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Theresa Chacopulos Once Again Named Among Barron's "Top 100 Women Financial Advisors"
Theresa Chacopulos
Theresa Chacopulos, Senior Financial Advisor and Senior Vice President – Investments, at Wells Fargo Advisors, LLC, in Scottsdale, Arizona, was named to the prestigious 2013 Barron's "Top 100 Women Financial Advisors" list. Chacopulos was number 8 on the list. This is her 6th time making the list.
The list, published annually, provides readers with a comprehensive, objective look at the top women advisors as determined by the volume of assets overseen by the advisors and their teams, revenues generated for their firms and the quality of the advisors' practices. Barron's magazine is one of the industry's leading publications.
Chacopulos has consistently been recognized for her client service standards at Wells Fargo Advisors, where she's been named a "Premier Advisor." The Premier Advisor program honors those advisors who are meeting or exceeding Wells Fargo Advisors' highest standards of excellence. Earlier this year, she was also recognized as one of Barron's 2013 "Top 100 Financial Advisors*" in the country, where she was ranked the number one advisor in the state of Arizona. In 2011, she was inducted into Research Magazine's "Advisor Hall of Fame.*"
Chacopulos has been with Wells Fargo Advisors for 25 years and has 29 years of experience in the industry. She is very involved in her community, choosing to dedicate her time to the Phoenix Zoo and Autism Speaks. Her office is located at 8601 N. Scottsdale Rd. Ste. Scottsdale, AZ 85253.
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The book of Bamidbar opens with the ordering of the Israelite camp in anticipation of their journey into the wilderness.
The division according to banners, so it seems, is not merely a technical division that establishes the place of each tribe within a particular camp – that of Yehuda, Re'uven, Efrayim or Dan – but also symbolic. The banner is the symbol of each tribe, the symbol that is hoisted above it and testifies to the character and essence of that tribe.
Chassidic thought, in the footsteps of Chazal, tried to reach a more profound understanding of the issue of the banners, and provide it with a dimension that goes beyond the merely functional.
R. Kalonymus of Cracow, disciple of the Seer of Lublin, tried to focus on the tension between the unity of Israel, as expressed in: "And they set forward, and they camped, and they arrived: When they came to Mount Sinai they all camped opposite the mountain with a single heart and a single mind," and the plurality rising from "Every man of the children of Israel shall pitch by his own banner."
On the one hand, the author of the Ma'or va-Shemesh emphasizes that the people of Israel must be bound together by a strong bond, in absolute unity, and in love and fellowship. On the other hand, R. Kalonymus sees the value of the banners, in that they highlight the worth and value of each member of Israel.
Every person has a banner flying over his head, and he must be aware of his own banner, he must study it, and he must fashion his lifestyle in accordance with it.
First, the very breakdown into groups. The camp of Yehuda, the camp of Re'uven, the camp of Levi, and the camp of the priests – all these split up the people of Israel, as it were, into groups that had their own sense of identity and belonging, and created internal identification and belonging in the consciousness of every member of Israel. I am not merely an Israelite, I belong to this camp or the other.
The second relates to the position of each camp in relation to the camp of the Shekhina – the Mishkan. The division into banners creates a clear hierarchy regarding closeness to and distance from the Mishkan. Let no man break forth to God to draw close to a camp in which he does belong. The Levites guard the inheritance of God, and they too must take care not to ascend to God and break forth into the Holy.
These two ramifications, according to the author of the Ma'or va-Shemesh, are what establish man's position in space, vis-a-vis society and vis-a-vis God.
First of all, when a person is aware of his own place, when he knows his banner, he knows where to locate himself socially. "So Israel has people who know Scripture, people who know Mishna, [and] people who know Agada." The correlation between a person's area of expertise, his occupation, and his nature, on the one hand, and his banner, on the other, allows him to actualize his powers, to stimulate his surroundings, and to maintain a meaningful dialogue between himself and his neighbor.
As was stated, however, this consciousness is also relevant to a person's standing vis-a-vis God. A person should not breach the boundaries that had been set for him and try to set himself up on a level that is inappropriate for him: "And they did not try to rise in level to push themselves to be closer to the ark."
Twenty-two thousand angels bore the Shekhina on their shoulders, and exemplary order was maintained for the entire course of the revelation. Every angel knew its place and made no attempt to change it. No angel tried to see more, to draw closer, to raise itself above the rest. The secret of that success, so it would seem, lies in the very incorporation of all twenty-two thousand angels into the "chariot." At that very moment, when every angel gave up its personal apprehension and internalized the awareness of the chariot that bears the Shekhina, it also began to identify with the place and the role that it had been given in the framework of that mission.
A cymbalist playing at a concert knows that over the course of the evening he will play his instrument only two or three times. But the moment that he considers the melody and the harmony, and not his personal honor, he is happy with the role that he has been assigned, and has no desire to expand the boundaries of that role.
This understanding of the "chariot" is what bridges between the divisive banners and the overall unity. The camps and the banners do indeed divide the camp of Israel into smaller and more isolated groupings. When, however, the banner is directed toward the center, and a supreme objective stands before and hovers over all the banners, and all the banners constitute a chariot and the means to bear and elevate this supreme goal – the Mishkan that stands at the center of the camp – plurality turns into unity and division turns into variety.
This is the meaning of the aforementioned Midrash: "Another explanation: 'He brought me to the banqueting house" (Shir ha-Shirim 2:4) – when the Holy One, blessed be He, went down to Mount Sinai, twenty-two thousand myriads of angels went down with him. As it is stated, etc. And they all formed banners." This means that they each camped in their own camp under their own banner, and that not one of them moved from his perimeter even to see the glorious majesty of the greatness of the Creator, blessed be He. Rather, each one stood in its place at ease and quiet. And it trusted that God would help it see from its place that was appropriate for it. "And when Israel saw this, they began to desire banners. They said: Would that we should become banners like them." That is to say, would that this quality should be among us, that each person should recognize the place appropriate for him and not push against another person so that he may rise higher. Rather, he should trust that the Holy One, blessed be He, will help him reach and hear the service of God from his place. Thus, it says: "'And His banner [vediglo] over me was love' (Shir ha-Shirim 2:4). They said: But for Him, who extends [magdil] love to me." That is to say: But for him, if it is His will, blessed be His name, He will extend love to me, that I should love Him, blessed be His name. Even if I sit in my place, I will attain His love, blessed be His name. And if it is not the will of the Creator, blessed be His name, even if I go up to heaven I will not attain anything, from small to large.
R. Kalonymus is trying here to change the standards that guide a person who wishes to ascend the mountain of God.
The identification with the station in which a person finds himself, and the demand to remain in that place and not try to go anywhere else, is not merely a matter of giving up on one's personal achievement and accepting the task that had been cast upon him. Rather it also involves the recognition that the path to God does not depend upon the place, "that I should love Him, blessed be His name. Even if I sit in my place, I will attain His love, blessed be His name. And if it is not the will of the Creator, blessed be His name, even if I go up to heaven I will not attain anything, from small to large."
