Enlightenment can happen now, at this moment. It is only a matter of being receptive. The Master is a gateway to eternal consciousness. It is up to the seeker to have the courage, determination and intelligence to take the first step in the right direction. Thousands of parables exist in the vedic texts about the lives of seekers and the paths they must travel to reach the ultimate goal – that is, moksha or liberation. One such story is that of Satyakama, from the Chandogya Upanishad.
Satyakama was a boy who lived in the dense forests of India with his mother Jabala. He had an intense desire to learn meditation and know the nature of the brahman. His search for a guru took him to the sage Gautama. The sage asked him, “Of what family are you, my boy?” Satyakama fearlessly answered, “My mother said that I should tell you that her name is Jabala and my name is Satyakama – and I know nothing more about my family. So I am Satyakama Jabala.” Appreciating his honesty and courage to speak the truth, the sage accepted him as a student.
The next day, sage Gautama initiated Satyakama into a meditation to quiet his mind. This was the first step to the knowledge of the Brahman, brahma vidya – knowing the self. After teaching Satyakama to meditate, Gautama did something that was very unusual. He took Satyakama to the pasture where hundreds of cows were grazing. To Satyakama’s surprise, Gautama separated out four hundred thin, weak cows. He then told Satyakama that he was about to enter a different type of journey. He instructed Satyakama to take the cows to another part of the forest and to tend to them carefully. He was to return after the cows had multiplied to a thousand. Satyakama had many doubts in his heart, but in deference to the guruvaak (His Guru’s words), he left the gurukul with the cows for the deepest part of the forest.
Deep in the forest, Satyakama lost all sense of time. At first he felt lonely, but soon he sought companionship in his cows and the surrounding nature and forgot even the human language. His mind had become completely silent and even the very goal of his journey was forgotten. He began enjoying his life in the forest. He became one with the nature around him and completely alive in the moment, lost in ecstasy and joy. He carefully tended the cows. His cows ate fresh grass and drank pure water from the streams and soon became very healthy. Satyakama stayed in the deep forest for many years, living a peaceful and happy life, so much so that he even forgot his goal of returning to his guru with a thousand cows. Satyakama never felt alone. Every living creature became a part of his family. When the time had come to return, a cow approached Satyakama to inform him that they were now a thousand in number, and that they should return to the Master.
Satyakama traveled back to the gurukul with the cows, and upon seeing them all, the Master exclaimed that now one thousand and one cows had returned. In other words, Satyakama himself had lost all sense of his former identity, and had simply become one of the cows. The Master simply pronounced the Vedic declaration for enlightenment – ‘Tat Tvam Asi’, or ‘Thou art that’. Satyakama was so empty of identity, and in a state of such pure listening, that the Master’s words just penetrated his being and became a reality in him. In that moment, Satyakama got enlightened.
The Master has the power to create the right situation in which a disciple can flower. It is through the guidance and instruction of an enlightened master that a seeker can reach the state of the ultimate bliss. Satyakama also had doubts, like any spiritual seeker, but he had the intelligence to listen to his Master’s words and the courage to practice the Guru’s instruction. In this way, Satyakama was able to transcend the plane of the mundane and reach a higher level of consciousness. The Master is a vessel for our own transformation, but the disciple must take the first step. Once that step is taken, then the possibility towards enlightenment, eternal bliss, becomes a reality.
Taken from Nithyananda’s teachings. The story is from the Chandogya Upanishad.


Our school and its aims
Rufford Primary School is a purpose built school for 4 - 11 year old pupils. The standard number of admission each year is 30. Our Nursery is governor-led and we take eligible children from the age of 2 years.
This area is for pupils in the Foundation Stage, our Nursery and Reception classes. It comprises two large classrooms for Nursery and Reception, with a shared area and toilet/cloakroom facilities. There is an outside area just for our Foundation Stage pupils, which is separate from the main playground area. Nursery pupils attend on a part time basis, currently in the morning, and are accepted on the waiting list at any time.
This area of the school has six classrooms, a Nurture suite, an ICT/Library suite, school hall, intervention room, staff work room and Administration area. The school hall is large and is used for a range of activities, including P.E., assemblies, school dinners, parent workshops and school plays.
We are very proud of the learning which takes place in our school, and this is celebrated in classrooms and in corridors, where you will see evidence of our children's work both past and current. We also celebrate our children's work on our Facebook page.
- Monday 25 October 2021 - Friday 29 October 2021 Half term
- Monday 8 November 2021 - 13:30 - 16:30 Parents' Evening for R, Y2, Y4, Y6
- Tuesday 9 November 2021 Parents' Evening for N, Y1, Y3, Y5
- Thursday 11 November 2021 Y5 Remembrance Assemly
- Friday 26 November 2021 INSET school closed to pupils
- Monday 20 December 2021 - Monday 3 January 2022 Christmas Holidays
- Tuesday 4 January 2022 INSET school closed to pupils
- Wednesday 5 January 2022 Children back in
- Monday 21 February 2022 - Friday 25 February 2022 Half Term
- Friday 18 March 2022 Red Nose Day
- Thursday 7 April 2022 - 09:15 - 09:45 Y4 Passover/Easter assembly
- Friday 8 April 2022 INSET school closed to pupils
- Monday 11 April 2022 - Friday 22 April 2022 Easter Holidays
- Monday 25 April 2022 Children return to school
- Friday 29 April 2022 Y1 Eid assembly
- Monday 2 May 2022 Bank Holiday
- Wednesday 4 May 2022
- Thursday 5 May 2022 Election Day - closed to pupils?
- Monday 30 May 2022 30/05/2022
- Monday 30 May 2022 - Saturday 4 June 2022 Half Term
- Friday 22 July 2022 - Sunday 4 September 2022 Summer Holidays


As English doesn't differentiate between hidden (intransitive, Indonesian: tersembunyi) and hidden (transitive, Indonesian: disembunyikan), I have to use this single word for both senses.
I also have to separate the English version from Indonesian, as it is somewhat longer, with the inclusion of some additional information familiar only to Indonesian reader.
Who Kartini is can be traced from Kartini.
1. Raden Ajeng was an old royal title for princess in Jepara.
2. In 1904, Kartini passed away at a very young age (25) due to pre-eclampsia, shortly after giving birth to her first and only child.
3. Kartini was named an Indonesian National Heroine. She was a pioneer in the area of education for girls and Indonesian women's rights for Indonesians.
4. Kartini is so respected in Indonesia that we commemorate Kartini Day every year on April 21. Here we call her Ibu Kartini (Mother Kartini).
Now I begin my article:
Ramadan month of 1442 H (2021 CE) is approching, and as a child (the way we refer to ourselves in regard to our place of origin) from Tanjungbalai Asahan, I, a non-Muslim, suddenly long for something that is only available during Ramadan in this village of mine, bubur pedas (spicy porridge)!
Here, it's not this particular bubur pedas that I want to review, but a narrative related to Kartini Day which is also near now, the same day one of my two adoptive mothers passed away 3 year ago.
I do not need to write about the greatness of R.A. Kartini in this article, and here I only want to share about 5 other Kartinis from different eras as follows:
1. Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, dan Mary Jackson
Starting from 1930s:
Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, dan Mary Jackson were three African-American Female Mathematicians who worked for NASA.
Their biography can be read from Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Who Helped Win the Space Race, a book written by Margot Lee Shetterly (also a double minority). Margot started writing this book since 2010 and published it in 2016.


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«Italy has changed. But Rome is Rome».
For the next holidays, follow the itinerary crossed by Professor Langodn in the famous novel by Dan Brown, Angels & Demons. From the Pantheon to the Sant’Angelo Castle, passing through San Pietro Square, here a travel along the Enlightned’s path.
The starting point of the path of Professor Langdon. Pantheon is dated 125 B.C. and its construction stays in the historical center of Rome, between Navona Square and Trevi Fountain. Its characteristic is the big hole located in the center of the Cupola, the unique source of light in the place.
Santa Maria della Vittoria
Built in the middle of the XV Century, Santa Maria della Vittoria is visited especially because it hosts “L”Estati di Santa Teresa”, one of the most famous sculpture of Bernini, which designed also the façade of the Church. The statue represents the moment in which the Saint had the vision of the Angel which pierces her heart.
Linked with the Vatican through the fortified corridor named “Passetto”, the building is also known as Mausoleo di Adriano and it is located on the right side of Tevere. Orignally built in the middle of the II Century as a mausoleum for the Roman Emperor Adriano and his wife, Castel Sant’Angelo has been used in the centuries as a stronghold and castle.
Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi
Located in Piazza Navona, it is formed by four huge giants which represent the personifications of the major river that were known at those time: the Nile, with the covered head as their sources weren’t known yet which represent Africa; the Ganges as Asia; Danube as Europe and Rio della Plata as the America.
Piazza San Pietro
The sizes of the Square are amazing: 320 meters of length and 240 meters of width. It was built, as by Pope Alessandro II’s decision, between 1656 and 1667, following a project by Bernini. In addition, the 284 columns and the 88 cornerstones which surround the Square as a porch made by 4 rows.
The Secret Archives of the Vatican
The Vatican Secret Archives contains sacred materials and books, ranking from VIII Century to today, including the one with which Papa Leone X excommunicates Martin Lutero in 1521. With more than 35 thousand volumes and 85 kilometers of racks, it is one of the most inaccessible libraries of the world.


