Right off the bat, let's jump to China, where construction company Winsun unveiled a 3D printed 3-story mansion and a 3D printed 5-story apartment building! You read that right, they're 3D-printing concrete architectural components and building fairly massive structures with them. Don't believe me? Check out the pictures below and read more about it here. Then think about building 10 eco-friendly homes in a day.
BIG is cool, and I haven't seen anything bigger than an apartment building come out of a 3D printer yet. But maybe practical is cool too. In the realm of the pragmatic, being able to 3D print useable parts (vs. just models / prototypes) is definitely cool!
The MarkForged Mark One is available now for about $5,500 – even if you can't afford it, go drool over the photos.
The Voxel8 3D printer is set to be available in late 2015. Pre-orders are open now for about $9k (min. $500 dep.).
We've talked a lot about these cool new 3D printers, and the cool stuff being printed with them, but is this just "cool" or is there more to 3D printing? In other words: Why should you care about 3D printing?
This sentiment, I think, cuts to the core of what's truly exciting about this 3D printing revolution. It's what makes it a revolution at all.
For tens of thousands of years, human beings had to kill, capture, or create everything they needed to survive, mostly themselves. From the oft-referred to "cave man" of the distant past all the way up to people living today in the less developed portions of our planet, the supermarket and big-box store solution was (and is) simply not available. For the vast majority of our existence, humans have prepared our own meals, built our own homes, and entertained each other. The industrial revolution started shaping things about 250 years ago. Since, we've been reliant on factories, distant large-scale manufacturers, massive retailers, and entertainment broadcast into our homes from afar.
The Internet caused a digital revolution in industries such as map making, music and video distribution, news casting, book publishing, transportation, lodging, communication, and more. We've started to see a swing back to the natural order of things. Instead of being shouted at by a few select celebrities; today we are all able to create and share with our friends. We've gone back to telling each other stories, to singing to each other – to being both consumers and creators.
From what we know of technology and of people, we can infer a few things about the immediate future. If we take a few liberties as well, we can guess further out.
Price curves on this type of technology are well known to go down. It's as simple as that. Look at personal computers, inkjet and laser printers, mobile phones and tablets, etc. Personal electronics ride Moore's law very well. They also ride the law of supply and demand. The newest models and coolest tech always toy with our monetary sensibilities. More mature technology and older models simply crash in price. The first color laser printer, QMS's ColorScript Laser 1000, sold for $12,499 in 1993. Two years later Apple Computer introduced their Color Laser Printer 12/600PS priced at $7,000. Today, the color laser printer sitting on my desk cost less than $500 and is quite a bit more capable. A similar curve would bring top of the line 'desktop' 3D printers down to around $500 in less than 10 years. I think that a sub-$1k 3D printer capable of producing fully functional parts and complete devices is truly revolutionary. When average folks are able to conveniently and cost-effectively take advantage of local and/or in-home production, industries will shift.
More flexible 3D printers will emerge. For 3D printing to be a truly viable option in folks homes, we'll need to be able to print in many different materials from a single machine. People aren't going to buy more than one 3D printer, so it needs to be flexible. One device for all (well, most of) your desktop manufacturing needs. This will provide the most revolutionary changes to our world. When most folks can print most of what they need at home, many things we now take for granted will change drastically, or be washed away completely.
3D print shops will pop up years before we see super-flexible crazy-cheap 3D printers in the majority of homes. For a while the most functional and flexible 3D printers will still be measured in thousands of dollars and multiple machines will be needed to be truly versatile. This creates an opportunity for local entrepreneurs who will jump in to provide local 3D printing services. These will likely be born out of the current maker spaces in many cases, providing 3D printing as a service (3DPaaS?) rather than just access to the machines. These 3D printing shops might serve two purposes: One is directly printing designs of the consumers request like an OfficeMax or FedEx store does today with 2D printing. The other is on-demand printing for online retailers to avoid shipping costs and delays. Forget drop-shipping; this is drop-manufacturing! Raw materials are the only needed inventory.
More specialized 3D printers will continue to be developed for specific applications. The work being done with 3D printers that build objects from various stem cells is extremely intriguing; what if we could supply replacement organs on demand to anyone who needs one? Can we print food, like in a Star Trek replicator? What other objects, products, or even services could be revolutionized through 3D printing?
Another area that piques my interest is 3D scanning. Today we can scan the outside of pretty much any object in high enough resolution to 3D print inert copies. I wonder, as the ability to produce fully functioning devices from a 3D printer grows and becomes more common, will we see 3D scanners that can peer into devices as well? Perhaps by using x-ray, millimeter wave, or similar technology we'll soon be able to reverse engineer functional devices using a 3D scanner?
With a little bit of imagination it's not hard to see the outlines of what this world will look like. The ramifications for manufacturers, intellectual property holders, retail middle-men, and society in general will be sweeping. I think these changes are all pushing us in the right direction. Towards a more open and collaborative world. Imagine a world where an inventor (perhaps you) designs a new device in an app on their tablet and hours later people all over the world are 3d printing that new tool or toy, right in their own homes!
The industrial revolution got us here, and should be lauded for the progress we've seen in the past couple centuries. The 3D printing revolution promises to build on that success while re-introducing our more collaborative, self-sufficient nature. The Internet and it's digital revolution is making knowledge, communication, and creativity accessible to everyone. Next, the 3D printing revolution will unlock that same access in the physical world.


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Is Amazon Poised to Steal Print On Demand?
Many saw Print On Demand (POD) as the ultimate 'just in time' production solution to book publishing, which would wipe out all the inefficiencies of the 'just in case' approach that plagues the book supply chain. So why didn't it happen, or did it happen for some and not for others? Is there a new dawn, or just a new set of people who have been sold a pup and not looked hard at the facts?
Today we read that Barnes and Noble are installing Espresso Book Machines in three of their stores
B&N Tests Espresso Book Machines in Stores as the Kodak-OnDemandBooks Partnership Falls Through
Once hailed as the future of the book industry, print on demand has a solid niche in said industry but lately it seems to be treading water. Whenever we read of potential steps forward like Books-a-Million or B&N installing Espresso Book Machines in their stores, the great news is cancelled out by similar pilots falling through. I am happy to report today that Barnes & Noble is starting a pilot program in three of its stores, but the good news is tempered by by the news that Kodak's partnership with OnDemandBooks has collapsed.
Q&A With InfoTrends' Jim Hamilton on Books and Inkjet
Recently, Barb Pellow and I participated in a Canon-sponsored Book Business/Printing Impressions webinar on the topic of books and inkjet. As is typical of most webinars, listeners were encouraged to submit questions, and in this case we received a lot of them. This blog is comprised of those questions and my brief response to each. While not intended to be comprehensive, I believe these questions and answers are a reflection of what is on the minds of the publishing community in regard to inkjet and books today.
