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Political Campaigning
This morning I observed a table to be used to register voters with Obama campaign signs. Is campaigning allowed on library property? If so, is written permission needed? If permission is needed, who grants the approval or refusal? What are the guidelings for allowing or refusing requests?
Personally, I feel it is inappropriate for the library to be involved in any way with direct or indirect support for particular candidates. Allowing Obama support signs as part of voter registration certainly indicates library support for the andidate.
Thank you in advance for your anticipated response and/or action.
Sep 08, 2012
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Which Banned Book Movie Should We Show?
Bridge to Terabithia
20% (12 votes)
To Kill a Mockingbird
41% (24 votes)
Of Mice and Men
5% (3 votes)
The Great Gatsby
8% (5 votes)
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
25% (15 votes)
Total votes: 59
Sep 07, 2012
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Support Listings Should Be Searchable
Please consider adding search functionality to your support listings on the "Contact Us" page. Conscientious users will try to review before posting, but with some 400 postings across 14 pages, it's hard to tell if a given question has been asked and answered. Hopefully this will help you as well, by reducing the number of redundant questions.
Aug 23, 2012
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Had dinner out to celebrate being married 31 years
I had yummy cedar plank salmon at Big Fish.
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Aug 05, 2012
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Baked Oatmeal Cookie Bars
Oatmeal blondies with chocolate chips and walnuts.
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Aug 04, 2012
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Aug 03, 2012
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I read the book Ms. Leakey is freaky !
It is about a boy named A.J. who love junk food. The new health teacher Ms. Leakey says that everybody should eat fruits, vegetables and nuts. You should not eat junk foods for it is full of sugar.
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Aug 01, 2012
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Visited the Museum of One Street
The Museum of One Street in Kiev, Ukraine is exactly what the name suggests--a museum devoted to the history of one street, Andreevsky Spusk, and the people who have lived on it. Most of the museum focuses on the early 20th century, but exhibits discuss other aspects of the street's history as well. The context is very much the lives of the people who lived there--writers, rabbis, priests, musicians, upper-class ladies--and the labels are in a mix of Russian and Ukrainian, but combined the museum gives a fascinating glimpse into the history of street and the city as a whole.
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Aug 01, 2012
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Walked for 36 minutes this morning
It felt good to get up and out before the sun was up.
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Aug 01, 2012
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I made this cute flamingo.
I enjoy showing it off to everyone.
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Jul 31, 2012
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Made a yummy stir fry with veggies, tofu and brown rice
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Jul 30, 2012
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Baked mini rainbow cakes in jars!!
I mostly followed a recipe that I found on tablespoon.com to make these personal-sized cakes, but I used smaller jars and slightly different color mixtures than the ones recommended on the website. As a long-term fan of all things bright and colorful, this recipe, and my results, were very exciting to me! :) Now I just have to frost the cakes and then share them with people.
If anyone wants to try making their own, here is the recipe I used:
http://www.tablespoon.com/recipes/rainbow-cake-in-a-jar-recipe/2/
Two hints: they have oddly specific instructions for how to create the colors, but because I didn't have all the food dye colors that they said to use, I just improvized and they turned out fine. Also, smaller jars work much better than the Mason jars they recommend. I did four small jars and one large Mason jar, and the Mason jar didn't cook as well and turned out kind of lumpy and ugly, whereas the small jar cakes look tasty and pretty!
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Jul 30, 2012
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"Traveled back in time" to Jonestown
A few months ago, I started looking into what happened at Jonestown. I found it all incredibly interesting and spent time online listening to recordings of Jim Jones and looking at pictures of his project in Guyana. I wanted to learn more, and hearing that Seductive Poison by Deborah Layton was a good book, decided to give it a try. This was honestly the first time in what seems like years since I found a book that I couldn't put down--I got the book on Friday, and despite many other pressures in life, finished it on Sunday. It was a beautifully-written account of Layton's experience with the Peoples Temple, and provided me with a ton more information that I'd previously known on what happened. The book also provided me with a lot of insight on various motivations for people joining the church and explanation of how things escalated. There was also a very suspenseful section at the end detailing Layton's escape. Seductive Poison was an incredible book that I would recommend to anyone, though I would also warn that it includes a lot of dark, sad subject matter.