Some Jews, complains the author of the Ma'or va-Shemesh, invest all their energy and efforts in acquiring a place that gives the appearance of "being closer." Drawing closer to the rabbi, sitting in a seat that is closer to the ark of the Torah, studying in the most prestigious yeshiva, and so forth.
Closeness to God rests on mutual love; this love does not depend upon place, it being capable of bridging great distances. Recognizing that closeness to God depends upon desire and not place allows a person to invest all his resources in arousing desire and nurturing love, and not in searching for a different place from where "he can see better."
Another explanation: "He brought me to the banqueting house" (Shir ha-Shirim 2:4). When the Holy One, blessed be he, revealed Himself on Mount Sinai, twenty-two myriads of angels went down with Him. As it is stated: 'The chariots of god are twice ten thousand, twice a thousand.' And they all formed banners. As it is stated: "Distinguished among ten thousand" (Shir ha-Shirim 5:10). When Israel saw that they formed banners, they began to desire banners. They said: Would that we formed banners like them. Thus it is stated: "He brought me to the banqueting house" – this is Sinai where the Torah was given which is likened to wine: "And drink of the wine that I have mingled" (Mishlei 9:5). "To the banqueting house" – this is Sinai. "And His banner over me was love." They said: But for Him, who extends love to me. And so it says: "May we rejoice in Your salvation, etc." (Tehilim 20:6). The Holy One, blessed be He, said to them: What is your desire to form banners? By your lives, I will fulfill your desires: "Let the Lord fulfill all your desires" (Tehilim 20:6). (Bamidbar Rabba 2, 3).
"They began to desire banners," says the Midrash. The author of the Ma'or va-Shemesh explains this desire as a desire for harmonious wholeness where everybody knows his place, and everybody awaits the Divine lights from his own place, as did the angels who bore the Shekhina at Mount Sinai.
"And His banner over me was love," according to R. Kalonymus, is the recognition that I will attain God's love through my own banner, which is the banner of God and the banner raised for Him. Nobody has to change his banner, nobody has to graze in foreign fields, and nobody has to worry about his own place. God's love will rest upon us wherever we set up our banner as the instrument of that resting.
One of the main principles of the Chassidic outlook is the kabbalistic idea that "no place is void of Him." From the moment that we recognize this theological idea, we can hope for God's salvation and His love in any place.
And once again, it is this recognition that recreates unity. For the recognition that God's love and His Shekhina rest wherever God's banner is flown, is what turns the plurality of places and worlds into a single unity that receives God's light and exposes the light resting within it, uniting it with all other worlds.
The tension between "the place that the Lord will choose" and "in all places where I cause My name to be pronounced, I will come to you and I will bless you" (Shemot 20:21) is resolved through the profound recognition that "all places" can become "the place that the Lord will choose," this being "And His banner over me was love."
According to R. Kalomymus of Cracow, the banners symbolize the limitations and qualities of each individual, in the confines of which a person must remain, and from which he must strive for God and His revelation.
The disagreement between the Sefat Emet and the author of the Ma'or va-Shemesh begins with their respective interpretations of the idea of "banner." Whereas for the Ma'or va-Shemesh, the term denotes a boundary, the characterization and definition of a person which constitutes his banner, according to the Sefat Emet, the banner alludes to "supernal things in heaven."
The Sefat Emet talks about "an order of drawing close" to God, according to which the entire world runs. There are levels, and each and every person and nation merit to cleave in some manner to God, in accordance with his or its level and place. This is "mediated" cleaving, that is to say, cleaving by way of the vessels and garments that were placed in this world in order to allow everyone to touch them and through them absorb and draw light from God. This is not true about Israel, argues the Sefat Emet, who merit to cleave, as it were, to God Himself.
This idea may be clarified by way of the distinction between the various Divine names.
The well-known distinction between the various names of God, one that we have mentioned several times over the course of these lectures, is the distinction between the Tetragrammaton (Yod-He-Vav-He) and the name Elokim.
The term Elokim is descriptive, describing God as possessor of all the powers in the world. It signifies that all the forces that we encounter in the natural world are a revelation and expression of God.
The Tetragrammaton, on the other hand, is, as it were, God's personal name. It does not describe any function or role, but rather God's essence.
We can now say that God appears to the nations of the world through the name Elokim, whereas to Israel He appears through the Tetragrammaton. That is to say, God appears to the nations of the world by way of His powers and His garments, i.e., through nature and its laws. To Israel, on the other hand, He appears, as it were, without the garments of laws and nature – just He Himself, He, and not an angel, He, and not a seraph, He, and not an intermediary.
Israel's encounter with God is, as it were, an unmediated encounter. God does not turn to us indirectly, through the laws of nature, through acts, through events, but rather through prophecy, the voice of God – "Moshe speaks, and God answers Him with a voice" (Shemot 19:19).
This unmediated encounter lacks levels and stages. This may be likened to a king who sits on his throne in his palace, and his subjects pass their requests to him through agents and through the king's officers, each of his subjects in accordance with his standing. Some reach lowly clerks, some reach junior officers, and some reach the most senior officers who themselves see the king. But none of them get to see the king himself. And then all of a sudden a close friend of the king arrives, and tries to find the shortest path via which to direct his request to the king. While he is talking about the king, the king hears his voice filled with love and yearning, and opens the doors of his chamber and runs and leaps to his beloved, ignoring order, ignoring etiquette, and ignoring hierarchy.
This, asserts the Sefet Emet, is the meaning of "And His banner over me was love" – read not "His banner (diglo)," but rather "His leaping (dilugo)." The petition and yearning for banners, according to the Sefat Emet, is not a petition for order, for boundaries, for every person to recognize his place, as was understood by the Ma'or va-Shemesh, but rather the exact opposite. Israel contemplates all of Divine governance and the levels that it outlines, and they yearn for the highest levels. They are not excited about the order and the levels presented to them, but rather they wish to leap over them and see the face of the king. And God who loves those who love Him leaps toward them: "When I went out to greet You, I found you coming toward me."
Love upsets order, and therefore when there is love, there are no boundaries and no levels, no etiquette and no customary ways. When love breaks out, an intoxicating pleasure overpowers the lovers, and, like gazelles and hinds, they leap upon the mountains and skip over the hills: "He brought me to the banqueting house, and His banner over me was love" (Shir ha-Shirim 2:4). The degel (banner) turns into dilug (leaping), and the ensign, "the ensigns of their father's house," turns into light.
The book of Bamidbar which we begin to read this week opens a new period, leaving behind the glorious and splendid periods of the past. The exodus from Egypt with its miracles and signs, from the plagues to the parting of the sea. The giving of the Torah and the majesty that accompanied it, from beginning to end. And now we deal with the technical arrangement of the camps, the journeys in accordance with the order of the banners, at the center of which stands the Mishkan.