Espresso Print-on-Demand at Books-a-Million Maine Store
Sometimes living in Maine has unexpected advantages beyond lobster, seaside air, and friendly people, as I discovered yesterday when learning one of the newest beta sites for the Espresso Print-on-Demand system was being unveiled at a South Portland Books-a-Million store. Publerati is located in nearby Portland.
Bartell Drugs to Bring Print-on-Demand Book Publishing Machine to Store
Thanks to a new partnership, you'll soon be able to pick up a new book with your prescription refills.
Bartell Drugs is partnering with Kodak Alaris to put a new kiosk in its University Village store that will allow users to print books on demand in addition to printing photos. The new machine combines the functionality of Kodak photo kiosks as well as the Espresso Book Machine, which allows users to upload a file and pick up a printed book, or print from the machine's library of more than 7 million texts.
The Me-Book
Ebooks get a lot of attention, but there is another publishing world that exists in parallel with the commercial publishing world we see and know. It is the shadow world that evolved from the copier and later the digital printer — for the first time, individuals could make their own books.
Printing & Manufacturing, Business Strategy
Kodak Sets a Gold Standard for Publications around the World with Special Covers
Historically, gold leaf or gold foil was a prohibitively expensive way of achieving gold effects in printing. But soon gold will be available to everyone, thanks to KODAK NEXPRESS Gold Dry Ink, a unique option for the NEXPRESS Fifth Imaging Unit Solutions that adds a gold metallic, sparkle effect for applications such as direct mail, magazine and catalog covers, certificates, photos, tickets, and other special projects. To promote Gold Dry Ink, Kodak collaborated with five different magazines around the world to create special covers that feature the attention-getting gold effects.
Printing & Manufacturing, Ebooks & Digital Media, News
Shop for ebooks at the grocery store, with new Txtr/ReaderLink partnership
A new partnership from txtr and ReaderLink will let retail chains and outlets like Target, Walmart, Costco and Stop & Shop sell ebooks through their websites. txtr says the partnership could provide an alternative to Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
In an attempt to compete with Amazon and Barnes & Noble, Berlin-based ebook company txtr and U.S. print book distributor ReaderLink have partnered to sell ebooks through new outlets: grocery stores, mass merchants, warehouse clubs, drugstores and department stores.
INTERQUEST Digital Book Printing Forum Draws Industry Professionals to Frankfurt
INTERQUEST, a leading market and technology research and consulting firm serving the digital printing and publishing industry, today announced a rich and diverse lineup of speakers and panelists for its second Frankfurt Digital Book Printing Forum. The full-day educational forum focuses on trends and opportunities in digital book manufacturing.
Kodak, On Demand Books and ReaderLink Join Forces for In-Store Book Printing
Eastman Kodak, On Demand Books, and ReaderLink announced they have partnered to revolutionize the way all types of printed books will be marketed, sold and produced at point of sale. The venture brings On Demand Books' Espresso Book Machine to national retailers integrated with Kodak Picture Kiosks, giving consumers a full-service, digital-to-print media center for all their custom print needs—from photo books, custom/local self-published titles, to educational supplements, and more.

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CF Montreal: the women's academy before the professional league
Rob Wilson | December 7, 2022 | Sport | No Comments
Not wanting to put the cart before the horse, CF Montreal president Gabriel Gervais is for the time being forced to stay away from the women's professional league project in Canada to focus on the creation of the women's section of the academy.
Asked about the circuit that will see the light of day in 2025, Tuesday at a press conference, the CEO admitted to having other priorities in mind. However, he was happy to talk with Diana Matheson, one of the co-creators of the project with Canadian soccer star Christine Sinclair.
"We have come out of the pandemic, the change of brand and name, the good year we have just experienced … There is a certain stability that we must seek in terms of finances, agreed Gervais, who spoke on the sidelines of the departure of head coach Wilfried Nancy. I was quite open about the numbers I shared with you; we lose between $10 and $20 million each year. We absolutely have to stabilize that before investing in other projects."
Obviously, having an academy for young Quebec women would then facilitate the arrival of a professional club in Montreal. For now, the Vancouver Whitecaps and a team from Calgary have been confirmed for the new circuit.
"What we want to do is start a women's academy. This is something we want to announce soon. It's still in progress, a little patience on that," said Gervais, not to mention the timeline.
The CF Montreal has clearly announced its colors by hiring Amy Walsh as ambassador of women's soccer this year. The former player is working tirelessly with Soccer Quebec to set up an academy.
Nevertheless, Gervais does not see himself embarking on the short-term project. Remember that the Matheson and Sinclair league will not start its activities until 2025. The Bleu-Blanc-Noir will at least be there to support.
"Of course, if there is a professional team in Montreal or Quebec, we will reach out to him to help him in any way. Of course, through the academy, we could be an engine to generate talents who can go and play in this team", he visualized.
"I find that it is a very , very good news: 50% of the population can hope to have a professional league, a platform to be able to practice all year round, improve and develop as an individual. I think it's great," added Gervais.
The creation of the women's professional circuit will be overseen by the Project 8 organization. It will have eight teams for its first campaign, which should take place between the April and Fall 2025.
Watch Gabriel Gervais' full press briefing in the video above.
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Zachary Goldstein Turns Old Books Into Poetry
Posted On: 16 Oct 2018 - 12:08pm
By Josh Moss
Before Zachary Goldstein left Louisville a couple months ago to travel the country, the 28-year-old J-town native lived in a one-bedroom apartment above the sushi restaurant Osaka on Frankfort Avenue. He turned the half-bathroom into a darkroom for his photography, and he also created music in the apartment as the singer-guitarist-drummer in his "confessional lo-fi indie punk band" Trouble Sleeping. (In June he released the album msyoulvyou, which he likes to leave around town, sometimes in the "T" section at record stores.) "With music, I'm creating something from scratch, and there's all these decisions to make. I freeze up in those situations," he says. "Having some sort of limit on what I can do can be good for me."
So he started making "black-out" poems, also known as erasure poems. At Goodwill or the Crazy Daisy Antique Mall, he found books — Willie Nelson's autobiography, a guide to caring for gerbils, "a very much old-fashioned, mildly sexist book for preparing for weddings" — and set up in a coffee shop with a black Sharpie. He'll flip to an aesthetically pleasing page — bigger typeface, space between lines, a glossy surface that the marker doesn't penetrate instead of "thirsty" paper that allows bleed-through — and picks a word. Like "Hell." Then he starts with the black lines. "Sometimes I'll go over a word and realize it was a great missed opportunity and there's no going back," he says. Eventually, a poem emerges: "Hell set an attendance record the year country music found an audience." The process helps him write lyrics.
He has completed about 300 poems and has several collections, including Poems for Boys, Luv pommes, Poems for stripping paint, each featuring pages from many books. "It's like that famous quote about sculpture," he says. "The sculpture is already in the marble. You're just taking away what's not the sculpture. I'm just finding what's in there that the author didn't realize."