The Great Story – The Bible
A new online Bible Study has been launched on CallUponTheLord.com. The name of the study is “The Great Story“. This series is designed for new Christians who may not know the Biblical Stories, current Christians who would like to hear them again, and Christians that want to dig a little deeper into the doctrine and theological themes presented in the Stories. This study is being presented in a video format which is available at our YouTube Channel: CallUponTheLordVideo. A new video will be uploaded every Thursday. This is a 31 week study, so tune in every week for the latest video in the series!
You may find the accompanying study guide and an audio version of the study at:
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1 Samuel 16:1-13
When Jesus was put to death, his earliest followers had little to read or study in order to learn about faith in Jesus. Some had heard him, of course. His stories were repeated and his miraculous deeds were remembered. Some followers even believed that Jesus was raised from death, although many were skeptical.
One thing that took place among Jesus’ Jewish followers—the great majority at first—is that they turned to their Bible—the Old Testament or Hebrew Bible—and used it to guide them. Today we hear from 1 Samuel 16:1-13. Its words speak about the first Hebrew King, Saul, whom God had rejected, and the second Hebrew King, David, who would become the greatest king until Jesus. Suddenly, in these words the early Christians (Jew and Gentile) were given roots in the past, God’s commandments in the present and hope in Jesus for the future.
Lord God, as your Spirit came mightily upon David 3,000 years ago, send your Spirit upon us, for we pray in the name of Jesus, our eternal king. Amen.
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Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Book Review: At Swim, Two Boys
I finished Jamie O'Neill's behemoth, ten-years-in-the-making novel last week. It was fabulously, spectacularly good. It tells the story of two young friends who fall in love against the backdrop of the beginnings of the Irish war for independence. The two boys, brash and scarred Doyler and shy and naive Jim, make a pact to swim out to Mugglins rock in the Irish sea on Easter 1916. The entire book is tense with both anticipation for the swim, which acts as a symbol of the revolutionary tensions in Dublin, and the almost painfully slow evolution of the boys' sexuality and relationship. I was absolutely dying for these two boys to have a happy ending; not to give anything away, let's just say I cried in my girlfriend's arms after I finished the book.


