Circulation tasks—checking out, checking in, holds, transits, etc.—are handled in a few places in Library. This article covers the different sections of Populi and how to use them to complete some common workflows.
When you check out resources, you are loaning them to a patron; the resources are leaving your library system.
Go to the Check Out view.
Click the gray ...scan... bar to put the Check Out view in scanning mode. Use your barcode scanner to scan the barcode on the patron's Populi-generated ID card, and then scan the barcodes on the resources he's checking out. All things considered, this is the more accurate method: you can only scan items that are physically present!
Use the respective search fields to find the patron and resources. All things considered, there's more opportunity for mistakes with this method: you might select the wrong items or patron!
Review any resource warnings that come up (unavailable, etc.) and click Remove to take those resources off the list. You cannot complete the checkout until such resources have been removed!
When you're ready, click Complete Checkout.
If the patron wants a receipt, you'll see a link to print one after you complete the checkout.
When you check in resources, you are recording that they have arrived at your current library. Use Check in to record when a patron returns loaned resources or a resource arrives from another library (whether because of an inter-library loan or a change of home location).
Select the library at which these resources are being checked in. Don't forget to do this!
Scan the resources you're checking in. Again, this is the most accurate method—you can only scan what's physically-present! If need be, you can also use the search to find the resources you're checking in.
If needed, you can leave notes on the checked-in resources.
Review the action items—you might need to reshelve the item, send it to another library, or prepare it for a patron who has placed a hold on it.
Here's how to handle the movement of resources amongst your libraries.
1. Start at the Pull List: Transits (including inter-library loans) begin at the Pull List. When a patron places a hold on a copy or library staff changes the home location of a copy, it goes to the Pull List.
Select a library from the drop-down.
Scan the resources you've pulled or check the box next to the call number. This changes the copy's status to Awaiting Transit.
2. Go to Circulation > Transits: As you scan Resources from the Pull List, they move over to the Transits report in Circulation.
Use the drop-downs to see copies that are scheduled to depart or arrive at a particular library location.
When you're ready to send them out the door, scan the departing copies (or click mark departed). You'll see these when you select Currently in transit (as well as Scheduled to arrive at).
3. Check in arriving resources at the destination library: As soon as they're checked in, they're available for checkout (loan policies permitting) from this library by your patrons.
The Circulation view includes a group of reports and tools which help you keep an eye on your resources and make sure they're where they need to be.
Active Loans: Shows all resources currently checked out to patrons.
Transits: Shows resources awaiting transit or in transit.
Holds: Shows resources placed on hold. Select from the three hold statuses and any Library locations to see what's going on at each Library. Cancel a hold by clicking .
Expired Holds: Shows the expired and cancelled holds at each Library. Scan them as you reshelve them to make them available to your patrons.
Reporting: A number of circulation-related reports from different perspectives.
Enter start and end dates in the time period, then select how you'd like to see the information display (By loan, By patron, etc.).
Click Export XLS to create a spreadsheet of the report.