This originally appeared in the September 2018 issue of Louisville Magazine on page 103. To subscribe to Louisville Magazine, click here. To find us on newsstands, click here.
Part of "33 Reasons We Love Our Arts Scene."
Zachary Goldstein
msyoulvyou
Poems for Boys
Luv pommes
Poems for stripping paint
erasure poems
Dance Meets Poetry at the Louisville Ballet
Particularly Poetic and Patient: Mackenzie Berry
10 Poems by Girls in Metro Youth Detention Services
Drinking and Drawing with the Louisville Cartoonist Society
Remembering the Derby City Chop Shop Dog
His Grandfather Died of Cancer After Working for DuPont Chemical. Now He's in a Movie About It.
Can This Man Rebrand the Ohio River?


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Couples, Love, and Relationships during Covid-19: A Conversation with Counseling Psychologist Swati Jawla (Part 1)
Garima Rathor (she/her)
Love and Relationship, Personal Growth, Spark Conversations
Relationships are hard work, even during the best circumstances. However, this lockdown is proving to be the ultimate test for couples.
Whether these couples are living together, married, or living apart – the pandemic has wreaked havoc on even the most stable relationships.
Uncertainty in almost every aspect of life is causing tensions to boil over, and our partners are getting caught in the crossfire. Due to this, couples have been facing multiple issues such as separation from each other, physical distance, emotional distance, anxiety, fear, lack of trust, and increased fighting.
It has been repeatedly found that we fight with people we are closest to as we deem them 'safe targets.' While this phenomenon makes sense, it also leads to constant friction and unhappiness.
We talk to Swati Jawla about the various challenges couples are facing during this Covid-19 lockdown, and how they can work to keep the relationship healthy and the spark alive.
Swati is a Counseling Psychologist and a Trained CBT Practitioner with over five years of experience. Providing relationship counseling as well as individual therapy, Swati aims to make a positive difference in people's lives with her empathetic and person-centered approach.
Q: The Covid-19 pandemic and social distancing measures have forced a lot of couples to stay apart. What are the most common issues that have cropped up due to this distance between loved ones during such a stressful time?
A: Indeed, the Covid-19 pandemic and social distancing measures have forced a lot of unmarried couples to stay apart.
These couples have reported a lot of issues, such as:
Fear of losing each other
Interpersonal conflicts
Again, it depends on an individual's perspective as I would not say that all unmarried couples are facing these issues, but the majority of them certainly are.
Nowadays, you have no option but to stay inside your house with your family members. People cannot do whatever they want and whenever they want. A lot of couples say that it's getting very difficult for them to speak to each other in the presence of family members. When the male partner is free, the female partner is occupied with work, and vice versa.
Couples can't step out whenever they want and meet. This forced distance between couples has built up a lot of frustration in them as they are surrounded by their family members 24×7, and not everyone's family has a modern mindset and respect for privacy.
Couples who are in serious relationships and were planning to move ahead in their relationships have developed a fear of losing each other. As we all know, this situation has become increasingly uncertain, and nobody knows what will happen tomorrow. The couples were used to meeting each other often and spending time together, now that time has been divided among multiple tasks.
Whenever I call my girlfriend, her number is busy, and she says that she's busy with online classes. It's getting difficult to trust her.
Client X
My girlfriend rarely picks up my call; I think she is seeing somebody else.
Client Y
All these situations have created a sense of mistrust in couples, which poses a significant danger of hampering the relationships. Couples are getting into unnecessary fights where they know that the matter is tiny, but since they are super frustrated with the current situation, they pick fights with each other.
Q: The lockdown has also led to an increase in people reaching out to their exes and romanticizing the past. What are the emotional and psychological ramifications of this?
A: Reaching out to exes and romanticizing the past could happen due to multiple reasons. The partner could be in a problematic relationship where they might be comparing past and present relationships. There are high chances that the partner may develop boredom due to the lockdown situation and want the old spark back.
Here, the couples need to understand one thing: the situation with their exes was different from the present, and under no circumstances, is it appropriate to compare the present relationship with the past.
This act has a huge tendency of leading to infidelity, which can shatter even the strongest relationships, leaving behind feelings of guilt, betrayal, and anger.
People need to understand whenever a person gets cheated on, they do not doubt the other person, but themselves. Once a person gets betrayed by someone, it gets very difficult for that person to love, trust, and empathize with themselves. It creates a fear of trusting others, being abandoned, being played, and so on. These fears and emotions tend to push an individual towards isolation.
Q: Couples in live-in relationships and newly married couples are not only dealing with a global pandemic but also a massive change in their living situation. In your experience, how have they been dealing with so many changes in a short amount of time?
A: As we all know, there is a sudden spike in the divorce rate in China and domestic violence in India. Thus, it is evident that a lot of couples have been witnessing a massive change in their lives.
Couples who can maintain good communication and be supportive and responsive to each other throughout the Covid-19 crisis will likely remain together and possibly feel more connected for having weathered the storm. However, couples who have difficulty communicating and effectively supporting each other may feel less happy with their relationship and be more likely to separate.
Additionally, poor and lower-income couples are apt to be at higher risk for marital distress and dissolution as that they are more likely to experience greater losses and hardships.
Everyone's way of coping with distress is different, and it is very subjective. Some couples have been making the best use of this time by fixing the cracks and understanding their dynamics in a better way. On the other hand, there may be couples who have been feeling trapped.
Maintaining social connections with friends and family through phone calls and video chats may:
Reduce feelings of isolation
Offer additional sources of support and reassurance, and
Allow partners to provide support to their friends and family as well.
Although people have speculated that the current pandemic will increase the divorce rate, this prediction is not straightforward.
Q: Has the lockdown led to a rise in fights and disagreements, or is there a breakdown in communication to keep the peace?
A: This feeling is very real and true.
For the first time in 15 years, I raised my hand on my wife. I feel our relationship is falling apart.
Honestly speaking, there is always scope for disagreements and arguments in a healthy relationship. And fighting is, even for successful couples, an inevitable part of living together.
Conflicts are always not necessarily a sign of an unhealthy or problematic relationship, and while marriages that were already experiencing bad phases may be cracking under the strain, fighting during the lockdown is not necessarily about deep structural problems. It can also be about the unceasing togetherness and the unbearable nature of that condition.
Many couples fight not because they lack intimacy, but because they possess it.
Q: Multiple studies have found that reports of abuse have shot up since the lockdown began. How can a victim-survivor defend themselves and access help during a lockdown?
A: Indeed, anyone can be a victim of domestic abuse. It does not matter what the victim's gender, age, ethnicity, socio-economic status, sexuality, or background is.
People who are experiencing domestic abuse have been trapped inside the house with their abusers, and away from family and friends who could help them.