The Sefat Emet, however, turns everything upside down, arguing that whereas the exodus from Egypt and even the giving of the Torah touched only the garments - the ru'ach and the nefesh - the banners and the Mishkan standing at their center touched the neshama.
The Sefat Emet argues that the exodus from Egypt and its accompanying miracles represent the world of action, and the giving of the Torah and all that accompanied it represent the world of knowledge, or perhaps we should say the world of thought. Thus, the banners represent a world that is higher than actions and knowledge – namely the world of desire. Desire comes from man's innermost place, from his essence, and not from his garments. Knowledge and actions belong to the world of garments, but desire belongs to essence.
It is precisely in a world lacking great lights, where the natural order does not change and submit itself to Divine governance, when man and his banner stand before God, that inner yearning and love can break out, giving rise to leaping and unmediated contact. No more tablets of stone and written Torah, no more parting seas and hail and fire from heaven. Now it is time for love – the leap.
This tension between the words of the Ma'or va-Shemesh and those of the Sefat Emet does not lend itself to resolution.
What is the spiritual guidance in "Every man of the children of Israel shall pitch by his own banner, with the ensigns of their father's house"? What banner must we raise above us?
Is it our humble and self-effacing recognition of boundaries that turns us into a chariot for the Shekhina and likens us to the ministering angels? Or perhaps it is the infinite yearning to breach all boundaries and touch the Ayin that has no garments?
Do we express our love for God through our genuine and self-effacing readiness to remain in our places and accept upon ourselves the destiny and mission that God has assigned to us, even if it is void of radiance and brilliance? Or perhaps through our unrealistic yearning to leap over all boundaries and skips over mountains toward the object of our love?
Does desire become exposed by giving up on a "different place," and through the simple faith that "no place is void of Him" and "in all places where I cause My name to be pronounced, I will come to you and I will bless you"? Or perhaps by ignoring boundaries and daring to ask for God's closeness from the highest and closest point which is light-years away from our current place and level?
It seems that the essence of our lives lies in the constant movement back and forth between these two poles. We ask to climb heavenward to the Ayin and to the noble light, above all boundaries and all levels, and sometimes we even merit to taste the pleasures of the world-to-come. But then we fall back to our places, to the banner that sets a boundary. And then when we are there, we must recognize the encounter that grows out of the boundary and out of the honest and refined desire for the love of God - the aspect of "The Lord appeared to me from afar, saying, I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have remained true to you" (Yirmiyahu 31:2).
 Owing to the length of the passage, we will split it into two sections.
 Other Chassidic thinkers expounded the continuation of the verse: "Every man of the children of Israel shall pitch by his own banner, with the ensigns of their father's house" – based on the enigmatic Midrash which states: "Read not 'with the signs' (otot), but rather 'with the letters' (otiyot)." That is to say, each man in Israel has his own unique letter in God's Torah, and it falls upon him to find it and use it as a gate to God (see Ma'or Einayim, Bamidbar, of R. Menachem Nachum Twerski of Chernobyl, and Ohev Yisra'el, Bamibar, of R. Avraham Yehoshua Heschel of Apta).
 El denotes power – "It is in the power (el) of my hand to do you hurt" (Bereishit 31:29), and Elokim denotes all the powers.
 The mathematical value of the word Elokim (86) is the same as that of the word ha-teva. And here lies the delicate boundary between the recognition that nature is a revelation of God, and the heretical idea of the school of Spinoza that nature is God.
 The first to point out this distinction was R. Yehuda ha-Levi in his Kuzari (IV, 1).
 Based on Bamidbar Rabba 2, 3.
 "It seems that the Mishkan and the banners parallel the four powers of holiness. The Mishkan which has three areas distinct in their holiness - the courtyard, the Tent of Meeting, and the Holy of Holies – parallels the three powers of holiness in the Patriarchs, and the banners which constitute cleaving to their Father in heaven with strong love and extreme yearning, as it is written: 'And His banner over me was love.' And Israel desired and were very eager for the banners, as in the Midrash, paralleling the thirst for holiness, which is the quality of King David, of blessed memory" (Shem mi-Shemu'el, Bamidbar, 5676).
 Though the Sefat Emet combines thought and desire in a single category, he seems to be referring to a different kind of thought than that which represents the intellect.
 In kabbalistic thought, desire is often identified with the incomprehensible and unrealizable Ayin.


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First French edition of the biography of the great Dutch naval hero Admiral Michiel de Ruyter
BRANDT, Geeraert.
La vie de Michel de Ruiter duc, chevalier, lieutenant amiral général de Hollande & de Oüest-Frise. Où est comprise l'histoire maritime des Provinces Unies, depuis l'an 1652. jusques à 1676. Traduite du hollandois ...
Amsterdam, Pieter and Joan Blaeu for Waesberge, Boom, Van Someren and Goethals, 1698. Folio. With engraved frontispiece, full-page engraved portrait, 7 double-page engraved plates by Bastiaen Stoopendaal, and 1 full-page engraved plate by J. Mulder. Early 18th-century calf, gold-tooled board edges.
First edition in French of the standard biography of the great Dutch naval hero Admiral Michiel Adriaansz. de Ruyter (1607-1676), who scored several major victories against the French and English, the best known abroad being the Raid on Chatham, one of the worst defeats of the British Royal Navy. For the present work Brandt used numerous original documents from De Ruyter's son and other private individuals, as well as from official government sources. "This resulted in a book that was not only based on good information, but through his exalted, lucid and engaging style also became a true folk-book in the best sense of the word" (NNBW).
De Ruyter fought the English off the coast of West Africa, the Caribbean, temporarily took St John's, New Foundland, and even considered retaking New York.
With armorial bookplate and manuscripts notes on pastedown. In very good condition, slightly browned and stained at places. Spine chafed and slightly damaged at the foot. An important life of Michiel de Ruyter.
Alden & Landis 698/27; Cat. NHSM, p. 844; Sabin 7406; for the author: NNBW VI, cols. 184-187.
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Rapper Diggy performs as part of The Scream Tour: Next Generation-Part 2 on Sept. 7 at the Fox Theatre in Detroit.
PUBLISHED: September 5, 2012 at 10:00 a.m. | UPDATED: June 16, 2021 at 8:20 a.m.
If you detect an air of positivity from 17-year-old rapper Diggy's music, it's hardly an accident.
'I was definitely raised in a positive environment,' says Diggy, who was born Daniel Wayne Simmons III and grew up in the Queens borough of New York City as the fourth child of Joseph Simmons, aka Rev. Run of Run-DMC. Diggy did his earliest rhyming on his father's MTV reality show 'Run's House' and earlier this year released his debut album, 'Unexpected Delivery,' after three previous mixtapes.
'I just learned to be an ambitious person and somebody that just looks at the day and age that we're in right now and how kids feel influenced (by peer pressure) and lack of self esteem, so many things,' Diggy explains. 'I just want to let them know they don't have to be limited or can do what they want to do. That's the type of stuff I love to talk about and I love to give them, that encouragement through what I've done and what I've accomplished thus far.'
