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- The age of Metternich and the era of unification, 1815–71
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Constitutional conflicts in the 14th century
The death of Henry VII led to a disputed election and a civil war in Germany. The electors' impulse to choose another lesser count as king was checked by the houses of Habsburg and Luxembourg, which pressured the prince-electors to choose between their candidates. The pro-Habsburg majority elected Frederick the Handsome, duke of Austria. The minority withdrew their support from Henry VII's son John and transferred it to a more formidable candidate, the Bavarian duke Louis of Wittelsbach, who had recently broken an Austrian invasion of his duchy.
Electoral custom did not yet acknowledge the majority principle. The papacy, which had claimed the right to adjudicate disputed elections since 1201, was vacant. Hence the two claimants settled their differences by the sword. In 1322 Louis defeated and captured his rival at Mühldorf, but his triumph in Germany merely raised the curtain on a long and bitter dispute with the papacy.
Pope John XXII, guided by canon law and precedent, affirmed that Louis might not legally rule until confirmed by the papacy; thus the disputed election of 1314 and the absence of papal approbation invalidated Louis's royal title and his right to govern. Louis contended, however, that election by a majority conferred a legitimate title and administrative power and did not require papal confirmation. His defiance of the pope exposed him to excommunication in 1324 and to the procedures of canon law, whereby he was required to submit entirely to the papal terms before absolution could be granted. Louis warned the electors that their rights were endangered by the subjection of the elections to papal confirmation. Six electors responded in the Declaration of Rhens (1338), proclaiming as an ancient custom of the empire that election by a majority was valid and that the king-elect assumed his administrative power immediately, without the intervention of papal approbation. Under Louis's direction the declaration was repeated at the subsequent Diet of Frankfurt as an imperial law, and offenders against it were declared guilty of lèse-majesté.
John XXII and his successors were unyielding. In 1343 Pope Clement VI made diplomatic overtures to Charles of Luxembourg, heir to the Bohemian throne, with the object of procuring his election to the German kingship in Louis's stead. The electors, led by Baldwin of Luxembourg, the archbishop of Trier, began to desert Louis one by one. The pope thereupon urged a new election. Charles assured the pope secretly that he would await papal confirmation of his forthcoming election before exercising governmental power in the Italian possessions of the empire, but, despite intense pressure by Clement, he would accept no such restriction with regard to Germany. In 1346 only two electors remained faithful to Louis: his son Louis of Brandenburg and his kinsman Rudolf, count palatine of the Rhine. The other five assembled at Rhens on July 11 and elected Charles under the title of Charles IV. The new king was spared a lengthy conflict with his rival, who died of a stroke in 1347. Shortly after his accession to the throne, however, the kingdom faced one of the greatest epidemics of all time, the Black Death (caused by bubonic and pneumonic plague), which killed perhaps one-third of the population, caused a labour shortage, and left the survivors shaken.
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3Some ministries remain in Bonn. The federal supreme court meets in Karlsruhe.
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Female: (2012) 82.6 years
|Literacy: percentage of population age 15 and over literate
|Male: 100%
Female: 100%
|GNI per capita (U.S.$)
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WANTED: corn
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This may be confusing, but I'll give it a try. I have a few of these types of corn. No one kind has enough for me b/c I have to plant a LOT of seed to get a small crop. (something eats them I think.) So what I want to do is this. I either want more of a type or I will trade it off! Here's the list
Ashworth 30
peaches and cream 25
early golden bantam 14
I also have birdhouse gourds (3) and Bumpy gourds (8) I do not want gourds.
Check my trade list for more!

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I am writing a simple OCR solution for a finite set of characters. That is, I know the exact way all 26 letters in the alphabet will look like. I am using C# and am able to easily determine if a given pixel should be treated as black or white.
I am generating a matrix of black/white pixels for every single character. So for example, the letter I (capital i), might look like the following:
Note: all points, which I use later in this post, assume that the top left pixel is (0, 0), bottom right pixel is (4, 4). 1's represent black pixels, and 0's represent white pixels.