Three weeks into the lockdown, one of the domestic abuse helplines (Invisible Scars) received a call. The woman stated,
I live in a constant state of fear of what could affect my husband's mood.
She stated this sentence in a very low voice so that her husband and mother-in-law could not hear her. She said both of them taunt and harass her.
I am constantly told I am not a good mother or a good wife. They order me to serve elaborate meals and treat me like a domestic worker.
She was in so much pain that she could not bear it and sought help.
It is very important for anyone who is experiencing domestic abuse or sees the possibility of experiencing it, to be in contact with their family and friends so they can keep checking on them.
There are a number of genuine helplines out there for victim-survivors. Always inform your neighbors about your home environment, and provide them the liberty to step in if they suspect abuse.
Q: Can you talk to us about some of the changes in couples' sex habits? Has their sexual activity increased, decreased, or stayed the same? If it has decreased, how can couples bring back the spark while a pandemic rages on the outside?
A: If we talk about couples who are not married and not staying together, then this question seems incomplete. Before answering for unmarried couples and couples who do not stay together, we need to understand a lot more about their sex life. So here, let us talk about couples who stay together or married couples.
In an NBC News poll of over 9,000 people, only 24% said the Covid-19 outbreak had positively affected their sex lives (28% were neutral and 47% said it had affected them negatively).
People have mentioned, on different social media platforms, that general panic and despair have caused a sudden decrement of their libido.
Couples have been preferring cuddles with snacks rather than sex.
Since everything is now digital, and we have no other option but to sit at home and work, we have also joined hands with a lot of negative emotions such as anxiety, fear of losing employment, etc. All these negative emotions have taken a toll on couples' relationships.
Let's talk about what couples could do to bring back the spark in their relationship as both the partners experience the same routine every day. From waking up in the morning to hitting the bed at night, it's all very monotonous.
Couples should try new things in the bedroom where they both feel excited about something. They could try a few roleplays, acting on a sexual fantasy they have never explored before, changing the location, and so on. Trying new things in the bedroom tends to alleviate boredom.
Couples could try setting up a date at home where they can divide tasks between them and try to surprise each other with something exciting. They might have not experienced a home-date before so they could make it as exciting as their first date.
Do not forget to pamper and compliment your partner. Doing something different from your everyday routine makes a lot of difference.
Stay tuned for Part 2!
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FIGHTS, FRUSTRATION AND BOREDOM BETWEEN COUPLES
A 28-year-old man from Navi Mumbai, who went missing in July after calling his wife that he had tested positive for coronavirus, was found in Thane with his girlfriend. This reveals the state of frustration and boredom between couples. All these situations have created a sense of mistrust in couples, which poses a significant danger of hampering the relationships. Couples are getting into unnecessary fights where they know that the matter is tiny, but since they are super frustrated with the current situation, they pick fights with each other.Frustration, friction and fatigue are part and parcel of family life and it creates pressure during pandemic. Lack of space resulting in lack of close relationship and this is the root cause for maximum tension. With family members find it somewhat tough to meet both the ends of family life and marital relationship. With few available bedroom and more members it is a matter of adjustment and just pick right time to get an opportunity to be together and make hey when covid-19 pose a big problem. Let the relationship flourish in the right time for the blooming buds.
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This section covers how to use the free Appveyor continuous integration service to provide Windows support for your project. This includes testing the code on Windows, and building Windows-targeted binaries for projects that use C extensions.
Many projects are developed on Unix by default, and providing Windows support can be a challenge, because setting up a suitable Windows test environment is non-trivial, and may require buying software licenses.
The Appveyor service is a continuous integration service, much like the better-known Travis service that is commonly used for testing by projects hosted on Github. However, unlike Travis, the build workers on Appveyor are Windows hosts and have the necessary compilers installed to build Python extensions.
Windows users typically do not have access to a C compiler, and therefore are reliant on projects that use C extensions distributing binary wheels on PyPI in order for the distribution to be installable via pip install <dist>. By using Appveyor as a build service (even if not using it for testing) it is possible for projects without a dedicated Windows environment to provide Windows-targeted binaries.
In order to use Appveyor to build Windows wheels for your project, you must have an account on the service. Instructions on setting up an account are given in the Appveyor documentation. The free tier of account is perfectly adequate for open source projects.
Appveyor provides integration with Github and Bitbucket, so as long as your project is hosted on one of those two services, setting up Appveyor integration is straightforward.
Once you have set up your Appveyor account and added your project, Appveyor will automatically build your project each time a commit occurs. This behaviour will be familiar to users of Travis.
In order to define how Appveyor should build your project, you need to add an appveyor.yml file to your project. The full details of what can be included in the file are covered in the Appveyor documentation. This guide will provide the details necessary to set up wheel builds.
Appveyor includes by default all of the compiler toolchains needed to build extensions for Python. For Python 2.7, 3.5+ and 32-bit versions of 3.3 and 3.4, the tools work out of the box. But for 64-bit versions of Python 3.3 and 3.4, there is a small amount of additional configuration needed to let distutils know where to find the 64-bit compilers. (From 3.5 onwards, the version of Visual Studio used includes 64-bit compilers with no additional setup).
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- "%PYTHON%\\python.exe -m pip install wheel"
# Put your test command here.
# only needed to support those cases.
# to put the Python version you want to use on PATH.
# This step builds your wheels.
#  You can use this step to upload your artifacts to a public website.
#  access your wheels from the Appveyor "artifacts" tab for your build.
This file can be downloaded from here.
The appveyor.yml file must be located in the root directory of your project. It is in YAML format, and consists of a number of sections.
The environment section is the key to defining the Python versions for which your wheels will be created. Appveyor comes with Python 2.6, 2.7, 3.3, 3.4 and 3.5 installed, in both 32-bit and 64-bit builds. The example file builds for all of these environments except Python 2.6. Installing for Python 2.6 is more complex, as it does not come with pip included. We don't support 2.6 in this document (as Windows users still using Python 2 are generally able to move to Python 2.7 without too much difficulty).
The install section uses pip to install any additional software that the project may require. The only requirement for building wheels is the wheel project, but projects may wish to customise this code in certain circumstances (for example, to install additional build packages such as Cython, or test tools such as tox).
The build section simply switches off builds - there is no build step needed for Python, unlike languages like C#.
The main sections that will need to be tailored to your project are test_script and after_test.
The test_script section is where you will run your project's tests. The supplied file runs your test suite using setup.py test. If you are only interested in building wheels, and not in running your tests on Windows, you can replace this section with a dummy command such as echo Skipped Tests. You may wish to use another test tool, such as nose or py.test. Or you may wish to use a test driver like tox - however if you are using tox there are some additional configuration changes you will need to consider, which are described below.
The after_test runs once your tests have completed, and so is where the wheels should be built. Assuming your project uses the recommended tools (specifically, setuptools) then the setup.py bdist_wheel command will build your wheels.