That includes hit singles such as 'Copy, Paste,' 'Do It Like You' and the new '4 Letter Word,' as well as a starring role playing a blogger in a forthcoming BET series. Some, of course, may see Diggy as bred for such success, but he says he pursued his entertainment career on his own, independent of his famous bloodline.
'He's supportive just as a dad, and happy for me,' Diggy explains. 'I didn't want him to be the reason why I got to where I am. I wanted everything to be genuine from the people who I surrounded myself with as a team. I wanted it to be people who all genuinely believed in me.
'That's how I wanted it to all come about, so I'm happy with the way it did.'
The Scream Tour: Next Generation-Part 2, featuring Diggy, OMG, Girlz and Jawan Harris, plays at 7 p.m. Sept. 7 at the Fox Theatre, 2211 Woodward Ave., Detroit. Tickets are $39.50 and $29.50. Call 313-471-6611 or visit www.olympiaentertainment.com.


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Chattel slavery
Slavery is a community -financial scheme under which assured people recognized, as slaves are destitute of personal self-determination as well as constrained to carry out industry or services. The word also refers to the category or situation of those personnel who are taken care of as the belongings of a different individual or family. This is termed to as "chattel slavery". Slaves are apprehended in opposition to their willpower from the occasion of their imprison, acquisition, or nativity, as well as are underprivileged of the precise to disappear, to turn down to labor, or to take delivery of reimbursement in response for their labor.
As such, slavery is one structure of unfree employment Even though forbidden in practically the entire countries these days slavery is still clandestinely experienced in numerous elements of the humankind. There are a projected 27 million fatalities of slavery international. Traditionally, a good number slaves family were in the beginning incarcerate in wars or abducted in out-of-the-way forced entries however a number of were put up for sale into slavery as a result of their parents as a way of current excessive circumstances. The majority of the slaves were put up with into that condition.
Prehistoric warfare over and over again consequence in slavery for criminals in addition to their relatives who were either murdered, liberated or advertised as slaves. Enslaved people were over and over again measured the belongings of those who imprisoned them and were give the impression of being upon as a accolade of conflict. More often than not they were put up for sale, negotiate or liberated. It initially may have been more compassionate than basically carried out those who would come back to brawl if they were unchained, nevertheless the consequence showed the technique to prevalent addiction of meticulous assemblage of citizens.
Those incarcerated from time to time be at variance in civilization, population, faith, or race from their enslavers, but often were the same as the captors. The dominant group in an region might take imprisoned and revolved them into slaves with modest fright of distress the like providence, nevertheless the opportunity might be nearby from reversals of affluence, as when Seneca cautions, at the summit of the Roman Empire along with when an assortment of influential countries clash amongst themselves any person may come across himself incarcerated.
The authentic quantity of force required to abduct character citizens for slaves could show the way to dependence of those safe and sound from competition, as to the position uncommon break-in or kidnap is frequently be sufficient. St. Patrick recounts in his Confession having been kidnapped by pirates, and the Biblical figure his brothers sold Joseph into slavery. The kind of job slaves did rely on the occasion stage as well as place of their slavery.
In broad-spectrum, they did the identical work as all and sundry else in the inferior stratums of the civilization they exist in however were not remunerated for it further than scope as well as plank, outfits et cetera. The most widespread category of slave employment is domestic service, agriculture, mineral extraction, army make-up, industry, and commerce. Prior to about the 18th century, domestic services were acquired in some wealthier households and may include up to four female slaves and their children on its staff.
The wealth, as they are labeled in a few countries are probable to cook, clean, every now and then transmit water as of an outside pump into the house, and grind cereal. Most employed servants to perform the identical everyday jobs. Countless slaves were utilized in cultivation and farming from prehistoric times to a propos 1860. The physically powerful, youthful men and women were from time to time required to labor extended days in the grounds, with modest or no shatters for water or food.
In view of the fact that slaves were more often than not well thought-out expensive assets, they were more often than not well taken heed of in the sagacity that plainly sufficient food as well as protection were presented to continue first-class health, furthermore that the workload was not unwarranted to the position of cause danger to physical condition. On the other hand, this was not constantly the case in numerous countries where they labor on ground that was having possession of by truant possessors.
The administrators in many of these areas factually labored the slaves to demise. Frederick Douglass was born in February 1818 and raised on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. He was given a name Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey. His mother, Harriet Bailey, was a slave on a cultivated area in Tuckahoe, Maryland. Douglass as well as his mother fit in to Aaron Anthony who was the cultivated area administrator furthermore almost certainly his father. He did not have much way to get in touch all the way through his mother who was take into service out to a bordering cultivated area.
She was merely clever to stay on a hardly any occurrences for the reason that the twelve-mile expedition was too far-flung to pass through on a customary basis. As a youthful boy, Douglass survived in the company of his grandparents pending until he was six. He was then propelled to survive on the Lloyd Plantation, where he settled awaiting the time he was threw to Baltimore when he was eight years old. In Baltimore, he subsists in the company of Hugh and Sophia Auld. At his new-fangled residence, Sophia Auld commenced to educate him to comprehend. On the other hand, as soon as her spouse established out he inhibit it, and she stopped up.
Notwithstanding this delay, Douglass had a disclosure concerning slavery when he eavesdrop Hugh Auld give explanation to his spouse with reference to why she be supposed to not educate him to read. Auld gave clarification that, "if you teach that nigger how to read, there would be no maintenance for him" and he would "turn out to be uncontrollable, and have no worth to his master. " According to Douglass: "I now understood what had been to me a most perplexing difficulty — to wit, the white man's power to enslave the black man…. From that moment, I understood the pathway from slavery to freedom.
" Douglass realized that there was power in learning to read. The Constitution of the United States leaves a lot of questions to human kind. What is it? Who made it? For whom and for what was it made? Is it from heaven or from men? How, and in what light are we to understand it? If it be divine, divine light must be our means of understanding it; if human, humanity, with all its vice and crimes, as well as its virtues, must help us to a proper understanding of it. All endeavors to put in plain words it in the light of paradise are obliged to be unsuccessful.
It is human, as well as ought to be put in plain words in the luminosity of those aphorism as well as philosophy which individuals have placed down as guides to the appreciative of all printed mechanism, agreement, indenture and agreement, originating from individual creatures, over and above to which are festivities, in cooperation on the primary and the subsequent part. It is in such a light that we propose to examine the Constitution; and in this light we hold it to be a most cunningly devised and wicked compact, demanding the most constant and earnest efforts of the friends of righteous freedom for its complete overthrow.
Slavery lived prior to the Constitution, in the extremely States by whom it was ready and implemented. Slaveholders captured an outsized share in assembling it. It was prepared in inspection of the reality of slavery, as well as in a mode well considered to support and reinforced that heaven-daring felony.
