natch \nach\,
adverb:
Of course; naturally.
She was even more delighted to hear that you were planning to invest in her health club, and hopes to see you there as a patron as well as an investor. At reduced rates, natch?
-- Evelyn E. Smith, "Miss Melville Returns"
Yes, well, your father, who has no humanitarian instincts, is already designing a computer program to put the Lever process on automatic. For a small fee, natch.
-- Dana Stabenow, "Second Star"
Natch is a shortening and respelling of the common English word naturally.
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Saturday, January 31, 2015
SCHOLARSHIP AWARDS for READING BOOKS
SCHOLARSHIP AWARDS for READING BOOKS
Open to RACC Students
Townsend Press offers cash scholarships to Reading Area Community College (RACC) students.
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Why a College Reading Contest?
A surprising number of first-year college students admit that they have never read a book from cover to cover in their lives. Even more students say that they do not make a habit of reading.
But the enormous benefits of regular reading are beyond dispute. Research has proven that regular reading makes students better readers, writers, speakers, listeners, and thinkers. Regular readers score higher on standardized tests, and they greatly increase their chances for school and job success.
If you want to experience the benefits of reading, here is a contest that will help you do so.
How to Enter
In this contest, students earn cash scholarships by reading books. To get these free books,
visit the Yocum Library – 2nd Floor during the following times:
Mondays between 9:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. or
Tuesdays between 9:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. or
Wednesdays between 9:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. or
Thursdays between 9:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m.
After you have read the books, return to the library at any of the above times. Townsend Press Reading Coordinator, Donald Bertram, will talk to you briefly about each book to confirm you have read it.
He will also give you, at no charge, two additional books.
Continue to visit Donald to progress in the contest.
The contest will run until May 29, 2015.
Awards
Scholarships will be awarded directly to students by Townsend Press.
* For every 10 books you read, you will be awarded $100.
* For reading 40 books, you can win a total of $400.
Remember, all books are free of charge, and the books are yours to keep!!!
Final Thoughts
If you succeed in this contest, the money will not be your only reward. Reading anywhere from 10 to 40 books— especially if you have never been interested in reading—would be an extraordinary act of personal achievement, growth, and self-empowerment. All the reading could help change your life!
Friday, January 30, 2015
Scheduled Classes for Computers
10:10 a.m. - 11:05 a.m. Reserved—Ms. Gieringer
Where: Yocum Instruction Area
Description: Ms. Dawn Gieringer COM131 (20) Using lit databases presented by Ms. Brenna Corbit.
12:20 p.m. - 1:15 p.m. Reserved—Ms. Gieringer
Where: Yocum Instruction Area
Description: Ms. Dawn Gieringer COM131 (20) Using lit databases presented by Ms. Brenna Corbit.
Where: Yocum Instruction Area
Description: Ms. Dawn Gieringer COM131 (20) Using lit databases presented by Ms. Brenna Corbit.
12:20 p.m. - 1:15 p.m. Reserved—Ms. Gieringer
Where: Yocum Instruction Area
Description: Ms. Dawn Gieringer COM131 (20) Using lit databases presented by Ms. Brenna Corbit.
Word of the Day
blatherskite
\ BLATH-er-skahyt \, noun;
1.a person given to voluble, empty talk.
2.nonsense; blather.
Quotes:
It seems to me that no one can contemplate this odd creature, this quaint and curious blatherskite , without admiring McClintock, or, at any rate, loving him and feeling grateful to him …
-- Mark Twain, "A Cure for the Blues," 1893
That bubbling, breezy blatherskite , the boisterous bobolink/ Is such a deep philosopher he's far too wise to think.
-- Sam Walter Foss, "Bobolink Philosophy," Back Country Poems , 1892
Origin:
Blatherskite was a popular colloquialism in the U.S. in the early 1800s, thanks in part to a Scottish song called "Maggie Lauder," which featured the word (spelled bletherskate ) and was popular among soldiers during the American Revolutionary War.
Dictionary.com
Dictionary.com
\ BLATH-er-skahyt \, noun;
1.a person given to voluble, empty talk.
2.nonsense; blather.
Quotes:
It seems to me that no one can contemplate this odd creature, this quaint and curious blatherskite , without admiring McClintock, or, at any rate, loving him and feeling grateful to him …
-- Mark Twain, "A Cure for the Blues," 1893
That bubbling, breezy blatherskite , the boisterous bobolink/ Is such a deep philosopher he's far too wise to think.
-- Sam Walter Foss, "Bobolink Philosophy," Back Country Poems , 1892
Origin:
Blatherskite was a popular colloquialism in the U.S. in the early 1800s, thanks in part to a Scottish song called "Maggie Lauder," which featured the word (spelled bletherskate ) and was popular among soldiers during the American Revolutionary War.
Dictionary.com
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Daily Writing Tips - Make Way for New Words
Make Way for New Words
by Mark Nichol
*The Oxford English Dictionary has an insatiable appetite for new entries: Every three months, it expands its inventory with dozens of words. A recent newspaper article, however, sensationalized recent acquisitions by selectively announcing a pile of pop-culture-inspired terms, missing the whole point of a dictionary.
The OED, like most other dictionaries, is descriptivist: It describes the state of the language. Some descriptivist resources weigh in on the formality of given entries, or their acceptability by a panel of language experts. The procedure for approving candidate terms for inclusion varies, as dictionary staffs differ on how long a term should have been in general circulation before it earns the stamp of approval.
But dictionaries do not include or omit words based on their quality. So, withhold your outrage when you read that you can now find such entries as bromance (a close friendship between two men), guyliner (eyeliner worn by a man), and mankini (a man’s one-piece bathing suit with shoulder straps). The apocalypse is not nigh. The OED is merely reflecting usage. (Well, OK, maybe the apocalypse is nigh.)
But wait, you argue. You wouldn’t be caught uttering or penning one of those words, inducted into the OED in 2011. My rebuttal? I deduce that you are over twenty-five years old. Well, yes, you might reply — as is a majority of the world’s English-reading population. That’s true, and many people born in the last twenty-five years would probably be embarrassed to employ one of these terms in conversation, too. But many folks of all ages know these words — they’re in our word-hoard, whether we choose to speak or write them or not. And though some may turn out to be ephemeral, the OED has rightfully catalogued them as being in current usage.
Here are a few terms added in the most recent round that I predict might have more staying power than those listed above:
Cybercast: an online audiovisual broadcast
Paywall: an online system that restricts access to those who pay a subscription
Super PAC: a political action committee with restrictions on funding as long as specific political candidates are not the recipients
In the What Took You So Long category are such terms as blacktop, a verb describing the process of paving a surface (the noun form already existed in the OED’s pages), earthlike (self-explanatory), and supertitle, the word for transcribed or translated text displayed above a stage or on a screen.
In the Department of Redundancy Department category is bimble, a synonym (primarily used in British English) for amble or meander. But English is replete with multiple words with the same meaning, so bring it on.
An honorable mention, for clever coinage, goes to aptronym, the word for a personal name usually humorously or ironically suited to the person, such as in the case of an undertaker named Grimm or a clumsy woman named Grace.
Whether you love or hate each of these terms or the hundreds of others being poured into dictionaries each year, keep in mind that although inclusion does enhance the possibility that they will be used more often, the realm of English is a free country, and you are welcome to accept or reject them in your own writing.
*http://www.dailywritingtips.com/make-way-for-new-words/
by Mark Nichol
*The Oxford English Dictionary has an insatiable appetite for new entries: Every three months, it expands its inventory with dozens of words. A recent newspaper article, however, sensationalized recent acquisitions by selectively announcing a pile of pop-culture-inspired terms, missing the whole point of a dictionary.
The OED, like most other dictionaries, is descriptivist: It describes the state of the language. Some descriptivist resources weigh in on the formality of given entries, or their acceptability by a panel of language experts. The procedure for approving candidate terms for inclusion varies, as dictionary staffs differ on how long a term should have been in general circulation before it earns the stamp of approval.
But dictionaries do not include or omit words based on their quality. So, withhold your outrage when you read that you can now find such entries as bromance (a close friendship between two men), guyliner (eyeliner worn by a man), and mankini (a man’s one-piece bathing suit with shoulder straps). The apocalypse is not nigh. The OED is merely reflecting usage. (Well, OK, maybe the apocalypse is nigh.)
But wait, you argue. You wouldn’t be caught uttering or penning one of those words, inducted into the OED in 2011. My rebuttal? I deduce that you are over twenty-five years old. Well, yes, you might reply — as is a majority of the world’s English-reading population. That’s true, and many people born in the last twenty-five years would probably be embarrassed to employ one of these terms in conversation, too. But many folks of all ages know these words — they’re in our word-hoard, whether we choose to speak or write them or not. And though some may turn out to be ephemeral, the OED has rightfully catalogued them as being in current usage.
Here are a few terms added in the most recent round that I predict might have more staying power than those listed above:
Cybercast: an online audiovisual broadcast
Paywall: an online system that restricts access to those who pay a subscription
Super PAC: a political action committee with restrictions on funding as long as specific political candidates are not the recipients
In the What Took You So Long category are such terms as blacktop, a verb describing the process of paving a surface (the noun form already existed in the OED’s pages), earthlike (self-explanatory), and supertitle, the word for transcribed or translated text displayed above a stage or on a screen.
In the Department of Redundancy Department category is bimble, a synonym (primarily used in British English) for amble or meander. But English is replete with multiple words with the same meaning, so bring it on.
An honorable mention, for clever coinage, goes to aptronym, the word for a personal name usually humorously or ironically suited to the person, such as in the case of an undertaker named Grimm or a clumsy woman named Grace.
Whether you love or hate each of these terms or the hundreds of others being poured into dictionaries each year, keep in mind that although inclusion does enhance the possibility that they will be used more often, the realm of English is a free country, and you are welcome to accept or reject them in your own writing.
*http://www.dailywritingtips.com/make-way-for-new-words/
Thursday, January 29, 2015
Word of the Day
periphrasis
\ puh-RIF-ruh-sis \ , noun;
1.the use of an unnecessarily long or roundabout form of expression; circumlocution.
2.an expression phrased in such fashion.
Quotes:
He had a cunning mastery of periphrasis , and a telling command of adverbs.
-- P. G. Wodehouse, Not George Washington , 1907
I feel that there is one cliché that sums up my position so admirably that it would be pure egotism to attempt a more interesting periphrasis .
-- Deborah Meyler, The Bookstore , 2013
Origin:
Periphrasis comes from the Greek word períphrasis from the prefix peri- meaning "around" and phrazein meaning "to declare."
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\ puh-RIF-ruh-sis \ , noun;
1.the use of an unnecessarily long or roundabout form of expression; circumlocution.
2.an expression phrased in such fashion.
Quotes:
He had a cunning mastery of periphrasis , and a telling command of adverbs.
-- P. G. Wodehouse, Not George Washington , 1907
I feel that there is one cliché that sums up my position so admirably that it would be pure egotism to attempt a more interesting periphrasis .
-- Deborah Meyler, The Bookstore , 2013
Origin:
Periphrasis comes from the Greek word períphrasis from the prefix peri- meaning "around" and phrazein meaning "to declare."
Dictionary.com
Less or Fewer ?
*Is it ‘less’ or ‘fewer’? Here’s an easy way to tell the difference.
The differences between ‘less’ and ‘fewer’ and ‘much’ and ‘many’ have to do with countable vs. uncountable nouns.
A countable noun is a noun with an identifiable quantity. For example:
A raindrop is a countable noun, since you can theoretically count a number of raindrops.
The rain is an uncountable noun because you can’t identify its quantity.
For countable nouns, use the term ‘fewer.’
The farther south I drive, the fewer raindrops I see on my windshield.
For uncountable nouns, use the term ‘less.’
It has been a dry winter; there is less rain than usual.
The same principle applies for many and much.