I would create a corresponding matrix in C# like this:
CreateLetter("I", new List<List<bool>>() {
new List<bool>() { false, true, true, true, false },
new List<bool>() { false, false, true, false, false },
new List<bool>() { false, false, true, false, false },
new List<bool>() { false, false, true, false, false },
new List<bool>() { false, true, true, true, false }
I know I could probably optimize this part by using a multi-dimensional array instead, but let's ignore that for now, this is for illustrative purposes. Every letter is exactly the same dimensions, 10px by 11px (10px by 11px is the actual dimensions of a character in my real program. I simplified this to 5px by 5px in this posting since it is much easier to "draw" the letters using 0's and 1's on a smaller image).
Now when I give it a 10px by 11px part of an image to analyze with OCR, it would need to run on every single letter (26) on every single pixel (10 * 11 = 110) which would mean 2,860 (26 * 110) iterations (in the worst case) for every single character.
I was thinking this could be optimized by defining the unique characteristics of every character. So, for example, let's assume that the set of characters only consists of 5 distinct letters: I, A, O, B, and L. These might look like the following:
01110 00100 00100 01100 01000
00100 01010 01010 01010 01000
00100 01110 01010 01100 01000
00100 01010 01010 01010 01000
01110 01010 00100 01100 01110
After analyzing the unique characteristics of every character, I can significantly reduce the number of tests that need to be performed to test for a character. For example, for the "I" character, I could define it's unique characteristics as having a black pixel in the coordinate (3, 0) since no other characters have that pixel as black. So instead of testing 110 pixels for a match on the "I" character, I reduced it to a 1 pixel test.
This is what it might look like for all these characters:
var LetterI = new OcrLetter() {
Name = "I",
BlackPixels = new List<Point>() { new Point (3, 0) }
var LetterA = new OcrLetter() {
Name = "A",
WhitePixels = new List<Point>() { new Point(2, 4) }
var LetterO = new OcrLetter() {
Name = "O",
BlackPixels = new List<Point>() { new Point(3, 2) },
WhitePixels = new List<Point>() { new Point(2, 2) }
var LetterB = new OcrLetter() {
Name = "B",
BlackPixels = new List<Point>() { new Point(3, 1) },
WhitePixels = new List<Point>() { new Point(3, 2) }
var LetterL = new OcrLetter() {
Name = "L",
BlackPixels = new List<Point>() { new Point(1, 1), new Point(3, 4) },
WhitePixels = new List<Point>() { new Point(2, 2) }
This is challenging to do manually for 5 characters and gets much harder the greater the amount of letters that are added. You also want to guarantee that you have the minimum set of unique characteristics of a letter since you want it to be optimized as much as possible.
I want to create an algorithm that will identify the unique characteristics of all the letters and would generate similar code to that above. I would then use this optimized black/white matrix to identify characters.
How do I take the 26 letters that have all their black/white pixels filled in (e.g. the CreateLetter code block) and convert them to an optimized set of unique characteristics that define a letter (e.g. the new OcrLetter() code block)? And how would I guarantee that it is the most efficient definition set of unique characteristics (e.g. instead of defining 6 points as the unique characteristics, there might be a way to do it with 1 or 2 points, as the letter "I" in my example was able to).
An alternative solution I've come up with is using a hash table, which will reduce it from 2,860 iterations to 110 iterations, a 26 time reduction. This is how it might work:
I would populate it with data similar to the following:
Letters["01110 00100 00100 00100 01110"] = "I";
Letters["00100 01010 01110 01010 01010"] = "A";
Letters["00100 01010 01010 01010 00100"] = "O";
Letters["01100 01010 01100 01010 01100"] = "B";
Now when I reach a location in the image to process, I convert it to a string such as: "01110 00100 00100 00100 01110" and simply find it in the hash table. This solution seems very simple, however, this still requires 110 iterations to generate this string for each letter.
In big O notation, the algorithm is the same since O(110N) = O(2860N) = O(N) for N letters to process on the page. However, it is still improved by a constant factor of 26, a significant improvement (e.g. instead of it taking 26 minutes, it would take 1 minute).
