The everyday part of IT ALL

To halt all confusion in advance of it even starts off, i am not expressing the marijuana in and of by itself could be the primary material that makes the superbly rolled joint more robust or danker. No an argument like that will be outside of still left subject. Legal marijuana is what I am stating however, is it does have a fantastic affect in your 420 time if everything you rolled up with your papers is nice and smug. Marry Jane cigarette smoking is definitely an artwork type, and so as these must be handled as one particular in just about every and all cases. Ok, we get it, possibly not ALL occasions, like say when you've got to grab a quick toke prior to deciding to go into perform, or when time is getting rushed.

These businesses, in spite and anger, made a decision to lobby congress for making cannabis illegal to posses and consume within the foundation that it is worse than beer. Several research have however demonstrated that weed, when eaten in modest quantities, is ten fold safer than beer or other alcoholic beverages eaten in modest quantities. Men and women never realize that weed really calms folks down and tends to make them delighted and in a laughing temper, alternatively of drunk, angry, and violent like alcoholic beverages does when folks get squandered. You can not in excess of dose on weed, only get substantial sufficient to obtain the munches and take in every little thing with your cabinet. Critics also claim that stoners are lazy, but when you look at well-known pot head musicians such as the Beatles, you cannot say they were being lazy, primarily based on the amount function they set in to put in writing tunes that sold an incredible number of records. The Beatles and many other artists and celebrities are pro legalization of bud, but yet nevertheless it has only passed as lawful in two US states. Other nations including Amsterdam and British Columbia make it possible for their residents to toke up, so why does not the United states make it possible for the identical thing?




Not all weed smokers embrace the factor of lighting up while at function, or in advance of heading into operate, but a new revolution has begun while in the weed smoking cigarettes planet. It is hard to clarify in detail the implications this new pattern may possibly have on individuals who would relatively continue to be sober. Some feel that it's going to result in a whole new standard of individual who occasionally likes to receive large, and often does not. Reads of well-liked journals like high periods, and 4:twenty planet have pitched in with their viewpoints. While they already knew just how to roll a blunt. Justin from Florida says that if his home town of Tampa would legalize bud, that he would roll up and smoke himself a extra fat doobie every single solitary morning, and during the night time prior to he went to mattress. You might believe that this type of time lapse in smoking cigarettes is not nearly anything substantial to speculate about. Nonetheless, appear at it in this manner, he probably spends 16 hours awake, and 8 hrs asleep, the proper type of serious bud is enough to get him so significant that he would actually be less than the affect of bud this complete complete time.

Many farmers wish to know very well what it’s want to improve marijuana in their fields. None nevertheless have resolved to enterprise out and check out this experiment. The reason is always that the federal govt would like to lock up and arrest anyone who decides to grow the drug. Drug is just not a term for use loosely in regards to referring to marijuana. Quite a few politicians, stars, and musicians, have smoked marijuana for way back to persons can recall. The new tradition with the twenty first century in fact loves to smoke weed they usually claim they are going to in no way cease using tobacco the natural. Many of the most infamous pot smokers are judges, federal brokers, and police officers, but why does most people get such a bad rep in terms of them staying the wish to smoke it. It is no mystery why it’s all regarding the income on the drug and pharmaceutical corporations. They want the general public to depend on them for his or her medicinal purposes. But as an increasing number of people are getting to be informed from the possible great things about smoking weed increasingly more are beginning to consider it up. It really is not simply a interest amongst men and women who can hack have entry to it, but it surely can be something which men and women do not have significantly dollars can do. If you understand the way to roll a joint you are going to never ever need to question the proccess yet again. Who'll determine what the government will occur up with upcoming in relation to drug reform and much of that mother nature. Quite a few speculate that marijuana is going to be authorized in all states with the calendar year 2015. Other individuals state that this kind of predicament is so nuts that it's going to by no means take place. So my question to you personally visitors is that this, will the legalization of weed ever strike america on the mass amount or will they be restricted to a few states only.



Is it a great notion to buy everything that goes within your system from an internet based distribution keep? Yes, and no concurrently, if your vendor is confirmed, or has a excellent romance with other web sites for instance amazon, or other top providing web sites that have to accomplish with hash, then that is a great indicator. But I'd say no when it comes to getting seeds to expand your own. It may be considered a very negative plan to receive into the production organization. Hydroponics is one way growers get huge yields with the drug, if you're able to even get in touch with it a drug, a lot prefer to simply call it an herb that's lawfully distributed, that is why they have things for example cannabis, or the hashish cup in British Columbia. Plus they brazenly offer the hearth buds in coffee stores sprinkled out all through the cities. Not everybody puffs just as much as snoop does, nonetheless it is incredibly likely which you will find individuals who do.