For countable nouns, use the term ‘many.’
There are many action figures on sale this weekend.
For uncountable nouns, use the term ‘much.’
The store manager says they have too much inventory in the back room.
*http://www.grammarly.com/blog/2015/is-it-less-or-fewer-heres-an-easy-way-to-tell-the-difference/
The differences between ‘less’ and ‘fewer’ and ‘much’ and ‘many’ have to do with countable vs. uncountable nouns.
A countable noun is a noun with an identifiable quantity. For example:
A raindrop is a countable noun, since you can theoretically count a number of raindrops.
The rain is an uncountable noun because you can’t identify its quantity.
For countable nouns, use the term ‘fewer.’
The farther south I drive, the fewer raindrops I see on my windshield.
For uncountable nouns, use the term ‘less.’
It has been a dry winter; there is less rain than usual.
The same principle applies for many and much.
For countable nouns, use the term ‘many.’
There are many action figures on sale this weekend.
For uncountable nouns, use the term ‘much.’
The store manager says they have too much inventory in the back room.
*http://www.grammarly.com/blog/2015/is-it-less-or-fewer-heres-an-easy-way-to-tell-the-difference/
Wednesday, January 28, 2015
Word of the Day
columbine \KOL-uhm-bahyn, -bin\,
adjective:
1. dovelike; dove-colored.
2. of a dove.
For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocency, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil …
-- Francis Bacon, "The Advancement of Learning," 1605
Com forth now with thyne eyen columbyn. / How fairer been thy brestes than is wyn.
-- Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Merchant’s Tale,” The Canterbury Tales, 1387–1400
Columbine is derived from the Latin columba meaning "dove." The columbine flower was so named because of its resemblance to a cluster of doves.
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adjective:
1. dovelike; dove-colored.
2. of a dove.
For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocency, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil …
-- Francis Bacon, "The Advancement of Learning," 1605
Com forth now with thyne eyen columbyn. / How fairer been thy brestes than is wyn.
-- Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Merchant’s Tale,” The Canterbury Tales, 1387–1400
Columbine is derived from the Latin columba meaning "dove." The columbine flower was so named because of its resemblance to a cluster of doves.
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This Day In History - January 28
January 28, 1873:Colette is born
On this day, French author Colette (born Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette) is born in a small town in Burgundy, France. Raised in the country, Colette married writer and critic Henri Gauthier-Villars and moved to Paris, where she began writing. She published her earliest writings, a racy series of novels about a young girl named Claudine, under the name Willy, her husband's pen name.
During her marriage to Gauthier-Villars, Colette grew from a naive and provincial country girl to a sophisticated Parisienne. She took mime lessons in 1903 and began acting before she separated from her husband in 1906. The pair divorced in 1910, the same year Colette published her novel The Vagabond, based partly on the failed marriage.
After the divorce, Colette supported herself as a music-hall actress. She also began publishing essays and articles, notably in the newspaper Le Matin. She married the paper's editor, Henry de Jouvenel, in 1912. Her book Music-Hall Sidelights (1913) was based on her experiences as an actress. She began writing her best work in the 1920s, including Cheri (1920) and The Last of Cheri (1926), about a handsome young man who lives for pleasure and kills himself when he cannot recapture the joy of his first love affair.
Colette divorced Jouvenel in 1924 and later married the much younger Maurice Goudeket. She continued writing and won many awards and honors. Her novel Gigi (1944), the story of a girl raised to be a courtesan, was adapted for stage and screen, and included one of Colette's rare happy endings. Colette died in Paris in 1954.
*http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/colette-is-born
On this day, French author Colette (born Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette) is born in a small town in Burgundy, France. Raised in the country, Colette married writer and critic Henri Gauthier-Villars and moved to Paris, where she began writing. She published her earliest writings, a racy series of novels about a young girl named Claudine, under the name Willy, her husband's pen name.
During her marriage to Gauthier-Villars, Colette grew from a naive and provincial country girl to a sophisticated Parisienne. She took mime lessons in 1903 and began acting before she separated from her husband in 1906. The pair divorced in 1910, the same year Colette published her novel The Vagabond, based partly on the failed marriage.
After the divorce, Colette supported herself as a music-hall actress. She also began publishing essays and articles, notably in the newspaper Le Matin. She married the paper's editor, Henry de Jouvenel, in 1912. Her book Music-Hall Sidelights (1913) was based on her experiences as an actress. She began writing her best work in the 1920s, including Cheri (1920) and The Last of Cheri (1926), about a handsome young man who lives for pleasure and kills himself when he cannot recapture the joy of his first love affair.
Colette divorced Jouvenel in 1924 and later married the much younger Maurice Goudeket. She continued writing and won many awards and honors. Her novel Gigi (1944), the story of a girl raised to be a courtesan, was adapted for stage and screen, and included one of Colette's rare happy endings. Colette died in Paris in 1954.
*http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/colette-is-born
Tuesday, January 27, 2015
Monday, January 26, 2015
This Day In History - January 26
January 26, 2006:
Oprah Winfrey takes James Frey to task for lying
On this day in 2006, during a live broadcast of her daytime TV talk show, Oprah Winfrey confronts author James Frey about fabrications in “A Million Little Pieces,” his memoir about addiction and recovery, which she chose as an Oprah’s Book Club selection in September 2005.
“A Million Little Pieces,” published in 2003, was James Frey’s first book. In it, he describes in graphic detail his harrowing experiences with addictions to drugs and alcohol, and his time at a treatment center when he was in his early 20s. After Winfrey picked “A Million Little Pieces” for her popular on-air book club, which launched in 1996, the memoir climbed the best-sellers lists, following in the footsteps of many of the club’s previous selections. In October 2006, Frey appeared on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” to promote his book, which the talk show host had previously said she “couldn’t put down,” calling it “a gut-wrenching memoir that is raw and it’s so real…”
Then, in early January 2006, The Smoking Gun Web site published an expose claiming court records, police reports and interviews with a variety of sources showed that Frey had falsified and exaggerated parts of “A Million Little Pieces”--especially surrounding his criminal past and time spent in jail--in order to make his story more dramatic. On January 11, 2006, Frey and his mother appeared on “Larry King Live” to defend “A Million Little Pieces,” and Winfrey called in to the show to express support for the author. However, two weeks later, on January 26, when Frey appeared on Winfrey’s for a second time, he faced tough questioning from the talk show host, whose attitude toward him had changed. Winfrey began the live program by telling him, “It is difficult for me to talk to you because I feel really duped. But more importantly, I feel that you betrayed millions of readers.”
Frey admitted to Winfrey that he had altered and embellished details of his story, including the fact that he had been in jail for just several hours, not 87 days, as stated in his book. When Winfrey asked him about a particularly memorable incident from the book in which he wrote about having root canals without anesthesia, Frey conceded he couldn’t recall whether or not the dentist had used any Novocain. Winfrey also confronted the publisher of “A Million Little Pieces,” saying her staff had been contacted about possible inaccuracies in the book, only to be told that the publishing company stood by Frey’s story as a work of non-fiction. During the show, the publisher acknowledged that “A Million Little Pieces” had not been fact-checked.
Frey’s fabrications sparked a national debate over the definition of memoir. In the aftermath of the controversy, he was dropped by his literary agent, and his publisher settled a class-action lawsuit brought by readers who claimed they had been defrauded. Future editions of “A Million Little Pieces” included a note from Frey in which he admitted to altering parts of his story. However, the scandal did not signal the end of Frey’s career: He went on to publish the novels “Bright Shiny Morning” (2008) and “The Final Testament of the Holy Bible” (2011).
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/oprah-winfrey-takes-james-frey-to-task-for-lying
Oprah Winfrey takes James Frey to task for lying
On this day in 2006, during a live broadcast of her daytime TV talk show, Oprah Winfrey confronts author James Frey about fabrications in “A Million Little Pieces,” his memoir about addiction and recovery, which she chose as an Oprah’s Book Club selection in September 2005.
“A Million Little Pieces,” published in 2003, was James Frey’s first book. In it, he describes in graphic detail his harrowing experiences with addictions to drugs and alcohol, and his time at a treatment center when he was in his early 20s. After Winfrey picked “A Million Little Pieces” for her popular on-air book club, which launched in 1996, the memoir climbed the best-sellers lists, following in the footsteps of many of the club’s previous selections. In October 2006, Frey appeared on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” to promote his book, which the talk show host had previously said she “couldn’t put down,” calling it “a gut-wrenching memoir that is raw and it’s so real…”
Then, in early January 2006, The Smoking Gun Web site published an expose claiming court records, police reports and interviews with a variety of sources showed that Frey had falsified and exaggerated parts of “A Million Little Pieces”--especially surrounding his criminal past and time spent in jail--in order to make his story more dramatic. On January 11, 2006, Frey and his mother appeared on “Larry King Live” to defend “A Million Little Pieces,” and Winfrey called in to the show to express support for the author. However, two weeks later, on January 26, when Frey appeared on Winfrey’s for a second time, he faced tough questioning from the talk show host, whose attitude toward him had changed. Winfrey began the live program by telling him, “It is difficult for me to talk to you because I feel really duped. But more importantly, I feel that you betrayed millions of readers.”
Frey admitted to Winfrey that he had altered and embellished details of his story, including the fact that he had been in jail for just several hours, not 87 days, as stated in his book. When Winfrey asked him about a particularly memorable incident from the book in which he wrote about having root canals without anesthesia, Frey conceded he couldn’t recall whether or not the dentist had used any Novocain. Winfrey also confronted the publisher of “A Million Little Pieces,” saying her staff had been contacted about possible inaccuracies in the book, only to be told that the publishing company stood by Frey’s story as a work of non-fiction. During the show, the publisher acknowledged that “A Million Little Pieces” had not been fact-checked.
Frey’s fabrications sparked a national debate over the definition of memoir. In the aftermath of the controversy, he was dropped by his literary agent, and his publisher settled a class-action lawsuit brought by readers who claimed they had been defrauded. Future editions of “A Million Little Pieces” included a note from Frey in which he admitted to altering parts of his story. However, the scandal did not signal the end of Frey’s career: He went on to publish the novels “Bright Shiny Morning” (2008) and “The Final Testament of the Holy Bible” (2011).
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/oprah-winfrey-takes-james-frey-to-task-for-lying
Sunday, January 25, 2015
Word of the Day
bulbous \BUHL-buhs\,
adjective:
1. bulb-shaped; bulging.
2. having or growing from bulbs.
Your man comes nearer, and now some hint of a bulbous enlargement at one end, and perhaps of lateral appendages and a bifurcation, begins to show itself.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., "Over the Teacups," 1890
Good things have been said about it by blue-nosed, bulbous-shoed old benchers, in select port-wine committee after dinner in hall.
-- Chalres Dickens, "Bleak House," 1852-1853
Bulbous comes from the Latin literally meaning "bulb" or "onion." It entered English in the late 16th century.
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adjective:
1. bulb-shaped; bulging.
2. having or growing from bulbs.
Your man comes nearer, and now some hint of a bulbous enlargement at one end, and perhaps of lateral appendages and a bifurcation, begins to show itself.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., "Over the Teacups," 1890
Good things have been said about it by blue-nosed, bulbous-shoed old benchers, in select port-wine committee after dinner in hall.
-- Chalres Dickens, "Bleak House," 1852-1853
Bulbous comes from the Latin literally meaning "bulb" or "onion." It entered English in the late 16th century.
Dictionary.com
Saturday, January 24, 2015
Word of the Day
ambivert
\ AM-bi-vurt \ , noun;
1.one whose personality type is intermediate between extrovert and introvert.
Quotes:
I'm a plain American ambivert ...
-- Vladimir Nabokov, "Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle," 1969
It's the latest, and so, of course, I decided to try it on, and it did fit. I'm an ambivert .