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"Welcome, welcome, welcome!" Ron Pioquinto puts a lot of emphasis on being visible to the residents of 5-09 48th Ave. in Long Island City. With a smile that big, it's not hard. It also helps to live in the building.
"People like to see your presence in your building," he says. "As they're walking by they're saying 'hey, I have an issue' or 'this is looking great.'"
Pioquinto starts every day with a 4-mile walk along the East River waterfront that he credits for drawing so many New Yorkers to Long Island City in recent years. Then he goes down to his office on the first floor to prep and to check emails. His office is crowded with blueprints, manuals, packing tape and Christmas cards from building families.
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Luis Jorge Boone
George Henson
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For Daniel Sada
The dedication was short and impersonal, followed by the unlikely signature: Lauro H. Batallón. Santiago held the copy in his open hand. He seemed to weigh the words of every page, confirming the grammage of the sentences to detect the core of deception.
The author didn't exist; or rather, he had existed, but somewhere in his imagination. Even though he had written each page. A dozen books the same: the smell of old paper, dust, and humidity surrounded him like the aura of a dead man. The hardback copies had lost their shine on the shelves of the Serrera and Amador bookstore, arranged in no particular order. But the copies of The House of the Impossible Widows followed him, the bewitching enigma of the impossible reconstruction of their stories. To whom had they belonged?
My cousin Amador was the orderly one, the bookstore owner used to say. If someone wants perfect classifications, let him go to the library.
In memory of our meeting. With esteem. He outlined mechanically the thick strokes, shifting his vision to what should be the vestige of a plot that he could imagine but never know.
"I was about to put them on the shelves. It's been a year since you were here," a reprimand without mistrust. "I didn't think you were coming back."
"I wouldn't do that without saying something, Serrera."
The old man had good instincts.
One of the dark spines buried on the shelves of La Sulamita bookstore read Sunset over the Barricades. Santiago grabbed the book without thinking, paid for it, and went out outside. He protected it from the rain inside his jacket until he got into a taxi that stopped without being hailed.
He examined the book as he traversed the streets. The buildings seemed to have been built beneath waterfalls. Santiago held the book upside down, looking at the inverted pages as though wanting to alter them, to invent another language.
"How is it?" the driver asked. Santiago shrugged his shoulders. "It looks long."
Santiago thought about the nineteen hundred and ninety-nine copies of Sunset over the Barricades he still had to locate. How do you recover a book that never belonged to anyone?
He entered the café-bookstore Luxemburgo, picked up a book from the table of new titles, and introduced himself to the person in charge as the author.
As soon as the manager saw him, he personally wanted to announce on the intercom that Alberto Matarredonda, the author of The Gods Do Not Roam the Earth, was in the store. There was a photo of the author on the back cover: a beret and sport coat, a pipe and a ring with a green stone on his left hand, an endless beach. Santiago had dyed his beard gray, wore round glasses, and spoke with an affected accent. It all reeked of impersonation.
"Maestro, thank you for your book," they all repeated.
Conclusion: no one had read the book. It was the author's literary debut, so it was unlikely that anyone knew two lines of his work. The line was long. People crowded around the table, trying to catch a glimpse of the dedications over his shoulder. When the last person left, the manager invited the apocryphal Matarredonda for a drink in the café.
He excused himself and went to the restroom. He washed his hands and waited five more minutes. As he left, he saw the manager waiting for him in the distance, his back to him. He rushed to the exit; once outside, he began to run.
"Can I tell you something, Serrera? I wrote all those books. I was the ghostwriter for a publisher that went out of business years ago but published the complete works of a ghost. One night when we were drunk, the editor and I invented the biography of an author hardened by travels and misfortunes, but saved by literature. It was a lousy joke."
Santiago said nothing. He looked through the two copies of The House of the Impossible Widows and the copy of Serpentarium, the only crime novel Batallón wrote, its last twenty pages mutilated. At one point, he wanted to write, but he had no desire to be a writer, the celebrity life, the public lectures, cocktail parties, the senseless battles with critics and colleagues.
He agreed to write a novel a year. He wrote the last one, Sunset . . ., when he was thirty-six. He went his own way and didn't run into Batallón again until ten years later. Santiago entered the secondhand bookstore looking to escape the rain and discovered that the glass door opened onto a past of deception and fear, which had been the cause of his indifference: being exposed, naked, and confessed in the presence of others. What had begun as a joke—passing himself off as unknown writers, signing autographs—led to a day when he still longed for the fame that the pseudonyms had denied him.
"They're ninety pesos."
What was the original price? How much value had they lost every year?
"I'll take any others that come in. I'll be back in a month or two."
"We may not be here. My cousin insists on closing the store. He says that one of these days all this old paper is going to fall on top of us."
Santiago listened to Serrera talk about his partner as if he hadn't died years ago. He could see through the windows' reversed letters that it was about to rain. Everything's precarious, he thought. He left without saying anything. Perhaps a boy had dedicated Batallón's novel to his girlfriend as a mere game. Perhaps someone else had the same deceitful need to say hello with someone else's book. He looked back. The drops began to wash away the letters of the bookstore's display window. It seemed that the vanishing letters did justice to a place not just where used books piled up, but where the past became an incomprehensible knot, a labyrinth with too many dead ends.
Translation from the Spanish
By George Henson
From Monclova, Coahuila, Mexico, Luis Jorge Boone is the author of eleven books including novels, books of poetry, and short-story collections. He is the winner of numerous literary prizes, including the Cuento Inés Arredondo (2005), Poesía Joven Elías Nandino (2007), the Carlos Echánove Trujillo Literary Prize for Essay (2009), and the Premio Ramón López Velarde (2009). The English edition of his short-story collection The Cannibal Night, translated by George Henson, will appear later this year.
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The Oddly Paradoxical History of the Iconic DeLorean
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In a fascinating Vox video essay, editor Phil Edwards takes a look at the oddly paradoxical history of the incredibly distinctive DMC DeLorean. The car started out as a revolutionary idea named after former auto wunderkind John Z. DeLorean. Unfortunately, the company was short lived and funding was difficult to raise as necessary, so in 1982 DeLorean decided to smuggle $24 million worth of cocaine into the United States for a big payout. He was caught. The company tanked without redemption.
Then in 1985, Back to the Future was release and interest in the DeLorean came back. Since that time the company has changed hands several times, but the car has drawn quite a cult-like following amongst those who really love a gull-wing door.
For this video, we interviewed Barrie Wills about his experience working at the company — but we also talked to DeLorean owners about the ways the car has endured, thanks to the movie Back to the Future, and, more importantly, their own ingenuity and creativity. A DeLorean community has kept the car going and, despite the fact that production ended in the early '80s, the car continues to inspire new fans even today.
photo by Kevin Abato
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This story is part of "Dream Builders," a series that spotlights how women turn their business aspirations into reality—often defying tremendous odds—and innovate along the way. It is presented by Chase for Business.
Growing up, I always loved beauty and fashion. One of my favorite things to do was to take friends and family shopping, and choose the right product for them. Beauty was a hobby; I didn't realize I could make a career out of it. I studied finance at university, but I quickly realized that it wasn't the right fit for me. With my sister Mona's encouragement, I went back to school to study makeup, and started working as a makeup artist. I also started sending email newsletters to my family and friends with beauty tips and makeup recommendations. At the time, no one really understood why I was writing about makeup, but I wanted to share everything I had learned.
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In 2006, our family moved from the US to Dubai. I worked as a makeup artist and blogged along the way. And in 2010, I started blogging full-time. I wrote product reviews, and shared do-it-yourself beauty tips. Within a few years, my site was getting a million hits a month. Blogging gave me a sense of what my community wanted when it came to beauty products. When I worked as a makeup artist, I used to create my own lashes by customizing, shaving and stacking them together. People would always ask where I got the lashes from. My sister Mona is super entrepreneurial, and she suggested I start a line of false eyelashes. With the help of my other sister, we put $6,000 into the business and launched Huda Beauty. After that, my Instagram followers jumped. In one year I went from 80,000 followers to more than three million!
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"People have to know who we are, why we're here and why they should buy our products."
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I'm not motivated by money. I really wanted to create something that would be cult-worthy and something that people needed. But that first year, I felt frustrated and exhausted and wondered if our company would survive. We went through a period of explosive growth where we couldn't fulfill orders, because we didn't have enough money to continue ordering from distributers.
Early on, a local company wanted to invest in Huda Beauty, and in return wanted over 50 percent ownership of the company. But they didn't treat us like a serious brand, and we weren't willing to compromise on our vision for the company. Luckily our dad was in a position to lend us money, which meant we didn't need help from an investor. We realized we needed to be independent, and that no one was going to come and save the day.
As the company grew, I needed more help. My husband left his job to help manage supply chain and logistics. When he came on, we were able to get rid of distributors, and we no longer had external factors controlling us. That also allowed us to expand the business to lipsticks, lip glosses, eye shadows and more.
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Can Australians be sustainable and enjoy endless economic growth? It's not likely.
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This debate is important, because the argument that sustainability is compatible with growth is likely to be misused by those who have vested interests in endless economic growth.
Growth and sustainability are rarely compatible
The Nature paper upon which Hatfield-Dodds' article is based offers new, valuable, quantitative insights. Unfortunately the qualitative result, that growth and sustainability are compatible, is only true under very restrictive conditions.
This can be seen from considering the well-known identity for environmental impact I, derived by Paul Ehrlich and John Holdren: I = PAT, where P is population, A is "affluence" (which can be measured by GDP per person) and T is technological impact I/GDP. Breaking down impacts into the three factors is useful, because each factor can be addressed with separate policies.
Using this formula we can see that in the special case that technological impact T is zero, environmental impact is zero even if GDP continues to grow.
For example, in the energy sector, if all energy generation came from renewable sources and if all renewable energy technologies could be made with renewable energy, then the environmental impact of CO₂ emissions would be zero.
Although it is now technologically possible to transition to an energy sector based entirely on renewable electricity, with zero CO₂ emissions during operation (see here and here too), continuing GDP growth and energy consumption would still expand industries that are not carbon-free.
Hatfield-Dodds and colleagues do not make the extreme assumption of zero technological impact. However it's clear from I = PAT that to continue with economic growth and reduce environmental impact, the technological impact T has to decrease faster than growth in PA which is GDP. To my knowledge, the only successful examples are at a local scale for limited periods of time for the energy sector alone, for example the town of Guessen in Austria, as you can see in the video below.
In practice, this is extremely difficult under circumstances where vested interests such as the fossil fuel industry are resisting the necessary transition towards clean technologies in the US, Australia and many other countries.
Hence there is no guarantee that environmental policies that allow continuing growth in the global economy and population will be sufficient, or implemented rapidly enough, to be compatible with ecologically sustainable development.
So while sustainability and growth are theoretically compatible in a special case, combining them does not offer a low-risk future. To be safer, we must cease global growth in both population and economic activity per person, and transition from polluting, resource-intensive technologies to clean ones.
Can value changes be dismissed?
The second claim is that we won't have to change our values to achieve sustainability. However, the modelling used does not, and cannot, model values directly. Instead the argument appears to be an indirect one based on the unsupported assumption that major extensions to policies, that exist only to a modest degree in a few places around the world, do not require value changes.
To see how unlikely this is, let's take climate-energy policies as an example. There are very few countries with policies and associated institutions and mechanisms capable of transitioning to a zero carbon energy future: Denmark, Germany, Iceland and Scotland (not yet a country) spring to mind.
But Australia and the UK as a whole are going backwards. A paper by one of Hatfield-Dodds' co-authors, Heinz Schandl, finds little evidence for significant decoupling of economic growth from biophysical growth in Australia, China and Japan over 1970-2005.
On the basis of the current environmental crisis (which goes beyond climate change), it can be argued that the only way these major policy changes could be accepted by governments and implemented would be by much greater pressure on governments and other power-holders from citizens and consumers than exists at present. This pressure is necessary to obtain effective sustainability policies and their implementation.
It seems unlikely that such a necessary, massive growth in the social movement for ecologically sustainable and socially just development could come about without a substantial change in societal values. So, contrary to the article's assumption, effective policies and value changes are not alternatives. Instead it is societal value changes that drive effective policies.
What needs to change?
Some of the more difficult value changes, that may be required to attempt to increase environmental protection while economic growth continues, include widespread community support for:
a carbon price of A$50 per tonne of CO₂
more generally, environmental tax reform that taxes polluting products severely
tight mandatory energy efficiency standards for all buildings, appliances and equipment
major expenditure on railways
greatly increased densification of cities around public transport routes and nodes (to stop loss of habitat for biodiversity from urban sprawl and to reduce transport energy use)
plantings over huge areas
a ban on nitrogenous fertilisers
a shift to low-meat diets (the opposite of the current trend in rapidly developing countries)
much greater overseas aid, to assist poor countries to participate in the sustainable development process.
These are all major extensions of policies that exist to limited degree in some places in the world. They require collective action as well as individual, as Hatfield-Dodds acknowledges.
But they are very unlikely to be implemented by governments without a massive change in community values and practices leading to a powerful social change movement.
A really effective response to the climate crisis alone may require very radical policies and institutional changes similar to those used by combatant countries in World War II. Unfortunately governments would not consider, let alone implement, such measures in peace-time without value changes leading to widespread community support.
Mark Diesendorf, Associate Professor, Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies, UNSW, UNSW Australia
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When presenting these to your friends and family, you'll be met with the same childlike enthusiasm, responses and excitement that is usually reserved for birthday cakes and the opening of Christmas gifts. Dishes like this bring out the children in all of us. This twist on the baked potato is like eating a stack of potato chips with a velvety baked potato center. Be forewarned, you'll need a razor-sharp knife for the task of slicing the potatoes, otherwise you'll be cursing my name. I used a sushi mat, folded equally on both sides, to keep my knife from slicing completely through the potato. If you don't have a sushi mat, chopsticks or a pair of wooden utensils would work, as well. Although, a sushi mat is perfect for the job because you can roll it onto itself to control the thickness of the base of your potatoes.
Use a pair of chopsticks or a sushi-mat folded on both side to prevent your knife from slicing through the potatoes.
Be sure to thoroughly dry off the potatoes with a clean kitchen towel. Using a sharp knife, carefully cut thin slices into the potatoes without completely slicing through the bottom half. The thinner your slices, the more crispy, potato-chip-like edges you'll have. You can use a sushi mat, chopsticks or or a pair of wooden spoons to prevent slicing all the way through the other side of the potato.
Place the potatoes, sliced side up, on a baking sheet. Brush the potatoes with olive oil, and sprinkle them liberally with sea salt and pepper. Bake the potatoes in the center of the oven. After 15 minutes, open the oven to allow the steam to escape. Brush the potatoes once more with olive oil, and continue baking for 30-60 minutes, or until done. I know there's huge variance between 30-60 minutes; so much of this depends of the type of potato you're baking and how big they are, but you'll know that the potatoes are done when you can easily pierce through the slices of the potato with a skewer. The potatoes should slightly fan open, and the edge of the slices should take on a beautiful golden brown.
Remove from the oven and top with your favorite toppings. Serve hot.