The individuals manage to pay for to shop and purchase bud with the locations that promote it in the most inexpensive selling prices. So that you have two possibilities in life if you certainly are a toker. If you want an even bigger, extended long lasting, much better, additional compact drag from you gadget, then you definitely require to update your self into a blunt. Understand what cigar to make use of for rolling then start off the proccess by very first using the paper off. Number 1, develop your very own supply and variety two, get rich enough to get plenty of money so that you can purchase Mary Jane at any time you obtain the urge to obtain blown. The most powerful style of legal weed you can purchase on-line could be located merely by doing a number of lookups in the words get high legally, and have eco-friendly dank smoke.

This has to be why Women Ride Guys for Fun.

When do women start experimenting with masturbatory stimulation? Even though most are believed to start out at a very developing age, approximately 13 years old, one can find exceptions of older women starting in their 30s, and 40s. Exactly like for guys, masturbation for girls is typically discovered by accident, but then carries on to be practiced intentionally. Because most first times of genital masturbation for females occurs while they are in their beds, most women become imaginative with masturbation routines also, while they are in bed. When women discover that the pillow they sleep on offers such extraordinary pleasures and feelings when placed between their legs and made love to. If they ever thought it was easy and wanted to know how to ride a guy then they shouldn't even look too far. They usually never return to any other methods of self pleasuring. In addition to bedrooms, camping in sleeping bags, and sleeping at motels, have also been places girls have stated to have masturbated with a pillow for the first time. After a girl realizes the sexual pleasure obtained from rubbing her clitoris backwards and forwards on her pillow, the woman will continue to do so out of curiosity of what can happen. And to gauge how high her arousal level can get to. After attaining a elevated pleasurable position, several women have said they had to force themselves to stop humping their pillow. On the other hand, many others have stated they kept moving until eventually they achieved ejaculation. The women that cease masturbating when hitting a elevated amount of pleasure often times claim that they just could not take the increased amount of excitement they were experiencing. The girls that report going forward through the activity report having the very best orgasms they have ever been through.

Looks like fun.

SLA2010 – New Orleans – Day 4 – Tuesday June 15

Leadership and influence – building capacity for change

Ken Haycock

• must promote self and library
• everyone is a leader
  • getting people to give support to a common goal
• learn to articulate strengths
• do “strengths finder” exercises
• first part of leadership is self awareness
• apply what we know – evidence based librarianship
• libraries have not key success factors
• power of influence
• libraries
  • referent power
  • expertise power – over rated – not high power
• trust is critical
• reputation
• self confidence is key
• listening
• mentoring is a powerful tool
• mentoring is more important for women
• trust
  • character
  • competence
  • confidence
  • credible
  • congruence
• yes – 50scientific ways to be successful
• social proof – what others are doing
• like and respect gets money
• find out values and beliefs of those with budget control
• ask – what do you want to accomplish and how can I help you to do it
• SOPPADA – a method to organize a one page report that gets read
• ROTI – return on time invested
• developing partnerships with knowledge
• key influences
• building influence
  • using evidence
  • connecting agendas
  • assessing time
  • assessing costs
  • leveraging resources
  • measuring results

Chemistry Division Corporate Libraries Roundtable

general discussion on challenges facing corporate librarians

Taxonomy

Sponsored by Solo Librarians Division and Taxonomy Division

http://www.accidental-taxonomist.com

taxonomy – index – thesaurus

• variety of terms
• variety of usages
• variety of perspectives
• variety of software, systems

I will never use Travelocity again

Was I ever surprised when I arrived at the New Orleans Airport to go home after the SLA conference. Seems the booking made on travelocity.ca (leaving at 4:05 pm) was changed at some point and I was now supposed to be on a 9:55 am flight.

I had to pay $50 to rebook. Delta agent pleasantly told me I would have had the same price if I had used their web site directly. Also that I need to get the $50 back from Travelocity.

Oh Joy

Oh Bliss

 

At least there were still seats on the original flight and  I am headed home.