-- James McCourt, "Time Remaining," 1993
Origin:
Ambivert was coined in the 1920s by Kimball Young in his book Source Book for Social Psychology as an extension of the terms introvert and extrovert .
Dictionary.com
\ AM-bi-vurt \ , noun;
1.one whose personality type is intermediate between extrovert and introvert.
Quotes:
I'm a plain American ambivert ...
-- Vladimir Nabokov, "Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle," 1969
It's the latest, and so, of course, I decided to try it on, and it did fit. I'm an ambivert .
-- James McCourt, "Time Remaining," 1993
Origin:
Ambivert was coined in the 1920s by Kimball Young in his book Source Book for Social Psychology as an extension of the terms introvert and extrovert .
Dictionary.com
Friday, January 23, 2015
Word of the Day
flit
\ flit \ , verb;
1.to move lightly and swiftly; fly, dart, or skim along: bees flitting from flower to flower .
2.to flutter, as a bird.
3.to pass quickly, as time: hours flitting by .
4.Chiefly Scot. and North England . a. to depart or die. b. to change one's residence.
Quotes:
Dominion lasts until obtained -/ Possession just as long -/ But these - endowing as they flit / Eternally belong.
-- Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), "Dominion lasts until obtained," 1945
At every stop, she flits like a firefly -- alighting here, glowing with charm, then moving on to another voter.
-- Helen Thorpe, "Bill Bradley's Secret Weapon," New York , 2000
Origin:
Flit entered English around 1200, and can be traced to the Old Norse flytja meaning "to carry, convey."
Dictionary.com
\ flit \ , verb;
1.to move lightly and swiftly; fly, dart, or skim along: bees flitting from flower to flower .
2.to flutter, as a bird.
3.to pass quickly, as time: hours flitting by .
4.Chiefly Scot. and North England . a. to depart or die. b. to change one's residence.
Quotes:
Dominion lasts until obtained -/ Possession just as long -/ But these - endowing as they flit / Eternally belong.
-- Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), "Dominion lasts until obtained," 1945
At every stop, she flits like a firefly -- alighting here, glowing with charm, then moving on to another voter.
-- Helen Thorpe, "Bill Bradley's Secret Weapon," New York , 2000
Origin:
Flit entered English around 1200, and can be traced to the Old Norse flytja meaning "to carry, convey."
Dictionary.com
Thursday, January 22, 2015
Finding My Relatives - in Slovakia
*by Vladimir Bohinc, Professional Genealogist
I would like to share with you my experience in finding live relatives, hoping to save some of you a lot of time and frustration.
Let us presume, you know the names of your Grand parents. They were the ones that emigrated some 100 years ago. You can be pretty sure, that there still are people with blood relation to you, living somewhere in Slovakia. Let us also presume, you know the place where your ancestors were born. What would be the first step? And next?
Quite easy, you can put together a list of all persons with certain surnames that you can find in a phone book. Priority lies with those that still live in that place or near. Are these my relatives? Is this the question I should ask them? They do not know that. They do not know your ancestors and have probably never heard about them. 100 years ago they just disappeared, didn't they? What they can remember is the same as what you can; the names of their Grandparents. You will understand, that their Grandparents can not be yours. Right? So, what could they then be?
Each of your Grandparents probably had siblings. If he/she was the only one who left the country, then some of those siblings might have survived , got married and had children . The descendants of the siblings of your Grand parents would be your live relatives now. If these lines did not survive, then it would be the descendants of the siblings of your Grand Grand parents.
It is also very likely, that your live relatives will not carry the original surname. Probably the same way as you. In this case, you can not go and look for them in the phone book. You just don't know their surnames and whereabouts.
I soon realized, that asking the supposed relatives whether they remember this or that leads you nowhere. It is simply not enough to declare somebody a relative, if he remembers your ancestors or stories about them. I have only one question, always the same, when I first approach potential relatives; " What were the names of your Grand parents?" Mostly people know that.
Now, on my side, I have made a research about the siblings of my Grand parents and their descendants to such extent, that I have pairs of parents, that married after 1900 and thus could be Grandparents to somebody, that still remembers them. Sometimes I find even more data, so that I already have direct parents of still living persons.
If the person tells me the names that I have on my Tree, he is my relative. I must look for as long as there are any potential candidates. If this fails, then another, older descendant line has to be made and the process repeated.
One of the problems associated with the search for living persons is the fact, that most Church Records end with 1895. Younger Records must be sought in Town Halls or Mayor's offices, which are not so easily accessible, due to the Privacy Law. Sometimes the Parish office has managed to save the Records from being taken away in the 50s. The availability varies very much from Parish to Parish. A cemetery search can also be of help in such cases, however, very old headstones are seldom to find, since the cemeteries have in many cases been renewed or moved or graves have been reused and old names are not there any more.
There is also a psychological aspect of this search. One has to understand, that your motives for finding your ancestors, places of origin, their old homes, relatives etc. may not be fully understood the way you feel about them. American family values are not quite the same as here. Sooner or later, a question may arise, whether you are after some property.
Most of the persons that emigrated, became heirs at some point in time. These inheritance problems have been solved in different ways. It may well be, that in some cases, there are some unsolved ,open questions. For this reason, having this in mind, one has to approach the newly found relatives with great care and respect, showing them only your pure genealogical interest. They will need some time to feel comfortable with that. Nobody likes too many questions. You should rather motivate your relatives to tell stories and alike on their own. Time will come, when you will be able to ask anything.
If you are thinking of visiting the relatives there are also some points to be considered
Every family clan has a certain internal hierarchy. If you find one related family, there will be five more right away. Try to find out, which family has the key position in that hierarchy and try not to ignore them. They should be #1 regarding your visiting plans.
If you will disregard this, the family will have a quarrel after you leave.
Lodging with the family is a very tricky business. Not to advise for the first time. You all have to get used to each other first. You will also want freedom of movement, which would be difficult to have while staying with the relatives.
One also has to consider, that the living standard here is much lower than in the US. Such a visit is a heavy burden to the family budget.
From the very beginning of your contacts, try to figure out an appropriate way to at least partly compensate for the costs. There were cases, where the relatives, wanting to show their hospitality, have taken a loan to cover the costs of hosting the visitors.
Most of your relatives do not speak English. Be sure to have a good interpreter that not only knows the language, but can also observe and comment.
While being here you will maybe not find all the comfort you are used to have at home. Never mind. This is a country and people, that have survived very hard times and are trying to catch up. Slovak hospitality will make it up for.
Having said all this and I am sure, there could be more, I would just like to recapitulate the most important points:
have your ancestors researched in a way that you will have a firm connecting point to living relatives before you contact anybody.
do not try to go and hunt without any such preparation.
do not expect too much from the records, that may or may not be kept in the parish you visit.
treat your relatives with respect, disregarding their social status.
do not forget to compensate. This will make lasting friends.
during your visit try to maintain the right blend of time and attention to the family you visited and the rest of the country you want to see. This will tell them much about your true motives of your visit.
bring a US flag with you and exchange it for a Slovak one.
I wish you all a successful search and lots of joy with your new family. In case you might want to consider a professional assistance, feel free to contact me at konekta@nm.psg.sk.
Sincerely yours,
Vladimir Bohinc
*http://www.genealogypro.com/articles/finding-my-relatives.html
I would like to share with you my experience in finding live relatives, hoping to save some of you a lot of time and frustration.
Let us presume, you know the names of your Grand parents. They were the ones that emigrated some 100 years ago. You can be pretty sure, that there still are people with blood relation to you, living somewhere in Slovakia. Let us also presume, you know the place where your ancestors were born. What would be the first step? And next?
Quite easy, you can put together a list of all persons with certain surnames that you can find in a phone book. Priority lies with those that still live in that place or near. Are these my relatives? Is this the question I should ask them? They do not know that. They do not know your ancestors and have probably never heard about them. 100 years ago they just disappeared, didn't they? What they can remember is the same as what you can; the names of their Grandparents. You will understand, that their Grandparents can not be yours. Right? So, what could they then be?
Each of your Grandparents probably had siblings. If he/she was the only one who left the country, then some of those siblings might have survived , got married and had children . The descendants of the siblings of your Grand parents would be your live relatives now. If these lines did not survive, then it would be the descendants of the siblings of your Grand Grand parents.
It is also very likely, that your live relatives will not carry the original surname. Probably the same way as you. In this case, you can not go and look for them in the phone book. You just don't know their surnames and whereabouts.
I soon realized, that asking the supposed relatives whether they remember this or that leads you nowhere. It is simply not enough to declare somebody a relative, if he remembers your ancestors or stories about them. I have only one question, always the same, when I first approach potential relatives; " What were the names of your Grand parents?" Mostly people know that.
Now, on my side, I have made a research about the siblings of my Grand parents and their descendants to such extent, that I have pairs of parents, that married after 1900 and thus could be Grandparents to somebody, that still remembers them. Sometimes I find even more data, so that I already have direct parents of still living persons.
If the person tells me the names that I have on my Tree, he is my relative. I must look for as long as there are any potential candidates. If this fails, then another, older descendant line has to be made and the process repeated.
One of the problems associated with the search for living persons is the fact, that most Church Records end with 1895. Younger Records must be sought in Town Halls or Mayor's offices, which are not so easily accessible, due to the Privacy Law. Sometimes the Parish office has managed to save the Records from being taken away in the 50s. The availability varies very much from Parish to Parish. A cemetery search can also be of help in such cases, however, very old headstones are seldom to find, since the cemeteries have in many cases been renewed or moved or graves have been reused and old names are not there any more.
There is also a psychological aspect of this search. One has to understand, that your motives for finding your ancestors, places of origin, their old homes, relatives etc. may not be fully understood the way you feel about them. American family values are not quite the same as here. Sooner or later, a question may arise, whether you are after some property.
Most of the persons that emigrated, became heirs at some point in time. These inheritance problems have been solved in different ways. It may well be, that in some cases, there are some unsolved ,open questions. For this reason, having this in mind, one has to approach the newly found relatives with great care and respect, showing them only your pure genealogical interest. They will need some time to feel comfortable with that. Nobody likes too many questions. You should rather motivate your relatives to tell stories and alike on their own. Time will come, when you will be able to ask anything.
If you are thinking of visiting the relatives there are also some points to be considered
Every family clan has a certain internal hierarchy. If you find one related family, there will be five more right away. Try to find out, which family has the key position in that hierarchy and try not to ignore them. They should be #1 regarding your visiting plans.
If you will disregard this, the family will have a quarrel after you leave.
Lodging with the family is a very tricky business. Not to advise for the first time. You all have to get used to each other first. You will also want freedom of movement, which would be difficult to have while staying with the relatives.
One also has to consider, that the living standard here is much lower than in the US. Such a visit is a heavy burden to the family budget.
From the very beginning of your contacts, try to figure out an appropriate way to at least partly compensate for the costs. There were cases, where the relatives, wanting to show their hospitality, have taken a loan to cover the costs of hosting the visitors.
Most of your relatives do not speak English. Be sure to have a good interpreter that not only knows the language, but can also observe and comment.
While being here you will maybe not find all the comfort you are used to have at home. Never mind. This is a country and people, that have survived very hard times and are trying to catch up. Slovak hospitality will make it up for.
Having said all this and I am sure, there could be more, I would just like to recapitulate the most important points:
have your ancestors researched in a way that you will have a firm connecting point to living relatives before you contact anybody.
do not try to go and hunt without any such preparation.
do not expect too much from the records, that may or may not be kept in the parish you visit.
treat your relatives with respect, disregarding their social status.
do not forget to compensate. This will make lasting friends.
during your visit try to maintain the right blend of time and attention to the family you visited and the rest of the country you want to see. This will tell them much about your true motives of your visit.
bring a US flag with you and exchange it for a Slovak one.
I wish you all a successful search and lots of joy with your new family. In case you might want to consider a professional assistance, feel free to contact me at konekta@nm.psg.sk.