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Nova (Blake's 7 fanwriter)
Name: Nova
Alias(es):
Type: fan author, essayist, indexer
Fandoms: Blake's 7
Communities: Freedom City
1 Fiction
2 Nonfiction & Other Activities
3 In Her Own Words
4 Example Fanworks
4.1 Zine
4.2 Fiction
4.3 Nonfiction
Nova is an award-winning fan author, essayist & indexer active in the Blake's 7 fandom mainly from the late 1990s to the mid-2000s. Hafren refers to her as one of the best writers in a fandom that has many good ones,[1] and Executrix calls her one of the brand names in B7 slash.[2]
Nova is particularly known for long satisfying stories, featuring a smooth writing style (of a high literary standard, according to Ika[3]), a good mix of plot with character exposition, plus a dollop of not-particularly-graphic sex -- and nearly always a happy ending. She was a leading member of the HEXers -- indeed, a fellow HEXer recalled in 2013 that she coined the term.[4] Hafren comments on Nova's happy endings: I love reading them and being convinced by them.[5] Nova rarely wrote collaboratively but she often created HEXed responses to other authors' stories, for example The Atonement Cycle by Hafren, Willa Shakespeare & Nova.
Nova acknowledges influences from Jane Baron, Melody C., M. Fae Glasgow, Sylvia Knight, Bryn Lantry, Vanessa Mullen, Predatrix, Sebastian, Willa Shakespeare, Natasha Solten and Thomas.[6] She wrote towards the end of the "New Wave" in B7 fanfiction of the mid 1990s to early 2000s. Ika describes her writing as a v interesting mix of new-wave and tradfic,[7] adding Her stories are highly political (eg 'The Political Education of Kerr Avon'), leftist and queer, ... her writing is ... arguably not 'experimental'... I think she worked with more traditional tropes.[3] Espresso Addict considers Nova to be firmly rooted in the tradfic tradition.[7]
She is particularly associated with the m/m slash pairing Blake/Avon, of which she was a passionate advocate. Executrix writes Nova is the ultimate B/A shipper; she genuinely loves them both and writes a basically sunny-but-never-soppy romance.[2] She also wrote numerous other slash pairings, femslash and slash-friendly gen. Her stories are often set within series 1 & 2, or post-Gauda Prime, sometimes in AUs where the carnage is avoided. In addition to Blake & Avon, she also frequently wrote Vila and several minor characters, perhaps particularly the psychostrategist Carnell.
Her B7 fanfiction first appeared in print in multimedia zines in 1998 & 1999. She became better known with the publication of Bend Me, Shape Me, an all-Nova B/A printzine produced by Pat Fenech in May 2000 which was an instant hit. Her work also appeared at the Freedom City mailing list -- of which she was a prominent member -- as well as in numerous B7 & multimedia printzines, including Dark Roses 3, Dyad 19, Fire and Ice series, Forbidden Star 3, Homosapien Sux, No Holds Barred 26, Sleer as Folk, Southern Lights 11.5, Tales from Space City series & ttba. Not all her writing has been archived online; 15 stories are available at the Hermit Library and 11 at Liberated.
One of her earliest stories, Delinquent (published in Southern Lights 11.5), won a 1999 STIFfie.[8] Her work dominated the 2000 STIFfies (their final year) with nine nominations; Bend Me, Shape Me won the zine category, and one of its stories, Metaphorically Speaking, also won an award.[9]
Nonfiction & Other Activities
Nova compiled a list of all B7 femslash, published in the 2002 zine Sleer as Folk. She also compiled a list of all fiction focusing on a consummated Blake/Avon relationship, now available on Fanlore.
She was a generous reviewer and beta reader.
...I try to stick to the facts of the BBC series, although most of my stories lead to a different outcome than the massacre at Gauda Prime. I became a slash writer, as opposed to a lifelong slash fantasiser, on the night I first watched Blake. While I admire the harshness of the series ending, I couldn't bear it, so I had to record my own version.[6]
Example Fanworks
Bend Me, Shape Me (link). B/A zine with 7 stories, all by Nova, edited & published by Pat Fenech (2000). Nova explains the concept: This zine consists of seven stories, told by the seven members of the first and second season crew on the Liberator - although I should add that Bend Me, Shape Me isn't meant to be a B7 replay of Rashomon or Lawrence Durrell's Alexandrian Quartet, where you get a range of different perspectives on the same situation. Instead, each story in this collection represents an alternative twist of the kalaidoscope and offers a separate interpretation of the A/B relationship.[6]
The main pairing is Blake/Avon, unless otherwise stated.
Five Easy Pieces And A More Difficult One (published in Homosapien Sux; 1999). Sex into love B/A, set in S2. Aralias & Elviaprose write: Nova is particularly good at writing love - both the aching and upsetting supposedly unrequited kind and (without ever letting go of the antagonism and ease of misunderstanding) the joyfully requited kind. And few writers have such a gift with endings that leave you grinning and feeling like everything is all right with the world. This is a classic example of that genre.[10]
Unfinished Business (published in ttba; 2001). PGP with the rare Vila/Tarrant as a background pairing. Ika writes A beautiful, happy-ending PGP which manages to combine a tricksy plot with incredibly affecting, bitter-sweet and spot-on A/B dynamics without seeming contrived. Other highlights are a thoroughly enjoyable cameo from Carnell and a Vila/Tarrant relationship - probably my personal Least Plausible Pairing - which didn't interrupt my suspension of disbelief and was actually really, really sweet. The sex (and snogging) scenes are erotic, in-character, and so beautiful I could drown in them.[11]
Fire and Rain (published in Forbidden Star 3; 2001). AU future where Gauda Prime never happened. Tavia writes Inventive, visually stunning, poignant and with the bonus of a great Avalon cameo... Best of all for me was the way that Nova firmly anchored the piece in the response of two rank-and-file Federation troopers to a love story with all the trappings of fairytale.[12]
Songs of Innocence and Experience (published in Sleer as Folk; 2002). Soolin-centric f/f; with, according to Sarah Thompson, an appealing original character whose identity I have my suspicions about. She's a middle-aged woman with wavy gray hair who runs a gay bookstore and who at one point addresses an audience with "G'day."[13]
Before and After (published in No Holds Barred 26; 2002). Vila/Deva. Hafren writes People surviving, making the best of things, rendering a sad world a bit better through mutual kindness. Very hushed, downbeat, utterly compelling.[14]
'The Political Education of Kerr Avon' (published in Fire and Ice 8; 2005). One of her later stories; highly political according to Ika[3]
A/B Slash: A Chronological Listing
"(Re)Making Space for Women" (published in Sleer as Folk). An article surveying the history of published Blake's 7 f/f writing from its first appearance in 1985 to the present day, with bibliography.
↑ Crack Van: Body and Soul by Nova (NC-17) (accessed 18 January 2014)
↑ 2.0 2.1 Crack Van: FIVE EASY PIECES...by Nova (accessed 18 January 2014)
↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Comment on 'Sorry, but I've been pondering' in Temeres livejournal (accessed 18 January 2014)
↑ Entropy House. Comment at Crack Van, 18 December 2013 (accessed 18 January 2014)
↑ TTBA: Mini-review by Hafren (accessed 18 January 2014)
↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Liberated: Bend Me Shape Me: Author's Note (accessed 18 January 2014)
↑ 7.0 7.1 Comments on 'New wave.' in Espresso Addict livejournal (accessed 18 January 2014)
↑ THE 1999 STIFfies WINNERS! (via Wayback Machine) (accessed 18 January 2014)
↑ Aralias: Katy and Molly's 77+ Favourite A/B and A-B Stories (accessed 18 January 2014)
↑ TTBA: Review by Ika (accessed 18 January 2014)
↑ Forbidden Star Three: Review by Tavia (accessed 18 January 2014)
↑ Sleer as Folk: Review by Sarah Thompson (accessed 18 January 2014)
↑ No Holds Barred 26: Review by Hafren (accessed 18 January 2014)
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Around 100 staff have resigned, 19 have been sacked and around 350 have been disciplined as a result of a two-year investigation into their unauthorized use of database facilities at Centrelink, the Australian federal government's social security and welfare agency. As such, Centrelink staff have access to a wide range of personal information. Five cases were serious enough to be referred to the federal police. It is reported that spyware was used to track staff use of the systems. A Centrelink general manager said "It was done for a whole range of reasons - from just sticky-beaking, through to at the more serious end of records actually being changed ... What this shows is that we have zero tolerance for any people who have surfed the details of the family and friends or peeked at records of their neighbours in our system." This statement fails to acknowledge the potential for abusing such wideranging access to personal data in order to commit identity theft.