HISTORY OF ST. ANDREW’S UNITED CHURCH
St. Andrew's United Church sponsored Scouts & Cubs during the 1930s...
1931/32 - 14 scouts – Scout Master; Wib MacLaughlin, Asst. Scout Master : Ed. Shultz
1932/33 ?? Cubs,Cub Master: Wib McLaughlin, Asst. Cub Master: Ed. Shultz & Earl Taylor
1932/33 - 18 scouts: Scout Master: Wib. McLaughlin, Asst. Scout Master: Ed Shultz and Earl Taylor
1933/34 - 18 cubs: Cub Master: Wib McLaughlin, Asst. Cub Master: Ed. Schultz & Earl Taylor
1933/34 - 13 scouts - Scout Master Wib. McLaughlin, Asst. Scout Master: Ed. Shultz & Earl Taylor,
1934/35 - 20 cubs Cub Master: Rev. Donald Bruce Gordon
From 1940-45 Rev. Hubley served during the war years. His only son died in France during the invasion. Mr. Hubley, a widower, took great pride in his housekeeping, The teenage girls of the congregation used to go and help him after school to do his housework. Some of these girls were Elaine Tennant, Vera Zadow, Lavina Law and Sonia McQuestion. The women of the church used to houseclean the church prior to a new minister’s arrival. Their famous “scrub gang’s are now history but despite the fact that they would scour the church and manse they always had time for fun. Despite the war, rationing, etc. the work of the church went on. The members of the WMS and WA made quilts for the mission bale and also for sale at their annual bazaar. Many of these quilts were quilted at the manse and Rev. Hubley would read to the women as they quilted.
November 5, 1944 the anniversary service was held and at this service the members of the choir wore their gowns for the first time and also the singing of the Lord’s Prayer was introduced into the services.
Mrs. Hawley Smith, Pres. of the Women’s Missionary Society and Mrs. Harold McKay organized the Chalk River Mission Circle on March 9, 1945 at the home of Mrs. Alan Blimke.
Rev. Philip Ross served temporarily in 1946 but refused our call to settle in the charge and become our minister.
The years 1946-49 Rev. Carl Dean and his wife Isabel lived and ministered in Chalk River. They organized a Young People’s Union. The first list of officers were: President: Fred Wilson, (brother of Bud); Vice President: Georgette Law, Sec. Treas. Richard Moffat, Program Convenor: Tom Tennant, Worship Convenor: Vera Zadow, Recording Convenor: Margaret Hunt.
In 1946 we were approached by the Deep River congregation with the view of sharing our minister. June 2, 1946 a committee consisting of two members from our congregation, Mrs. Gardiner and Ken Cuthbert and Dr. Parks and S. Wallbridge of Deep River Community Church was formed.
In 1947 the Community Church asked that the minister live in Deep River.
The following resolution was passed by the Board and forwarded to the congregation for consideration and action: “It is recommended that when and if suitable living accommodations be available at Deep River that this congregation authorize the Trustees to take necessary steps to sell the manse, proceeds from such sale to be invested in bonds to be held for replacement purposes when and if the need arises”. The age of the present building as well as the cost to renovate the same and the depreciation if rented or left vacant were all carefully considered before the action was taken.
In 1947 the Young People Group had a membership of 27 members, the Explorer Group 39 members, Baby Band 39 babies on the roll. In 1948 The Greyhound Trail Ranger Group was formed for boys age 10-15 years.
January 1947 a letter from Mrs. Harry Leach was read asking the congregation’s permission to place a memorial window in memory of her father in the window nearest the pew in which he sat. This stained glass window was eventually removed from the old church and was placed at the back of our present church.
Jan. 1948, Mr. Dean reported having been notified that a house at Deep River would be available for his use early in the spring. Following this information it was decided that the Official Board be in charge of considering further the prospect of either renting or selling the manse. May 3rd a ballot had been prepared by the Board of Trustees – results of the ballot was 13-1 in favour of renting the manse and that the rent be placed at a minimum of $25. monthly.
At an official board meeting on Feb. 17, 1947 a discussion followed as to what constitution we were following – Presbyterian or United Church and after much discussion it was decided to send a recommendation to the congregation on motion by Ira Cuthbert and W. Harper that the secretary write this recommendation that we recommend that from this date we follow the constitution set up by the United Church.
A note of appreciation was moved to both Mr. & Mrs. Dean for their unfailing efforts on behalf of the congregation and especially the young people of the church and expressed the hope that very soon he might be restored to full health again.
Dec. 7, 1948, 30 boys and girls and Mrs. Harold McKay met in the basement of the church for the purpose of organizing a Mission Band. With the permission of the W.M.S., the Mission Band was formed with Mrs. Harold McKay as our Superintendent. After many suggestions “The Workers” was chosen as a name for the Band. The first officers elected were: Pres. Tom Cuthbert, Rec. Sec. Daryl Blimke, Treas. Beth Cuthbert.
From 1949-51 Rev. Howard Dickinson became our minister and served the two congregations.
From 1951 to 1953 Rev. Fulton Vanderburgh became our minister. It was during his ministry that building plans were first considered. In 1951 the Rolphton Community Church joined Chalk River and Deep River charges and we now became a 3-point charge. In June 1951 a motion was made that we offer the Pt. Alexander Church to the Presbyterian congregation with the understanding they deliver us 10,000 ft of rough lumber, sizes as specified, and the transaction of $1.00. A delegation from Pt. Alexander heard the offer and agreed to let us know as soon as possible if they would accept or not. Rev. Vanderburgh’s ministry with us was ended tragically when he was killed in a car accident near Cobden coming home from a church meeting.
April 5, 1953 – Easter Sunday the sacrament of the Lords Supper was held with 122 communicants, a record for Chalk River.
Rev. Captain J.A. (Jock) Davidson a Padre at CFB Petawawa, also served the charge for about a year and helped us through many difficult times while we were without a full-time minister following Deep River’s withdrawal from the two charges. Over a period of three years, 1953-56, there were also other padres and many faithful laymen and women from Deep River, Pembroke, as well as St. Andrew’s who took services and helped keep St. Andrew’s functioning. In 1956 we sold the old Presbyterian Church at Point Alexander back to the continuing Presbyterians.
April 25, 1954, the Mission Circle girls dedicated a Bible in memory of Rev. Vanderburgh. It is the prayer of the girls that the book may be a “lamp unto our feet and light unto our path”.
Rev. Harold Hilder served during this trying period.
January 1954 Sunday School showed an enrolment of 103 members.
Easter Sunday, April 18, 1954, the service was conducted by Rev. Skelly of Deep River. At this service the new organ was dedicated in memory of those boys who paid the supreme sacrifice in the service of their country.
Jan. 1955 Rev. Davidson suggested the possibility of enlarging the session possibly by adding one younger member and maybe one lady member but no action was taken. Rev. Davidson died in Victoria on Mar. 15, 2005 at the age of 85.
In April, 1956 Mr. Eustace presented a possibility of having Eganville and Chalk River as a joint pastoral charge. The suggested salary would be Eganville $2800 and Chalk River $1400. It was moved that this agreement be acceptable to us as a congregation.
In 1956, Rev. Donald Lute and family came to work and worship with us. We shared this ministry with Melville United, Eganville and that’s where Rev. Lute and family lived.
In 1957 the church was raised and a new cement foundation was made, a porch was put on the back, new lights were bought upon completion and electricity being installed. The gas lamps were then thrown out.
Around 1957 the old manse was sold to Herb Crigger and is still being used today as a private residence. This building was never moved and is located on Wilson St. beside St. Oswald’s Anglican Church. The Mission Hall was subsequently sold to Emerson Hollmer and rebuilt as his home and is still being used as a residence by Ray Brisebois on the corners of Church and Station streets.
The “Cora McKay” Evening Auxiliary of St. Andrew’s United Church was organized on Jan. 6, 1960. So called to honour Mrs. McKay who had been the Advisory president of the Mission Circle which she helped organized on March 9, 1945 and remained in that office until the Circle graduated to evening auxiliary.
Eganville decided to call its own minister. Mr. Lute decided to answer our call and came to Chalk River. A Manse had to be built for our minister and a new church was badly needed.
The “Wells Organization” was hired to help St. Andrew’s raise money for a new manse and church. Mr. Ken Cuthbert was chosen as building chairman and much of the credit goes to him for the splendid work done. Rev. Lute and many other men in the congregation also gave of their time and energy in the building and planning. The new manse was completed at a cost of $16,344.34 which included lots bought at a cost of $1150. for the manse and church.
In 1960, Mr. Lute accepted our call and for the first time St. Andrew’s became a self-supporting church with a minister supported by our own congregation.
Dec. 18, 1961 a meeting of the old and new executive of the Evening Auxiliary and WMS and WA was held. The meeting was chaired by Mr. Lute and was attended by six members. Mr. Lute explained how the new organization, United Church Women (UCW) would operate in our church. The first meeting of the United Church Women was held on Jan. 11, 1962. Mr. Lute spoke to the group stressing the point of working together to give more strength to the church. The purposes of the two groups were mentioned as was the purpose of our new group. The words “co-operate” as well as “togetherness” were stressed. The first UCW President was Rita MacDonald.