Note that wheels will only be built if your tests succeed. If you expect your tests to fail on Windows, you can skip them as described above.
The appveyor.yml file relies on a single support script, which sets up the environment to use the SDK compiler for 64-bit builds on Python 3.3 and 3.4. For projects which do not need a compiler, or which don't support 3.3 or 3.4 on 64-bit Windows, only the appveyor.yml file is needed.
build.cmd is a Windows batch script that runs a single command in an environment with the appropriate compiler for the selected Python version. All you need to do is to set the single environment variable DISTUTILS_USE_SDK to a value of 1 and the script does the rest. It sets up the SDK needed for 64-bit builds of Python 3.3 or 3.4, so don't set the environment variable for any other builds.
You can simply download the batch file and include it in your project unchanged.
When your build completes, the built wheels will be available from the Appveyor control panel for your project. They can be found by going to the build status page for each build in turn. At the top of the build output there is a series of links, one of which is "Artifacts". That page will include a list of links to the wheels for that Python version / architecture. You can download those wheels and upload them to PyPI as part of your release process.
Many projects use the Tox tool to run their tests. It ensures that tests are run in an isolated environment using the exact files that will be distributed by the project.
In order to use tox on Appveyor there are a couple of additional considerations (in actual fact, these issues are not specific to Appveyor, and may well affect other CI systems).
By default, tox only passes a chosen subset of environment variables to the test processes. Because distutils uses environment variables to control the compiler, this "test isolation" feature will cause the tests to use the wrong compiler by default.
The passenv option can be set in your tox.ini, or if you prefer to avoid adding Windows-specific settings to your general project files, it can be set by setting the TOX_TESTENV_PASSENV environment variable. The supplied build.cmd script does this by default whenever DISTUTILS_USE_SDK is set.
When used interactively, tox allows you to run your tests against multiple environments (often, this means multiple Python versions). This feature is not as useful in a CI environment like Travis or Appveyor, where all tests are run in isolated environments for each configuration. As a result, projects often supply an argument -e ENVNAME to tox to specify which environment to use (there are default environments for most versions of Python).
However, this does not work well with a Windows CI system like Appveyor, where there are (for example) two installations of Python 3.4 (32-bit and 64-bit) available, but only one py34 environment in tox.
In order to run tests using tox, therefore, projects should probably use the default py environment in tox, which uses the Python interpreter that was used to run tox. This will ensure that when Appveyor runs the tests, they will be run with the configured interpreter.
In order to support running under the py environment, it is possible that projects with complex tox configurations might need to modify their tox.ini file. Doing so is, however, outside the scope of this document.
It is possible to request Appveyor to automatically upload wheels. There is a deployment step available in appveyor.yml that can be used to (for example) copy the built artifacts to a FTP site, or an Amazon S3 instance. Documentation on how to do this is included in the Appveyor guides.
Alternatively, it would be possible to add a twine upload step to the build. The supplied appveyor.yml does not do this, as it is not clear that uploading new wheels after every commit is desirable (although some projects may wish to do this).
The supplied scripts will successfully build any distribution that does not rely on 3rd party external libraries for the build.
It is possible to add steps to the appveyor.yml configuration (typically in the "install" section) to download and/or build external libraries needed by the distribution. And if needed, it is possible to add extra configuration for the build to supply the location of these libraries to the compiler. However, this level of configuration is beyond the scope of this document.


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A User's Guide to Previews
In her latest An Artistic Director Prepares column, Joanie Schultz writes about the importance of previews, and why she takes full advantage of them.
by Joanie Schultz
published Friday, October 27, 2017
Addison — "She really uses her previews."
This is something that was said to me during my first production as a staff member of Steppenwolf Theatre. I was just a couple of months out of college and had recently become the receptionist, sometimes moonlighting as a house manager. The comment was made during previews about a director who became an artistic hero of mine, Tina Landau, a Steppenwolf ensemble member and co-developer of the now-famous Viewpoints, she holds a strong creative vision that mashes with a collaborative theatre making ethos I philosophically share in my own work.
"She really uses her previews."
I wondered what that meant. To "really use" your previews. The person telling me, another staff member, said it with an air of gossip in their voice. I couldn't tell…was that a bad thing, a good thing, or just a thing? It felt exciting and dangerous: she used previews to experiment with the play in front of an audience. These artists were risking the shame and embarrassment of failure during this two-week period of performances. How could they possibly do that? How could the producers encourage it? Why does an audience want to participate in it? And fundamentally, what is a preview for?
First off, previews are, as most people who read this column probably know, the public performances before opening. At opening, the show is "set" artistically and so the press comes to witness and write about it. Unless there are some extenuating circumstances, that play will remain basically as it is on opening through closing; save from the live theatre aspect of the production that makes it slightly different every night. Depending on the theatre the number of previews varies. A Broadway premiere could have months of previews. I've worked on productions off-Broadway that have 21 previews, in regional theatres that have 6-12 previews, and smaller theatres that have 2-4 previews. At WaterTower we currently have three previews. During the preview time, most theatres also schedule technical rehearsal time interspersed in that preview period, so that we can change and shape things as we learn from performances.
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The implied tone of "she really uses her previews" seems to be saying that previews are to polish the already set production, to refine the almost-perfect play and work out issues of timing, stopping for laughs, maybe. Some might believe that previews are a time mostly for the actors to let the play "settle in" before opening night.
On the other hand, I and most of my colleagues in the American theatre really use our previews. I've worked on new plays that have had major rewrites, new scenes, characters cut completely during previews. I've directed plays where I've shifted major staging ideas during previews, cut aspects of the design, or overhauled the method of transitions between scenes with my creative team. I use previews to try out ideas and see how they work, taking the information from audience response in consideration to see how the story affected them differently by changing the pace, music, ending moment, etc. There are so many small details that go into a finished play; each moment and it's timing requires many drafts and looks before a play opens.
Theater artists undergo this delicate and important phase of finishing our work with an audience. Why on Earth do we do that? In what other art-form would we publicly show and sell our rough drafts? It seems crazy but it's essential. The reason is precisely what makes theatre such a special and unique experience: the audience is the all-important final ingredient to live theatre. The audience co-creates the experience of the play with the performers every night. Without being able to try things in collaboration with an audience, we cannot be completely sure how they play. This is an incredibly valuable component of the work. We cannot call a theatrical production complete without a thorough preview process.
A colleague reminded me a year or so ago, Odysseus was very close to home when he took a nap that changed his course for the next several years, sending me a chapter from Stephen Pressfield's book The War of Art. "The danger is greatest when the finish line is in sight," he theorizes, because artists must push against resistance, and the professional artist must be vigilant at finishing their work. As I now say, "no naps." Previews aren't the time, I believe, for the director and the creative team to back away and abandon the actors to "settle in", they are the time to finish the work. No naps until opening!