Sincerely yours,
Vladimir Bohinc
*http://www.genealogypro.com/articles/finding-my-relatives.html
Word of the Day
diction
\ DIK-shuhn \ , noun;
1.style of speaking or writing as dependent upon choice of words: good diction .
2.the accent, inflection, intonation, and speech-sound quality manifested by an individual speaker, usually judged in terms of prevailing standards of acceptability; enunciation.
Quotes:
But the main characters themselves are not credible, with their mythic passions, expressed in diction more formal and flowery than would ever issue from a boy of the slums and a girl from the world of pampered inanity.
-- Rhoda Koenig, "Rio Is Rich," New York , 1994
But wise men pierce this rotten diction and fasten words again to visible things; so that picturesque language is at once a commanding certificate that he who employs it is a man in alliance with truth and God.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Nature," 1836
Origin:
Diction stems from the Latin dīcere meaning "to say." The term entered English in the early 1400s.
Dictionary.com
\ DIK-shuhn \ , noun;
1.style of speaking or writing as dependent upon choice of words: good diction .
2.the accent, inflection, intonation, and speech-sound quality manifested by an individual speaker, usually judged in terms of prevailing standards of acceptability; enunciation.
Quotes:
But the main characters themselves are not credible, with their mythic passions, expressed in diction more formal and flowery than would ever issue from a boy of the slums and a girl from the world of pampered inanity.
-- Rhoda Koenig, "Rio Is Rich," New York , 1994
But wise men pierce this rotten diction and fasten words again to visible things; so that picturesque language is at once a commanding certificate that he who employs it is a man in alliance with truth and God.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Nature," 1836
Origin:
Diction stems from the Latin dīcere meaning "to say." The term entered English in the early 1400s.
Dictionary.com
Wednesday, January 21, 2015
Word of the Day
gleed
\ gleed \, noun;
1.Archaic . a glowing coal.
Quotes:
"Not a gleed of fire, then, except the bit kindling peat, and maybe a spunk in Mysie's cutty-pipe," replied Caleb.
-- Sir Walter Scott, The Bride of Lammermoor, 1819
I saw her pale lips move—a spell of warding, I suppose, for she neither winced nor withdrew her hand from the burning gleed .
-- Delia Sherman, The Porcelain Dove, 1993
Origin:
Gleed entered English before 950, and is related to the more common word glow .
\ gleed \, noun;
1.Archaic . a glowing coal.
Quotes:
"Not a gleed of fire, then, except the bit kindling peat, and maybe a spunk in Mysie's cutty-pipe," replied Caleb.
-- Sir Walter Scott, The Bride of Lammermoor, 1819
I saw her pale lips move—a spell of warding, I suppose, for she neither winced nor withdrew her hand from the burning gleed .
-- Delia Sherman, The Porcelain Dove, 1993
Origin:
Gleed entered English before 950, and is related to the more common word glow .
Genealogy
*RESEARCH FORMS
A list of external links to useful forms to keep a genealogical project organized.
Ancestral Chart
Download the popular ancestral chart from Ancestry.com.
http://www.ancestry.com/trees/charts/ancchart.aspx?
Easy Genealogy Forms
Download pedigree charts and family group sheets for free, from a genealogy researcher's website.
http://www.io.com/~jhaller/forms/forms.html
Family Tree Magazine- Download Forms
Download forms that will aid in the research and presentation of a genealogical project. The various forms record information on books or articles, tombstones or artifacts, census, people or families, and general research relevant to a project.
http://www.familytreemagazine.com/forms/download.html#
Genealogy Forms
Genealogy forms created by genealogy researchers conducting their own project. The creators stress that their forms are easy and intuitive. Download family record sheets, pedigree charts, pedigree fan charts, general family relationships charts, various timeline charts, tracking cemeteries charts, research and correspondence logs.
http://www.cs.williams.edu/~bailey/genealogy/
*http://bentley.umich.edu/research/genealogy/internet/tools.php#researchaids
A list of external links to useful forms to keep a genealogical project organized.
Ancestral Chart
Download the popular ancestral chart from Ancestry.com.
http://www.ancestry.com/trees/charts/ancchart.aspx?
Easy Genealogy Forms
Download pedigree charts and family group sheets for free, from a genealogy researcher's website.
http://www.io.com/~jhaller/forms/forms.html
Family Tree Magazine- Download Forms
Download forms that will aid in the research and presentation of a genealogical project. The various forms record information on books or articles, tombstones or artifacts, census, people or families, and general research relevant to a project.
http://www.familytreemagazine.com/forms/download.html#
Genealogy Forms
Genealogy forms created by genealogy researchers conducting their own project. The creators stress that their forms are easy and intuitive. Download family record sheets, pedigree charts, pedigree fan charts, general family relationships charts, various timeline charts, tracking cemeteries charts, research and correspondence logs.
http://www.cs.williams.edu/~bailey/genealogy/
*http://bentley.umich.edu/research/genealogy/internet/tools.php#researchaids
This Day In History - January 21
January 21, 1985:
Don DeLillo's " White Noise" wins the American Book Award
On this day in 1985, Don DeLillo wins the American Book Award for his breakthrough novel, "White Noise."
Although DeLillo had been publishing novels since 1971, his books had received little attention. "White Noise," a semi-satire about a professor of Hitler Studies exposed to an "airborne toxic event," established DeLillo as a leading post-modern novelist, concerned with the dread, paranoia, and malaise lying beneath American popular culture. He published Libra, a fictional portrait of Lee Harvey Oswald, in 1988 and Mao II, about a reclusive writer dragged into international politics and terrorism, in 1991.
In 1997, he published what some considered his masterwork, the 827-page Underworld, a sprawling exploration of America during the Cold War that touches on baseball, Vietnam, serial killings, nuclear weapons, visual art, and more.
DeLillo was born in New York to Italian immigrants in 1936. He grew up in working-class New York and attended Fordham University. He worked as a copywriter for an advertising agency before he became a novelist in his mid-30s. He lived for many years with his wife, a banker, in Toronto before returning to New York, where they now live.
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/don-delillos-white-noise-wins-the-american-book-award
Don DeLillo's " White Noise" wins the American Book Award
On this day in 1985, Don DeLillo wins the American Book Award for his breakthrough novel, "White Noise."
Although DeLillo had been publishing novels since 1971, his books had received little attention. "White Noise," a semi-satire about a professor of Hitler Studies exposed to an "airborne toxic event," established DeLillo as a leading post-modern novelist, concerned with the dread, paranoia, and malaise lying beneath American popular culture. He published Libra, a fictional portrait of Lee Harvey Oswald, in 1988 and Mao II, about a reclusive writer dragged into international politics and terrorism, in 1991.
In 1997, he published what some considered his masterwork, the 827-page Underworld, a sprawling exploration of America during the Cold War that touches on baseball, Vietnam, serial killings, nuclear weapons, visual art, and more.
DeLillo was born in New York to Italian immigrants in 1936. He grew up in working-class New York and attended Fordham University. He worked as a copywriter for an advertising agency before he became a novelist in his mid-30s. He lived for many years with his wife, a banker, in Toronto before returning to New York, where they now live.
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/don-delillos-white-noise-wins-the-american-book-award
Tuesday, January 20, 2015
Welcome to the Yocum Library
For students wishing to borrow items from the library, you will need to check them out at the Service Desk. The Service Desk is on your left as you enter the Yocum Library, 2nd floor.
The Yocum Library joined the consortium of the Berks County Libraries and for the students with a library card from a Berks County library; they may continue to use their library card.
If the student wishes to use the computers in the Yocum Library, they must bring their card to the Service Desk, along with a copy of their Fall 2013 student class schedule to obtain the proper sticker identifying them as a current RACC student.
If you do not have a library card, you may get one at the Service Desk. Just fill in the information on white index card. You will need to present a photo ID, such as PA drivers’ license or state ID card, a passport or other government issued ID. A RACC photo ID is also acceptable. A current class schedule is required. The library card is free.
A student may not use a Yocum Library computer without the sticker.
The Yocum Library sticker (Internet) is available at the service desk. To obtain the new sticker, bring your current student schedule and your library card to the service desk. A staff member will update your library card.
The staff will be happy to answer any questions you may have about the library and library procedures. The Reference Librarian is on your right as you enter the Yocum Library, 2nd floor.
Welcome to the Yocum Library.
Tutorials
The following tutorials are available for students on the Reading Area Community College, "The Yocum Library" website ..http://racc.edu/Yocum/default.aspx
Library Tutorials.. http://www.passhe.edu/inside/asa/library/Pages/Tutorials.aspx
Evaluating Websites
Finding Articles in Academic Search Complete
Finding Free Books on Google Books
Finding Good Sources
From a News Article to a Research Study
Google Search Tips
Project Muse
SciFinder Get Substances
SciFinder Get Substances and Reactions
Searching the Berks County Library Catalog
Select a Topic
Using the Formula Tab in Microsoft Excel
Welcome to SciFinder
What is a Research Study?
What is Citation Indexing?
WorldCat
* http://www.passhe.edu/inside/asa/library/Pages/Tutorials.aspx
Library Tutorials.. http://www.passhe.edu/inside/asa/library/Pages/Tutorials.aspx
Evaluating Websites
Finding Articles in Academic Search Complete
Finding Free Books on Google Books
Finding Good Sources
From a News Article to a Research Study
Google Search Tips
Project Muse
SciFinder Get Substances
SciFinder Get Substances and Reactions
Searching the Berks County Library Catalog
Select a Topic
Using the Formula Tab in Microsoft Excel
Welcome to SciFinder
What is a Research Study?
What is Citation Indexing?
WorldCat
* http://www.passhe.edu/inside/asa/library/Pages/Tutorials.aspx
Word of the Day
cicerone
\ sis-uh-ROH-nee, chich-uh-; It . chee-che-RAW-ne \ , noun;
1.a person who conducts sightseers; guide.
Quotes:
"Intelligent old girl, I should say, sir," continued the cicerone , regardless of the Doctor's look of disgust…
-- John William DeForest, "Miss Ravenel's Conversion from Secession to Loyalty," 1867
I had no convenient cicerone in the pattern of the Utopian books.
-- H. G. Wells, "The Time Machine ," 1895
Origin:
Cicerone is the accusative form of the name Cicero because a guide was thought to have the knowledge and eloquence of Cicero.
Dictionary.com
\ sis-uh-ROH-nee, chich-uh-; It . chee-che-RAW-ne \ , noun;
1.a person who conducts sightseers; guide.
Quotes:
"Intelligent old girl, I should say, sir," continued the cicerone , regardless of the Doctor's look of disgust…
-- John William DeForest, "Miss Ravenel's Conversion from Secession to Loyalty," 1867
I had no convenient cicerone in the pattern of the Utopian books.
-- H. G. Wells, "The Time Machine ," 1895
Origin:
Cicerone is the accusative form of the name Cicero because a guide was thought to have the knowledge and eloquence of Cicero.
Dictionary.com
Monday, January 19, 2015
Dr. Martin Luther King 1929-1968
Watch the Full 16-min video of Martin Luther King's famous I Have a Dream Speech
http://www.mlkonline.net/bio.html
"Free at last, free at last. Thank God Almighty, we are free at last"-Dr Martin Luther King
Martin Luther King Quick Facts
Birth January 15, 1929
Death April 4, 1968
Place of Birth Atlanta, Georgia
Known for Leading the civil rights movement in the United States
Advocating nonviolent protest against segregation and racial discrimination
Milestones 1954 Selected as pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama
1955 Received his Ph.D. in systematic theology from Boston University
1955-1956 Led a successful effort to desegregate Montgomery, Alabama, buses
1957 Helped found and served as the first president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
1958 Published Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story
1963 Wrote 'Letter from Birmingham Jail,' arguing that it was his moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws
1963 Delivered his 'I Have a Dream' speech to civil rights marchers at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.