May 28, 1961, the sod was turned for the new St. Andrew’s church on Joseph St. Those taking part were Rev. Lute, Mrs. Wm. Cuthbert (who turned the sod being the oldest member of the congregation) Ken Cuthbert, Cora McKay, Curtis Law and Eric Leach.
June 17, 1962, corner stone of church laid, donated by Mr. & Mrs. Maurice Reiche.
Nov. 4, 1962 the Christian Education part of the new building was dedicated. On that day, Sunday School opened in the old church on Main Street then marched in a body with the teachers and children to the new church where the remainder of the Sunday School hour continued to its close.
Dec. 23, 1962, the first babies to be baptised in the new church were: Carol Lynn Shultz, daughter of Willis and Ruth Shultz and Sharon Gwen Shultz, daughter of Gordon and Lina Shultz.
July 6, 1963 first couple to be married in the new church was Daryl and Lorna Blimke.
Sept. 8, 1963, the sanctuary, cross and communion table were dedicated. The Communion table was donated and dedicated in memory of Mr. & Mrs. Alfred MacDonald by their family. The Cross was donated by the Mission Circle girls and dedicated to the memory of Elliette (Kelly) McKay (wife of Ivan McKay).
In 1963, Rev. Lute moved to Bradford, Ont. and the Rev. Doug Blair was called to serve the church until 1967 when he left to become a padre in the armed forces. During his stay, Rev. Blair was instrumental in revitalizing the youth of the church as well as the community. Camp LauRen also became a large part of the ministry.
On July 11, 1965, pews were installed in the church and were dedicated in memory of loved ones.
Feb. 16, 1968, offering plates were dedicated by Rev. Doug Blair and were donated by members of the Mission Circle.
In 1968, Rev. Gerald Fee and family came to Chalk River.
May 16, 1969 – Dedication of the balcony took place in memory of Mrs. Mona Gutzman (sister of Glenda Wegner) and donated by her parents Mr. & Mrs. Gordon King.
May 11, 1969: Green antependia for pulpit and lectern dedicated in honour of Mr. & Mrs. Harry Leach, placed there by their children. The pulpit and lectern were donated by the family of the Late Jim Law in memory of loved ones. The baptismal font was donated by Mrs. Clara Wilson and dedicated in memory of her husband, Wm. Wilson.
January 15, 1970: The first women elders of St. Andrew’s were elected and they were: Isabel Lamont and Cora McKay.
January, 1972, the new United Church-Anglican hymnary was used for the first time. Mr. Fee’s stay amongst us was all too brief and his failing health influenced his leaving. He died in January, 1973.
Rev. Ross Routliffe came to Chalk River in 1972. In 1974, the Protestant Congregation of the Rolphton Community Church decided that it must discontinue its operation. Another decision of significance was made. Faced with rising costs and the loss of Rolphton’s financial support, St. Andrew’s Official Board made tentative application for financial support from the United Church’s Division of Mission. November’s “Every Member Canvass” brought a splendid response from the people of “St. Andrew’s – an increase of 25% in pledged financial support. This, along with the promise of greater assistance from the Lau-Ren Camp Corporation, made the Official Board reconsider its application for a Mission Grant. “Let’s go it on our own!” was the decision.
Rolphton notified Chalk River that they would be closing their doors on December 31, 1974.
1975, we celebrated our 100th anniversary. Former and present members of the congregation were invited to get involved in many family events during the year and were treated to four outside speakers during services. A homecoming weekend was held in June. The Old Time service held at Thanksgiving brought out many varieties of old time dress, and a large congregation. The climax of the year was November 1st when a banquet was held and a very joyful gathering enjoyed the company of Rev. J.A. Davidson, Sean Conway, the Reeve of the Village and our own Minister.
A letter of resignation was tendered in September by Rev. Routliffe to become effective Jan. 1, 1977. The Rev. Bill Stephenson became our minister in 1977 and remained with us for two years.
1979, Rev. Andy McKee became our student minister. St. Andrew’s and Camp Lau-Ren joined together to become a two-point charge. In 1980, the Official Board approved a request by the Executive Comm. that St. Andrew’s /Camp Lau-Ren Pastoral Charge seek approval for Anderson McKee to remain on this charge after his ordination. In 1981 we bade farewell to Andy and Laurene McKee and after a period of time, welcomed into our church life, Rev. Jack and Elma Roundell.
Rev. Donald and Mrs. Lute came to St. Andrew’s and renewed old friendships on our church anniversary in 1981.
In 1982, St. Andrew’s was served by two ordained supply ministers, Rev. Jack Roundell and Rev. Arthur Lentz. They were part of our church life until October, when the Rev. Andy McKee returned to us from Coe Hill, Ont. Jack and Arthur “retired” again. 1983, Rev. Andy McKee was inducted as full time minister.
July 29, 1884 the Bible on the communion table was dedicated in memory of Ken Tooley and was presented by his wife Dell and family.
The Bible stand on the communion table was donated by Ken and Vera Zadow. The candle holders on the communion table were donated by the Coxford family.
The purple communion cloth on the communion table was donated by the Leach family in loving memory of their mother Ruth and brother Bill.
Andy resigned in 1987 and we welcomed Mark Giuliano as our student minister. Mark served as student minister until 30 June 1989 when Rev. Bill Bresnahan served us as ordained supply. Rev. Bresnahan’s induction was held on October 6, 1991. Bill served St. Andrew’s congregation until August, 1993.
In May, 1995, Rev. Cory Vermeer-Cuthbert was ordained as a Minister in the United Church of Canada and thus began her full-time ministry at St. Andrew’s – and became the first female minister at St. Andrew’s.
In 1998, pews were installed in the balcony.
The chairs in the sanctuary were donated by the McMahon family in memory of their parents, Alfie and Joyce McMahon.
January 1, 2000, approval was granted to reduce the minister’s time from full time to three quarter time.
Rev. Cory submitted her resignation as minister of St. Andrew’s effective Feb. 14, 2001.
New choir gowns were purchased for the choir. Doug Tennant made the crosses that the choir members wear. They are called “the working man’s cross” and are made from horseshoe nails.
The light on the piano was donated by Roy and Phoebe Brooks on April 13, 2003 in loving memory of infant twin daughters.
On Oct. 1, 2002, Rev. Andy McKee commenced a nine-month contract with St. Andrew’s. He terminated his time with us June 30, 2003.
On July 1, 2003, St. Andrew’s United Church was truly blessed with the appointment of our first diaconal minister, Rev. Laurie Ann Storring, to provide leadership to our congregation.
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It can't be underestimated just how valuable written correspondence was to society and individuals in the 1870s, which is why I included a passage in The Haweaters in which Anne Amer scours a letter she's received from an old friend in Owen Sound, attempting to wring every ounce of information from what appears on the page and what she believes to be written between the lines.
In the 1870s, letter writing was a crucial means of communication in Ontario. It would've been the primary way Manitoulin Island's earliest European settlers would've communicated with the friends and loved ones they left behind elsewhere in Ontario as well as in the countries they left to migrate to Canada. These handwritten letters were often meticulously laboured over and it was not uncommon for the author to go through several drafts before producing the version they would ultimately post.
And while the proliferation of railways meant the pace at which people and letters moved greatly sped up during this time period, correspondence between Manitoulin Island and the mainland continued to move at a snail's pace, largely because letters needed to be brought to the island by ship, which meant islanders living in Tekhummah were at the mercy of the lumbering operation at Michael's Bay to move the mail between the island and the mainland on one of the company's lumber hookers. Once on the island, letters would be delivered to a local farm where there would be a box in the front room from which neighbours could collect incoming letters and leave outgoing letters that would be retrieved the next time a mill employee came by. That would've happened fairly regularly from spring through fall, but winter was a different story. It wasn't uncommon for correspondence to stop for months at a time due to weather conditions that prevented ships from navigating to and from the island.
In addition to facilitating communication between loved ones, letters helped disseminate news and ideas. Local newspapers often published the contents of personal letters as firsthand accounts of events and tended to be filled with the sorts of stories that today we would consider gossip. Personal letters also carried political, economic, and social news, allowing islanders to stay informed about matters beyond the island.
The letters continue to have value today, revealing nuances of language, etiquette, and social norms that were prevalent at the time. The formal language and elaborate expressions reflect the politeness and propriety that was so highly valued during the Victorian era and give us insights into interpersonal dynamics, family relationships, and social hierarchies of the time.