Update: Most of the solutions provided so far have not addressed the issue of identifying the unique characteristics of a character and rather provide alternative solutions. I am still looking for this solution which, as far as I can tell, is the only way to achieve the fastest OCR processing.
I just came up with a partial solution:
For each pixel, in the grid, store the letters that have it as a black pixel.
Using these letters:
01110 00100 00100 01100 01000
00100 01010 01010 01010 01000
00100 01110 01010 01100 01000
00100 01010 01010 01010 01000
01110 01010 00100 01100 01110
You would have something like this:
CreatePixel(new Point(0, 0), new List<Char>() { });
CreatePixel(new Point(1, 0), new List<Char>() { 'I', 'B', 'L' });
CreatePixel(new Point(2, 0), new List<Char>() { 'I', 'A', 'O', 'B' });
CreatePixel(new Point(3, 0), new List<Char>() { 'I' });
CreatePixel(new Point(4, 0), new List<Char>() { });
CreatePixel(new Point(0, 1), new List<Char>() { });
CreatePixel(new Point(1, 1), new List<Char>() { 'A', 'B', 'L' });
CreatePixel(new Point(2, 1), new List<Char>() { 'I' });
CreatePixel(new Point(3, 1), new List<Char>() { 'A', 'O', 'B' });
// ...
CreatePixel(new Point(2, 2), new List<Char>() { 'I', 'A', 'B' });
CreatePixel(new Point(3, 2), new List<Char>() { 'A', 'O' });
// ...
CreatePixel(new Point(2, 4), new List<Char>() { 'I', 'O', 'B', 'L' });
CreatePixel(new Point(3, 4), new List<Char>() { 'I', 'A', 'L' });
CreatePixel(new Point(4, 4), new List<Char>() { });
Now for every letter, in order to find the unique characteristics, you need to look at which buckets it belongs to, as well as the amount of other characters in the bucket. So let's take the example of "I". We go to all the buckets it belongs to (1,0; 2,0; 3,0; ...; 3,4) and see that the one with the least amount of other characters is (3,0). In fact, it only has 1 character, meaning it must be an "I" in this case, and we found our unique characteristic.
You can also do the same for pixels that would be white. Notice that bucket (2,0) contains all the letters except for "L", this means that it could be used as a white pixel test. Similarly, (2,4) doesn't contain an 'A'.
Buckets that either contain all the letters or none of the letters can be discarded immediately, since these pixels can't help define a unique characteristic (e.g. 1,1; 4,0; 0,1; 4,4).
It gets trickier when you don't have a 1 pixel test for a letter, for example in the case of 'O' and 'B'. Let's walk through the test for 'O'...
It's contained in the following buckets:
// Bucket Count Letters
Additionally, we also have a few white pixel tests that can help: (I only listed those that are missing at most 2). The Missing Count was calculated as (5 - Bucket.Count).
// Bucket Missing Count Missing Letters
So now we can take the shortest black pixel bucket (3,2) and see that when we test for (3,2) we know it is either an 'A' or an 'O'. So we need an easy way to tell the difference between an 'A' and an 'O'. We could either look for a black pixel bucket that contains 'O' but not 'A' (e.g. 2,4) or a white pixel bucket that contains an 'O' but not an 'A' (e.g. 1,1). Either of these could be used in combination with the (3,2) pixel to uniquely identify the letter 'O' with only 2 tests.
This seems like a simple algorithm when there are 5 characters, but how would I do this when there are 26 letters and a lot more pixels overlapping? For example, let's say that after the (3,2) pixel test, it found 10 different characters that contain the pixel (and this was the least from all the buckets). Now I need to find differences from 9 other characters instead of only 1 other character. How would I achieve my goal of getting the least amount of checks as possible, and ensure that I am not running extraneous tests?


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"SCADA on thin ice"
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"Web extra: Campfire stories of SCADA insecurity"
Editor's note: This story was updated at 1:15 p.m. May 15, 2006, to include the correct name of the Process Control Systems Forum.