After this, I started to read A Thousand Lives by Julia Scheeres. I am currently 100 pages in. It is nearly as gripping as Seductive Poison, and provides even more information on the workings of the Peoples Temple and Jonestown. Because Seductive Poison was just one person's account of what happened, it didn't have nearly as much information on the church as a whole as A Thousand Lives, which was written by an author who did a lot of research and interviews to get information for the book. So far I like this book and would recommend this one as well. It's quite a page-turner. I'm glad that I read Seductive Poison first, though, and would encourage others to do the same.
And after this, I watched Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple, a PBS documentary. As films often do, watching this documentary, which included a wealth of photos and video clips from the Peoples Temple itself, helped me to really visualize what being in Jonestown/the Peoples Temple would be like. I don't recommend this quite as strongly as the two books I read. I believe the two books would be a very fascinating read for anyone, but I think this documentary would only really be interesting to obsessive creeps like me.
Speaking of obsessive creeps, I am now watching "Guyana Tragedy," a poorly made TV movie from 1980 where actors portray Jones' life, starting from when he was a young boy and ending with his death. I have too much time on my hands as you can tell. I wouldn't recommend this movie to anyone. It's awful. I had a bad feeling about it during, literally, the first second of the movie when the narrator accidentally said "Lindiana" instead of "Lynn, Indiana" like he should have, and on the screen, the word "November" had an extra R in it. So, without going into too much detail on this terrible moving, I will just conclude by saying that no one should ever watch it.
I hope that this review turns out to be useful to people (or at least that they bother to skim through it, which I doubt). I hope that Jonestown can captivate others the way it captivated me. Like they say, those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it, making learning about Jonestown a worthwhile endeavor. In addition, having a lot of information on this and reading perspectives of people who were actually involved in Peoples Temple is definitely a good thing because while almost everyone has a basic knowledge of Jonestown, it wasn't until I read Seductive Poison that I understood that the people who joined what would later be known as a cult were fairly normal people. The main difference seems to be that their optimism--they believe the world can get better and they can help it to do so--and altruism--the mission of the Peoples Temple was merely to help people as fully as possible. People devoted their lives and all posessions to the Temple so they could try to end poverty and discrimination.
tl;dr: Read Seductive Poison; you'll be glad you did.
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Jul 29, 2012
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Read Dog Heroes
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Jul 25, 2012
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I saw the movie Moonrise Kingdom
It was very charming. Later in the week I checked out and listened to the original soundtrack from the library.
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Jul 25, 2012
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I drew a picture earlier in July!!!
I drew a picture earlier in July. I love art but I think i'm really good at drawing girls, specifically teenage girls. It might sound wierd but I think it's exciting to draw their hair and makeup and clothes. I'm not sure if I should enter it in the Manga Drawing Contest 2012 thingy or not. Yeah, thats how good the drawing is. At first I was going to draw myself but it turned out totally different. Anyway, the drawing took hours but the hours were well spent. I don't like to rush when I draw...I erase things a lot and i'm very picky. I didn't color my drawing because it looks more realistic and cool just the way it is. I hope that I get the opportunity to learn more art techniques and I hope that I become a more skillful artist in the future... :)
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Jul 23, 2012
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Saw the Titanic exhibit at the Henry Ford
It's really something — everyone should see it before it's over. The picture is of me and my family on the grand staircase.
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Jul 23, 2012
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made ice cream
I made an ice cream at the library this morning. First, I put it in the cup. Then I changed it to the bowl. I thought it makes me feel good. It's melting so quickly. But it's still yummy. I had fun!
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Jul 23, 2012
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Went to Cupcake Station in Plymouth
I got a PB&C cupcake - a chocolate cupcake with peanut butter frosting, topped with a peanut butter cup. Delicious!
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Jul 21, 2012
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searched among the lackluster, dry plants in my garden
And found the first gladiolus of the season.
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Jul 19, 2012
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