That's what the artists get out of it, but what of the audience? "Even the best production in the world can be a little shaky at first," wrote Anita Gates, in her 2008 New York Times article on the pros and cons of going to previews. The obvious "pro" of going to the preview is that you pay less than the regular run, but there's more than that. They get to see it first, and tell their friends about it, it's a sneak peek at the work. And it's certain to be fresh and energetic to watch actors and crew members with adrenaline working out the play in front of you. Think back to some of your most memorable moments in theatres. I am guessing that at least one of them is when something went wrong. Not to say that things are going "wrong" in a preview, but that same energy is there between the performers because so much of what they are doing is risky and new. Will it work? Can we pull it off? The audience gets to be in the energy of a high-stakes rehearsal. What a thrilling room to participate in! Laura Collins-Hughes wrote a beautiful ode to previews in a 2015 New York Times article: "The performances might not be all the way there. Technical elements may well be rough. There's a good chance the script will change before opening night. But whatever ails a show, there is still—theoretically, anyway—time to fix it. To me, that feels hopeful. And dynamic."
The "cons" however are just as obvious: the play isn't done. The production might feel incomplete, unpolished, it might just not work yet. In fact, the more creative risk being taken onstage, the more the previews are going to be "really used." Some shows could feel like disasters during previews, and pull through to be the most fulfilling productions by opening. As an artist, I often find myself in a crisis in this period—will we pull off the impossible task we set before us?—the question spins in my head during sleepless preview nights. I tangibly feel as an artist that I need preview audiences—their visceral responses in the audience, the energy I feel from them, and the overheard lobby conversations—to complete the work.
17 years after hearing in that gossipy voice that Landau "really uses her previews," I am proud to say that I do too. I encourage all theatre artists at WaterTower to use the heck out of their previews. And I'm thankful to the audiences that come take the ride of previews with us. I ask you, my dear preview audiences, to come with an open mind and heart, and know that the work is under construction. And take heart in knowing that you are an essential part of completing an art-work.
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The NC individual tax rate changed again on January 1, 2015. This probably is not a big deal for NC withholding purposes as NC adjusts the withholding tables accordingly. It may have a small impact on your expected 2015 federal income tax for those who itemize as their state income tax deduction may be lower.
Your income and/or deductions may have changed. For example, you have a new dependent or lost a dependent. If you bought a new home, you may have a higher mortgage interest as an itemized deduction for 2015 resulting in the need for more withholding allowances to reduce your withholding to more closely match what you owe.
It is the beginning of the year so it is much easier to increase or decrease your total withholding to more closely match what you owe.
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Q: Connecting multiple constraints to a single outlet I have a bunch of objects, all equally spaced from each other. The constraints are set correctly for 3.5" screen, but for the 4" screen I want them farther apart (i.e. the distance between each object still the same, but larger).
I currently change constraints programmatically like this:
self.usernameVerticalSpace.constant = 256;

But if e.g. 8 constraints will be kept exactly the same as each other, but all increased at once, it seems like there should be a way to do that to one outlet, instead of 8 individual outlets. Is there a way to link all these constraints to one outlet, so I only have to change one value?

A: Have you heard about IBOutletCollection? When you link any object from IB to VC code, in popup window you can select IBOutletCollection Option.
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A: You can create an IBOutletCollection like this in code
@IBOutlet var constraintsCollection: [NSLayoutConstraint]!
Then click inside the small circle infront of the line just added and drag to link each constraint you want to add to the constraintsCollection one after the other in IB.

Once you have added one by one all the constraints to the Constraint Collection, it will contain all constraints like shown below

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Dr. Sue Natali is an Arctic ecologist who studies the response of Arctic ecosystems to a changing environment and the impacts of these changes, from local communities to the global carbon budget. Her research focuses on feedbacks from permafrost thaw to global climate and impacts of fire and landscape characteristics on permafrost vulnerability. Sue has been conducting fieldwork for more than a decade in remote regions of Alaska and Siberia to understand how climate-driven changes in Arctic tundra and boreal forests affect carbon and nutrient cycling and the biosphere-atmosphere exchange of greenhouse gases. Her research is currently focused on studying fire and permafrost thaw effects on carbon dioxide and methane fluxes in the Yukon Kuskokwim (YK) Delta, Alaska. Sue has also been working with climate change-impacted communities in the YK Delta to monitor the impacts of permafrost thaw to assist in community-led adaption decision-making.
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Sue places strong emphasis on communicating the impacts of climate change in the Arctic to policy makers and public audiences. She aims to ensure that carbon emissions from Arctic permafrost are included in global carbon budgets and accounted for in international climate commitments. She has been actively involved in communicating permafrost carbon research to the media (including New York Times, Washington Post, CBS This Morning) and public audiences, as well as to national and international policy makers, including briefings on Capitol Hill and at several United Nations Climate Change Conferences.
Sue earned her B.S. in Biology from Villanova University and Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolution from Stony Brook University. She is the Arctic Program Director and an Associate Scientist at the Woods Hole Research Center.


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Bulk date: 1870s
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Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies
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Abzan, Moshe Itzak, of Hamburgh
Alexander, J.W.
Banks, Edgar James, 1866-1945
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Beasley family papers
Beasley, Frederick W., 1808-1878
Extent: 0.8 linear foot (2 boxes)
The Beasley family papers are comprised largely of documents relating to three generations of Beasleys who lived in the vicinity of Philadelphia in the nineteenth century: Frederick Beasley (1777-1845), Frederick Williamson Beasley (1808-1878), and Frederick Williamson Beasley, Jr. (1845-1873). The collection includes letters, certificates, published works of the Beasleys, memorabilia from the University of Pennsylvania, guidebooks to the city of Philadelphia, and auction catalogues relating to the interests of the Beasley and Bancker families. The collection includes items with dates ranging from 1802 to 1929, with the bulk of the material falling between 1822 and 1899.
PUSp.Ms. Coll. 1217
University of Pennsylvania Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Beasley, Frederick W., 1808-1878 Bancker, Charles Nicoll, 1778-1869 Beasley, Frederick W., 1845-1873 Beasley, Frederick, 1777-1845 Episcopal Church. Diocese of Pennsylvania. University of Pennsylvania.
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Auction catalogs Certificates Correspondence Family papers Poems School records Sermons Speeches Travel guidebooks Writings (document genre)
Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies [Contact Us]
Charles and Mary Cohen Collection
Cohen, Charles J., (Charles Joseph), 1847-1927
Cohen, Mary M., 1854-1911
Extent: 4 linear feet (5 document cases)
Cohen, Charles J., (Charles Joseph), 1847-1927 Cohen, Mary M., 1854-1911
CJS.ARC MS 3
University of Pennsylvania Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies
4 linear feet (5 document cases)
1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s
Cohen, Charles J., (Charles Joseph), 1847-1927 Cohen, Mary M., 1854-1911 Morais, Sabato, 1823-1897.