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Equity Inches Closer to Acquiring DRC Bank
NAIROBI, 19TH NOVEMBER 2019: Equity Group Holdings, (EGH) has entered into a share purchase agreement with George Arthur Forrest, to purchase 66.53% of the shares held by Mr. Forrest in Banque Commercial du Congo (BCDC), a public limited company (Société Anonyme – S.A.) licensed by the Banque Central du Congo in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
Following the completion of the transaction, the BCDC business will eventually be amalgamated with that of EGH's existing banking subsidiary in DRC, Equity Bank Congo S.A. (EBC). The Agreement is subject to regulatory approvals from amongst others, the Central Bank of Kenya, Banque Centrale du Congo, the COMESA Competition Commission and the board approvals of BCDC and EGH.
The Agreement specifies that EGH will pay a cash consideration of US Dollars one hundred and five million (USD 105 million) for the 625,354 shares to be purchased inclusive of dividends declared after 1st January 2019 in respect of the financial year ending on 31 December 2019 i.e. a cum-dividend price per share of USD 167.9 per share.
EGH also proposes to increase its shareholding in EBC. In this regard, EGH shareholders approved the purchase by EGH of the shares held by KfW comprising 7.6% of the issued share capital of EBC following the exercise of a put option granted to KfW under a Shareholders Agreement relating to EBC, entered into between among others EGH and KfW. The proposed acquisition of the shares held by KfW is also subject to the approval of Banque Centrale du Congo.
Equity Group Holdings Plc CEO and Managing Director, Dr. James Mwangi said this is an opportunity for the Group to take further steps towards the delivery of its vision of building sub-Saharan Africa's premier financial institution through delivering innovative products and services to customers, including, in particular, the effective use of technology.
By acquiring BCDC and the KfW stake in EBC, EGH will expand its footprint in DRC. The Group aims to provide access to competitive, tailored financial services to transform people's lives and livelihoods, expand opportunities for wealth creation whilst also delivering significant value to its stakeholders.
Mr. George Arthur FORREST is happy to conclude the transaction with EGH knowing that his legacy is in the hands of the fastest developing Bank in Sub-Saharan Africa, already present in DRC, with the aspiration and capacity to develop and grow the offerings and financing of BCDC.
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Not surprisingly, the groups in the highest and lowest income beackets show the least time spent at home on parental leave.
The way parental leave in Sweden has been measured has been faulty, according to the inspection for Socialförsäkringen (the social insurance), because parents are often at home more than the number of parental days. Many parents take fewer than seven days a week and when they take time off they do so in turns, but statistics measure only days with parental benefits. ISF (Inspektionen för Socialförsäkringen) has now tried to measure exactly how long parents stay home. One estimate is that women on an average stay home a total of 77 weeks (spread over several periods of a child's first eight years), while men who take parental leave, stay home an average of 25 weeks. The time parents stay home with their children has increased since the 1990s; it is the mothers who take out the most unpaid leave, according to ISF.
The report shows great differences in how long different groups stay at home. Those with highest and lowest incomes spend the least amount of time at home, while college-educated parents as well as parents with medium income are home the most.
The way ISF measures this in their report is by "parental leave episode," which is defined by periods when there are "no more than six days without parental benefit in between days with parental benefits" until the child turns 8. Försäkringskassan (the Swedish Social Insurance Agency) notes that the report from ISF shows that the insurance "seems to create different conditions for parental leaves for high- and-low-income workers" and that it "makes for an important piece in the puzzle of trying to understand the relation between the use of parental leave and how long parents are in fact at home with their children." Försäkringskassan will now embark on a bigger study, which will give a better picture of how the parental insurance functions in real life. That study will be published in December.
Swedish parents are home with their kids much more than initially thought, and (probably no surprise here) moms take out more parental days than dads.


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As an entrepreneur and design engineer Mark has launched Blushield from design concepts to actual products that work. Mark has dedicated his life to protecting mankind from EMF and continues to work evolving the products and getting them out to the masses. He has launched Blushield in over 12 countries in the past couple of years and is rolling out many more.
Mark Langdon is the founder and co-developer of Blushield Global, an EMF protection device company.
An EMF is shorthand for an electromagnetic field which, in our highly tech-centered world, are emitted from all wireless devices, from cell phone towers to computers and everything in between. Mark is extremely sensitive to the frequencies emitted, giving him a leg up in designing products that actually work at blocking EMFs.
It's important to block the EMFs because different levels of exposure can negatively affect our body, causing symptoms like headaches, vertigo, heart palpitations, and sleeplessness (just to name a few). Using things like the Blushield Cube in my car has been life changing for travel around LA, and I take it with me even if I'm away for just a night.
Blushield has done compelling research showing the effects of their products on livestock, with results showing higher milk quality in dairy cows due to lower somatic cell counts, which is directly related to less stress on the body. In another study, Blushield was used in a trial to determine how the Blushield would affect egg-laying chickens in an egg farm, and the results were incredible: larger eggs, extender longevity, and less stress on the chickens.
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Took things very easy this morning, and laid out on the beach. The water was a bit warmer in the morning so I finally went in and swam a little. Very happy to have finally dipped in the Gulf. Water was very calm and clean.
Around lunchtime I checked out and moved into the Grand Hyatt in Bur Dubai. The hotel is indeed grand, with an attached convention center and residences. It has a massive lobby, with a man made garden inside and 4 dhows hanging from the ceiling, in addition to a gigantic chandelier. Outside there is a large waterfall coming down over the main entrance. The pool and garden area is also very large, making it a nice place to stroll around. They have a number of peacocks on the grounds as well as plenty of birds flying around the garden. It's very nice for a business hotel.
Quick lunch at Awtar, the Arabic restaurant in the Grand Hyatt. Sampled a few mezzes only without mains. The fattoush was a bit on the acidic side for my liking, but the spinach and onion pockets were nice, while the scrambled eggs with mutton and pine nuts were interesting. I ordered Turkish coffee, and I am poured two cups of concentrated stuff with all the coffee grinds inside, filling ¼ of the small cup. Rings form around the inside of the cup as I drink slowly, but alas no one is here to tell my fortune.
The rest of the day is spent exploring the city. I spent a little time at Dubai Museum, built out of the historic Al Fahidi Fort where Dubai's rulers used to live. It's a bit Disney-esque with figurines showing various aspects of life in traditional society. The textile souk is uninteresting as it's just a collection of textile traders selling cloth in bulk. I make my way to the jetty to take an abra across Dubai Creek to the Deira side. Not realizing that there are several routes, I end up at the Sabhka Station, a little farther from the old souk.
I make my way through the maze of streets that is the Deira Covered Souk, and eventually find my way to the gold souk. Some of the stuff is just amazing…no one in our society would ever dream of wearing this much gold, but these items are prominently displayed in the shop windows. I think these days the Chinese's love of gold is far surpassed by those of the Indians and the Arabs.
I find the spice souk just a block away from the Deira Old Souk Station, and walk through some of the shops selling all types of spice. As I was snapping away, one of the shop keepers asks for me to take pictures of him. I ended up taking a picture with Abdolla, and I guess I'll try to send him a couple of prints when I am back in HK.