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Readers of this book are driven, resilient, and dedicated to finding answers from experienced athletes. Jada Hargrove offers genuineness, honesty, and reality to parents, student-athletes, and other supporting parties who seek to know more about the business of being a successful student-athlete. Gems offered within this book are from a 3-year-starter, summa cum laude graduate (4.0), and previous NCAA Women of the Year Nominee.
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By the time Brahms published his first violin sonata during the remarkably fertile period of the Second Symphony and the violin concerto, he had probably written and abandoned as many as four earlier violin sonatas. He was determined to find the correct balance between the considerable piano part he intended for the work, and the violin role, which had to compete with and complement the other instrument. The G major work combines the intimacy of chamber music with the broader gestures of the violin concerto, and like the concerto and Second Symphony is awonderfully lyrical work.
The Second Sonata of 1886 continues this balance of lyricism, virtuosity and the perfect balance between the two instruments. This sonata quotes from Act III of Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg. The Third Sonata of 1888 is a more turbulent and terse work, and the only one of the three to be cast in four movements. As with many of the great late period works, Brahms combines traditional late-Romantic period gestures with some daring modern features – something the young Arnold Schoenberg was watching with interest.
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I have long been interested in the possibilities of electronic books (ebooks) and in 1995 wrote a short article, which is reprinted below, which was published in the "IEE Review". The machine I describe could be manufactured for a few hundred dollars today (February 2003) but nobody has yet done so. I would be interested to receive feedback and/or criticism of my ideas at james (a) jbryant.eu. One piece of feedback that I do get regularly suggests that I update the article - I do not wish to do this as I see it more as an historical exhibit rather than an up-to-date specification. I am also asked for links to ebooks that I approve. As I have not yet found one that meets my (demanding!) requirements I am not willing to do this either.
In its original form this article was written for an IEE Colloquium on Electronic Books in 1995. I was saddened to discover that the majority of the other speakers at the Colloquium regarded it as inevitable that the hardware platform of electronic books would be the ubiquitous personal computer (PC). I consider such a view unrealistic, and dangerous to the successful development of electronic books (which I shall refer to as "ebooks"). Although I am an electronic engineer and a computer user, this article is written more from the point of view of a book collector and reader with a collection of some 5,000 books than from that of a computer hardware designer. My speciality, after all, is precision analog integrated circuits, but I have been finding references to electronic books in science fiction for nearly forty years and building my own speculations upon them. The earliest references in the 1940's  and 1950's  treat ebooks (the term is not actually used) as bulky and unwieldy pieces of machinery which are kept somewhere that the reader has to visit in order to use the resource. By the 1960's  we meet the equivalent of a whole (law) library in a briefcase but the data are contained on "pinhead tapes" and the author does not discuss how these are handled or identified. Neither of these ideas is really satisfactory.
If ebooks are to replace paper ones they must be comparable in price and as convenient to use. They must be perceived by the bookbuying public as an improvement on the traditional paper book. This will not be best achieved by promoting entirely new features such as hypertext, valuable as they undoubtedly are, but by emphasising that electronic books can be made with nearly all the advantages of traditional paper books while overcoming many of their disadvantages. Such disadvantages include size, weight and environmental impact. (My 5,000 books occupy nearly 80 metres of shelf space and weigh about 1½ tons, which represents the woodpulp from at least one mediumsized tree.) Furthermore, despite improvements in paper and bookbinding technology over the last decade or two, many cheaper books are still being made of acid pulp paper with glued spines and may be expected to have a shelf life of no more than decades, which may fall to a few weeks if they are read repeatedly.
But it is important, most especially during their introduction, when they will inevitably be comparatively expensive, that the acceptance of electronic books is not delayed because their advantages are overweighed by disadvantages of size, weight, power supply and convenience of use. A standard computer of any size: desktop, notebook or palmtop, is not ideal for relaxed reading. If "The Electronic Book" is promoted as another function of the PC it may be accepted by professional users but will probably be seen as unacceptably inconvenient by many of the students and most of the recreational readers who represent a massively larger market and user base. Even among professional users a lawyer with whom I have recently discussed this point admits to taking Archbold  or Stone  to bed with her from time to time and would prefer something smaller.
What I would like is an object that I can carry anywhere and which allows me to read any book in my collection comfortably wherever I am, onehanded. This immediately places limits on size, weight and power requirements, and on the memory capacity of the "ebook":- if it is to be carried in a jacket pocket or a handbag it must be little larger than a standard sized paperback book (10.5x17.5x2.5 cm) and weigh no more than 500 gm. If it is to hold the 5,000 books in my collection it must have a storage capacity of at least two gigabytes.
This figure of 2 gigabytes assumes an average book to have 350 pages of 500 words per page and six letters per word or about one million letters per book. Without any compression this would suggest a book contains about a megabyte of data, but even quite simple compression schemes should be able to reduce this by 60%.
Using single bytes for the commonest 250 words in the language would achieve a much larger compression ratio, and if there were a statistical analysis of word use in each book (or even each chapter) and the commonest 250 words in the book (or chapter) were to be allocated a byte each it might be possible to achieve even more savings.
Half-tone or colour pictures and complex diagrams, of course, require considerably more memory, even with data compression, but most books are unillustrated, and many illustrated books contain relatively few pictures requiring much memory (many diagrams, for instance, are mostly text plus a few simple lines and curves).
Such a specification is not beyond today's technology, if a little expensive, and should be practicable at mass-market prices within a few years. It is therefore worth considering what other characteristics would be desirable in such an ebook.
It should be selfpowered and should run for at least ten hours on a single charge of its rechargeable batteries, and be able to be operated with line power during charging and with readily available primary (nonrechargeable) batteries should it run down where recharging is not possible. Any RAM in the ebook should be protected from memory loss in the event of loss of power. While it is desirable that an ebook should have its own illumination this will shorten battery life (or increase weight) so it should be designed to have the highest possible screen contrast so that it may easily be read by ambient light when this is available, and to be selfilluminated only when necessary. (When the ambient light level is high it might be used to charge the batteries by means of photocells, but this feature would add to the ebook's weight.)
The ebook should be waterproof, or at the very least splashproof.
I know only too well that as we get older our eyesight becomes less than perfect. An electronic book could compensate for this by offering a variety of fonts, and font sizes (in advanced ebooks fonts might be optimised for the imperfections in the eyesight of individual readers, and the option of entering spectacle prescriptions to achieve this could be available - this would not necessarily eliminate the need for spectacles but could minimise eyestrain). This implies, of course, that the number of "pages" in an ebook will vary according to the font settings, and indexes must correlate with position in the text rather than (variable) page numbers. Since we may change fonts or sizes as we read we will need electronic "bookmarks" to mark places to which we may wish to return (it is not possible to fold over the corner of an electronic page!)
The obvious way to move through the text is to have a button which "turns the page", but it may be more convenient to have a steady scroll whose speed is a function of the pressure on a knob or joystick. The choice should be available to the reader and since early habit is probably important in how an individual reads it may be a generation or two before it is clear which is a more practical way of reading. (Historically the paged book [codex] replaced the scrolled [rotulus] because it was more convenient, but this was more a matter of handling and placefinding than of actual ease of reading - which electronic format is easier to read is still undecided.) It should, of course, be possible to jump to another page (or another book), and possibly to view part of two or more texts simultaneously, by invoking other controls. Many readers will require the possibility of browsing among many books and many pages in a way analogous to browsing with traditional books. This will present designers of ebooks with challenges but it should not be impossible to do.
Turning pages requires two buttons (FORWARD and BACK) or a joysticklike control. Selection, browsing and other functions will require many more controls. The most obvious way to provide them is not to have innumerable buttons outside the screen area (which would reduce the display area of the ebook) but to make part of the screen a touch screen and convert part of it to a keyboard when more complex operations are required while using it for display purposes at other times. Such a keyboard would allow us to annotate the text as well, and remove annotations without trace when we have finished with them: some readers would regard this as essential, others, who regard writing on the pages of a paper book as desecration, might find it a valuable new feature of the ebook.
This touch screen allows the ebook to incorporate an (alarm) clock, a calculator, a notepad and a personal organiser (electronic diary). The additional cost of these functions is minimal and the value added considerable. Such an advanced ebook falls short of the functionality of a portable PC but may be adequate for many uses. Where full PC functionality is required an ebook might perform the display function while a small separate keyboard (with wire, or a radio or infrared data link) could contain the remainder of the electronics. This would eliminate the inconvenience of carrying two complete machines, and suggests that the value of ebooks could be enhanced by engineering them, at the outset, to be able to act as display devices for other equipment.
The technology exists to convert text into English speech (no doubt it is available in other languages too). Advanced ebooks should incorporate such technology, which is useful not only to the blind but to drivers and users of the Walkman©. DSP processing allows such speech to be faster than normal without loss of comprehensibility and without raising its pitch to Mickey Mouse frequencies. Within a decade or two at most the technology should also be available (in affordable, transportable form - it is available today in big mainframe computers) to translate text from one language to another in real time so that a suitably equipped ebook could provide translation as well as direct output.
So far I have considered only the technology, but if such electronic books are to be accepted it is necessary that there is material available in electronic form to read in them. This means that the majority of the traditional literary works of the last two millennia must quickly become available in ebook readable form. Publishers are, understandably, concerned that, if they publish books in electronic formats, piracy and loss of royalties will become unavoidable. It is with traditional books in electronic form that I am concerned in the remainder of this article.
If books are published on magnetic disks, optical CDROMs or similar media there is little to prevent users passing them around to be copied and recopied (besides, we do not want to have to carry our ebook plus a load of CDs, cartridges, cassettes, ROMs or whatever - this concern was roused long ago when I first read "Novice", the story referred to in footnote 3). It seems likely, therefore, that a successful ebook must contain a very large data store so that all the books we own may be contained within the ebook and not in disks and ROMs which might be copied. It will, in fact, be an "elibrary". When we buy a book in electronic form it will be written directly into the memory of our ebook. This may be done in a bookshop or over a telephone by means of a modem. If each ebook has a unique ID the modem transmission could be encoded so that only the destination ebook could make use of the information. The sale price of a reference work in such a format might include entitlement to free, or very cheap, updates as new editions are published. Of course a fullfeatured ebook should be able to distinguish between copyright and noncopyright material and permit unimpeded electronic output of the latter.
It is unlikely that remote downloading by modem will replace the bookshop. The design of a bookshop may change somewhat when the majority of books are published only in electronic form, but its basic functions, of displaying titles available (in many cases with an attractive "cover"), enabling prospective purchasers to browse and providing informed staff to discuss customers' needs, will remain unchanged and will provide ample justification for the survival of bookshops in something quite close to their present form.
Remote downloading would make it possible to receive newspapers and periodicals by telephone and read them from our ebook, thereby saving delivery costs and innumerable tons of newsprint (and trees). The replacement of paper newsprint by electronic communications is attractive not only on environmental grounds, but also because it would allow much wider availability of information - at present space constraints cause sub-editors to remove much material which minorities among their readers would value. Electronic newspapers could contain much more information and we could pursue only the issues which interest us. This would, of course, increase problems with Sturgeon's Law . The topic of electronic newspapers merits not merely an article of its own but a whole book, or more.
But what of the pleasures of lending a favourite book to a friend? If we lend her our ebook hardware we have nothing to read while it is gone. If we can download the book to her ebook we have evaded the antipiracy protection. We might avoid both these problems by manufacturing ebooks so that they can pass material which is coded as copyright to another ebook only at the price of erasing the material from their own memories. We can thus truly lend a book, even in electronic form, and I can envisage transmitting it together with macros which cause reminders to appear on our friend's ebook at turnon urging her to return our book when she has read it! Books borrowed from libraries will automatically erase themselves after a preset period (which might be legally defined, and not very long).
Our ebook, being effectively an elibrary, will contain all the books that we own. If it is lost or stolen, or merely loses its memory, we will suffer a great loss. But, even with piracy protection, it might be possible to guard against this if we allow a backup data store which cannot be read directly but can be updated from our book, and from no other, and can update it and no other. If either is lost it can be restored by the manufacturer, who can, presumably, be trusted to preserve copyright.
There is also a logistic problem with the books we already own. A few may be beautifully bound or illustrated but in my case I should prefer most to be transferred to electronic form. Scanners are available which not only scan but interpret TIFF or similar image files as text. If we add a page turning mechanism to such a system we have a device which can transfer books to electronic form and I imagine such readers will become commonplace when ebooks are. If we treat such scanned in ebooks as copyright (i.e. they cannot be given away in electronic form) we have not morally affected the rights of the original copyright owner, although it might be necessary to change the law to permit such private transfers from one medium to another. It might be advisable to make such copiers very slow, so that widespread piracy is impracticable with them, and have high speed ones available (perhaps in libraries) which will make copies only on payment of a small royalty to the original publisher. The book scanner might also indelibly mark every page it scans with ultraviolet fluorescent ink and refuse to scan a book so marked so that one paper book could not be used to make multiple ebook copies.
More advanced legislation in an era of ebooks might address the issue of books which are out of print (present tax laws in some countries discourage publishers from maintaining stocks of slowselling books, and as a result many books for which there would be a small but steady continuing demand become unavailable far too early). With ebooks and electronic storage no book should ever again become unavailable once it has been published - if the original publisher is unwilling to retain it a potential reader should be entitled to download it from the British Museum, the Library of Congress or other Library of Record on payment of a minimal royalty.
This article is not exhaustive, but it contains the thoughts of a lifelong book collector excited by the possibility of getting rid of hundreds of feet of bookshelf containing, mostly, books printed on acid pulp paper which are slowly crumbling away, and replacing most of them with one or two small and convenient electronic devices which contain all the information in smaller, and more permanent, form. However, the essential feature of any practical electronic book is that I must be able to read it comfortably in bed.
Acknowledgements: I am most grateful for many critiques of my original paper, which have inspired a number of improvements to this version. Especial thanks are due to Barrie Gilbert, Jane Henderson, James and Thelma Martin, Paul Quarrie and Mike Rayner.
 "Space Cadet" Robert A. Heinlein, Putnam. 1948
 "Unwillingly to School" Pauline Ashwell, ASF (US Ed.) January 1958
 "Novice" James H. Schmitz, ASF (UK Ed.) October 1962
 "Criminal Pleading, Evidence & Practice (Archbold)", Sweet & Maxwell.
 "Stone's Justices Manual", Butterworth. This weighs 5.5 Kg!
 "Ninety percent of everything is crap" Theodore Sturgeon
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The High Plains Book Awards originated as an idea from the Chair of the Billings Public Library’s Board of Trustees in 2006. Lloyd Mickelson loved the literature of the High Plains that evoked its special connection to that singular landscape. He encouraged the rest of the Board to consider having the Library sponsor an award to recognize and reward the excellent writing of our region. The first Awards were presented in 2007. Though the library is still a sustaining sponsor, the High Plains Book Awards is now a separate nonprofit organization.