SLA2010 – New Orleans – Day 3 – Monday June 14

Business Research

• All US sources
• All US everything
• Slides online – note to self – look for them

Left and went to another session…

Knowledge continuity and Opportunities – Future of knowledge Managers

Speaker Patrick Lambe, Straits Knowledge

• Interstitial library -  books that fall through the gaps
• KM needs to work in the gaps and help close them
• His study is available for purchase
• 15 roles for Knowledge Managers – many are or should be general management competencies
• He has written articles on this
• beware success stories- concentrate on daily experiences and patterns
• quick wins are temporary
• easy wins are not scalable

Embedded Librarianship in the Field

Reese Dano and Gretchen McNeely

• not really relevant
• too many buzzwords
• what does “dimensionality” really mean??
• how many times can a speaker say “disparate” and “overarching” in the same talk?

Left and went to exhibit hall …

Success Stories of Solos

Patrick Clapp moderated and organized this session. His speakers all had to cancel out on him, so he asked me if I could talk about my success at negotiating my termination and my new job. So, I did.  Calling my part “everything is negotiable” I quickly reviewed

asking Xerox for more than the offered severance package and asking ArcelorMittal Dofasco for more than what was offered when I got my new job there.

And then the rains came down. View from my hotel room.

 

SLA 2010 – New Orleans - Day 2 – Sunday June 13

The temperature has gone down a little – only about 101 today. Breakfast buffet in hotel was much better today as there were not 100 teens in the line-up.

Fedex Kinkos

As secretary of the Solo Librarians Division I had to make sure this morning that I had the agenda and minutes printed and available for the group. To this end, I went online to the FedEx Kinkos site as there is a location right in the hotel where the meeting was going to be held. I uploaded the files and found out that they don’t accept Canadian credit cards. After being transferred around on the telephone I found someone who told me how to at least submit the job and then I could go over later and pay. I did this, however, the job was all screwed up and I only got half of it. I will need to do it all over again for the business meeting.

My message to American companies -- the world does not end at your borders. Not by a long shot.

Solo Division Board Meeting

The Solo Librarians Division Board Meeting was at noon today. We had a great discussion on the future planning for conferences and conference sessions. We hope to see a lot more people at the luncheon tomorrow. I think I volunteered to be a speaker on a panel session :0

Exhibits

I spent all afternoon at the exhibit hall. I had not intended to do so, but there were a lot of people to talk to. Swag is pretty good this year.

Keynote

Mary Matalin and James Carville were the keynote speakers. She was very interesting and articulate, he was very funny and very driven to improve New Orleans. I could have listened to them much longer.

 

Solo Librarians Division No Host Dinner

Nine solo’s went to dinner at “The Gumbo Shop” in the French Quarter.

 

The food was very good. I had Shrimp Gumbo, Crayfish Ettouffee, Macque Choux Corn, and a Praline Sundae. YUM!!

SLA2010 – New Orleans – Day 1 – Saturday June 12

Hot Hot Damn Hot

104 F – glasses fog up every time I leave a building!

2011 Philadelphia Planning Session

• Four Solo Division participants
• Still on track for a Lean Six Sigma session with yours truly organizing it.
• SOLO is the host for the Joint Reception in 2011 – must find a local solo to help
• Keynote speakers announced - Thomas Friedman (opening), James Kane (closing)
• Variety of room layouts planned. Some good, some not so good.
• Planning on inviting community leaders and managers to conference for a Forum designed for non-members – interesting concept
• Will post SOLO plans when they are clearer

SLA Leadership Summit

I spent the last few days of January in St. Louis at the SLA Leadership Summit.

Photos over on Facebook.

SLA 2009 – Day 4 – Tuesday

Early morning – session at 7:30 am

7: 30am -- More With Less: Successful Time Management Practices

11: 30am  --Solo Librarians Division Business Meeting Luncheon

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12:30 Interdisciplinary Science and Its Impact on Information Professionals

1: 30pm  -- Working Smarter: Creating a Virtual Assistant

5pm  -- All Sciences Poster Session and Reception

9 pm -- Information Technology, Leadership and Management, and Physics-Astronomy-Mathematics Divisions Open House: The Embassy Ball

with visits to the exhibits mixed in.

 

 

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SLA 2009 -- Day 3 - Monday

Slept in this morning. First session not until 9 am.

Went to first choice – ROI 2.0 corporate libraries – seemed like a long ad for an ebook vendor. left and went to second choice – Radical Reference – not what I thought at all. Too left wing for me.

Went to third choice – social networking analysis with Jay Liebowitz – this one was a great choice. Mapping of social networks to determine communication channels and interactions to locate bottlenecks and unconnects

At 11 am went to “moving up the ladder when there is no ladder to climb”. Jeanne Miller of UMICH was first speaker. Hildy Dworkin in NY city government was second and Karen Rescik was third. Very interesting and provided some good ideas to try.