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New RPJ members (from left to right) Jennifer, Mahea, Jackie and Michelle are sworn in by US Jaycees National VP Patrick Tomiyasu.
Winston at this year's Special Olympics Summer Games.
Winston Chow Nominated for Chapter President at October's Membership Meeting
The October 8th General Membership Meeting at the Living Room not only welcomed four new members into the chapter, but also signaled the opening of nominations for next year's RPJ Board of Directors. The meeting also saw the nomination of Winston "Poppin" Chow for RPJ President. Read more about Winston after the jump, and if you're interested in serving on the 2010 RPJ Board of Directors, please attend next month's membership meeting.
Winston is the chapter's current executive vice president, the 2008 RPJ Member of the Year, and an experienced point-man. He has served on the board for the past two years and has had a hand in almost every service project during that span. He spearheaded the chapter's involvement in this year's United Cerebral Palsy Association's Great Hawaiian Rubber Duckie Race, and he is the chapter's lead again this year for the popular UCPADessert Fantasy event.
Winston is an avid hiker, and he has led almost all of the chapter's hikes, taking members and friends on whale-watching treks up Makapu'u, and marches through the lush vegetation of Makiki Heights, Palolo, Aiea, Pearl City, Moanalua, Koko Head and Mariner's Ridge. Winston is also a former Pac-Five football player, and he's a usual participant in the chapter's monthly coed flag football games at Keehi Lagoon.
The scene after the chapter's four newest members were sworn in.