The Hannibal Lecter series is one of the most iconic pieces of literature produced in recent history, made even more iconic by the motion picture adaptation of Silence of the Lambs. This is a reimagining of the book covers of the series written by Harris.
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The aim of this project was to reimagine book covers of a series, either of the same genre or titles penned by the same author. Thomas Harris’ Hannibal series seemed like one that could have a uniform and cohesive theme that could be applied to all three books in the series.
The Hannibal series has been redesigned using the concept of the Rorschach test. Since Hannibal Lecter is a psychiatrist, this concept seemed most apt, as using food or body parts as concepts are quite overused. Each cover reflects the main theme of each book in the series.
Rorschach Test Scans
The Rorschach tests were created by splattering ink down the middle of paper and then folded to create a symmetrical print. Black and red ink were used in this case, the color black signifying the dark and twisted soul of Lecter and the red being suggestive of blood. These prints were later scanned and then edited in Photoshop to create the images for the covers.


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Unique book launch MEGATRENDS EVENTS by Trendwatcher Adjiedj Bakas in cooperation with World Forum The Hague
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A new book was launched on 13 December 2017 at World Forum The Hague with the title: Megatrends Events, we’ll never stop meeting, but how? The book focuses on trends and developments that are likely to have a major impact on the conference and events sector in the Netherlands and abroad.
Megatrends Events, we’ll never stop meeting, but how? was launched during the reopening event of World Forum The Hague on 13 December 2017. The book, which is written by trend watcher Adjiedj Bakas, compiled in cooperation with various leading parties and published by World Forum The Hague and GL events, focuses on new trends in the events sector, such as ‘Towards effective networking’, ‘Towards safety and security’, ‘Towards memorable experiences’ and ‘Towards more interaction and co-creation’.
Adjiedj Bakas during the reopening event about the future of events: ‘People tell me that meetings will be digital and virtual, that we will not meet each other anymore in real life. I don’t think this will happen, we are still going to conferences and events because we are mammals, we like to meet people in real life, we like to enjoy each other’s energy and company and we want to exchange views.’
World Forum The Hague was reopened on 13 December by Mayor of The Hague Pauline Krikke, Alderman Karsten Klein, World Forum The Hague’s General Manager Michiel Middendorf and GL events Executive Daniel Chapiro. More than 300 guests from the conference and events sector and the City of The Hague attended the reopening ceremony, which included a programme of speeches and entertainment, the book launch and the presentation of the new name ‘World Forum The Hague’. General Manager of World Forum The Hague, Michiel Middendorf: ‘A valuable book for our industry, providing readers with an in-depth and pragmatic perspective on the future: not flash-in-the-pan trends, but actual developments!’
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Welcome to the
largest Star Trek Dimension update since January 2000.
It all started with a few desig
studies and concepts shortly after the first birthday of the Star Trek Dimension back in
August 2000. Now, the basic structure of the website has been changed, new ways of
navigation have been created, nearly every page has been changed and many new
breath-taking images have been added so that the Star Trek Dimension is ready for the 21st
In a more in-depth overview, the update
consists of the following parts:
1. Easier and faster navigation
With the dimension bar, the new
navigation frame above the actual pages, you can quickly access every project and the main
pages from any part of the Star Trek Dimension.
Newly-created, additional navigation
bars help you to navigate through the episode guides, the Web Dimension and the Media
Overviews and lists of contents now
belong to the standard on every of the more extensive pages, e.g. the FAQ,
the introduction, the LCARS
user notes etc.
2. More user comfort
The comply rewritten, by far more
extensive introduction of the Star Trek Dimension, the
extended and updated FAQ as well as the completely new user notes for the LCARS database and the Media
Library facilitate the orientation for beginners and provide concrete help for
questions concerning structure, interface and important pecularities.
Cross references on the information
pages provide access to pages with similiar topics or an more in-depth analysis.
In the new guestbook provided
by Vantagenet you can express your opinion
concerning the Star Trek Dimension in a very quick & easy way.
3. Improvement of design and
The "end of universe" design,
which has been introcuded to the Star Trek Dimension with the logo and the new banners,
has been more consequently established, for instance with the new navigation bars, the
reworked logos and by the nearly uniform use of the "nebula-star-background".
The Star Trek Dimension main page was reworked not concerning contents, but structure,
and now consists of only one frame. The "end of universe" motive provides a new
background that is both elegant and fitting to the general style of the website. Like all
updates, the design improvement especially took care of the adaptation to high
resolution, with 1024x768 not leading to chaos on the frontpage and the projects main
pages anymore. This applies to the navigation frames, too, which are correctly displayed
up to 1280x960.
Many new logos and navigation pictures
have been introduced or existing ones have been reworked and enhanced. Some examples you
will find on the projects page, the news
page, the FAQ and the new pages (e.g. LCARS user notes) zu finden.
The layout of the Media Library has been completely redesigned, with
even more images and an easier structure.
4. Update or reworking of
projects and information files
The newly introduced main page of the LCARS daabase provides status information and,
beside the login, grants access to the LCARS History and the
also rewritten user notes.
and author page have been rewritten and the FAQ
Library has been moved back to the main server (leading to more security and a
substantially higher download speed), extended by the content of the abandoned Sound
Dimension (now avaiable in the section "Music"), completely reworked and
restructured. Every page has been enhanced, and the user notes have been rewritten. There
are also numerous new media files.
The following projects have been
updated as well: the ST:DS9 Guide contains a new
front page / information page, the ST:VOY Guide
an updated overview of season 7 and three new reviews of season 6 episodes, Gag Trek features new jokes, the LCARS
database has labeled scroll buttons, the Subspace Manual
and the What You Leave Behind project have been adapted to the
uniform Dimension design and bugs have been eliminated in the Star Trek Cartography and the Web
Despite the extension of this update,
there will be additions in the next days. Primarily, of course the still missing
translations of the FAQ, the LCARS user notes and the author page, as well as not uploaded
parts of the Media Library sound effects collection. Afterwards, there will be reworked
season overviews in English in the ST:DS9 Guide plus some smaller additions which haven't
been completed in time.
If questions or problems arise
(especially missing links and pictures and other bugs concerning the update), or if you
simply want to submit your opinion, please drop me a mail or post to the registry-free Star Trek
Dimension forum in the Subspace Comms
Enjoy the enhanced Star Trek Dimension,


Nothing portrays the American taxicab like the classic Checker. Even though it has been out of production, and out of service for many years, film and TV programme makers still want this vehicle to represent taxi transportation for their modern day characters. In this richly illustrated book, Checker aficionados Ben Merkel and Joe Fay guide us through the history of the most famous models, the A-8 to the A-12, taking in many of the limousine and private car variants on the way. Covered too is a brief history of the Checker company and the pre-war and the immediately post war models that predated the A-8. Illustrated with archive shots, posed photographs and on-street images, in New York City, Chicago and many of the towns and cities across the USA and overseas that operated the Checker.
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In February 2015, we produced the 1st edition of our flagship publication that has become the benchmark annual review and outlook of Taiwan's banking industry called The Blueprint to Banking in Taiwan 2015.
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As part of the Thrive Within campaign, we compiled a variety of resources to assist you on your journey to resilience. Sometimes we all need some additional information to help us better understand ourselves and others. These resources were selected with that thought in mind. They come from numerous reputable sources, including the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Child Traumatic Stress Network, the Harvard University Center on the Developing Child, and many others.
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Despite being sick and sleeping for what felt like an eternity last night, I dragged myself out of bed today to make sure I went to the Library of Congress. I had gone about seven years ago the last time I was in D.C., but I had only gone in the Jefferson building and looked at the reading room from the observation deck. On this occasion, I went through the process of getting a library card so I could venture down to where the books were.
My first impression of the place was that it was incredibly distracting. It took a great deal of focus to stop staring at the ornate sculpture and craftsmanship portrayed through the statues and walls, and actually go look through the books. Once I finally walked to the shelves and climbed to the second level, I found Max had already zeroed in on the sports books and he waved me over. While I found them intriguing, I ended up stumbling upon a few books of compiled letters written by George Washington from the time he was appointed commander of the revolutionary forces to the time the war was over. I pulled it from the shelf and joined Andrew downstairs to read the first 20 pages or so. I found it difficult to believe I was actually able to pick up a compiled book off an ordinary shelf in this place containing such intimate details of our first president. It just struck me as incredibly cool. If knowledge had a smell, it would be the smell of that reading room.
As I made my way through the rest of the shelves to see what else the library had to offer, I started to feel confident if I had a question about anything I could find the answer in a book on these shelves. That impression was supported even further when I realized there were doors on the sides of the rotunda leading to further rows of shelves with even more books. At the very back of one of them, I found the compiled records from every session of congress. They were detailed too. Each book was published in a series of volumes and contained a couple thousand pages of bills and debates. While I use it was kept for the purpose of record, I can’t imagine those volumes get broken open too often.
While I feel proud to say my country has the largest library in the world, I also can’t help but feel sad about the fact it only gets used to a fraction of its potential when it comes to the general public. While the library processes hundreds of thousands of reference requests from congress each year, the process of accessing the library itself through both the obtainment of a card and the distance most citizens have to travel in order to get there makes for relatively few in the grand scheme of things who have access. Regardless, if one does take the time to get to D.C., obtain a library card and maneuver their way through the corridors underneath the building, it is well worth it to search the shelves, pick out a book on nothing in particular, find a desk and just read.