Diaries Letters (correspondence) Newspaper clippings Scrapbooks
Charles Godfrey Leland letters to George Henry Boker
Leland, Charles Godfrey, 1824-1903
Extent: 0.2 linear feet (1 box)
Charles Godfrey Leland (1824-1903) was a humorist and folklorist from Philadelphia. The collection consists of fourteen illustrated letters written to George Henry Boker which document one year of Leland's trip to Europe from 1869 to 1870; transcriptions of the letters; and an article by donor and scholar Sculley Bradley about the collection.
0.2 linear feet (1 box)
Leland, Charles Godfrey, 1824-1903 Boker, George H. (George Henry), 1823-1890
Correspondence Illuminations (visual works) Sketches
Du Rouvenoz et Cie records
Du Rouvenoz et Cie.
Collection of various documents, mostly from 1830-1870, relating to a distillery located in Annecy, France.
PUSp.Ms. Coll. 514
1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s
Ledgers (account books) Recipes
G. A. Q. Miller papers
Miller, G.A.Q. (George A.Q.)
Captain George A. Q. Miller was a Civil War veteran and a special agent in the United States Post Office Department during the 1870s. This collection, consisting of correspondence, a photograph, and a scrapbook of clippings and notes documents Miller's life, his career in the postal service and as an early proponent of the Civil Service Commission, and his uncertain position within the post-Civil War federal government.
1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s
1870s 1880s 1890s
Miller, G.A.Q. (George A.Q.) United States. Post Office Department. United States. President (1869-1877 : Grant). United States. President (1877-1881 : Hayes). United States. President (1881 : Garfield).
Clippings (information artifacts) Correspondence Notes Scrapbooks
Gordon Block collection of Lincolniana
Extent: 2.5 linear feet
Gordon Alexander Block (1885-1964) was a Philadelphia lawyer and collector of Lincoln documents and memorabilia. The collection includes twenty-three documents either signed by Lincoln or in his hand including a number of pleadings and court documents from his years as a lawyer in Illinois. The collection also contains a variety of ephemera from the Civil War era, including campaign ribbons and songbooks from 1860 and 1864 as well as broadsides, ribbons, and mourning cards issued after Lincoln's assassination. In addition, researchers will find a rich selection of visual representations of Lincoln in the collection, including lithographs, prints, photographs, and engravings of the sixteenth president.
1760s 1770s 1780s 1790s 1800s 1810s 1820s 1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s
H. H. Furness Memorial Library manuscript collection
Furness Family
Extent: 10 linear feet (20 boxes and one oversized folder)
The H.H. Furness Memorial Library focuses on the study of Shakespeare and other Tudor and Stuart dramatists. Horace Howard Furness (1833-1912) and his son Horace Howard Furness Jr. (1865-1930) founded and edited the Variorum Shakespeare and their library was donated to the University of Pennsylvania in 1932. This collection contains personal correspondence to and from Rev. William Henry Furness (1802-1896), Horace Howard Furness, and Horace Howard Furness, Jr., largely relating to Shakespearean study and the H.H. Furness Memorial library; notebooks; copies of speeches and articles; and other assorted items relating to Shakespearean scholarship or to the Furness family.
10 linear feet (20 boxes and one oversized folder)
1570s 1580s 1590s 1600s 1610s 1620s 1630s 1640s 1650s 1660s 1670s 1680s 1690s 1700s 1710s 1720s 1730s 1740s 1750s 1760s 1770s 1780s 1790s 1800s 1810s 1820s 1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s
Furness Family Furness Family Furness, Horace Howard, 1833-1912 Furness, Horace Howard, 1865-1930 Furness, William Henry, 1802-1896 Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 University of Pennsylvania. Libraries.
Clippings Correspondence Essays Journals (accounts) Notebooks Photographs Poems Programs Speeches Travel journalism
John Scott collection of letters
Scott, John, 1824-1896
Extent: 0.8 linear feet (2 boxes)
John Scott (1824-1896) was an American lawyer who served as U.S. senator from Pennsylvania from 1868 to 1875. The collection consists of letters written to him by colleagues and private citizens, and several of them feature Scott's shorthand reply.
0.8 linear feet (2 boxes)
Scott, John, 1824-1896 United States. Congress.
Learned collection on German-language theater
Learned, Marion Dexter, 1857-1917
Extent: 35 boxes (+ 2 map drawers)
Comprises material relating to the production of German-language plays in Philadelphia, predominantly in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. Material includes printed and manuscript plays with annotations, which served as prompt books; manuscript scenarios; lists of props, as well as a few actual props; role books; librettos; musical scores; playbills; and selected issues of German-language theater newspapers published in Philadelphia. Also includes a catalog of the Theater-Leihbibliothek, handwritten by Theodor Bloch, owner of the lending library.
35 boxes (+ 2 map drawers)
Librettos Manuscripts, American--19th century Manuscripts, German--19th century Playbills Prompt books Scores Scripts
Miscellaneous Manuscript Collection
The Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection is a fluid one, consisting of manuscripts that are unidentified or too small for their own collection. Each sub-collection within the group is given a Miscellaneous Manuscript Number which corresponds to the collection.
ARC.MS.000
1770s 1780s 1790s 1800s 1810s 1820s 1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s
Abzan, Moshe Itzak, of Hamburgh HaCohen, Chanoch, Rabbi -- Correspondence Posnanski, Samuel Deutsch, Gotthard, 1859-1921 Benderly, Hemdah Friedenwald, Harry, 1864-1950 -- Correspondence Krauskopf, Joseph, 1858-1923 Krauskopf, Joseph, 1858-1923 Krauskopf, Joseph, 1858-1923 Karafin, Samuel -- Archives Adler, Cyrus, 1863-1940 -- Correspondence Hoschander, Jacob, 1874-1933 -- Correspondence Schwab, Moise, 1839-1918 Zolin, Joseph Neuman, Abraham A., (Abraham Aaron), 1890- -- Correspondence Kennedy, John, Judge Adler, Cyrus, 1863-1940 -- Administration Kohut, George Alexander, 1874-1933 -- Administration Watts, Frederick, 1801-1889 -- Correspondence Wolf, Abraham Simon, 1809-1880. Harrison, George L., (George Leib), 1811-1885. Rubenstein, Frank Jay Lopez, Aaron, 1731-1782 -- Administration Cohen, Joshua I., 1801-1870 Montgomery, James A., (James Alan), 1866-1949. Gordon, Cyrus Herzl, 1908-2001 -- Administration Banks, Edgar James, 1866-1945 United States--Bureau of the Census. Cummings, Byron, 1860-1954 -- History Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865. -- History Mortara, Pio, d. 1940. -- History Adler, Cyrus, 1863-1940 -- Archives Dropsie, Moses A., (Moses Aaron), 1821-1905. -- Archives Jastrow, Marcus, 1829-1903 -- Archives Morais, Sabato, 1823-1897. -- Archives Gordon, Samuel, 1871-1927.