In addition to his important writings in the fields of both mathematics and history, the Bosnian-born polymath and all-round genius Matrakçı Nasuh is best known for his exquisite miniatures depicting various landscapes and urban centres of 16th-century Persia. The images can be found spread across his four historic volumes, with perhaps the most important being Fetihname-i Karabuğdan — now at the library of Istanbul University — which addresses Suleiman the Magnificent's Safavid War of 1532–1555. In the work Matrakçı Nasuh illustrates the cities encountered by the Ottoman army as they marched from Istanbul to Baghdad, then Tabriz (pictured above), and the return journey through Halab and Eskisehir.
The name Matrakçı was not, in fact, his name by birth but rather a nickname referring to his invention of a kind of military lawn game called matrak (a word which means "cudgel" or "mace", the main weapon at the heart of the game). The name stuck, and later would come to label its very own genre in Ottoman miniature art, the "Matrakçı style", describing works echoing his penchant for detail and precision of execution, perhaps nowhere better encapsulated than in the famous image of Istanbul from 1536, the last image featured below.


ALBUQUERQUE, NM, October 19, 2018 – Children, parents and teachers came together for the grand opening of the Children's Garden, a certified Nature Explore Classroom, at the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico. By: Marc Thomas.
The Children's Garden is an outdoor space that offers interactive elements such as musical instruments, garden areas and natural materials for building and creating art.
When the clock struck 5 p.m. on Thursday, October 18, children from the Young Musicians Initiative greeted guests and fellow classmates with a musical performance.
Cal Joyner, Southwestern Regional Forester, USDA Forest Service, shared with the children what an important role nature has played in his life.
Three children then shared why they like nature and their favorite parts of the new outdoor classroom.
Rebecca Avitia, Executive Director, National Hispanic Cultural Center, told the kids that this would be their place to come play, and then dozens of anxious children cut the ribbon revealing their new garden and it was quickly filled with curious and playful minds.
Kids could be seen planting flowers, painting their favorite elements from nature and playing the marimba.
The Nature Explore Children's Garden gives more opportunity to children who live in urban areas to regularly interact with nature.
This safe, comfortable space not only allows for nature enrichment opportunities, but also builds a "bridge" to nearby wilder spaces like the Bosque Trail and other walking paths in the region.
This project was a partnership between the USDA Forest Service, the National Hispanic Cultural Center and the Dimensions Educational Research Foundation.
View more photos from the event hosted on Flickr.


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Q: How to allocate WIFI Bandwith? I am having a little problem with a wireless network. I have users connected to a wireless router, and two others are connected to a repeater.
(Just to call some details the Router is an Archer C7 1750Mbit, Repeater some Netgear V3 300Mbit Internet-Connection is 100MBit/s)
Some users are experiencing severe slowdowns when connected to the repeater. However none of them are doing intensive stuff, mostly using phones to browse websites or Documents.
I have analysed this problem and I guess its not a problem in terms of internet speed. I guess its a problem of wifi bandwith, with the repeater not getting enough bandwith from the wireless router, since there are too many other devices connected.
So I wonder - is there a way to allocate wifi bandwith? And to be clear about this - i dont mean the bandwith allocation like in QoS-Protocolls, where you (as far as i understand) prioritize the cached internet data to certain clients. What I want to do is to prioritize the Repeater as a client in my wifi network, so I can make sure, he is getting his 300Mbit, no matter how many other devices are connected to the router (except of cause the loss due to signal strength etc.)
I already looked this topic up in several other places but I never found and answer to this.
So far basicly 90% of answers where "dont use wifi, use a cable" and the others where "use QoS" but as I said, this is not where my problem is (except there are dedicated QoS-Options for Wifi itself which I dont know of).

A: The repeater is the problem. By repeating you essentially halve the effective speed.
No repeater:
Send a packet
Acknowledgment of receipt

Repeater:
Send a packet
Resend the packet
Acknowledgment of receipt
Re-Acknowledgment of receipt

All that extra work congests the network. Wifi is a shared medium so only one device can transmit at a time.
What you want to do is extend your network without using the same medium to link the two devices. You can use homeplugs, ethernet or even a wireless system that isnt a repeater.

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This past weekend I went to Mazatlan, a beach two and a half hours away from my hometown to visit my sister and brother in law. It was a super fun weekend and I decided to show you guys a sneak peek from my weekend, please let me know what you guys think of it!
This is my first time filming a vlog and I highly recommend it, it's so much fun seriously! I can't believe how much I have enjoyed opening my Youtube channel. Seriously it took me about two years because I was so shy to face a video camera and now I can't stop filming, it's fun and thrilling! Let me know what you guys think of this!!
Which is your favorite beach?
Weekends are the beach are the best! Loved the video!
This looks like so much fun, and it's so pretty!
Super pretty!! I'm coming back next week, I'm super excited!
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Cheptainville  je francouzská obec v departementu Essonne, v regionu Île-de-France, 34 kilometrů jihozápadně od Paříže.

Geografie
Sousední obce: Avrainville, Guibeville, Marolles-en-Hurepoix, Saint-Vrain a Lardy.