I grab a quick bite of falafel and chicken shwarma with cheese for dinner.


Multiple ways of monetizing a website aren't hidden from anyone. Gaining grounds in the web world is affiliate marketing which is open for both, novice as well as established online marketers. If you are a WordPress user and website monetization has been on your mind lately, then transforming your site into an affiliate store is something you should head on to.
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This post speaks about the variety of affiliate websites which can be created using WordPress. I'll also make you familiar with the different methods utilized for the same along with key reasons supporting the use of WordPress for building an affiliate site.
These are the online portals which collect the customer's name, contact details and location, enabling him/her to make a purchase using the chosen coupon. Clicking on a particular coupon code takes the customer to a new page which displays the coupon cost, size of discount and saving and the date/time when the coupon expires.
These are the sites which contain a master product along with a list of other e-stores which are offering the same product at different prices. Such sites allow customers to get a clearer idea about the price variations available for a specific product.
Reviews play a vital role in determining the sales of a product. Review sites are the ones which contain reviews for different products provided by global customers. Within these reviews, there are links of other websites which are offering the reviewed product at different prices.
Why choose WordPress for building affiliate websites?
As compared to other website development software programs, WordPress doesn't involve a lot of coding. You can opt for WordPress themes which enable you to design your site in an easy way. It's quick and simple to integrate adverts.
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Developing your affiliate website with WordPress won't give it jitters in case you tend to face any issues at a later point of time. There are WordPress support forums where you'll find thousands of designers, developers and experts ready to help you out with resolving the issue(s) immediately.
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This is an easy-to-install WordPress coupon plugin which allows you to create new coupons in addition to managing the existing ones. The best thing about this plugin is that it can be used with any WordPress theme.
JC Coupon is a plugin which once installed in your WordPress site will allow you to create coupons using a simple administration page, followed by adding them into your posts or pages with the help of certain shortcodes.
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Only thing I modified "CONFIG_STANDALONE_LOAD_ADDR" to 0x10000000 in arch/arm/config.mk file.
Can anyone help me to come out from this issue.
Here I am attaching the LOG.
is not compiled at 0x10000000 address. So at this address is located wrong instruction.
In uboot one can read data at that address and compare it with linker listing file.
By referring some threads I have modified "CONFIG_STANDALONE_LOAD_ADDR" to 0x10000000 in u-boot root folder/Arch/arc/config.mk file & u-boot root folder/include/configs/mx6_common.h files. As per my understanding the standalone example make file will consider the above define only. I also cross checked the address by looking at Hex file(hello_world.srec) generated along with hello_world binary file(hello_world.bin).
since one week I stuck with this issue , Can you please help me to come out from this issue, Where should I modify standalone load address, or Is there any step i am missing.


This tutorials covers 3 methods of extracting an object from the background: the easiest (and least precise) using the Extract Filter, Polygonal Lasso Tool which is not hard to use and gives good results, and Quick Mask which takes a bit more time, but gives the best edge smoothing.
Go to Filter > Extract.... This will open a small window. Notice that your pointer is a rounded brush. You will use the brush to outline the object. Hold Ctrl key (this will snap your moves to edges) and draw a line along the edge of the object. You can change the brush size (on the right of the panel). If you accidentally painted over the object, use the Eraser to erase the green color from those areas.
When you've outlined the object with a thick green line, use the Paint Bucket and fill the object. It will be in blue hue now.
Click OK. Here's the result.
This method is about cutting unwanted parts from your image. Choose the Polygonal Lasso and click along the edge of the object. You can zoom in to make your selection more precise.
You don't have to select the whole object. Divide your work in smaller parts, because you might make a bad move and if you're selecting the whole object at once, you'll have to cancel your selection and start over. When you think you have a precise enough selection of some part, click somewhere away from the edge and proceed with selection along the rectangular edge of your image, until you have some deformed rectangular area selected. Press delete.
Repeat this step for the rest of the image. This is what I get.
Take the Lasso (or Polygonal Lasso) Tool and make a rough selection around your image.
Now press Q to enter Quick Mask mode. The background will be colored red, and your object will be visible. Now take the brush tool, set the color to black and paint around the edges of your object, to fill the background area you missed to select.
By painting over the image, you're forming a selection. If you painted over the object, use the white color to "delete" the red from those areas. Black color substracts from selection, and white adds to selection. Remember, the area you see clear is selected, and red area is deselected.
Change the brush size to smaller when working around more detailed areas.
When you're done, press Q to exit the Quick Mask mode. You can now see the object is selected. Cut the object and paste it onto a new image. You're done.


I don't always wake up early on a winter morning; however, when I do, it's definitely for a winter portrait session at the Jefferson Memorial. I met Kristen & Dave through A. Griffin Events last year before their fall wedding at River Creek Club. After getting married they moved to Florida to follow Dave's career, but knew they wanted to commemorate this time in their lives here in Washington DC with sunrise portraits at the Jefferson Memorial. Winter can be quite cold here in Washington DC, but this particular morning was a balmy 50F, perfectly calm, and had a glorious sunrise over the back of the Jefferson Memorial.
Sunrise is by far the best time to be at any of the memorials or the tidal basin in general; however, on this particular morning, we had the entire Jefferson Memorial all to ourselves! Just us and Mr. Jefferson himself. Finding creative ways to use the space that would be more challenging on a day with lots of tourists was fun and the results truly stunning.
The sun was out, but the dew was heavy on this particular morning. Dewdrops hung like jewels on the cherry trees that line the Tidal Basin.
The water on the floor of the Jefferson Memorial was still and acted like a mirror reflecting light and creating reflections of both Kristen & Dave.


Following Muammar Gaddafi's threats to "show no mercy" as his forces advanced towards Benghazi, the UN Security Council passed resolution 1973, imposing a no-fly zone over Libya and authorizing "all necessary measures" to protect civilians. This was followed by a statement from President Barack Obama a few moments ago in which he explicitly spelled out the international community's ultimatum to Gaddafi: cease your advance towards Benghazi and stop using force against civilians, or face military action.
President Obama kicked off his speech by saying that Gaddafi had "lost the confidence" of his own people and the legitimacy to lead, noting that he has chosen large scale repression and violence against his people in an effort to stay in power. Obama said that there was every reason to believe that, left unchecked, Gaddafi would commit atrocities in Benghazi; creating a humanitarian crisis, overrunning the spirit of democracy, and destabilizing the region.
It was under these ominous prospects and the "potential for mass murder" that the international community, including the US, UK, France, and the Arab League, imposed strong punitive measures through the UNSC and, in the words of President Obama, presented Gaddafi with a "choice" to meet conditions that are "not negotiable" or face military strikes. Seemingly believing that Gaddafi can only stay in power through the use of large scale violence, and by forcibly revoking his ability to employ such violence, the US and the international community are further pressuring Gaddafi to let go of the reigns of power and allow the wave of change sweeping the region to continue. "This is just one more chapter in the change unfolding across the Middle East and North Africa," he said.