Between all sessions I went to the exhibit hall and met people, learned about potential services, etc.

Migraine caused me to miss Canadian Reception and Elsevier Reception. Went to Solo open house and IT open house as they were in my hotel.

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SLA 2009 – Day 2

Got to sleep in today.  Rain was predicted, but the weather has remained beautiful. Sunny and clear.

Had a few things to print and had a bit of problem with the Kinkos systems, but worked it out.

Solo Division Board meeting at noon. Went well. I am secretary and hope to have minutes finished in the next few days.

Went to the exhibits for most of the afternoon. Talked to many vendors and picked up some quality swag.

Skipped the keynote because my head was not good. Stayed in and rested.

Went to SciTech Poster session

Knowledge Management Reception

LMD

and IT receptions.

SLA 2009 Day 1

5:00 am Woke up in Oakville ON

5:30 AM - Picked up by Airport Limo and whisked off to Toronto Pearson International Airport for a 8:00 am flight (we must be at the airport 2 hours before international flights and no matter what some people think, USA is still an international country)

5:50 AM - Checking in

6:20 AM - Sitting in boarding area waiting

6:25 AM - Drinking a Tim Hortons coffee and enjoying a toasted everything bagel with herb and garlic cream cheese

7:15 AM - Getting US cash from ATM in terminal

8:00 AM - On plane

9:10 AM - In Washington DC

11:15 AM - Checking into Washington Renaissance Hotel Downtown

1:00 PM – Headed for Convention Center. One block away.

Computers down at registration at conference centre. Back up shortly. Computer tells me to go to “badge pickup” – ???? – no signs, no nothing with that on it. What it really means is “Talk to person behind desk to get tickets and bag”.

1:30 PM – sandwich, chips, and Diet Coke (my hotel is all Pepsi, bummer) from upper level conference snack booth ($12) and wading through stuff in conference bag. Put badge together, checked tickets, read programme, etc.

2:00 PM – in 2010 New Orleans Planning Meeting!! Guess who is keynote speaker next year – James Carville and his wife (I guess you US people would know her, but all I know is she is the other party from him and I don’t even know which party he is [yes yes, I could look it up, but it does not really matter that much to me]) I do not follow politics but this is a very interesting choice. Guess Brad Pitt was unavailable :)
Met Hildy Dworkin and Rene Shoemaker, my fellow SOLO exec members.

5:00 PM – in Renaissance bar/restaurant having drinks and dinner with Hildy and Rene.

6 PM – on bus tour of Washington – see photos on Flickr, as I won’t post them all here :) I took this one. It was a very nice day for a tour. Too humid and no water available. Herded all over and meeting the same herds, I mean tour groups, over and over at each landmark.  (Note to tour company – water the livestock occasionally)

Met a bunch of very nice ladies on the tour!!

9:30 PM -  heading  back to hotel, hot and thirsty

The rest of the evening was checking email, finding minutes for Sunday’s board meeting, putting feet up and off to ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ by 11PM. An early night, perhaps the last :)

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Sharing SLA 2009 Personal Conference Planner information

A tweet on Twitter from Jill Hurst-Wahl about not being able to share SLA Conference Planner information started this chain of thought.

Google calendars are easily shared, posted and updated from exported data from other calendar programmes. I knew last year I exported my conference planner, imported it into Outlook and printed the pages in a more user friendly format.

I knew the same could be done for Google calendar.

• Start in your planner. Click the button to “Export to Outlook” and save the file somewhere you can remember. This creates a CSV file.
• open Google calendar (http://calendar.google.com)
• create a new calendar if you want, or import the items into your existing one. I created a new one called SLA 2009
• Click “settings” on the “My calendars” box and choose “import calendar” under “My Calendars”
• Browse to the file you saved above, choose which Google calendar to import into and Import.

Under calendar details for this calendar you now have options to share it, post it, etc. Here is mine. You can see I still have a few decisions to make as to which sessions I will be attending. You can update it by exporting from the Planner and importing into Google calendar again and not allowing duplicates.

Enjoy

Purina Walk for Dog Guides

 

My family, including our Dog Guide Foster Puppy AJ, will be participating in the Purina Walk for Dog Guides on May 31, 2009 to help raise funds for the training and placement of Dog Guides.

AJ is our second foster puppy.