Miscellaneous music manuscripts
Extent: 0.33 linear foot (1 box)
This is a collection of miscellaneous music material, including manuscript scores, printed scores, and printed sheet music. In addition to the music material, there is a letter and a photograph which were sent to Benedict Nenninger.
0.33 linear foot (1 box)
1810s 1820s 1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s
Clarke, Hugh Archibald, 1839-1927 Hoffmann von Fallersleben, August Heinrich, 1798-1874 Krummeich, Paul Stansfield, William Wilson, R. Jacque (Robert Jacque)
Cabinet photographs Correspondence Scores Sheet music
Richard Wilson McCredy scrapbook of Philadelphia and New York City playbills
McCredy, Richard Wilson, 1854-1924
Extent: 0.2 linear foot (1 volume)
The son of Thomas McCredy and Emma Dolores Wilson, Richard Wilson McCredy (1854-1924) was an iron merchant and alumnus of the University of Pennsylvania (Class of 1874). A gift by McCredy, this scrapbook consists of a collection of about 750 playbills and programs from Philadelphia and New York City, arranged in chronological order and pasted onto a volume of more than 200 pages.
0.2 linear foot (1 volume)
McCredy, Richard Wilson, 1854-1924 Academy of Music (Philadelphia, Pa.). Arch Street Theatre (Philadelphia, Pa.). Chestnut Street Theatre (Philadelphia, Pa.) Mask and Wig Club. McCredy, Richard Wilson, 1854-1924 Walnut Street Theatre (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Scrapbooks Theater programs
Robert H. Gere papers
Gere, Robert H., 1859-1928
Robert H. Gere (1859-1928) was a senior partner at Gere & Church law firm and an active member of the First Presbyterian Church of Syracuse, NY. He graduated from Syracuse University in 1883 with a Bachelor's degree in Philosophy and from Syracuse University Law School in 1898. Before beginning his law career, Gere spent thirteen years working as a news reporter. He married Harriet Sexsmith Gere in 1893 and together they had a daughter, Katharine. This collection contains materials dating between 1752 and 1883 and includes two diaries belonging to Robert H. Gere; a book entitled "Genealogy of the Geer Family," in which the lines of George and Thomas Geer are traced from 1621 to 1856; a single leaf from a math copybook that includes a note in pencil dating it to 1752; an oversize copy of The Luzerne Federalist; and the Susquehanna Intelligencer (a local periodical); and an unused travel accounts book.
1750s 1760s 1770s 1780s 1790s 1800s 1810s 1820s 1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s
Diaries Genealogies (histories)
Robert Montgomery Bird family correspondence
Bird, Frederic Mayer, 1838-1908
Bird, Mary E.
Bird, Robert Montgomery, 1806-1854
This collection contains correspondence between Robert Montgomery Bird, his wife Mary E. Bird, their son Frederic Mayer Bird, and other family members. It provides accounts of daily life in New Castle, Delaware and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania during the 19th century.
Bird, Frederic Mayer, 1838-1908 Bird, Mary E. Bird, Robert Montgomery, 1806-1854
1820s 1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s
Correspondence Family papers Manuscripts, American--19th century
Sabato Morais Collection
Extent: 11.5 linear feet (22 document boxes)
11.5 linear feet (22 document boxes)
Morais, Sabato, 1823-1897. Benamozegh, Elia, 1823-1900 Benedetti, Salvatore de, 1818-1891 Felsenthal, Bernhard, 1822-1908 Funaro, Angiolo, 1854- Hart, Abraham, 1810-1885 Leeser, Isaac Luzzatto, Isaia, 1836-1898 Luzzatto, Samuel David, 1800-1865 Montefiore, Moses, Sir, 1784-1885 Mortara, Marco, 1815-1894 Piperno, Avraham Barukh Veneziani, Emmanuel Felix, 1825-1889
Correspondence Manuscripts Printed ephemera
"Theatricals in Philadelphia" scrapbooks
Extent: 6 linear feet (22 volumes)
The "Theatricals in Philadelphia" scrapbooks consists of a set of 15 scrapbooks on theatrical subjects and contains programs, playbills, newspaper clippings, images, and portraits of artists of the stage, dating from the second half of the 19th century. These materials mostly relate to theaters and other performing venues located in Philadelphia, although there are also some items from New York, Boston, and other U.S. cities. Because of its extent (about 3,500 pages), its chronological and geographical focus, the richness of its materials, and the breadth of theatrical genres covered in the scrapbooks, this collection represents a unique and invaluable resource for anyone interested in the theatrical and cultural history of Philadelphia in the second half of the 19th century.
6 linear feet (22 volumes)
Arch Street Theatre (Philadelphia, Pa.). Chestnut Street Opera House (Philadelphia, Pa.) Chestnut Street Theatre (Philadelphia, Pa.) Walnut Street Theatre (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Clippings Engravings (prints) Portraits Posters Scrapbooks Theater programs
Walt Whitman collection
Extent: 4 boxes (plus one oversized item)
Materials include correspondence to, from, and concerning Walt Whitman; financial records; writings by and about Whitman; and memorabilia, such as sketches, photographs, and portraits of Whitman, his family, his friends, and his homes.
4 boxes (plus one oversized item)
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 United States. Congress. House. Committee on Invalids. Library of Congress. Copyright Office. Burroughs, John, 1837-1921 Gilchrist, Herbert Harlakenden, 1857- Kennedy, William Sloane, 1850-1929 O'Connor, William Douglass, 1832-1889 Sarrazin, Gabriel, 1853- Traubel, Horace, 1858-1919 Beach, Chester, 1881-1956 Saunders, Henry Scholey, 1864-1951 Tinker, Edward Larocque, 1881-1968 Trimble, W. H. Van Sinderen, Adrian, 1887-1963 Gardner , Alexander, 1821-1882 Gilchrist, Herbert Harlakenden, 1857- Keith, Dora Wheeler , 1856-1940 Morse, Sidney H. Davidson , Jod, 1883-1952 Hollyer, Samuel Johnson, T. Alexander, J.W.
Correspondence Photographs Writings (documents)
Wilhelm Reich Collection
Extent: 4 linear feet (8 containers)
CJS.ARC MS 19
4 linear feet (8 containers)
Correspondence Manuscripts
William Pepper papers
Pepper, William, 1843-1898
Extent: 9 volumes
The collection documents Pepper's role in expanding the University of Pennsylvania in the 19th century, his contributions to the medical profession, and his activism in Philadelphia. Primarily comprising correspondence, the collection covers Pepper's life from a student at the University of Pennsylvania to his death 54 years later.
1750s 1760s 1770s 1780s 1790s 1800s 1810s 1820s 1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s
Pepper, William, 1843-1898 University of Pennsylvania--19th century.
Correspondence Manuscripts, American--19th century
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