1964 Won the Nobel Peace Prize
1965 Organized a mass march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, that created national support for federal voting-rights legislation
1968 Was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee
Quote 'I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.' August, 1963, in a speech to civil rights supporters at the March on Washington.
Did You Know King's nonviolent doctrine was strongly influenced by the teachings of Indian leader Mohandas Gandhi.
In 1964, King became the first black American to be honored as Time magazine's Man of the Year.
King's efforts were not limited to securing civil rights; he also spoke out against poverty and the Vietnam War.
* Thanks to;
http://www.mlkonline.net/bio.html
"Martin Luther King, Jr.," Microsoft® Encarta® Online Encyclopedia 2006
http://encarta.msn.com © 1997-2006 Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved.
The Yocum Library Hours January 19, 2015
The Yocum Library will be closed:
Monday, January 19 for Martin Luther King Day
Monday, January 19 for Martin Luther King Day
This Day In History - Martin Luther King, Jr. - August 28, 1963
*August 28, 1963:
King speaks to March on Washington
On the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., the African American civil rights movement reaches its high-water mark when Martin Luther King, Jr., speaks to about 250,000 people attending the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. The demonstrators--black and white, poor and rich--came together in the nation's capital to demand voting rights and equal opportunity for African Americans and to appeal for an end to racial segregation and discrimination.
The peaceful rally was the largest assembly for a redress of grievances that the capital had ever seen, and King was the last speaker. With the statue of Abraham Lincoln--the Great Emancipator--towering behind him, King used the rhetorical talents he had developed as a Baptist preacher to show how, as he put it, the "Negro is still not free." He told of the struggle ahead, stressing the importance of continued action and nonviolent protest. Coming to the end of his prepared text (which, like other speakers that day, he had limited to seven minutes), he was overwhelmed by the moment and launched into an improvised sermon.
He told the hushed crowd, "Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettoes of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed. Let us not wallow in the valley of despair." Continuing, he began the refrain that made the speech one of the best known in U.S. history, second only to Lincoln's 1863 "Gettysburg Address":
"I have a dream," he boomed over the crowd stretching from the Lincoln Memorial to the Washington Monument, "that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.' I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaveowners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood. I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice. I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today."
King had used the "I have a dream" theme before, in a handful of stump speeches, but never with the force and effectiveness of that hot August day in Washington. He equated the civil rights movement with the highest and noblest ideals of the American tradition, allowing many to see for the first time the importance and urgency of racial equality. He ended his stirring, 16-minute speech with his vision of the fruit of racial harmony:
"When we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, 'Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!'"
In the year after the March on Washington, the civil rights movement achieved two of its greatest successes: the ratification of the 24th Amendment to the Constitution, which abolished the poll tax and thus a barrier to poor African American voters in the South; and the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibited racial discrimination in employment and education and outlawed racial segregation in public facilities. In October 1964, Martin Luther King, Jr., was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. On April 4, 1968, he was shot to death while standing on a motel balcony in Memphis, Tennessee--he was 39 years old. The gunman was escaped convict James Earl Ray.
*http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/king-speaks-to-march-on-washington
King speaks to March on Washington
On the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., the African American civil rights movement reaches its high-water mark when Martin Luther King, Jr., speaks to about 250,000 people attending the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. The demonstrators--black and white, poor and rich--came together in the nation's capital to demand voting rights and equal opportunity for African Americans and to appeal for an end to racial segregation and discrimination.
The peaceful rally was the largest assembly for a redress of grievances that the capital had ever seen, and King was the last speaker. With the statue of Abraham Lincoln--the Great Emancipator--towering behind him, King used the rhetorical talents he had developed as a Baptist preacher to show how, as he put it, the "Negro is still not free." He told of the struggle ahead, stressing the importance of continued action and nonviolent protest. Coming to the end of his prepared text (which, like other speakers that day, he had limited to seven minutes), he was overwhelmed by the moment and launched into an improvised sermon.
He told the hushed crowd, "Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettoes of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed. Let us not wallow in the valley of despair." Continuing, he began the refrain that made the speech one of the best known in U.S. history, second only to Lincoln's 1863 "Gettysburg Address":
"I have a dream," he boomed over the crowd stretching from the Lincoln Memorial to the Washington Monument, "that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.' I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaveowners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood. I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice. I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today."
King had used the "I have a dream" theme before, in a handful of stump speeches, but never with the force and effectiveness of that hot August day in Washington. He equated the civil rights movement with the highest and noblest ideals of the American tradition, allowing many to see for the first time the importance and urgency of racial equality. He ended his stirring, 16-minute speech with his vision of the fruit of racial harmony:
"When we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, 'Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!'"
In the year after the March on Washington, the civil rights movement achieved two of its greatest successes: the ratification of the 24th Amendment to the Constitution, which abolished the poll tax and thus a barrier to poor African American voters in the South; and the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibited racial discrimination in employment and education and outlawed racial segregation in public facilities. In October 1964, Martin Luther King, Jr., was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. On April 4, 1968, he was shot to death while standing on a motel balcony in Memphis, Tennessee--he was 39 years old. The gunman was escaped convict James Earl Ray.
*http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/king-speaks-to-march-on-washington
Sunday, January 18, 2015
The Yocum Library Hours - January 16 -19
The Yocum Library will be closed:
Friday, January 16 for Faculty/Staff Development Day
and
Monday, January 19 for Martin Luther King Day
The library will be open:
Saturday, January 17 - 9:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.
and
Sunday, January 18 - 1:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Friday, January 16 for Faculty/Staff Development Day
and
Monday, January 19 for Martin Luther King Day
The library will be open:
Saturday, January 17 - 9:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.
and
Sunday, January 18 - 1:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Word of the Day
catchpenny
\ KACH-pen-ee \, adjective;
1.made to sell readily at a low price, regardless of value or use.
noun:
1.something that is catchpenny.
Quotes:
Frieda tracked her transformation in the mirror, uncertain if this catchpenny version of herself was closer to, or further from, the real thing.
-- Michael Lowenthal, "Charity Girl," 2007
But the Passionate Parisian Painter—and all that catchpenny nonsense about the Spanish Civil War: I mean...really, I ask you.
-- Martin Amis, "The Rachel Papers," 1973
Origin:
Catchpenny entered English in the 1750s and comes from the phrase "catch a penny."
Dictionary.com
\ KACH-pen-ee \, adjective;
1.made to sell readily at a low price, regardless of value or use.
noun:
1.something that is catchpenny.
Quotes:
Frieda tracked her transformation in the mirror, uncertain if this catchpenny version of herself was closer to, or further from, the real thing.
-- Michael Lowenthal, "Charity Girl," 2007
But the Passionate Parisian Painter—and all that catchpenny nonsense about the Spanish Civil War: I mean...really, I ask you.
-- Martin Amis, "The Rachel Papers," 1973
Origin:
Catchpenny entered English in the 1750s and comes from the phrase "catch a penny."
Dictionary.com
Saturday, January 17, 2015
The Yocum Library Hours - January 16 -19
The Yocum Library will be closed:
Friday, January 16 for Faculty/Staff Development Day
and
Monday, January 19 for Martin Luther King Day
The library will be open:
Saturday, January 17 - 9:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.
and
Sunday, January 18 - 1:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Friday, January 16 for Faculty/Staff Development Day
and
Monday, January 19 for Martin Luther King Day
The library will be open:
Saturday, January 17 - 9:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.
and
Sunday, January 18 - 1:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
This Day In History - January 17
*Jan 17, 1820: Anne Bronte is born
On this day in 1820, Anne Bronte, the youngest of the six Bronte children, is born in Yorkshire, England. Their mother died when Anne was still an infant, and the children were left largely to their own devices in the bleak parsonage in Haworth, a remote village in Yorkshire, where their father was a clergyman.
Anne's four older sisters all went to boarding school, but the two eldest died, and Emily and Charlotte returned home. The girls, along with their brother Branwell, read voraciously and created their own elaborate stories about mythical lands.
Anne Bronte was educated at home and worked as a governess from 1841 to 1845, during which time Emily and Charlotte went to Brussels to study school administration with the hopes of opening a school in Haworth. The school idea failed, but another project took its place: poetry. In 1845, Charlotte came across some poems Emily had written, and the three sisters discovered they had all been secretly writing verse.
They self-published Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell in 1846. Although the book sold only two copies, the sisters continued writing. Charlotte's Jane Eyre appeared in 1847, an instant success. Emily's Wuthering Heights and Anne's Agnes Grey were printed later that year. Anne's next novel, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), explored the effects of a young man's unchecked debauchery. Anne died of tuberculosis in 1849, at the age of 29.
*http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/anne-bronte-is-born
On this day in 1820, Anne Bronte, the youngest of the six Bronte children, is born in Yorkshire, England. Their mother died when Anne was still an infant, and the children were left largely to their own devices in the bleak parsonage in Haworth, a remote village in Yorkshire, where their father was a clergyman.
Anne's four older sisters all went to boarding school, but the two eldest died, and Emily and Charlotte returned home. The girls, along with their brother Branwell, read voraciously and created their own elaborate stories about mythical lands.
Anne Bronte was educated at home and worked as a governess from 1841 to 1845, during which time Emily and Charlotte went to Brussels to study school administration with the hopes of opening a school in Haworth. The school idea failed, but another project took its place: poetry. In 1845, Charlotte came across some poems Emily had written, and the three sisters discovered they had all been secretly writing verse.
They self-published Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell in 1846. Although the book sold only two copies, the sisters continued writing. Charlotte's Jane Eyre appeared in 1847, an instant success. Emily's Wuthering Heights and Anne's Agnes Grey were printed later that year. Anne's next novel, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), explored the effects of a young man's unchecked debauchery. Anne died of tuberculosis in 1849, at the age of 29.
