution of firearms usage in Michigan reflects a broader narrative of innovation, regulation, and cultural shifts. Furthermore, the legal developments surrounding firearm ownership and use have significantly influenced the state’s approach to gun rights and responsibilities.
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The culture of firearms in Michigan is diverse, encompassing traditional hunting practices and the growing popularity of sport shooting. Hunting, deeply ingrained in Michigan’s identity, is not just a sport but a way of life for many. It’s closely tied to family traditions and sustainable wildlife management. Meanwhile, sport shooting has seen a surge in popularity, with numerous ranges and clubs fostering a community of enthusiasts.
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Proper training and certification are essential for responsible firearm ownership. Firearms Michigan provides a comprehensive list of available training courses and certification processes in the state. This section will explore the variety of training options, from basic handling to advanced tactical courses, and how these programs enhance safety and proficiency.
Firearms Michigan in the Community
Firearms Michigan isn’t just a website; it’s a community pillar. This part of the article will showcase how the platform extends its influence beyond the digital realm, involving itself in charitable events and community-building initiatives. It will highlight the website’s contributions to creating a responsible and engaged shooting community in Michigan.


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Announcing the Beta Reader Programme for my forthcoming book, The Bioscience Startup Journey. I’m practising what I preach by seeking early adopter feedback so that I can deliver a much better final product. You can join the Beta Reader Programme by clicking one of the two buttons on this page. Please read below how the programme works before you sign up.
How does the Beta Reader Programme work?
The Bioscience Startup Journey comprises twelve chapters organised into four Parts. If you haven’t already read my blog post with the list of chapter contents, click here . After you sign up, you will receive Part I. Each time you complete reading a Part and email me some helpful comments, I will send you the next Part when it becomes available. Helpful comments could include what you liked or learned, what you agreed or disagreed with, what could be explained better or what was missing. Also, I’d love to hear if you have examples from your own experience of similar companies or situations to what I mention in the book.
The top 20 to 30 beta readers whose comments I found especially helpful will receive a free, signed, paper version of the final published book. They will also be personally recognised and thanked in the book preface. Any beta reader who sends helpful comments on all four book Parts qualifies for a free e-book copy of the final published book—readable on smartphones, tablets and e-reader devices. Alternatively, qualifying beta readers can elect to receive a paper copy of the completed published book for the cost of printing and postage.
When you sign up, you will be asked for your preferred Reading Format:
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To save paper, I encourage you to read the epub or kindle versions. They work like real e-books—you can change the text size and font, and they should open on your device in the appropriate reading app. The pdf version is a manuscript draft for A4/US Letter portrait printing. Although the content is the same, it has not been typeset—the paragraphs will not be justified, and page breaks may occur in random places. Please bear in mind you will be reading a beta version of each book part. While I use automated grammar and spell checking, the text will not have been professionally edited nor proof-read.
Progress on book writing
As of early August 2020, Parts I and II have been completed and are available. My plan is to have Part III written by September/October and Part IV by December/January. I hope to have a complete revised version, incorporating your comments, ready by the end of March 2021. It will then be professionally edited and proof-read in time for publication in the spring or summer of 2021.


“From DOS to Qiskit: Turning Entanglement into Quantum Computation”—the library’s 2023–2024 Model Research Collection—considers the “quantum leaps” that have occurred in our ability to process information, thanks to the rapid advances in the field of quantum theory since the early twentieth century.
Curator Florian Carle, manager of the Yale Quantum Institute, has selected materials that track the novel ways humans have applied quantum theory—from the classical computers that ran DOS software to today’s quantum computers that run Qiskit. The collection also makes some playful excursions into the corners of pre-quantum computing technology.
More than 35 books on the topic, displayed on the main floor of Bass, will be available for borrowing. Also on view, in the Bass-Sterling hallway, will be a selection of artifacts: classical computers, various data storage technologies, and quantum bits from Yale’s laboratories.
“We are at the very early stages of quantum computing,” Florian said, “the juncture where the superconducting quantum devices that take up a whole room are still barely capable of an infinitesimal fraction of the computational power of your smartphone.
“Globally, scientists continue to build unique machines to try to make sense of the complex and intriguing logic of the quantum world.”
“From DOS to Qiskit: Turning Entanglement into Quantum Computation” opens on Mon., Aug. 28, and will be on view until May 6, 2024.
Each year, the Model Research Collection series highlights one researcher’s process of investigation into a topic of choice, expressed physically through a curated collection of library resources. The series is designed to bring to light the breadth and depth of Yale Library’s resources.
Read about past events in the Model Research Collection series.


ASCHB AT 50: INFLUENTIAL BOOKS
Nominated Books in alphabetical order of author:
Coming shortly ….
Book: “Hidden Histories: A Spotter’s Guide to the British Landscape”
Author: Mary-Ann Ochota
Published by Frances Lincoln Ltd, London 2016 RRP £20.00
This book was presented as a tome that would interest families, but it is far more than that. Admittedly in areas where one has expertise it can seem a bit patronising, but the sheer breadth of subjects covered makes this an invaluable book to take on trips around the British Isles and to have at home, both as a reference book and a book you can just dip into when you have a few moments of peace.
It starts off looking a ‘lumps and bumps’ which covers all forms of prehistoric earthworks from forts to burials, to hedges and ridge and furrow. It looks at ‘stones’ from standing stones to stone carvings to finding flint tools. It continues with ‘lines’ covering road and field boundary alignments to ancient woodland and trees. Its longest section is ‘in the village’ where it covers placenames, buildings and materials and all sorts of other structures and features.
Dip into a section and you may think you know about a particular area of, say, the history of roads but there are always facts you did not know about lurking in the text.
This is a highly readable book containing so much information for both families on outings and the professional involved in the building, development and transport world. I would highly recommend it as reference book for every home and office. It is an excellent accompaniment to earlier publications by Common Ground, founded in 1983 by Sue Clifford, Angela King and Roger Deakin to seek imaginative ways to engage people with their local environment. It champions the idea of local distinctiveness, and without saying as much, this book does the same in an engaging and intelligent way. A must have.
Reviewed By: Charles Wagner, President of ASCHB and Planning & Heritage Consultant


Back From the Brink is a gorgeous coffee table book and important historical document that traces the history of the Observer Building, describing how the cycle of neglect that plagued it was finally broken.
Carved into the White Rock cliff face in 1924 for FJ Parsons’ printworks, the spectacular six-storey Observer Building with its imposing glazed-tile facade, massive teak entrance, and fully equipped offices, was the height of modernism. For 50 years it was the heart of a thriving newspaper business and a hive of industry as editors, journalists, compositors, lithographers and graphic artists put together a range of publications, printed on heavy machinery and distributed throughout Hastings and the South East. In 1984, the printworks fell silent as a result of technological and other changes. This iconic building was abandoned, becoming the rotting heart of a declining neighbourhood. It changes hands constantly but while ‘investors’ made profits, the building became increasingly derelict. When demolition loomed in 2006, community activists took to the streets to save it. Opened temporarily in 2016 as a creative arts venue, it was not until 2019 that the building was finally purchased and rescued by Hastings Commons Neighbourhood Ventures, a locally-rooted social enterprise developer.