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Original Portrait of Boy Moon (also found in the envelope).
It was almost a decade ago that 22 unsigned, hand-written poems were found, charting the love affair between an enigmatic entity called Boy Moon and his paramour, a girl called Bianca.
To deepen the mystery, a number of graphologists have claimed that the author of the poems was no more than 27 inches high and that he/she wrote the poems using an abnormally small fountain pen.
Speculation is rife that the poet was not human, and not from our world. It is conceivable, in fact, that ‘Boy Moon’ isn’t a fictional being but an alien poet who left these poems here on earth to remind us of what we must never forget: the deeper mysteries of the heart.
We asked a collection of frankly rather batty Moon scholars to explain to our future readers who and what Boy Moon was. These so-called ‘Moonologists’ came up with the most wonderful and unexpected theories, as you shall see.
The story of Boy Moon as they tell it is as beautiful and enigmatic as the poems themselves.Read our book to discover the mystery of Boy Moon


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Please be aware that these details will be published in both our paper and online versions of the catalogue, which will be publicly accessible beyond our Heritage Seed Library and Garden Organic members.
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Please send these details to firstname.lastname@example.org. The closing date for entries for publication is Monday 14th October 2019.


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Contact number: 8 727 272-82-86.
Metro: Almaly station.
Distance from the station: 600 meters.
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Gabit Musrepov and Sabit Mukanov are some of the personalities who have made Kazakh literature as we know it. In the works, they reflected the most intimate feelings of contemporaries and how the thinking of society changed under the pressure of social changes. The heritage left after them is not just fascinatingly written stories, it is the history of Kazakhstan, transmitted by the pen of talented writers. Not in vain they were awarded various prizes, and the main thing - folk recognition.
They were both extraordinary people. Wide outlook, sharp, creative look at life made them interesting interlocutors and reasonable mentors. Everyone who talked to Sabit Mukanovich or Gabit Mahmutovich noted in them a relentless thirst for creativity. You can plunge into the activity of writers and see how they felt the world around them in the literary and memorial complex dedicated to them.
History of creation
The variant of the museum, which exists nowadays, appeared in 1999 by means of uniting the museums, located in the apartments where the authors lived and worked. Now its exposition is 12 thousand items. Among them:
- personal belongings;
- rare books.
The museum complex is divided into 2 halls, where the literary part of the house of S. Mukanov and G. Musrepov is presented. Here you will fully feel the atmosphere in which the writers worked. Here all house requisites and the exact arrangement of furniture, a rich library of Sabit Mukanovich (in it more than 4000 compositions are collected) and canes which were sharpened by Gabit Mahmutovich, in a word all that consisted of their every day (and not only) life are kept.
Besides, there are also books with autographs of Mikhail Sholokhov, Alexei Tolstoy and Mukhtar Auezov. The museum complex has also recently exhibited works of art:
- Magzhan Zhumabaev;
- Akhmet Baitursynova;
- Zhusipbek Aimauytov;
- Shakarim Kudaiberdiev;
- Mirzhakip Dulatov.
The Literary and Memorial Museum Complex in Almaty often holds various events in order to expand the cultural space in the city. You can get to any of them by buying tickets on our website.
On this page, you will also find the address of the Literary and Memorial Museum Complex, a map with access to it and current contacts.