*http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/anne-bronte-is-born
New DVD to the Yocum Library Collection
Line of Duty s.2
Violette
And so it goes
November Man
Field of Blood s.1
102 Minutes that changed America
Fed Up
Voyage to the Planets
Still Life
24 Live Another Day
American Horror Story s.3
Castle s.6
Grimm s.3
How I Met Your Mother s.9
Revenge s.3
Scandal s.3
Midnight Express
Significant Others
The Fugitive s.2,v.2
Alcatraz
Winter's Tale
Time Team s.1,2
Railway Man
Lunchbox
Draft Day
Double
Blended
Night Moves
Angriest Man in Brooklyn
The Confession
Trip to Bountiful
Seceret State
Orphan Black s.2
Blacklist s.1
Line of Duty s.1
Haunted House 2
Enders Game c.2
Amazing Spider-Man 2
Frankie & Alice
Street Scene
Muppets Most Wanted
They Came Together
Mom's Night Out
Invictus c.2
All the President's Men c.2
Born Free
GMO OMG
Tim's Vermeer
Finding Vivian Maier
Ireland's Wild River
Celtic Voyage
Midsomer Murders s.24
Noah
Criminal Minds s.9
NCIS s11
Walking Dead s.s.4
Repentance
God's Not Dead
The Goodwife s.5
300 Rise of the Empire
Divergent
Legend of Hercules c.2
Taking of the Pelham 1,2,3
The Other Woman
Single Moms Club
Studio Classics
The Lego Movie
Toy Story 3
Rosetta
Omar
Oculus
Sharknado
The Comeback
Community
True Blood s.6
House of Cards s.2
Hinterland
Blood Ties
Enemy
Sabotage
Bad Words
Le Week-End
Ernest & Celestine
Rio 2
Vicious
Heaven is for real
The Bridge s.1
Endeavor
Masters of Sex
Party Down s.1
The Killing s.3
Arne Dahl (Swedish)
Bradbury Theater
Taxi Driver c.2
Criminal Minds s.1,2,3 c.2
Second Sight
World War II
Kickstart Your Health
Jack Irish s.2
Braquo s.1 (French)
Zombie Horror Picture Show
Waking the Dead s.9
Simon and the Oaks (Swedish)
True Detective
The Invisible Woman- dvd
The Invisible Woman- blu-ray
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Family Movie Pack
DaVinci's Demons s.1
The Outer Limits: The Final Season
Law & Order UK s.2
Bob Newhart Show s.1--6
Hill Street Blues s.1--7
Violette
And so it goes
November Man
Field of Blood s.1
102 Minutes that changed America
Fed Up
Voyage to the Planets
Still Life
24 Live Another Day
American Horror Story s.3
Castle s.6
Grimm s.3
How I Met Your Mother s.9
Revenge s.3
Scandal s.3
Midnight Express
Significant Others
The Fugitive s.2,v.2
Alcatraz
Winter's Tale
Time Team s.1,2
Railway Man
Lunchbox
Draft Day
Double
Blended
Night Moves
Angriest Man in Brooklyn
The Confession
Trip to Bountiful
Seceret State
Orphan Black s.2
Blacklist s.1
Line of Duty s.1
Haunted House 2
Enders Game c.2
Amazing Spider-Man 2
Frankie & Alice
Street Scene
Muppets Most Wanted
They Came Together
Mom's Night Out
Invictus c.2
All the President's Men c.2
Born Free
GMO OMG
Tim's Vermeer
Finding Vivian Maier
Ireland's Wild River
Celtic Voyage
Midsomer Murders s.24
Noah
Criminal Minds s.9
NCIS s11
Walking Dead s.s.4
Repentance
God's Not Dead
The Goodwife s.5
300 Rise of the Empire
Divergent
Legend of Hercules c.2
Taking of the Pelham 1,2,3
The Other Woman
Single Moms Club
Studio Classics
The Lego Movie
Toy Story 3
Rosetta
Omar
Oculus
Sharknado
The Comeback
Community
True Blood s.6
House of Cards s.2
Hinterland
Blood Ties
Enemy
Sabotage
Bad Words
Le Week-End
Ernest & Celestine
Rio 2
Vicious
Heaven is for real
The Bridge s.1
Endeavor
Masters of Sex
Party Down s.1
The Killing s.3
Arne Dahl (Swedish)
Bradbury Theater
Taxi Driver c.2
Criminal Minds s.1,2,3 c.2
Second Sight
World War II
Kickstart Your Health
Jack Irish s.2
Braquo s.1 (French)
Zombie Horror Picture Show
Waking the Dead s.9
Simon and the Oaks (Swedish)
True Detective
The Invisible Woman- dvd
The Invisible Woman- blu-ray
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Family Movie Pack
DaVinci's Demons s.1
The Outer Limits: The Final Season
Law & Order UK s.2
Bob Newhart Show s.1--6
Hill Street Blues s.1--7
Friday, January 16, 2015
The Yocum Library Hours - January 16 -19
The Yocum Library will be closed:
Friday, January 16 for Faculty/Staff Development Day
and
Monday, January 19 for Martin Luther King Day
The library will be open:
Saturday, January 17 - 9:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.
and
Sunday, January 18 - 1:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Friday, January 16 for Faculty/Staff Development Day
and
Monday, January 19 for Martin Luther King Day
The library will be open:
Saturday, January 17 - 9:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.
and
Sunday, January 18 - 1:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Thursday, January 15, 2015
Word of the Day
dowie
\ DOU-ee, DOH-ee \ , adjective;
1.Scot. and North England . dull; melancholy; dismal.
Quotes:
Rest of the day he's dowie , he just watches TV like it was all the one fil'm.
-- James Wood, "The Book Against God ," 2003
I had a big bump on my head, but otherwise I was well and clear in my wits, though empty in the stomach and very dowie in the heart.
-- John Buchan, ”‘Divus’ Johnston,” The Runagates Club , 1928
Origin:
Dowie is a variant of dolly , which is derived from the Old English dol meaning "dull."
Dictionary.com
\ DOU-ee, DOH-ee \ , adjective;
1.Scot. and North England . dull; melancholy; dismal.
Quotes:
Rest of the day he's dowie , he just watches TV like it was all the one fil'm.
-- James Wood, "The Book Against God ," 2003
I had a big bump on my head, but otherwise I was well and clear in my wits, though empty in the stomach and very dowie in the heart.
-- John Buchan, ”‘Divus’ Johnston,” The Runagates Club , 1928
Origin:
Dowie is a variant of dolly , which is derived from the Old English dol meaning "dull."
Dictionary.com
This Day In History - January 15
The Hunchback of Notre Dame is finished
*On this day in 1831, Victor Hugo finishes writing Notre Dame de Paris, also known as The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Distracted by other projects, Hugo had continually postponed his deadlines for delivering the book to his publishers, but once he sat down to write it, he completed the novel in only four months.
Hugo, the son of one of Napoleon's officers, decided while still a teenager to become a writer. Although he studied law, he also founded a literary review to which he and other emerging writers published their work. In 1822, Hugo married his childhood sweetheart, Adele Foucher, and published his first volume of poetry, which won him a pension from Louis XVIII.
In 1823, Hugo published his first novel, Han d'Islande. His 1827 play, Cromwell, embraced the tenets of Romanticism, which he laid out in the play's preface. The following year, despite a contract to begin work on a novel called Notre Dame de Paris, he set to work on two plays. The first, Marion de Lorme (1829), was censored for its candid portrayal of a courtesan. The second, Hernani, became the subject for a bitter and protracted debate between French Classicists and Romantics. In 1831, he finally finished Notre Dame de Paris. In addition to promoting a Romantic aesthetic that would tolerate the imperfect and the grotesque, the book also had a simpler agenda: to increase appreciation of old Gothic structures, which had become the object of vandalism and neglect.
In the 1830s, Hugo wrote numerous plays, many created as vehicles for actress Juliette Drouet, with whom Hugo was romantically connected starting in 1833. In 1841, Hugo was elected to the prestigious Acadamie Francaise, but two years later he lost his beloved daughter and her husband when they were drowned in an accident. He expressed his profound grief in a poetry collection called Les Contemplations (1856).
Hugo was forced to flee France when Napoleon III came to power: He did not return for 20 years. While in exile, he completed Les Miserables (1862), which became a hit in France and abroad. He returned to Paris during the Franco-Prussian War and was hailed a national hero. Hugo's writing spanned more than six decades, and he was given a national funeral and buried in the Pantheon after his death in 1885.
*http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-hunchback-of-notre-dame-is-finished
The Yocum Library Hours - January 16 -19
The Yocum Library will be closed:
Friday, January 16 for Faculty/Staff Development Day
and
Monday, January 19 for Martin Luther King Day
The library will be open:
Saturday, January 17 - 9:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.
and
Sunday, January 18 - 1:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Friday, January 16 for Faculty/Staff Development Day
and
Monday, January 19 for Martin Luther King Day
The library will be open:
Saturday, January 17 - 9:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.
and
Sunday, January 18 - 1:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Wednesday, January 14, 2015
Scheduled Classes for Computers
10:30 a.m. - 11:40 a.m. Reserved—Ms. Annie Neuin
Where: Yocum Instruction Area
Description: Mrs. Annie Neuin ORI102 (14) Intro to Library PP presented by Ms.
Brenna Corbit.
12:15 p.m. - 1 p.m. Reserved—Ms. Lois Moyer
Where: Yocum Instruction Area
Description:Mrs. Lois Moyer ORI102 (24) Intro to Library PowerPoint presented by
Ms. Brenna Corbit.
5 p.m. - 6 p.m. Reserved—Dr. Pamela Blakely
Where: Yocum Instruction Area
Description: Dr. Pamela Blakely ORI102 (12) Intro to Library PP presented by Ms.
Patricia Nouhra.
Where: Yocum Instruction Area
Description: Mrs. Annie Neuin ORI102 (14) Intro to Library PP presented by Ms.
Brenna Corbit.
12:15 p.m. - 1 p.m. Reserved—Ms. Lois Moyer
Where: Yocum Instruction Area
Description:Mrs. Lois Moyer ORI102 (24) Intro to Library PowerPoint presented by
Ms. Brenna Corbit.
5 p.m. - 6 p.m. Reserved—Dr. Pamela Blakely
Where: Yocum Instruction Area
Description: Dr. Pamela Blakely ORI102 (12) Intro to Library PP presented by Ms.
Patricia Nouhra.
Word of the Day
cogitation
\ koj-i-TEY-shuhn \, noun;
1.concerted thought or reflection; meditation; contemplation: After hours of cogitation he came up with a new proposal .
2.the faculty of thinking:She was a serious student and had a great power of cogitation .
3.a thought; design or plan: to jot down one's cogitations .
Quotes:
How could I suggest anything, do you think I know what I have in mind, the captain responded whimsically after long cogitation , shaking his head for emphasis.
-- Péter Nádas, translated by Imre Goldstein, Parallel Stories , 2011
Out of the soil of strenuous cogitation , which is the engine of holy inspiration, and which you Karaites demean as mere contradiction, burst the sweet buds of Conduct and Conscience.
-- Cynthia Ozick, Heir to the Glimmering World , 2004
Origin:
Cogitation is derived from the Middle English word cogitaciun . The suffix -ion denotes action or conditions, as in opinion .
Dictionary.com
\ koj-i-TEY-shuhn \, noun;
1.concerted thought or reflection; meditation; contemplation: After hours of cogitation he came up with a new proposal .
2.the faculty of thinking:She was a serious student and had a great power of cogitation .
3.a thought; design or plan: to jot down one's cogitations .
Quotes:
How could I suggest anything, do you think I know what I have in mind, the captain responded whimsically after long cogitation , shaking his head for emphasis.
-- Péter Nádas, translated by Imre Goldstein, Parallel Stories , 2011
Out of the soil of strenuous cogitation , which is the engine of holy inspiration, and which you Karaites demean as mere contradiction, burst the sweet buds of Conduct and Conscience.
-- Cynthia Ozick, Heir to the Glimmering World , 2004
Origin:
Cogitation is derived from the Middle English word cogitaciun . The suffix -ion denotes action or conditions, as in opinion .
Dictionary.com
Word of the Day
philter
\ FIL-ter \ , noun;
1.A magic potion for any purpose.
2.A potion, charm, or drug supposed to cause the person taking it to fall in love, usually with some specific person.
Quotes:
Tell me now, fairy as you are - can't you give me a charm, or a philter , or something of that sort, to make me a handsome man ? "
-- Charlotte Brontë, "Jane Eyre"
Mariamne had told him it was a love philter and promised a large reward if he would get me to drink it without my knowledge.
-- Michel Tournier, Ralph Manheim, "The Four Wise Men"
Origin:
Philter originates from the Greek philtron , "love potion," which itself derives from the Greek philos "love of."
Dictionary.com
\ FIL-ter \ , noun;
1.A magic potion for any purpose.
2.A potion, charm, or drug supposed to cause the person taking it to fall in love, usually with some specific person.
Quotes:
Tell me now, fairy as you are - can't you give me a charm, or a philter , or something of that sort, to make me a handsome man ? "
-- Charlotte Brontë, "Jane Eyre"
Mariamne had told him it was a love philter and promised a large reward if he would get me to drink it without my knowledge.
-- Michel Tournier, Ralph Manheim, "The Four Wise Men"
Origin:
Philter originates from the Greek philtron , "love potion," which itself derives from the Greek philos "love of."
Dictionary.com
Tuesday, January 13, 2015
Scheduled Classes for Computers
8:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. Reserved—Dr. Pamela Blakely
Where: Yocum Instruction Area
Description: Dr. Pamela Blakely ORI102 (18) Intro to Library PP presented by Ms.Kim Stahler.
Where: Yocum Instruction Area
Description: Dr. Pamela Blakely ORI102 (18) Intro to Library PP presented by Ms.Kim Stahler.
