My Roses

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It all started a number of years ago when I went to get a bush to hide the second air conditioner from the street. I had a black thumb. There was a potted umbrella tree in my house that was dropping leaves–and it’s plastic. When I explained this, they showed me a cocoplum bush. On the way to pay for it, I passed some rose bushes. They suggested a Duchess du Brabant rose bush. The Duchess has been flattened by three or four hurricanes and was under the tent along with the cocoplum when I had the house tented for termites. They both are doing fine. The Duchess is blooming its head off most of the year.
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Koha Training

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I will post the Koha training manual here in draft until I have time to review it next week with key folks to insure we get the right information posted. Unfortunately, the only Koha documentation available is web based, so I am converting their web documentation to .pdf files, so that they can be customized and printed for our use. Please feel free to post your comments here regarding the training documentation.
Koha Training Draft v1.4.
 Chuck Shuttle

The manual is a direct crib from the Koha 3.0 manual put into a PDF form with our Library’s logo on the cover. We really need to revise it soon for 3.2.
Bob

Imager by L. E. Modesitt, Jr.

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Rhennythyl is the son of a wool merchant and is a journeyman portrait painter when he causes his master’s house to blow up.  He discovers that he is an imager, one who can create things by imaging them.  He goes off to the Collegium Imago on Imagisle and is trained as a covert imager (read spy).

There are three threads in the story:

  1. His training
  2. 5 attempts to assassinate him
  3. His family and his new girl friend ( a Pharsi although she is a 3rd generation local)

Most of the story is about his training.  The questions that his teacher makes him think about are fascinating.

  • Is our government good?
  • Is it better than the others?
  • What are the best characteristics of a covert imager?
  • What is the real purpose of a quorum call?
  • Why is government necessary?
  • …

I couldn’t put it down and will have to go back and re-read it to think more about his training.

The assassination attempts provide a bit of action and mystery which will have to be solved in a later book in the series.

His interplay with his family and his girl friend’s family is very well written.