Research In Ireland - Help from
Betty Jane and Robert Smith
This information was in a e-mail of January 29, 2001 from Betty Smith.
Thank you for keeping we Bagnalls up to date on the latest inquiries from
fellow kin. It is great to have a place to deposit our information and
I replied to "Butch" and I'll give the site I sent him to you
too. I have found it to be most helpful for work in Ireland. Francis
Dowling was the genealogist that worked for me in 1993. He no longer does
private work but perhaps by following his suggestions the group can forge
ahead on their own. I believe it has everything!!
I have some pictures of the Bagnall home where John and Ronan live with their
family. If you would be interested we could send them on to you.
I am sending you the article we wrote for our local society on our trip to
Ireland. Perhaps it would be helpful to others searching in Ireland. From
experience one can really flounder about when you don't do your homework
before you go.
Researching In Ireland
By Betty-Jane and Robert Smith
This past summer we spent a week in Ireland searching for the roots of
Betty-Jane's Bagnall family which she has been studying for a number of years.
Our general plan was to go first to Dublin and meet with a genealogist
recommended by Mr. Francis Dowling. He is in charge of the Genealogical
Section of the wonderful Local Ireland web site. We had met him on a
previous trip to Dublin in October of 1993. He had done some good work for
us, and therefore we had faith in his recommendation. It turned out that
Mrs. Helen Kelly was available on the first day of our three- day stay in
Dublin and so we met and gave her all the background that we could. This had
been reproduced from our files for that purpose. Later after we returned
home we gave her a report of what we had found and wrote to her to give
specific objectives to work on.
Work prior to the trip had given us information on the Bagnalls in my direct
lineage going back to about 1700. We knew that the more recent generations
lived in Dublin in the vicinity of Grafton and Suffolk Streets. This
knowledge enabled us to reproduce for our trip the 1876 Ordinance Survey map
showing that area so that we might look to see where their houses and
workshops were. Later during the trip we picked up a clearer map in a series
called "Old Ordinance Survey Maps- The Godfrey Edition" which had a central
city map "Dublin: The Castle Sheet 1843". This was in the period of
residence of the Bagnall family in that area. It enabled us to walk around
and see the present-day buildings and to look in the alleys behind them for
remnants of the old shops and homes that were there in the 19th century.
To get more information about the residences of the Dublin Bagnalls, we went
to the Valuation Office, Irish Life Center, Abbey Street Lower, across the
river. We had prepared for this by getting street addresses from the city
directories of Dublin during the 19th century which were found in the
National Library. So we were able to zero in on the locations and the
records establishing land ownership and deed transfers. One aspect of this
geographical work was the apparent correlation with the advent of the street
railway system. The Bagnalls were bootmakers who had originally lived at
their shops but the streetcar enabled some to live at Bray which is outside
of Dublin to the south along the sea coast.
The other searching in Dublin done at the National Library was of certain
indexed sources including an extraordinary compendium of references called
"The History of Irish Civilization". This contains clippings and references
to articles published about numerous subjects down thru the years. There was
also an indexed publication called "The Irish Genealogist" with many
scholarly articles. Whenever we found something of interest in one of these,
we were able to enter an order with the librarian for photocopies. The system
is somewhat cumbersome but the one document we found which was about 30 pages
long was mailed to us in a week or two and so the system works.
After three days we took the train to Mullingar a city about 50 miles west
of Dublin that is in the center of the area where my Bagnalls had lived in
the 18th century. There we stayed at a wonderful bed and breakfast called
The Crookedwood House which has a five star restaurant attached. The
restaurant was recently written up in Bon Appetit. It was truly a gracious
Because of some misunderstanding about the competence of an Octogenarian to
capably drive an automobile, we had to engage wonderful Danny McEntee to
drive us about to all the residence areas, libraries and family history
centers that we were interested in. But, having a local person to find
people and places was the best thing that could have happened to us.
It happened that our prior research had developed a number of correspondents
who were interested in the Bagnalls and over the years we had exchanged
information and found a web site. On it we found the records of a graveyard
in a town called Rahugh where Bagnalls had been buried before 1700. These
records were obtained by a local Bagnall family, still living in Rahugh, and
with Danny's help we called on them. The picture is of their farmhouse, parts
of which must be almost 300 years old. Their reception was most hospitable
and they shared their other data on the family origins.
Their information gave us most significant clues as to the origins of the
Bagnalls. It has turned out that the earliest Bagnall in the area apparently
arrived as one of the settlers in an Anabaptist or Puritan group.This
particular group of settlers was documented in The Journal of the Royal
Society of Antiquaries of Ireland in an article published in 1896 which
listed their names. They arrived in Rahugh in about 1652 and were part of
the resettlement of Ireland by the Cromwellian soldiers and officers.
Also they referred us to a book that we were able to purchase locally called
"A Place Named Rahugh" by Vincent Abbott a local historian. It recounts the
story of the settlers and their history up to the present time. We have
spoken to him by telephone and are in correspondence.
We visited the County library in Mullingar where the Archivist, Tony, was
most helpful. In studying the various books we found from their footnotes
and bibliographies that at the National Library in Dublin we should be able
to find "Subsidy Rolls and Hearth-Money Rolls for 1664" and also a 1733
report prepared by a Bishop Ellis titled " Account of the Diocese of Meath".
Further a professor at Trinity College, Jeremiah Sheehan, wrote a book in
1978 titled "Southwest Meath- Farm and Folk" which not only provides
information about how the settlers fared in the ensuing 100 years but also
has an extensive bibliography. Looking these items up has been requested of
So all of this indicates some of the ways in which one might succeed in
searching family history in Ireland. Contrary to popular belief not every
record has been the victim of willful destruction in military skirmishes down
thru the years. The state of their civilization is such that much has been
written about their history and if you're lucky you will be able to find
references that relate, and avoid the necessity of spending hours searching
out dusty land and church records.
It was a wonderful trip for which we still relish the memory.
Best wishes to you and Mary.
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Monday, 24th October 2016
I’m excited to announce that my poetry collection What Slight Gaps Remain has been published by Blue Hour Press!
The collection is a combination of poems selected from my PhD portfolio (titled The Origin Stories), poems from my Masters’ degree collection (titled Of Water and Light), and new writing.
I haven’t gotten my hands on a physical copy yet, but my editor sent me photos. I’m taking them as real-life evidence that my words tangibly exist, sewn together and bound, in the world. I’ll pick up a bulk-order during my upcoming trip to San Francisco to bring back to Sydney. Until then, the book is still only present on my computer screen.
It’s a strange feeling to know this can exist on bookshelves. I’m not unfamiliar with my words being read (30 poems from this collection have been previously published online and in literary magazines). But I send them off into the world, they get adopted (or returned, returned, returned, and eventually adopted), and when they’ve found their new forever home, I let them be. I don’t really return to them, unless to refer someone to a line or snippet that might help to describe an experience they’re going through.
This is a collection. Here, things are collected and kept. That feels so different.
I was very lucky to have three wonderful early reviewers, consisting of Alan Gillis, Jane McKie, and Kirsten Kaschock. Enjoy their reviews below, and pick up a copy. (Expert tip: reading poetry in public is making a comeback. I’m sure of it.)
Reviews of What Slight Gaps Remain:
Alan Gillis, author of “Scapegoat” and “Here Comes the Night”:
“These are poems that address the heart of the matter – what it means to live, to love, to want to do good; and which also probe beyond the periphery of things and of thoughts. With wit, intelligence and dazzling linguistic prowess, this book examines what we hold before us, and what slips between the gaps. Scrutinizing places and relationships, memories and happenings, fictions and myths, the collection is marked by its copiousness and range. From high lyricism to chatty intimacy, objective imagism to fluid yet surreal streams of consciousness, Sedlak’s curiosity and talent recognise few limits. This is a trailblazing first collection.”
Kirsten Kaschock, author of “Sleight” and “The Dottery”:
“Emma Sedlak’s debut book of poetry is a hymnal to the impossible work in front of us—to be open to this world and to one another while reaching for something beyond it. Throughout this remarkable collection, she moves in and out of a broken story—Icarus’—and rewrites the wound, stitching with words a path towards wholeness. Sea and stars always unmoor us, but in Sedlak’s poems, they also provide the expanse that, as Rilke writes, allows us “each to see the other whole against the sky.” The poet trusts readers to lay their lives upon this map in palimpsest, to seek, among strands of love and pain, the golden thread—a middle way. This book vibrates. Its resonance thrums deep because Sedlak moves forward “… [as] though any of these difficulties could be told.” This is the good work, the core work, the necessary work. Enter into it alongside of her. As you dip in and out of its depths—note how the sun warms your shoulder-blades, how the wind sustains you.”
Jane McKie, author of “When the Sun Turns Green”:
“What Slight Gaps Remain, Emma Sedlak’s debut collection feels imbued with earth and air: it skillfully marries a humane concern with the fabric of our lives with a questing and philosophical acuity. Icarus is here, testing the elements, but work is here too in a pervasive lyric attention to community and ordinary labour that feels suffused with love. Like the foetus visible through the skin of a mother’s stomach that she describes, delightfully, as a ‘lima bean’ steadily taking form, the light in this collection unfolds in the mind long after setting it down.”
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Oklahoma Romance Writers Guild Hearts Award – 2021 Finalist
Book 2 in the Melting Hearts series.
Art prodigy Noelle Michaels clings to school for access to a studio and materials, her only chance at sculpting a future different from the one she was born into.
Former soldier Nick Christoph struggles to reintegrate into civilian life, exchanging a military rifle for a chalkboard and embracing his new mission.
When they meet, chemistry ignites a fire that could destroy their plans.
Noelle is an undiscovered artist who turns trash into treasure while seeking her big chance. She’s doing everything she can to prove she’s nothing like her drug-fueled family, including avoiding her attraction to Mr. Christoph.
Nick is stuck in the past, frozen by his history of defeat. He’s still trying to find a way to be the hero, but instead of searching for insurgents, he spends his days working to save the special students in his class. Especially the one whose fire draws him closer, despite the danger of getting burned.
Nick and Noelle’s love is forbidden.
They have everything to lose.
But, if they risk breaking the rules, maybe they can save each other.


The Beginning of Drama
There are many theories about the beginning of drama in ancient Greece. The on most widelyaccepted today is based on the assumption thatdrama evolved from ritual. The argument for thisview goes as follows. In the beginning, human beingsviewed the natural forces of the world-even theseasonal changes-as unpredictable, and theysought through various means to control theseunknown and feared powers. Those measureswhich appeared to bring the desired results werethen retained and repeated until they hardened into fixed rituals.
Eventually stories arose which explained or veiled the mysteries of the rites. As time passedsome rituals were abandoned, but the stories, later called myths, persisted and providedmaterial for art and drama. Those who believe that drama evolved out of ritual also argue thatthose rites contained the seed of theater because music, dance, masks, and costumes werealmost always used, Furthermore, a suitable site had to be provided for performances andwhen the entire community did not participate, a clear division was usually made between the"acting area" and the "auditorium." In addition, there were performers, and, sinceconsiderable importance was attached to avoiding mistakes in the enactment of rites,religious leaders usually assumed that task. Wearing masks and costumes, they oftenimpersonated other people, animals, or supernatural beings, and mimed the desired effect-success in hunt or battle, the coming rain, the revival of the Sun-as an actor might. Eventuallysuch dramatic representations were separated from religious activities.
Another theory traces the theater's origin from the human interest in storytelling. Accordingto this vies tales (about the hunt, war, or other feats) are gradually elaborated, at first throughthe use of impersonation, action, and dialogue by a narrator and then through theassumption of each of the roles by a different person. A closely related theory traces theaterto those dances that are primarily rhythmical and gymnastic or that are imitations of animalmovements and sounds.


You read his memoir ‘Hiding in Hip Hop‘ and now author Terrence Dean is back with a new novel ‘Mogul.’
After the sudden death of his father, a renowned jazz musician, Aaron “Big A.T.” Tremble clings to music as an escape. Making hip hop beats becomes his life. His love for music lands him at the estate of Larry “Pop” Singleton, a retired and respected Hip Hop music mogul who sees something special in Big A.T., and he also knows the truth about his sexuality. With Pop’s blessings and nurturing, Big A.T. is on the path to becoming the next great Hip Hop producer in New York.
With the help of Pop and “the family,” a network of secretly gay men in the Hip Hop world, Big A.T. finds success and starts his own music label. He’s signed and worked with some of the biggest Hip Hop artists in the country. One of them is Brooklyn native lyricist, “Tickman.” Together they are making sweet music together. Tickman and Big A.T.’s relationship goes beyond producer and rapper – they become secret lovers.
Seems like a good read and the book is only $10 at Amazon. In the interview above Terrence made a reference that once you get the gays and the girls, then comes the rest of the world. He even referenced big artists that have made it big by embracing the gays. I’m definitely looking forward to getting this book and reading it. Join me!


Indore Public School has well equipped computerized library, with over 10,000 volumes which include books, videos, DVD’s, CD’s, subscription to 25 periodicals which are added to continually. The Prime objective of our Library is to make it as Learning Resource Center.
The Library has various online facilities for easy access of information. These include Online Public Access Catalogue, Digital Library, Various Database Subscription e.g. EBSCO and approach to e-books. The library also provides students and teachers with a range of reference books, encyclopedia, journals and newspapers, and internet facilities to enrich their classroom activities and knowledge.