Vývoj počtu obyvatel
Počet obyvatel

Osobnosti obce
 Pierre Dupont, básník a šansoniér, pobýval zde

Památky
 kostel Saint-Martin

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Vesnice ve Francii
Obce v departementu Essonne

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The first cocoa beans landed in Spain via ships in 1585 from the New World. Merchants, along with monasteries and convents, played a part in bringing chocolate to the Spanish land, where it soon took root.
The Dutch came under Spanish dominion in the 14th Century and subsequently under the spell of chocolate. In the 17th Century, they began shipping cocoa beans to Amsterdam and setting up processing plants.
Cocoa may have been introduced to Asia in the 1500s, when it was planted in Sulawesi, Indonesia. Early plantations couldn't survive, but Indonesia went on to produce the famed dark milk chocolate.
Some say the first chocolate came to Italy from Spain through a merchant, while others credit the monasteries. Whatever the case, Italy got a taste in the 16th Century and chocolate makers sprang up in the 17th Century.
France also has its share of lore, the popular one being: when Anne, daughter of Philip II of Spain, married Louis XIII in 1615, she brought with her, her passion for chocolate, popularising it in the French court.
While Europe was raving over chocolate, the British fancied their coffee more. In 1657, the first chocolate house sprang up, and later, competing cocoa bars were the hangouts of rival political parties.
In the late 16th Century, a Swiss mayor sipped on chocolate in Brussels and raved about it. Even though the country to time to warm up to cocoa, Swiss chocolates today remain one of the most sought after.
Germany initially regarded chocolate as a medicine. The middle of the 17th Century saw Germans taking to the cocoa fashion, and later, the pastry chefs gave the world the fêted indulgence: Black Forest cake.
Cocoa came to China in the 17th Century, presumably brought by Catholic missionaries. However, chocolate continues to remain far from being a gastronomic delight for the Chinese, who'd rather indulge in their favourite tea, even today.
Bizarrely enough, chocolate didn't travel north of Mexico and instead swam back the Atlantic to hit the US eastern shore from Europe. The first cocoa factory started in 1765, appealing to the masses rather than the elite.
A major industry since the 19th century, today chocolate forms an important part of the nation's economy and culture. While the raw materials used in chocolates do not originate in Belgium, the country has an association with the product that dates to early 17th century. In 2007, a voluntary quality standard was introduced by the European Union, which set certain criteria for a product to be considered "Belgian Chocolate". Under this "Belgian chocolate code" refining, mixing and conchering must take place inside Belgium.


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ALFELOR, MADEL (NPC)
NATIONALIST PEOPLE'S COALITION
RUNNING FOR Member, House Of Representatives, FIFTH LEGDIST, Camarines Sur
FIFTH LEGDIST
MADELAINE ALFELOR
Madelaine Alfelor is a candidate for member of the House of Representatives of the Fifth District of Camarines Sur in the Philippines' 2022 elections. She is a candidate of the Nationalist People's Coalition. Her ballot number is 1, and will appear on the ballot as "ALFELOR, MADEL (NPC)".
This candidate is running to represent their district in Congress. A member of the House of Representatives is responsible for creating bills and resolutions, reviewing the budget proposed by the executive department and create the general appropriations (budget) bill, tackling impeachment complaints and submitting the resolution setting the Articles of Impeachment, voting to declare the existence of a state of war, authorizing the president to exercise powers to carry out a declared national policy in times of war or other national emergency, voting to revoke or extend the president's proclamation of martial law, through the Commission on Appointments, approving or rejecting key appointments made by the president to government agencies, voting on the president's grant of amnesty, proposing amendments and revisions to the Constitution, and voting to convene into a constituent assembly or to call for an election of members of a constitutional convention.
MEMBER, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES CAMARINES SUR - FIFTH LEGDIST
VILLAFUERTE, MIGZ (PDPLBN)


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A few years back, I worked for a well-known tech company that I've taken, in writing, to calling Motorama. It doesn't take a rocket scientist figure out the actual company, but it may take a rocket scientist to think of Googling "Motorama" in search of embittered ex-employees giving fake names to everyone and everything around them. I worked in their super-secret contracts department and, in fact, had to sign a non-disclosure agreement stating I would not discuss any of their state or federal contracts. Consequently, it's difficult to discuss the screenplay idea it gave me.
I'll only say this: thanks to loopholes in the contract provisions, I discovered an easy method of embezzling from the company. Well, not easy, but easy enough. With so little oversight, all you really had to do was falsify some invoices, and Motorama would pay out. Because you know what they did with invoices, for accountability purposes? Threw them away. I hope that doesn't violate the agreement. There's a more complicated part of the scheme that I won't discuss, but needless to say it gave me a screenplay idea that never got off the ground. Why? Because there's no story.