This Day In History - January 13
 |
| James Joyce |
January 13, 1941: James Joyce dies
*James Joyce, widely regarded as Ireland's greatest author, dies in Zurich, Switzerland, at the age of 58. One of the most brilliant and daring writers of the 20th century, Joyce's masterpiece Ulysses is ranked among the greatest works in the English language.
Born in Dublin in 1882, Joyce grew up in poor surroundings and was educated at Jesuit-run schools and the University College in Dublin. He wrote poetry and short prose passages that he called "epiphanies," a term he used to describe the sudden revelation of the true nature of a person or thing. In 1902, he went to Paris but returned to Dublin in the next year when his mother fell ill. There he began writing the experimental Stephen Hero, a largely autobiographical work. For the Irish Homestead, he also wrote several Irish-themed short stories, which were characterized by tragic epiphanies and spare but precise writing.
In 1904, Joyce left Ireland with companion Nora Barnacle and lived in Poland, Austria-Hungary, Trieste, and Rome, where he fathered two children with Nora and worked. He spent his spare time writing and composing several other short stories that would join his earlier works to form Dubliners, first published in 1914. The most acclaimed of the 15 stories is "The Dead," which tells the story of a Dublin schoolteacher and his wife, and of their lost dreams. During this time, he also drastically reworked Stephen Hero and renamed it A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
With the Italian entrance into World War I, he moved to Zurich with his family. Faced with severe financial difficulties, he found patrons in Edith Rockefeller McCormick and Harriet Shaw Weaver, editor of Egoist magazine. In 1916, Weaver published A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, which received significant critical acclaim. Soon after, the American Little Review began to publish episodes from Ulysses, a novel that Joyce began in 1915. The sexually explicit work was banned in the United States in 1920 after only a few installments. Two years later, Sylvia Beach, a bookstore owner in Paris, published it in its entirety.
Ulysses brought Joyce international fame, and the work's groundbreaking literary forms, including stream-of-consciousness writing, were an immediate influence on novelists the world over. The action of the novel takes place in Dublin on a single day but parallels the epic 10-year journey described in Homer's Odyssey. Although colored with numerous allusions, the strength of Ulysses rests not in its intellectual complexity but in its depth of characterization, breadth of humor, and overall celebration of life.
Joyce spent more than 17 years on his last work, published in 1939 as Finnegans Wake. His most difficult work, Joyce carried his literary experimentation to its furthest point in this novel, which uses words from different languages to embody a cyclical theory of human existence. Because many find it difficult and inaccessible, Finnegans Wake is not as highly regarded as his earlier works.
Joyce lived in Paris from 1920 to 1940, but he moved back to Zurich after France fell to the Germans. In addition to his three major works, he also published several collections of verse and a play called Exiles.
*http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/james-joyce-dies
Monday, January 12, 2015
Word of the Day
rallentando
\ rah-luhn-TAHN-doh; It. rahl-len-TAHN-daw \, adjective;
1.
slackening; becoming slower (used as a musical direction).
Definition of rallentando| See synonyms| Comment on today's word| Suggest tomorrow's word
Quotes:
Sir Norman, a marked rallentando there please, a marked rallentando there. Professor Sevchik always insisted. It is consequent and logical as well as pleasing to the ear and that passage following should be taken like this.
-- Ralph Cusack, Cadenza , 1958
On the other hand, he would become quite depressed if he had to stop in the middle of a verse, and he was quite capable of rowing rallentando if he desired to synchronise his two conclusions.
-- Ian Hay, A Man's Man , 1909
Origin:
Rallentando is the Italian gerund of the word rallentare , which means "to slow down."
Dictionary.com
\ rah-luhn-TAHN-doh; It. rahl-len-TAHN-daw \, adjective;
1.
slackening; becoming slower (used as a musical direction).
Definition of rallentando| See synonyms| Comment on today's word| Suggest tomorrow's word
Quotes:
Sir Norman, a marked rallentando there please, a marked rallentando there. Professor Sevchik always insisted. It is consequent and logical as well as pleasing to the ear and that passage following should be taken like this.
-- Ralph Cusack, Cadenza , 1958
On the other hand, he would become quite depressed if he had to stop in the middle of a verse, and he was quite capable of rowing rallentando if he desired to synchronise his two conclusions.
-- Ian Hay, A Man's Man , 1909
Origin:
Rallentando is the Italian gerund of the word rallentare , which means "to slow down."
Dictionary.com
Sunday, January 11, 2015
This Day in History - January 11
January 11, 1978: "Song of Solomon" wins National Book Critics Circle Award
On this day in 1978, Toni Morrison wins the National Book Critics Circle Award for "Song of Solomon." The award brought the writer national attention for the first time, although she had already published two moderately successful books, "The Bluest Eye "(1969) and "Sula" (1973). Morrison went on to win the Pulitzer in 1988 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993.
Morrison was born Chloe Anthony Wofford in the steel town of Lorain, Ohio, to a welder father and homemaker mother. She graduated from Howard University in 1953, then took a master's in literature at Cornell. She married architect Howard Morrison and had two sons. After she and her husband divorced, Morrison taught English and worked as one of the very few black editors at Random House. She published her first novel in 1969. After the publication of her breakthrough novel in 1978, she published "Tar Baby " (1981) and "Jazz" (1992). Her 1987 novel," Beloved, "the story of a 19th-century slave who escapes bondage but is forced to kill her own baby, won the Pulitzer.
When Morrison won the Nobel Prize in 1993, she became the first African-American to win the award, as well as the first American woman to win in more than 50 years. The same year, a fire destroyed her Nyack, New York, home-fortunately, she'd left the manuscript of her next novel, Paradise, in her office at Princeton University, where she was teaching creative writing. The book, published in 1998, explored the dynamics of an all-black town in the late 1960s.
Books by Toni Morrison in the Yocum Library
Books by Toni Morrison
The bluest eye : a novel
Morrison, Toni.
PS3563.O8749 B55 1994
Playing in the dark :
Morrison, Toni.
PS173.N4 M67 1993
Jazz /
Morrison, Toni.
PS3563.O8749 J38 1993
Song of Solomon /
Morrison, Toni.
PS3563.O8749 S6 1987
Sula /
Morrison, Toni.
PS3563.O8749 S8 1982
Paradise /
Morrison, Toni.
PS3563.O8749 P37 1998
Beloved : a novel
Morrison, Toni.
PS3563.O8749 B4 1988
Tar baby /
Morrison, Toni.
PS3563.O8749 T37 1981
The bluest eye : a novel
Morrison, Toni.
PS3563.O8749 B55 1994
Playing in the dark :
Morrison, Toni.
PS173.N4 M67 1993
Jazz /
Morrison, Toni.
PS3563.O8749 J38 1993
Song of Solomon /
Morrison, Toni.
PS3563.O8749 S6 1987
Sula /
Morrison, Toni.
PS3563.O8749 S8 1982
Paradise /
Morrison, Toni.
PS3563.O8749 P37 1998
Beloved : a novel
Morrison, Toni.
PS3563.O8749 B4 1988
Tar baby /
Morrison, Toni.
PS3563.O8749 T37 1981
Saturday, January 10, 2015
This Day in History - January 10
*January 10, 1961 : Dashiell Hammett Dies
Dashiell Hammett, author of The Maltese Falcon, dies on this day in 1961.
Hammett was born in Maryland on May 27, 1894. He left school at age 13 and took a series of low-paying jobs, eventually landing at Pinkerton's detective agency. He worked as a detective for eight years and turned his experiences into fiction that set the mold for later writers like Raymond Chandler. Hammett's deadpan description of violent or emotional events came to be known as the "hard-boiled" style of detective fiction.
Hammett published short stories in his characteristic deadpan style, starting in 1929 with Fly Paper. He published two novels in the same style that year, Red Harvest and The Dain Curse. The following year, he published The Maltese Falcon, which introduced detective Sam Spade. The novel was filmed three times: once in 1931; once in 1936 under the title Satan Met a Lady, starring Bette Davis; and again in1941, starring Humphrey Bogart.
Hammett became involved with playwright Lillian Hellman (author of The Children's Hour in 1934 and The Little Foxes in 1939), who served as the model for Nora Charles in his 1934 comic mystery The Thin Man. The book was made into a movie the same year, starring William Powell and Myrna Loy, and the characters of Nick and Nora Charles inspired several sequel films. Hammett and Hellman remained romantically involved until Hammett's death in 1961.
* http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/dashiell-hammett-dies
Dashiell Hammett, author of The Maltese Falcon, dies on this day in 1961.
Hammett was born in Maryland on May 27, 1894. He left school at age 13 and took a series of low-paying jobs, eventually landing at Pinkerton's detective agency. He worked as a detective for eight years and turned his experiences into fiction that set the mold for later writers like Raymond Chandler. Hammett's deadpan description of violent or emotional events came to be known as the "hard-boiled" style of detective fiction.
Hammett published short stories in his characteristic deadpan style, starting in 1929 with Fly Paper. He published two novels in the same style that year, Red Harvest and The Dain Curse. The following year, he published The Maltese Falcon, which introduced detective Sam Spade. The novel was filmed three times: once in 1931; once in 1936 under the title Satan Met a Lady, starring Bette Davis; and again in1941, starring Humphrey Bogart.
Hammett became involved with playwright Lillian Hellman (author of The Children's Hour in 1934 and The Little Foxes in 1939), who served as the model for Nora Charles in his 1934 comic mystery The Thin Man. The book was made into a movie the same year, starring William Powell and Myrna Loy, and the characters of Nick and Nora Charles inspired several sequel films. Hammett and Hellman remained romantically involved until Hammett's death in 1961.
* http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/dashiell-hammett-dies
Dashiell Hammett Items in the Yocum Library
Books:
The novels of Dashiell Hammett.
Hammett, Dashiell, PS3515.A4347 A67 1965
Nightmare town : stories
Hammett, Dashiell,, McCauley, Kirby., Greenberg, Martin Harry., Gorman, Edward.
PS3515.A4347 A6 1999
Complete novels /
Hammett, Dashiell, PS3515.A4347 A6 1999
Video Cassette :
Another thin man
Hammett, Dashiell,, Powell, William,, Loy, Myrna,, Loew's Incorporated., Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer., MGM/UA Home Video (Firm)
An innocent family vacation on Long Island doesn't stay innocent for long, as Nick barely unpacks his flask before bodies start to drop.
Call number:Film - Comedy
DVD :
Watch on the Rhine
Wallis, Hal B.,, Hammett, Dashiell,, Hellman, Lillian,, Shumlin, Herman,, Davis, Bette,, Lukas, Paul,, Fitzgerald, Geraldine,, Watson, Lucile,, Bondi, Beulah,, Coulouris, George,, Steiner, Max,, Warner Bros. Pictures (1923-1967), First National Pictures, Inc., Warner Home Video (Firm)
Sara and Kurt Muller and their three children are returning to her mother's home in Washington D.C. after 18 years in Europe.
Call number:Film - Drama
Audiobook on cassette:
Old time radio novels
Bogart, Humphrey,, De Havilland, Olivia., Howard, Leslie,, Leigh, Vivien,, Olivier, Laurence,, Steinbeck, John,, Orczy, Emmuska Orczy,, DuMaurier, Daphne,, Hammett, Dashiell,
Call number:PN6120.R2 O43 1999
Year:p1999.
Friday, January 9, 2015
Word of the Day
niveous
\ NIV-ee-uhs \, adjective;
1.resembling snow, especially in whiteness; snowy.
Quotes:
You contemplate all the hours you sat attentive and alert on the flight deck, and how you never grew less enamored of the niveous white magnificence of clouds as you gazed down at them from thirty or thirty-five thousand feet.
-- Chris Bohjalian, The Night Strangers , 2011
I have seen Arctic foxes carrying my mother's notebooks from place to place, trotting across the niveous landscape, the pages flapping with every step.