Obama noted that the US will not deploy ground troops in Libya, but would contribute "unique capabilities" to help stop the violence if military action became necessary. Gaddafi is unlikely to challenge the international community directly, but is also unlikely to simply give up his reign over Libya. This leaves him with very little space in the middle to figure out how he can stay in power.
I want to be clear: The change will not and cannot be imposed by the United States or any foreign power. Ultimately, it will be driven by the people of the Arab world. It is their right, and their responsibility, to determine their own destiny.
With such backing from the international community, the Libyan people may now be finally empowered to rid themselves of 42 years of Gaddafi's hold on power.
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Hind Yousef: Calm in the Storm
Written by Sonia Lowman, Senior Communications Specialist
Hind Yousef laughs heartily as she recounts using her degree in clinical psychology to diagnose herself with a "Type A personality." She identifies with people who need a lot of structure and organization–yet she strikes me as someone who is immensely comfortable with chaos. After all, she works in Jordan providing mental health care to Syrian refugees fleeing this century's bloodiest, most brutal war.
Born in Jordan but raised in Texas, Hind returned to her home country a year and a half ago and began working with International Medical Corps as a Mental Health Psychologist. She fell in love with psychology in an introductory class at the University of Texas after noticing the profound effect it had on her own life. Before psychology, she says, she did not know how to "monitor herself." Then she started using the breathing exercises and relaxation techniques she learned in class, and found that they calmed her when she felt upset—which in turn calmed those around her. "I found this ripple effect very interesting," she says, and I picture her calm amidst what I can only imagine is persistent calamity.
Through her work with International Medical Corps, Hind treats vulnerable Jordanians as well as refugees from Syria, Iraq, West Bank and Gaza, Yemen and Sudan. The job suits her, she says, as she has always had "the patience of listening to people" and "loves to help." But her real gift, I believe, lies in her empathy.
Clients often come to Hind overwhelmed by emotional distress and silenced by their inability to cope. Hind highlights the importance of developing a strong therapeutic relationship built on a foundation of trust and uses role-play exercises to build confidence and communication. The process empowers her clients as it humbles Hind, allowing her to better empathize with their experiences, which she says requires "being mindful and using your imagination."
Many of the refugees with whom Hind works have endured or witnessed extreme violence. They have all been torn from their homes and separated from loved ones. Their symptoms manifest physically—in their racing hearts, sweating palms, loud voices—but Hind is a healer of intangible fear and trauma. How do you heal a wound you can't see? I wonder. For Hind, this means moving through her clients' fear with them.
Makani Center in Mafraq, Jordan. Syrian refugee kids stage a drama about stress & abuse resulting from the war and displacement.
She uses cognitive-behavioral techniques in combination with breathing exercises to help her clients heal emotionally and rewire cognitively, over time replacing negative memories with positive imagery. Sometimes she takes them to a beautiful beach in their minds and watches their bodies relax, their hands tracing the imaginary sand beneath them. Although her refugee clients are a long way from a beach vacation, their resilience remains intimately linked to their emotional landscape. As Hind reminds me, "It all starts with the brain. If the thoughts are not healthy, then you are not healthy."
I think about how fear can root in us like a disease–we all experience it in our own ways—and how we must confront what haunts us to find peace on the other side of it. Hind has had to find equilibrium within herself to withstand the storm of emotions moving through her clients. Typically, her Type A personality keeps her mentally strong and disciplined, but other times she finds her heart "pierced" and must take refuge in a bathroom stall for a few moments. Then she takes a few deep breaths, counts to 10 and goes calmly back out into the world to continue healing others.
About International Medical Corps Jordan Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Program:
Hind Yousef is a Mental Health Psychologist in International Medical Corps' Jordan program, which aims to strengthen mental health care services for refugees and vulnerable Jordanians by integrating mental health into primary health care services. As a part of the STRENGTHS global project to implement and test the effectiveness of a scalable psychological intervention, Hind has been trained in the World Health Organization's Problem Management Plus.
Learn more about International Medical Corps' mental health and psychosocial services (MHPSS) within complex emergencies here.
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WorldCat homepage as of June 2019
Network of library content and services
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Online Computer Library Center
www.worldcat.org
3,433 (February 2019 [update] ) [2]
Optional, but some features require registration (such as writing reviews and making lists or bibliographies)
January 21, 1998;21 years ago (1998-01-21) [3]
OCLC number
WorldCat is a union catalog that itemizes the collections of 17,900 libraries in 123 countries and territories [4] that participate in the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) global cooperative. It is operated by OCLC, Inc. [5] The subscribing member libraries collectively maintain WorldCat's database, the world's largest bibliographic database. [6] OCLC makes WorldCat itself available free to libraries, but the catalog is the foundation for other subscription OCLC services (such as resource sharing and collection management). WorldCat is used by the general public and by librarians for cataloging and research.
OCLC was founded in 1967 under the leadership of Fred Kilgour. [7] That same year, OCLC began to develop the union catalog technology that would later evolve into WorldCat; the first catalog records were added in 1971. [7] [8]
In 2003, OCLC began the "Open WorldCat" pilot program, making abbreviated records from a subset of WorldCat available to partner web sites and booksellers, to increase the accessibility of its subscribing member libraries' collections. [9] [10]
In October 2005, the OCLC technical staff began a wiki project, WikiD, allowing readers to add commentary and structured-field information associated with any WorldCat record. [11] WikiD was later phased out, although WorldCat later incorporated user-generated content in other ways. [12] [13]
In 2006, it became possible for anyone to search WorldCat directly at its open website, [14] not only through the subscription FirstSearch interface where it had been available on the web to subscribing libraries for more than a decade before. [15] Options for more sophisticated searches of WorldCat have remained available through the FirstSearch interface. [14]
In 2007, WorldCat Identities began providing pages for 20 million "identities", which are metadata about names—predominantly authors and persons who are the subjects of published titles. [16]
As of May 2019, WorldCat contained over 450 million bibliographic records in 484 languages, representing over 2.8 billion physical and digital library assets, [5] and the WorldCat persons dataset (mined from WorldCat) included over 100 million people. [17]
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WorldCat contains records in MAchine Readable Cataloging (MARC) format contributed by library catalogers worldwide who use OCLC as a cataloging tool, and these MARC format records can also be downloaded into other libraries' local catalog systems. This allows libraries to find and download records for materials they are adding to their local catalog, without having to undergo the lengthy process of creating a new catalog entry from scratch for each new item.
WorldCat operates on a batch processing model rather than a real-time model. That is, WorldCat records are synchronized at intermittent intervals with the underlying library catalogs instead of real-time or every day. Consequently:
WorldCat shows that a particular item is owned by a particular library but does not provide that library's call number.
WorldCat does not indicate whether an item is currently borrowed, lost, undergoing restoration or repair, or moved to storage not directly accessible to patrons (thereby forcing interested patrons to submit a retrieval request and wait).