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Tour de France: Climbs from Above - 20 Hors Categorie Ascents in High-Def Satellite Photography by Richard Abraham
Experience the thrill and intensity of the Tour de France's most challenging climbs using the breathtaking photography of Google Earth. In Tour de France: Climbs from Above, 20 notorious Tour de France Hors Catégorie climbs - ascents that are beyond classification - are illustrated using Google E arth's high-definition satellite imagery. Featuring such momental climbs as the 2,715 metre ascent of Col de la Bonette, the historic Great St Bernard Pass, Col du Galibier's incredibly torturous 15 percent gradient climb and Alpe d'Huez's famous hairpins. As well as providing expertly annotated high definition maps of these climbs, the book also explores their rich history, and charts the daring Tour exploits of great Tour riders such as Fausto Coppi and Marco Pantani. There are more than 220 photographs, providing a unique aerial guide to the twists, turns and topography of each climb and the beautiful surrounding mountain geography. Written by cycling journalist and author Richard Abraham, the Tour de France: Climbs from Above explains in authoritative detail the history and challenges of each legendary ascent and is the definitive visual companion to the Tour de France's greatest climbs. ...Show more
How to Look Cool Whilst Learning Polo: A Very Modern Approach to a Traditional Game by Steve Thompson
How To Look Cool Whilst Learning Polo takes a very modern approach to the traditional game of polo. The author, SteveThompson, is a veteran polo instructor and professional player with over twenty years of teaching experience across the globe and this book is a culmination of his teaching and playing ex perience over two decades in the sport. This book, followed correctly, will save one a lot of pain, frustration and cash by teaching an aspiring player how to function correctly from the very start. More than just a technical 'how to' guide, it provides everything one needs to know to go from zero to hero on the polo field, and more importantly - make sure one looks cool whilst doing it! ...Show more
Walking: One Step at a Time by Erling Kagge
A lyrical account of an activity that is essential for our sanity, equilibrium, and well-being, from the author of Silence ("A book to be handled and savored." --Wall Street Journal) Placing one foot in front of the other, embarking on the journey of discovery, and experiencing the joy of exploration--t hese activities are intrinsic to our nature. Our ancestors travelled long distances on foot, gaining new experiences and learning from them. But as universal as walking is, each of us will experience it differently. For Erling Kagge, walking is the gateway to the questions that fascinate him--Why do we walk? Where do we walk from? What is our destination?--and in this book he invites us to investigate them along with him. Language reflects the idea that life is one single walk; the word "journey" comes from the distance we travel in the course of a day. Walking for Kagge is a natural accompaniment to science: the occasion for the unspoken dialogue of thinking. Walking is also the antidote to the speed at which we conduct our lives, to our insistence on rushing, on doing everything in a precipitous manner--walking is among the most radical things we can do. ...Show more
Basketball (and Other Things)A Collection of Questions Asked, Answered, Illustrated by Shea Serrano
Who is the greatest dunker of all time? Which version of the Michael Jordan was the best Michael Jordan? What is allowed and absolutely not allowed in a game of pickup basketball? Basketball (and Other Things) presents readers with a whole new set of pivotal and ridiculous fan disputes from basketball h istory, providing arguments and answers, explained with the wit and wisdom that is unique to Shea Serrano. Serrano breaks down debates that NBA fans didn't even know they needed, from the classic (How many years during his career was Kobe Bryant actually the best player in the league?) to the fantastical (If you could assign different values to different shots throughout basketball history, what would they be and why?). With incredible art from Arturo Torres, this book is a must-have for anyone who has ever stayed up late into the night debating basketball's greatest moments, what-ifs, stories, and legends, or for those who are discovering the mythology of basketball for the first time. ...Show more
How to Ride a Bike by Chris Hoy
An invaluable manual for cyclists of all ages, experience and ability, which will help them achieve peak performance. Full of practical advice, this book includes information on: Strength conditioning to improve your performance Targeted training plans to focus on strengthening weaker areas Bik e care and maintenance Riding different terrains and environments Road cycling skills and safety The book will also help you explore your five key abilities of cycling fitness, defined as the maximum effort you can maintain for the following periods of time: 6 seconds (max sprinting) 30-60 seconds (sub-max sprinting) 3-5 minutes (VO2 max) 1 hour (zone of transition) Several hours (long steady distance riding) This book acts as a training toolbox with which you can structure bespoke sessions to improve these five facets of performance. There's also advice on diet, weight loss and the psychology of cycling, and plenty of stories and anecdotes from Sir Chris Hoy's Olympic track career. Full of helpful and inspiring advice for those getting on a bike for the first time in a while, along with plenty of tips and tricks for seasoned cyclists looking to take it up a notch, this is a book for beginners and pros alike. ...Show more
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Since joining Imperial College as an independent Safra fellow in 2015, Dr Sibley has established a research group that aims to understand how RNA is regulated in the central nervous system in both health and disease. A diverse range of wet and dry-lab techniques are used to achieve this. Accordingly, the group is positioning itself to work at the interface of systems biology, RNA biology and molecular neuroscience.
A main focus of the group is to use a combination of functional genomics and computational approaches to research master regulators in both post-mortem tissue and human cell models of neurological disease. Specifically, we define and explore target networks of both transcription factors and RNA-binding proteins. This is with the aim of identifying target networks that are perturbed in disease and which contribute to neurological disease phenotypes. In parallel, we are using computational models to understand how genomic variation impacts on regulator-target networks. Ultimately we plan to use our network models to predict the interactions that might be corrected to allow phenotypic recovery.
Concomitantly, we are exploring disease dysregulation of the numerous un-annotated and non-canonical features of the transcriptome that have been reported in recent years. Among others this includes unconventional RNA processing events such as cryptic splice sites, recursive sites, microexons and circular RNAs. Indeed, much remains to be learned about the biological functions, biogenesis mechanisms and contributions to disease of these fascinating, un-conventional and CNS-enriched transcripts. In particular we are exploring examples which are intrinsically linked to disease mechanisms, whilst we are interested to see if any of these events can help explain disease-associated genetic variation which lies outside of the exome.
Experimentally, in addition to standard molecular biology approaches and cell culture methods, we employ the functional genomics techniques of individual nucleotide resolution UV-crosslinked immuno-precipitation (iCLIP) of RNA-binding proteins, exonuclease chromatin immuno-precipitation (ChIP-exo) of DNA-binding proteins, and RNA sequencing of the transcriptome. Importantly, both traditional RNA seq approaches and single-cell drop-seq are employed. Computational methods include weighted gene co-expression network analysis, computational inference of master regulator networks, expression quantitative trait loci analysis, and integrative modelling of iCLIP and ChIP-exo datasets.
We are focussing our efforts on increasing understanding of motor neurone disease (MND) and Alzheimer's disease aetiology, whilst we primarily work with human post-mortem datasets and human cellular models. Specifically we utilise public datasets from the GTEx, CommonMinds, and UK brain expression consortia to generate our network models. We experimentally follow up our findings in human induced pluripotent stem cells differentiated into motor neurons in collaboration with Dr Rickie Patani at the UCL institute of Neurology. Moreover, we are working to establish an efficient and direct differentiation of human fibroblasts into motor neurons. These will be used to dissect why these cells are perturbed in MND.
Have a look at what we've been up to. Click on the details to be taken to the article.
Individual nucleotide resolution UV cross-linking and immunoprecipitation (iCLIP) to determine protein-RNA interactions.
Tyzack GE, Hall CH, Sibley CR, Cymes T, Forostyak S, Carlino G, Meyer I, Schiavo G, Zhang SC, Gibbons G, Newcombe J, Patani R, Lakatos A.
Progressive motor neuron pathology and the role of astrocytes in a human stem cell model of VCP-related ALS.
Hall CH, Yao Z, Choi M, Tyzack GE, Serio A, Luisier R, Harley J, Preza E, Arber C, Crisp SJ, Watson PMD, Kullmann DM, Abramov AY, Wray S, Burley R, Loh SH, Martins LM, Stevens MM, Luscombe NM, Sibley CR, Lakatos A, Ule J, Gandhi S, Patani R.
Huppertz I, Attig J, D'Ambrogio A, Easton LE, Sibley CR, Sugimoto Y, Tajnik M, König J, Ule J.
We are part of the Department of Medicine within its Brain Sciences Division. We are located in the Burlington Danes Building which is immediately adjacent to the MRC Clinical Sciences Centre and Hammersmith Hospital. The building was completed in 2007 and has modern lab and office space.
Together with Dr Patani we are comprehensively evaluating the transcriptome of ALS patients in human post-mortem tissue, and characterising new induced pluripotent stem cell models of both motor neurons and astrocytes which carry ALS-associated mutations.
Our work with Dr Inouye centres on using systems biology to interpret consequences of genomic variation between individuals in both health and disease . We use a combination of network, eQTL and custom analyses to study both ALS and Psychiatric disorders.
"This study is an important step towards understanding the role of non-coding elements in genes. Accordingly, attention should be paid to these sites in future studies of disease-causing mutations, especially for brain-related disorders, as this is the organ where these long genes are predominantly expressed."
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I'm pleased to say we were successful in our bid for a Wellcome Trust Seed Award to study master regulators with various computational & experimental approaches!
We were delighted to be awarded two grants through the NIHR Biomedical Research Centre to study the transcriptomic signatures of ALS and to develop single-cell drop-seq!