-- Alison Baker, How I Came West, and Why I Stayed , 1993
Origin:
Niveous stems from the Latin root nix , meaning "snow." -Eous is an adjectival suffix denoting that something has the nature of the stem.
Dictionary.com
\ NIV-ee-uhs \, adjective;
1.resembling snow, especially in whiteness; snowy.
Quotes:
You contemplate all the hours you sat attentive and alert on the flight deck, and how you never grew less enamored of the niveous white magnificence of clouds as you gazed down at them from thirty or thirty-five thousand feet.
-- Chris Bohjalian, The Night Strangers , 2011
I have seen Arctic foxes carrying my mother's notebooks from place to place, trotting across the niveous landscape, the pages flapping with every step.
-- Alison Baker, How I Came West, and Why I Stayed , 1993
Origin:
Niveous stems from the Latin root nix , meaning "snow." -Eous is an adjectival suffix denoting that something has the nature of the stem.
Dictionary.com
Thursday, January 8, 2015
This Day In History, January 8
*Jan 8, 1790: President George Washington delivers first State of the Union
On this day in 1790, President George Washington delivers the first State of the Union address to the assembled Congress in New York City.
Washington began by congratulating you on the present favourable prospects of our public affairs, most notable of which was North Carolina's recent decision to join the federal republic. North Carolina had rejected the Constitution in July 1788 because it lacked a bill of rights. Under the terms of the Constitution, the new government acceded to power after only 11 of the 13 states accepted the document. By the time North Carolina ratified in November 1789, the first Congress had met, written the Bill of Rights and dispatched them for review by the states. When Washington spoke in January, it seemed likely the people of the United States would stand behind Washington's government and enjoy the concord, peace, and plenty he saw as symbols of the nation's good fortune.
Washington's address gave a brief, but excellent, outline of his administration's policies as designed by Alexander Hamilton. The former commander in chief of the Continental Army argued in favor of securing the common defence [sic], as he believed preparedness for war to be one of the most effectual means of preserving peace. Washington's guarded language allowed him to hint at his support for the controversial idea of creating a standing army without making an overt request.
The most basic functions of day-to-day governing had yet to be organized, and Washington charged Congress with creating a competent fund designated for defraying the expenses incident to the conduct of our foreign affairs, a uniform rule of naturalization, and Uniformity in the Currency, Weights and Measures of the United States.
After covering the clearly federal issues of national defense and foreign affairs, Washington urged federal influence over domestic issues as well. The strongly Hamilton-influenced administration desired money for and some measure of control over Agriculture, Commerce and Manufactures as well as Science and Literature. These national goals required a Federal Post-Office and Post-Roads and a means of public education, which the president justified as a means to secure the Constitution, by educating future public servants in the republican principles of representative government.
*http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/president-george-washington-delivers-first-state-of-the-union
On this day in 1790, President George Washington delivers the first State of the Union address to the assembled Congress in New York City.
Washington began by congratulating you on the present favourable prospects of our public affairs, most notable of which was North Carolina's recent decision to join the federal republic. North Carolina had rejected the Constitution in July 1788 because it lacked a bill of rights. Under the terms of the Constitution, the new government acceded to power after only 11 of the 13 states accepted the document. By the time North Carolina ratified in November 1789, the first Congress had met, written the Bill of Rights and dispatched them for review by the states. When Washington spoke in January, it seemed likely the people of the United States would stand behind Washington's government and enjoy the concord, peace, and plenty he saw as symbols of the nation's good fortune.
Washington's address gave a brief, but excellent, outline of his administration's policies as designed by Alexander Hamilton. The former commander in chief of the Continental Army argued in favor of securing the common defence [sic], as he believed preparedness for war to be one of the most effectual means of preserving peace. Washington's guarded language allowed him to hint at his support for the controversial idea of creating a standing army without making an overt request.
The most basic functions of day-to-day governing had yet to be organized, and Washington charged Congress with creating a competent fund designated for defraying the expenses incident to the conduct of our foreign affairs, a uniform rule of naturalization, and Uniformity in the Currency, Weights and Measures of the United States.
After covering the clearly federal issues of national defense and foreign affairs, Washington urged federal influence over domestic issues as well. The strongly Hamilton-influenced administration desired money for and some measure of control over Agriculture, Commerce and Manufactures as well as Science and Literature. These national goals required a Federal Post-Office and Post-Roads and a means of public education, which the president justified as a means to secure the Constitution, by educating future public servants in the republican principles of representative government.
*http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/president-george-washington-delivers-first-state-of-the-union
Wednesday, January 7, 2015
Word of the Day
hallux
\ HAL-uhks \, noun;
1.the first or innermost digit of the foot of humans and other primates or of the hind foot of other mammals; great toe; big toe.
2.the comparable, usually backward-directed digit in birds.
Quotes:
All fingers and toes, except the hallux , have claws. The hallux has a flat nail which is opposable to the others.
-- Eman P. Fridman and Ronald D. Nadler, Medical Primatology: History, Biological Foundations and Applications , 2002
The four toes are in line with the first (big) toe (the hallux ), unlike the toes of other apes (humans are considered apes), in which the hallux is offset from the remaining toes.
-- Jeremy Rich, Dorothy E. Dean, and Robert H. Powers, Forensic Medicine of the Lower Extremity , 2005
Origin:
Hallux entered English in the 1820s. It is a corruption of the Latin word allex meaning "great toe."
Dictionary.com
\ HAL-uhks \, noun;
1.the first or innermost digit of the foot of humans and other primates or of the hind foot of other mammals; great toe; big toe.
2.the comparable, usually backward-directed digit in birds.
Quotes:
All fingers and toes, except the hallux , have claws. The hallux has a flat nail which is opposable to the others.
-- Eman P. Fridman and Ronald D. Nadler, Medical Primatology: History, Biological Foundations and Applications , 2002
The four toes are in line with the first (big) toe (the hallux ), unlike the toes of other apes (humans are considered apes), in which the hallux is offset from the remaining toes.
-- Jeremy Rich, Dorothy E. Dean, and Robert H. Powers, Forensic Medicine of the Lower Extremity , 2005
Origin:
Hallux entered English in the 1820s. It is a corruption of the Latin word allex meaning "great toe."
Dictionary.com
Tuesday, January 6, 2015
Scheduled Classes for Computers
11:30 a.m. - 1:10 p.m. Reserved—Ms. Greene
Where: Yocum Instruction Area
Description: Ms. Jodi Greene ORI102 (20) Intro to Library PowerPoint presented by
Ms. Kim Stahler.
6 p.m. - 8 p.m. Reserved—Ms. Neider
Where: Yocum Instruction Area
Description: Ms. Brandy Neider ORI102 (16) Intro to Lib PowerPoint presented by Ms.
Patricia Nouhra.
Where: Yocum Instruction Area
Description: Ms. Jodi Greene ORI102 (20) Intro to Library PowerPoint presented by
Ms. Kim Stahler.
6 p.m. - 8 p.m. Reserved—Ms. Neider
Where: Yocum Instruction Area
Description: Ms. Brandy Neider ORI102 (16) Intro to Lib PowerPoint presented by Ms.
Patricia Nouhra.
Word of the Day
frenetic
\ fruh-NET-ik \ , adjective;
1.
frantic; frenzied.
Definition of frenetic| See synonyms| Comment on today's word| Suggest tomorrow's word
Quotes:
"He is frenetic ," said some; "Possessed," exclaimed others. He did not try to injure anyone.
-- Lucien Arreat, "Pathology of Artists," The Alienist and Neurologist, Volume XIV , 1893
An airy structure; how the pennon from its dome, / Frenetic to be free, makes one red stretch for home!
-- Robert Browning, "Fifine at the Fair," 1872
Origin:
Frenetic came to English in the 1300s and ultimately comes from the Greek phrenitis which literally means "inflammation of the brain." Frenetic shares a root with frenzy .
Dictionary.com
\ fruh-NET-ik \ , adjective;
1.
frantic; frenzied.
Definition of frenetic| See synonyms| Comment on today's word| Suggest tomorrow's word
Quotes:
"He is frenetic ," said some; "Possessed," exclaimed others. He did not try to injure anyone.
-- Lucien Arreat, "Pathology of Artists," The Alienist and Neurologist, Volume XIV , 1893
An airy structure; how the pennon from its dome, / Frenetic to be free, makes one red stretch for home!
-- Robert Browning, "Fifine at the Fair," 1872
Origin:
Frenetic came to English in the 1300s and ultimately comes from the Greek phrenitis which literally means "inflammation of the brain." Frenetic shares a root with frenzy .
Dictionary.com
Print Books Outsold Ebooks In First Half Of 2014
According to Nielsen’s survey, ebooks constituted only 23 percent of unit sales for the first six months of the year, while hardcovers made up 25 percent and paperback 42 percent of sales. In other words, not only did overall print book sales, at 67 percent of the market, outpace ebook sales, both hardcovers and paperbacks individually outsold ebooks.
Given the explosive growth of ebook sales since the launch of the Kindle in 2007, with increases in the triple digits for several years, many expected the paper book industry to remain in retreat for the foreseeable future. Recently, however, ebook gains seem to have stabilized with hardcover and paperback books still comfortably dominant. In 2013, sales growth for ebooks slowed to single digits, and the new numbers from Nielsen suggest the leveling off was no anomaly.
At Electric Literature, Lincoln Michel theorizes that this anticipates a future in which paper books and ebooks will coexist peacefully. This hope was also expressed to Publishers Weekly last year by industry insiders, including Perseus Books Group CEO David Steinberger, who commented that: "A healthy, diverse marketplace with multiple format, price point, and channel choices for the consumer is generally a positive for readers, authors, and publishers overall.”
Author Stephen King told HuffPost Live recently that he also believes print books have a long and bright future ahead of them, saying, "I think books are going to be there for a long, long time to come." King compares books' prospects positively with those of CDs and vinyl."[A]udio recordings of music have only been around for, I'm going to say, 120 years at the most," he said. "Books have been around for three, four centuries ... There's a deeply implanted desire and understanding and wanting of books that isn't there with music."
This continuing variety in format doesn’t only appeal to choice-conscious consumers. It may be a boon for those worried about the possible downsides of ereading, given growing, though still preliminary, evidence that print books may allow for deeper reading and stronger understanding and memory than digital books. Advocates of more engaged reading have often warned that the increasing omnipresence of ereading might erode our capacity to read deeply.
If the new trends continue, such warnings of the death of print books, and their potential benefits, may prove to have been greatly exaggerated.
*http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/06/ebooks-print-books-outsold_n_5940654.html?fb_action_ids=10152677491133805&fb_action_types=og.comments
Monday, January 5, 2015
This Day In History - January 5
Alexandre Dumas Pere Fights a Duel
On this day, 23-year-old Alexandre Dumas fights his first duel. He sustains no serious injury, although his pants fall down in the fight. He'll later fill his romantic works, including The Three Musketeers, with duels, battles, and daring escapades.
Dumas was the son of one of Napoleon's generals, but his family struggled financially after his father's death in 1806. Dumas went to Paris to find work and was hired by the household of the Duke D'Orleans, who became King Louis-Philippe. Dumas began writing plays, which became huge hits with the public, then turned to historical novels. He published The Three Musketeers in 1844, followed by The Count of Monte Cristo in 1845.
Dumas led a tempestuous life filled with ruinous love affairs. His illegitimate son also became a writer-the two were later known as Dumas pere (French for "father") and Dumas fils (French for "son"). The son reacted against his father's lifestyle by writing highly regarded contemporary dramas supporting marriage and family, with titles like "The Natural Son" (1848) and "The Prodigal Father" (1859) . Dumas pere died in 1870. Five years later, his son was admitted to the elite Academie Francaise. Dumas fils died in 1895.
*http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/alexandre-dumas-pere-fights-a-duel
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