Furthermore, WorldCat does not show whether a library owns multiple copies of a particular title.
As an alternative, WorldCat allows participating institutions to add direct links from WorldCat to their own catalog entries for a particular item, which enables the user to determine its real-time status. [18] However, this still requires users to open multiple Web pages, each pointing to a different online public access catalog with its own distinctive user interface design (which places item status in a different portion of the Web browser display), until they can locate a catalog entry that shows the item is currently available at a particular library.
Library contributions to WorldCat are made via the Connexion computer program, which was introduced in 2001; its predecessor, OCLC Passport, was phased out in May 2005. [19]
Faceted Application of Subject Terminology (FAST)
Research Libraries UK
The reference desk or information desk of a library is a public service counter where professional librarians provide library users with direction to library materials, advice on library collections and services, and expertise on multiple kinds of information from multiple sources.
Interlibrary loan is a service whereby a patron of one library can borrow books, DVDs, music, etc. and/or receive photocopies of documents that are owned by another library. The user makes a request with their home library; which, acting as an intermediary, identifies libraries with the desired item, places the request, receives the item, makes it available to the user, as well as arranges for its return. The lending library usually sets a due date and overdue fees of the material borrowed. Although books and journal articles are the most frequently requested items, some libraries will lend audio recordings, video recordings, maps, sheet music, and microforms of all kinds. In some cases, nominal fees accompany the interlibrary loan services.
A library catalog is a register of all bibliographic items found in a library or group of libraries, such as a network of libraries at several locations. A bibliographic item can be any information entity that is considered library material, or a group of library materials, or linked from the catalog as far as it is relevant to the catalog and to the users (patrons) of the library.
An online public access catalog is an online database of materials held by a library or group of libraries. Users search in library catalog principally to locate books and other material available at a library. In simple language it is an electronic version of the card catalog. OPAC is the gateway to library's collection.
OCLC, Inc., doing business as OCLC, is an American nonprofit cooperative organization "dedicated to the public purposes of furthering access to the world's information and reducing information costs". It was founded in 1967 as the Ohio College Library Center, then became the Online Computer Library Center as it expanded. In 2017, the name was formally changed to OCLC, Inc. OCLC and its member libraries cooperatively produce and maintain WorldCat, the largest online public access catalog (OPAC) in the world. OCLC is funded mainly by the fees that libraries have to pay for its services. OCLC also maintains the Dewey Decimal Classification system.
Webs, formerly Freewebs, is a freemium, primarily static site-only web host founded in 2001. The service offers free and premium website hosting plans, and their own templated website building service. Unusually, Webs does not offer any dynamic content support aside from their own dynamic "apps", despite offering FTP access and allowing HTML uploads.
The Research Libraries Group (RLG) was a U.S.-based library consortium that existed from 1974 until its merger with the OCLC library consortium in 2006. RLG developed the Eureka interlibrary search engine, the RedLightGreen database of bibliographic descriptions, and ArchiveGrid, a database containing descriptions of archival collections. It also developed a framework known as the "RLG Conspectus" for evaluating research library collections, which evolved into a set of descriptors used in library collection policy statements, last updated in 1997. The Library of Congress used the conspectus in 2015 in the revision of its own collection policy statement, and decided to retain this resource on its website, as a helpful scale for judging an academic collection's depth.
Open Library is an online project intended to create "one web page for every book ever published". Created by Aaron Swartz, Brewster Kahle, Alexis Rossi, Anand Chitipothu, and Rebecca Malamud, Open Library is a project of the Internet Archive, a nonprofit organization. It has been funded in part by grants from the California State Library and the Kahle/Austin Foundation. Open Library provides online access to many public domain and out-of-print books.
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to library science:
ArchiveGrid is a collection of over five million archival material descriptions, including MARC records from WorldCat and finding aids harvested from the web. It contains archival collections held by thousands of libraries, museums, historical societies, and archives. Contribution to the system is available to any institution. Most of the contributions are from United States based institutions, but many other countries are represented, including Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom. ArchiveGrid is associated with OCLC Research and helps to advance their goals of making archival collections and materials easier to find. ArchiveGrid is described as "the ultimate destination for searching through family histories, political papers, and historical records held in archives around the world."
WHOIS is a query and response protocol that is widely used for querying databases that store the registered users or assignees of an Internet resource, such as a domain name, an IP address block or an autonomous system, but is also used for a wider range of other information. The protocol stores and delivers database content in a human-readable format. The current iteration of the WHOIS protocol was drafted by the Internet Society, and is documented in RFC 3912.
Frederick "Fred" Gridley Kilgour was an American librarian and educator known as the founding director of OCLC, an international computer library network and database. He was its president and executive director from 1967 to 1980.
Library technical services are the ongoing maintenance activities of a library's collection, including the three broad areas of collection development, cataloging, and processing. Technical services are the infrastructure that enable the user's experience of many library services.
A union catalog is a combined library catalog describing the collections of a number of libraries. Union catalogs have been created in a range of media, including book format, microform, cards and more recently, networked electronic databases. Print union catalogs are typically arranged by title, author or subject ; electronic versions typically support keyword and Boolean queries.
Zotero is a free and open-source reference management software to manage bibliographic data and related research materials. Notable features include web browser integration, online syncing, generation of in-text citations, footnotes, and bibliographies, as well as integration with the word processors Microsoft Word, LibreOffice Writer, and Google Docs. It is produced by the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University.
Evergreen is an open source Integrated Library System (ILS), initially developed by the Georgia Public Library Service for Public Information Network for Electronic Services (PINES), a statewide resource-sharing consortium with over 270 member libraries.
Faceted search is a technique which involves augmenting traditional search techniques with a faceted navigation system, allowing users to narrow down search results by applying multiple filters based on faceted classification of the items. A faceted classification system classifies each information element along multiple explicit dimensions, called facets, enabling the classifications to be accessed and ordered in multiple ways rather than in a single, pre-determined, taxonomic order.
LibX is a free, open-source scholars' extension for the Internet Explorer browser that lets people use services offered by their library. Users can search their library catalog(s) and databases through a search bar or through a context menu. The context menu is adaptive and configurable. LibX supports the catalogs of all major vendors. In addition, any resource that can be searched using an http GET request can be included, similar to Firefox's smart keywords.
EZproxy is a web proxy server used by libraries to give access from outside the library's computer network to restricted-access websites that authenticate users by IP address. This allows library patrons at home or elsewhere to log in through their library's EZproxy server and gain access to resources to which their library subscribes, such as bibliographic databases.
Discovery layer is a term for software used to search libraries. A library's discovery layer includes a search box that library users can type queries into, similar to a web search engine. In library science, this searching is called discovery. The results from discovery may include books and other print materials from the library's catalog, electronic resources such as e-journals or videos, and items stored in other libraries. The word "layer" indicates that the software is modular — it is front-end software, separable from an integrated library system (ILS).
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