The critical infrastructure control systems' vulnerability to cyberattack is an area of growing concern for the federal government, a lead federal watchdog agency said. But it and other cybersecurity experts said the federal response has been mixed in creating documents governing cybersecurity for critical infrastructure.
Critical infrastructure cybersecurity is a significant issue, said Gregory Wilshusen, director of information security issues at the Government Accountability Office. The risk of cyberattacks on critical infrastructure has been rising for several years, he said.
Immediately after the 2001 terrorist attacks, the Bush administration warned that terrorists could harm the country's critical infrastructure through cyberattacks. In December 2003, Bush authorized Homeland Security Presidential Directive 7 (HSPD-7), which requires the protection of the country's critical infrastructure from physical and cyberattacks.
HSPD-7 guides policy development for the National Infrastructure Protection Plan (NIPP) to make it the authority on national critical infrastructure protection.
Worm attacks have compromised supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA), process control and other industrial control systems, said Patrick McBride, vice president of compliance solutions at Scalable Software. The failure of such systems contributed to the massive blackout in August 2003.
Those incidents led lawmakers to realize that cybersecurity is an important element of overall security for all critical infrastructure sectors, McBride said.
GAO pointed out those problems in a March 2004 report and recommended that the Homeland Security Department implement a strategy to improve public- and private-sector collaboration on control systems security.
"Connecting SCADA systems to a remotely accessible computer network can present security risks," the report states. Dangers include the introduction of IT security vulnerabilities, the compromising of sensitive operating information and the threat of unauthorized access to SCADA systems' control mechanisms.
The report recommended the implementation and enforcement of physical and cybersecurity standards for the electric power sector.
GAO found in February 2005 that the Homeland Security Department's U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team had published a National Strategy for Control Systems Security, but that the document had no formal publication date, Wilshusen said.
GAO ordered NIPP to address control systems security, too, he said. The Interim NIPP, however, did not address control systems security, he said. GAO will check on DHS' progress this summer, he said.
Scott Borg, director and chief economist at the U.S. Cyber Consequences Unit, an independent research group funded by DHS, declined to comment on NIPP. He spoke during a conference presentation last month at which he released a new checklist for critical infrastructure vulnerabilities to cyberattacks.
DHS declined to comment on control systems security and measures for it in the NIPP until after the department issues a new version of the plan later this spring, department spokesman John Papa said.
Control systems security is an "area of serious potential vulnerability that doesn't appear to be directly addressed in the NIPP," said Warren Suss, president of Suss Consulting. "As a nation, we have not stepped up with a real plan to address vulnerabilities with the force of law."
Instead of relying on industry to improve control systems security, Congress should pass legislation that mandates risk-based security measures, Suss said.
Opinions vary on how much regulation is needed to ensure safety, said Michael Torppey, technical manager of the Process Control Systems Forum, an industry group focusing on control systems security.
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The rapper looks to politics when asked who he'd most like to smoke marijuana with.
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manyntiny black dots on the leaf undersides
The subject line is pretty descriptive. Some of my hoyas are getting very many pin-prick sized black dots on the undersides of some leaves.
This is Hoya ridleyi. Old leaf is on the left (not my growing), new one is on the right.
I noticed the black dots, while present on the whole backside of the leaf, here form a thick horizontal stripe on the bottom half of the leaf. No idea why that may be. Any guesses?
Tops of the leaves look fine to me:
The new leaf is much more flexible, but that is entirely normal till it matures and becomes more turgid, I understand.
Here is a backside of a Hoya pottsii leaf:
Black dots ate not as dense but still present. This hoya is doing it on both old and new leaves.
Hoya micrantha is doing it too. Black dots are particularly noticeable on new leaves, but some old ones also have them to very small degree. No picture, but you get the idea.
And there are other species, too, where it's less prominent but present.
What should I read into this?
Nothing bad - those are totally normal. Some of my Hoyas get them too, and it seems to be a characteristic of certain species, because the same species keep popping up with this question. (Like in this thread here).