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Q: Firebase SetDisplayName Without signing In What im trying to accomplish is just letting the user create a user by email/password then apply a Displayname to the newly generated user. The only issue is i cant apply a display name to the new user without first logging the first one out. Im somewhat new to firebase so maybe there is something i missed. Thanks for any help in advance

A: Here is the solution,
Firebase google have implemented some new mechanism called as a RULES, when you go in your Firebase dashbord select database from left slide bar and then select RULES from right, Here is the default rules which define you can not access database without authentication means (login), So change your rules with following condition and publish it then after it work fine,
Just replace your rules with following,
{
  "rules": {
         ".read": "auth != null || auth ==null",
            ".write": "auth != null || auth ==null"
  }
}


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by Bardyco LLC April 20, 2016
Bardy was used to make fist rolls of paper!, it's the oldest type of paper first found in ancient Egypt, and later in Rome and Greece. it's also know as "Papyrus". Papyrus plant played a significant role in writing, literacy, communication and documenting history to the Greeks, Romans and Egyptians. Its position in revolutionary development of civilizations worldwide is remarkable. During the 3rd century B.C., papyrus was scarce because of the stock-rise in Alexandria library in Egypt.
THE PAPYRUS PLANT
Papyrus is from the family Cyperaceae or Cyperus papyrus. They are under the class of paper plants, which is the pride of Egyptians. You can also see it growing in Europe, at minor sections closer to Syracuse. The aquatic plant is grass-like, with a woody and triangular stem. The height is approximately 15 ft. in gently moving water, and the depth is about 3 ft. Its triangular stem grows up to 2 inches in width.
INGREDIENTS FOR MAKING PAPYRUS PAPER
Early paper makers used only few items as raw materials. The same applies in modern-day papyrus paper making. The raw materials needed today are:
Papyrus plant/Cyperus papyrus
Plastic bucket
Old dishcloth
2 Wooden boards
Hand planer
PREPARATION OF THE PAPYRUS PAPER
To prepare a papyrus paper, you need to follow these few tips for the best result.
Step 1: Harvest and get ready
Get a real Papyrus plant. It's in stores or online. Soak the plant for approximately 60 minutes to strengthen the stalks and ensure they don't crumble. Make little cuts to its base. For small sheets, 4-5 big stalks is ideal.. Chop off its top.
Step 2: Make the Strips
Use a hand planer with a sharp blade for quick cutting. Place your tool upside down while securing it with a bench tool. Then get the strip as you wish! Make sure it does not break!
Hard part
Carefully take the stalk by the extreme and flatten it on a planer. The triangular stalk will be easy to cut in a few diverse ways.
Carefully push each stalk into the edge till you get to its end. You can hold down its top while cutting for equal strips. Keep doing it till little is left of the papyrus. Then peel off its green bark, using an Exacto blade or your finger!
Step 3: Soak the Strips
After de-barking, soak the strips in the tub or bucket with water for three days to activate the sap or glue in the papyrus plant. This sap makes the resulting paper possible! If no odor or mold is notable, change the water every day!
Step 4: Lay the Strips straight
The original glue is ready in 3 days, so lay the strips on a paper towel. Place another cover of towels on it and roll to squeeze water out. Repeat it all the time using your rolling pin!
The plant layout makes Papyrus look distinct!
Don't weave the papyrus strips together. The natural glue will do that. At the base, lay the side of the strip by the side in a direction while intersecting at about 1/3. Repeat from the top down, but in a perpendicular direction to the base layer.
Overlapping action is vital for stopping strips shrinking while getting dry.
Step 5: Wrap and Dry
Use two, significantly larger than the papyrus sheet, boards of wood. Use the old cloth and paper towels of 3-4 sheets to lay over the sheets. Place the papyrus between the boards for a beautiful papyrus roll! Utilizing clamps, or giant vice, pin it tight. Allow a week to elapse!
But replace the towels daily.
Step 6: The magic!
Don't panic when stripping off the square! It will surely look chic! If you don't overlap well, you'll end up with damaged paper!
Step 7: Smoothing and Writing!
Using a smooth rock, polish your paper by rubbing it on the paper along the strip direction. It's ready for use!
Papyrus is a plant grown and utilized as a writing material by Egyptians. Even today, the use of this plant in manufacturing of writing materials cannot be overemphasized. People still enjoy reading books or review documents on paper. During the 8th to 9th century, other plant fibers for producing paper began available. Therefore, some sectors tried to kick papyrus off as unnecessary. Even during the 3rd century, the Europeans seeked to replace papyrus by more affordable vellum. Yet no one was ever ready to replace papyrus paper for documents, and books. Papyrus paper continued to maintain its position till the 12th century consistently. Papyrus was utilized for papermaking in the 3100 B.C! Many scrolls were found tombs with such dates! Ancient Egyptians wrote with reed brushes, pens, and paint with malachite, charcoal, iron oxide!
PAPYRUS PRESERVATION
Papyrus scrolls were saved in wooden chests, jars, and sacred statues. Many have been removed from tombs, like an edition of the "Book of the Dead," the 52-feet-long funerary scroll! The book contains incantations and spells in the coffin, which belongs to Kha, a rich construction foreman, and his wife Merit! They were buried by 1386-1349 B.C. In addition some scrolls are in royal archives, in form of accounts, daybooks as well as other management letters on papyrus!
PAPYRUS REVOLUTION
Instead of the old process of the 16th century, the milling method took over. It is becoming a lucrative business. The 16th century experienced a type of moveable printing press and a rise in demand for writing materials. There were shortages of old rags leading to a search for a replacement.
Then, in the mid-1800s, wood pulp with another raw material, the chemical compound pulp came up again. The 19th centry saw a mechanical age of large-scale production of paper. And industries made their skilled craftsmen fill the need of the masses. From 1850 to 1950, novel techniques for making diverse paper types, weights, and grades emerged. There was a total revolution prospect for industries using paper for advertisement, arts, and publishing. During the 19th and 20th centry there was a significant rise in the demand for paper in all industries.
APPLICATIONS AND USE
Papyrus plant is useful in many areas like; a pool ornamental or conservatories, especially within warm zones. You can grow or pot the short variety- C. isolates, or C. papyrus 'Nanus,' indoors. The olden days Egyptians made cloths, sails, cords, mats, and paper from it. Papyrus papers were the major writing materials in Egypt, Greece, and the Roman Empire. The primary use of papyrus paper was in production of roll-like or scroll-like books, and legal documents.
Papyrus paper is a symbol of human intellect, innovation, and aspiration. Even though the technological rise of electronic data storage has been evolving, from humble beginning in the ancient Egypt to today we continue to use paper. That's prove of ingenuity.
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