All Dog Guides are provided to eligible candidates at no cost. Funding for Dog Guide training is 100 per cent obtained from donations and no government funding is received. Dog Guides Canada has already provided their specially trained Dog Guides to more than 1300 men, women and children from ages eight to 88. With your help, more people can experience the mobility, safety and independence a devoted Dog Guide partner brings.

You can help by giving an online gift by credit card by clicking 'Donate Now'.

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My Fundraising Goal

$1,000.00

Raised so far $825.00

Photo management software

I have been looking for quite some time for good great software that is free low cost, user friendly, downloadable (i.e. not a web based system like flickr, webshots, etc.), has commenting features, and does not need a lot of admin knowledge.

I have read a number of articles, checked out discussion lists and downloaded many trials.

Here is what I have found so far:

Omeka – this looked great. I got all excited. Then our IT people informed me that you need to have running Linux, Apache, PHP5 and MySQL5 and they were not willing. All that is beyond me. If it is not beyond you, this looks like a perfect solution.

“Omeka is a free and open source collections based web-based publishing platform for scholars, librarians, archivists, museum professionals, educators, and cultural enthusiasts. Its “five-minute setup” makes launching an online exhibition as easy as launching a blog. Omeka is designed with non-IT specialists in mind, allowing users to focus on content and interpretation rather than programming. It brings Web 2.0 technologies and approaches to academic and cultural websites to foster user interaction and participation. It makes top-shelf design easy with a simple and flexible templating system. Its robust open-source developer and user communities underwrite Omeka’s stability and sustainability. Until now, scholars and cultural heritage professionals looking to publish collections-based research and online exhibitions required either extensive technical skills or considerable funding for outside vendors. By making standards based, serious online publishing easy, Omeka puts the power and reach of the web in the hands of academics and cultural professionals themselves.”

Gallery – This one also looks good, however it also requires PHP and a web server, etc.

“Gallery is an open source project with the goal to develop and support leading photo sharing web application solutions. The Gallery project develops open source software licensed under the GPL, and is maintained and developed by a community of users and developers. The development is a distributed effort, with collaboration from around the globe. The team is well organized, with weekly meetings, and constant communication. Serving millions worldwide, the Gallery project is the most widely used system of its kind. Gallery is free to download and use.  Gallery is also the name of the main product, an online photo album organizer. Gallery gives you an intuitive way to blend photo management seamlessly into your own website whether you're running a small personal site or a large community site.”

Extensis Portfolio – this one is not free, but it is reasonably priced. However it also got some less than rave reviews. I’ll have to try the demo. It is used by a few very well know places.

Canto Cumulus – no pricing on their site.

“Search and find images across your entire organization. Cumulus makes it all available and searchable by subject matter, creator/photographer, campaign, model or any other custom metadata you define— even if the original image source is offline. Cumulus makes it easy to share all your images, or just those you choose. Provide easy self-service access to the latest approved version of every image you want to distribute… in whatever resolution or format your users need.”

Microsoft Expressions Media -- $199

This one got bad reviews, so I did not spend too much time looking at it. Perhaps a demo??

IDimager – at $129 for the professional this one looks very good. It has all the features I was looking for. It has a free 30 day trial so that is next. One feature that I am really lookign forward to is “area tagging” like in FaceBook. You can then tag people in the photo directly so everyone knows who is who.  Other features are: Revolutionary search system; Fast image collecting; Versioning and Stacking; Area tagging; Relational labels; Easy metadata management; Archiving; Open architecture; Unicode™ support

“imaging software that is complementary to your digital imaging equipment. Its many features will make it easier to maintain the large number of photo files that you will produce. Some feature examples are: acquire images from a digital camera, browse, organize, catalogue, version control, archive, edit, e-mail, print, find, slide shows, publish images to the Internet... and more.”

 

 

Article I found of great value -- Systems for Managing Image Collections  http://www.jiscdigitalmedia.ac.uk/stillimages/advice/systems-for-managing-image-collections/

Fake Journals

via http://www.boingboing.net/2009/05/03/merck-and-elsevier-p.html

Merck publishes, basically a marketing document, as a journal. Elsevier does the actual publishing.

 

What is NOT wrong with this?

Goodbye friends

Some of my friends have been deleted.  If you are one of them, please don’t take it personally. I was running out of time in the day to read it all.

I reduced my Facebook friends list by about half. I also reduced the number of people I am following on Twitter significantly. But the one reduction that will buy me the most time, is cutting my subscriptions on Google Reader by about 65%. 