Hoyas will also get black dots from sun damage, (often after being misted), on their tops. And spots can, of course, mean fungus or pests. But the kind you've pictured are innocent. You will notice, as time goes on, that there is no browning or yellowing associated with these - as would be the case with "bad spots." In some plants, they go away as the leaf matures, but I don't think my micrantha ones go away, or mitrata, and many others I can think of. I think they're quite pretty. Enjoy!


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As of 0.3.X, Cordova / PhoneGap have changed their directory and naming conventions so that it fits better the targeted platforms. This plugin is adapted to the new file structure to ease integration. Check former release 0.1.X if you are still on Cordova / PhoneGap 0.2.X releases.
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Array of String
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As you can see the babysitter does not only babysit baby's:)
Awwwww, that is just so precious, sooo sweet, love this Ellen. And your closeups are just Masterpieces
Too cute, it really looks like the rat is kissing the goose. Great, great work Ellen…….just the best.
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"Beadium" Lab—Beads as Isotopes Name: __________________________________________ Period: _________ Introduction: In this lab, you will pretend that two different colors of beads represent the isotopes of the element "beadium". The green beads are the heavy isotope and the pink beads are the lighter isotope. The task will be to determine the percentage of each isotope in a mixture of isotopes without counting them. Materials: pink and green beads Balance Weighing tray Procedures: 1. Obtain exactly 10 green beads. Weigh them and record the mass. Calculate the mass of a single green bead. 2. Obtain exactly 10 pink beads. Weigh them and record the mass. Calculate the average mass of a single pink bead. 3. Prepare a mixture of exactly 100 beads to give to another group. You may make any combination you like (ex: 66 green and 34 pink). Do NOT tell them how many of each color! Another group will make a mixture for you. 4. When you receive a mixture from another group, weigh the entire mixture. Do NOT sort them by color or count them! Calculate the average mass of a single bead in the mixture. 5. Using the equation for average atomic mass, calculate the number of each color of bead in the mixture that the other group gives you. Afterwards, check with the group that gave you the beads or just count them yourselves. Required Participation: Behave appropriately in lab, conduct the experiments as instructed, and clean up. You must fill out the data table and get my initials. This lab write-up is a menu option worth 20 points—you must get initials, fill out the data table, do the calculations, and answer the post-lab questions. My initials (1 pt): ___________ Data Table (4 pts)—Required! Your own beads Beads you receive from another group Quantity Green Pink Mixture Total Mass Number of beads 10 10 100 Average mass of a single bead Calculations (8 pts)—you MUST show work! 1. Calculate the fraction of green beads (X) in the mixture using the following: Mmix = Mgreen (X) + Mpink (1-X) where Mmix = the average mass of a single bead in the mixture Mgreen = the average mass of a single green bead Mpink = the average mass of a single pink bead X = the fraction of green beads in the mixture 1-X = the fraction of pink beads in the mixture 2. What is the percentage of green beads in the mixture? 3. What is the percentage of pink beads in the mixture? Post-Lab Questions (7 pts) You may use your notes and packet to help answer these questions, but you MUST work by yourself! Do not copy anyone else's words and don't let anyone copy yours! Answer in complete sentences! 1. How are the two isotopes (green and pink) of beadium alike? ________________________________________________________________________ How are they different? ________________________________________________________________________ 2. Look at the data table; is the average mass of a bead in the mixture closer to the mass of a pink bead or closer to the mass of a green bead? ________________________________________________________________________ Explain what that indicates about the relative number of pink and green beads in the mixture. ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ 3. You had exactly 100 beads in your mixture. Therefore, if you had 54% green that would mean you had 54 green beads. Did you get a whole number for a percent? Did you get the right answer? If no for either question, give at least one reason why not. ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Use the periodic table for questions 4 & 5: 4. The element copper is made up of two isotopes: copper-63 and copper-65. a. Copper-63 has: how many protons? _______ neutrons? ________ b. Copper-65 has: how many protons? _______ neutrons? ________ 5. Get the average atomic mass of copper from the periodic table: ___________________ Why is the average not 64? What does the average indicate about the amount of copper-63 and copper-65? ___________________________________________________________________________
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Here is my first "experiment". I'm from Louisiana, hence the name.
Not sure how this is going to turn out. I think I made quite a few mistakes and I'm actually wanting to do another batch right away and tweak the things I did wrong.
Here's the recipe I used:
96 bags Lipton tea
3 gallons distilled water
6 cups corn sugar
zest of 2 lemons and juice of 5
cotes de blanc dry yeast
First I boiled 1 gallon of water then added the sugar and zest.
Removing the pot from the burner I then let it steep for 5 minutes, removed the tea bags and added the lemon juice.
Here's where I think I messed up. I had a friend over at the time and became distracted. I placed the pot in my sink filled with cold water. In my carboy I added the distilled water which had been in my refrigerator. After probably less than two minutes I added the tea "wort" to the carboy and brought to volume with another cold gallon of water.
Then I pitched my yeast (without checking the temperature) to the carboy. I had made a starter and had it in my fridge and added it straight to the carboy.
I have no clue what temp my wort was before I pitched the yeast. I did take a gravity reading before pitching and it was somewhere around 1.012....kind of low. Guess I need to add a bit more sugar next time.
Well, it was an experiment that's for sure. I'll update once I see some activity...or not.
Honestly, it's not too late to throw more sugar in there, particularly if you did this recently (the yeast are probably still just fine).
It has been about 24 hours. would I just throw it in and shake it up? Don't have much in the way of something to stir up a carboy.
I'd use corn sugar, boil it down in water and let it cool, then pour it into the carboy. To stir it up, a big piece of foil that's been dipped in no rinse sanitizer held tightly over the neck to keep everything in and some good swirling action would do it.
Should have used Luzianne tea for a real Louisiana hard tea.
That's true. Oddly enough my grocery store didn't have any. I was in a rush, that's no excuse but there you have it. I will definitely seek it out next time.
Well it has been 3 weeks today so I could barely contain myself as I tried my experiment.
I boiled 6 cups of regular table sugar in 2 quarts of water, cooled it in an ice bath and added 4 crushed campden tablets. I then added the sugar water to my bottling bucket and then siphoned my tea from my carboy into the bottling bucket.
I didn't bottle it, I just siphoned it into 4 gallon jugs once mixed like I would a normal sweet tea.
Adding ice like I would to any sweet tea I took my first tentative sip. Honestly the first thing that came to mind was that it tasted like flat champagne. I could detect the lemon and tea flavors but they are weak. This surprised me since I used nearly 100 bags of tea!
Some friends of mine really enjoyed it and said they would recommend to others and definitely wanted me to brew more. My Father in law said it need just a little something more and added mint to his.
I actually quite like it. Very refreshing on a hot day and is easy to drink.
I may will definitely tweak the recipe. I will definitely up the sugar to increase my alcohol content next time.
Has anyone else done a tea like this? I would love to really nail down my recipe.


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The chess club at Cherry Brook Primary School in Canton has a few new players. Canton Police Chief Christopher Arciero, and a few of his officers, came to this week's club and played a few of the students. Arciero said he enjoyed it and he and his officers will try and stop by more often to... Richard Messina


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Hutton's signature restaurant 1808 Grille blends traditional Southern dishes with global flavors. Reclaimed wood décor and a warm, organic color palette form the backdrop for an elegant yet casual atmosphere in which to experience the award-winning farm to table cuisine and of Executive Chef Charles Phillips, Health Chef for the National Foundation for Cancer Research.
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- Breakfast: 6:30am - 10:30am daily
- Lunch: 11:30am - 2:00pm Monday - Friday
- Brunch: 10:30am – 2:00pm Saturday & Sunday
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Light and Easy Book Group - Drop in to knit, crochet, eat snacks and discuss this month's book, "Jeeves and the Tie that Binds" by P.G. Wodehouse. Today, 1 p.m., Auntie's Bookstore, mezzanine, 402 W. Main Ave. (509) 838-0206.
Author Bob Manion - Book signing of "Springer's Heart," along with "The Treehouse" and "Santa's Heroes." Today, 1-4 p.m., Hastings - Shadle, 1704 W. Wellesley Ave. (509) 327-6008.