I figure the really important news will be retweeted and reblogged by someone I do follow.

So,  farewell old friends…..

Library Society of the World “Shover and Maker Award” winner

 

I thank you all for your confidence in me and my abilities. Without you I would never have won this prestigious Library Society of the World “Shover and Maker” award, let alone been nominated for it.

I have been a shover and a maker for many years and am finally rejoicing that someone else has recognized my unique talents.  See: http://www.shoversandmakers.net/sm-award-winners-2009  I should be there somewhere.

 

After a degree in chemical engineering and a masters in library science, I am now in my 22nd year with Xerox. I am located in the postmodern structure at the corner of Winston Churchill and the QEW in Mississauga, ON, CANADA.

This last year, in order to win this award, I completed the following – among other things:

• updated internal library web pages
• negotiated contracts with a number of big name library suppliers
• developed and implemented a system to import all the MARC records for our ebook collection (over 12K titles) into our library catalogue
• worked really hard at understanding US/Canada corporate copyright agreements
• learned how to build things in Second Life
• twittered (tweeted?) like mad
• designed/implemented/populated a database of courses and conferences in our area of interest with web interface
• supported engineers, chemists, physicists, etc. at two locations in two countries, thousands of miles apart, and kept most of them happy
• attended SLA in Seattle
• championed a library booth at an internal technical conference
• found someone else to handle the interaction with the US government’s iEdison system
• got a new laptop with vista and had them uninstall it and install XP
• won an internal award for my community work (foster family for Dog Guide puppies)
• won $100 gift certificate from SLA for completing the 23-things project (months have gone by and I have not seen the money though)
• became webmaster for CFUW Oakville

Twitter - http://twitter.com/carolyne/
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Webshots – http://community.webshots.com/user/cdarimont
meebo – _carolyne_
email – carolyne (dot) sidey (at) xerox (dot) com 
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Ada Lovelace Day : Ruth Adams

Just who is Ada Lovelace you may ask and why am I posting about her.

To honor the birthday of Ada Lovelace, the first computer programmer, 1500+ people have signed a pledge to profile a woman in technology on March 24.  This is my contribution. Many people are blogging about her and other women of science. Ruth Wilson of the UK Resource Centre for Women in Science, Engineering and Technology emailed to let us know that their guest blogger from today is the great-great-great niece of Ada - Honora Smith, Operational Research and Management Science at the University of Southampton.

Ada Lovelace, according to Wikipedia:

“Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (10 December 1815, London – 27 November 1852, Marylebone, London), born Augusta Ada Byron, was the only legitimate child of George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron. [the famous poet, Lord Byron] She is widely known in modern times simply as Ada Lovelace. She is mainly known for having written a description of Charles Babbage's early mechanical general-purpose computer, the analytical engine. She is today appreciated as the "first programmer" since she was writing programs—that is, manipulating symbols according to rules—for a machine that Babbage had not yet built. She also foresaw the capability of computers to go beyond mere calculating or number-crunching while others, including Babbage himself, focused only on these capabilities.”

I have chosen the first women from Canada to be granted a patent – Ruth Adams. She was granted a patent in 1855 (before Canada was Canada) for a Reverse Cooking Stove – one of only 490 issued that year.

From List of Canadian patents from the beginning of the Patent Office, June, 1824, to the 31st of August, 1872 (1882)

No. 492-ADAMS, (R.,) of the City of Toronto, in the County of York, for a "Reverse Cooking Stove." Quebec, dated 20th January, 1855.

I found very little about our Mrs Adams. I looked in every reasonable resource on my local library’s database site. None had any information on Ruth Adams. I did find her name misspelled as “Addams.” The best place for information was inventivewomen.com (http://www.inventivewomen.com/library/library_ruthadams_on.shtml) where she has a full page. This is her only invention, but from the language and drawings in the application, they assume she was well education and bold enough to try.

“Ruth wrote, "My invention has the following advantage over other cooking stoves in use... cleanliness, beauty and convenience. Cleanliness, the smoke and ash are so secured that no inconvenience can arise therefrom. Beauty, as even the foot and kettle can be kept bright and clean. Convenient, as it's parts can be used within the whole."”

She was married (Reverend James Adams) and lived in Toronto. Her husband was from Esquesing, Halton Co. (where I currently live – now Oakville, Milton, Georgetown – Esquesing being near Georgetown) She had been widowed by the time she submitted the patent application and there is no mention of children.

21 years

Today is my anniversary at Xerox.

21 years ago!!