Author Gene Soper - Signing his book "COE: The First 60 Years, The History of the Coeur d'Alene Airport." Today, 1-5 p.m., Hastings Books - Coeur d'Alene, 101 Best Ave., Coeur d'Alene. (208) 664-0464; also Saturday, 1-3 p.m., Museum of North Idaho, 115 Northwest Blvd., Coeur d'Alene. (208) 664-3448.
Cheney Book Club - This month's selection is "Major Pettigrew's Last Stand" by Helen Simonson. Today, 7 p.m., Cheney Library, 610 First St., Cheney. Free. (509) 893-8280.
Coeur d'Alene Public Library Pageturners Books Club - Wednesday, "The Lost Painting," by Jonathan Harr. 10:15 a.m., Coeur d'Alene Library, 702 E. Front Ave., Coeur d'Alene. Free. (208) 769-2315, ext. 426.
Deer Park Library Book Club - Discuss "The Very Thought of You" by Rosie Alison. Bring a brown bag lunch. Wednesday, Noon, Deer Park Library, 208 S. Forest Ave., Deer Park. Free. (509) 893-8300.
An Evening of Poetry - Presented by the Beacon Hill Reading Series. Featuring the work of D.S. Butterworth, Gwendolyn Cash James and Tom Gribble. Wednesday, 6:30-7:30 p.m., Spokane Community College, Hagan Foundation Center for Humanities, 1810 N. Greene St. Free. (509) 533-7045.
Moran Prairie Library Book Club - Discussion of "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot. Thursday, 2 p.m., Moran Prairie Library, 6004 S. Regal St. Free. (509) 893-8340.
Otis Orchards Book Club - Thursday, 4:30 p.m., Otis Orchards Library, 22324 E. Wellesley Ave., Otis Orchards. Free. (509) 893-8390.
Spokane Word, Yo! - Hear poems and stories by poets as well as survivors of sexual violence. Sponsored by SAFeT (Sexual Assault and Family Trauma Response Center. Thursday, 6 p.m., Neato Burrito, 827 W. First Ave. Free. (509) 343-5071.
Author Anthony Doerr - Author of four books, "The Shell Collector," "About Grace," "Four Seasons in Rome," and, most recently, "Memory Wall." Thursday, 8 p.m., BookPeople, 521 S. Main St., Moscow, Idaho. (208) 882-2669.
Authors John M. Findlay and Bruce Hevly - Both professors at University of Washington, they present their book "Atomic Frontier Days: Hanford and the American West." Friday, 7 p.m., Auntie's Bookstore, mezzanine, 402 W. Main Ave. (509) 838-0206.
Author Barbara Olivo Cagle - "16 x Mom: A Mastery of Motherhood," the true story of a woman who raised her 16 children in the heart of San Jose, chronicling over 100 years of California history and the immigration from the old countries of Chile, Spain and Italy. The author is child No. 13 and her mother is now 94 years old. Friday and Saturday from noon to 4 p.m., Hastings - Shadle, 1704 W. Wellesley Ave. (509) 327-6008.
Author Esta Rosevear - Children's author presents her third book, "Rebecca and the Garden." Saturday, 11 a.m.-3 p.m., Hastings Books - South, 2512 E. 29th Ave. Free. (509) 535-4342.
Spokane Novelists Group - Strong critiquing of fiction only, novels and short stories. No poetry, non-fiction, memoirs, etc., please. Bring 5-10 pages to read to the group and 6-8 copies. Saturday, Noon, Otis Orchards Library, 22324 E. Wellesley Ave., Otis Orchards. Free. (509) 891-1695.
"The Private Dick Diaries: Rules of Repo" Signing - Private investigators Erin Jenkins and Phil Thompson will be available to sign and discuss their book. Saturday, 1-4 p.m., Hastings Books - Coeur d'Alene, 101 Best Ave., Coeur d'Alene. $15.95/book. (208) 664-0464.
Author T. Dawn Richard - Signing all four books in the May List series. Saturday, 2-5 p.m., Hastings Books - South, 2512 E. 29th Ave. (509) 535-4342.


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