Ernest ConcepcionDid you know that there is a place in the Philippines where you can find a museum, library and conservation laboratory sharing floor space? Its setup places the 52-year-old Lopez Memorial Museum and Library apart from other Philippine museums. More than that, it is one that allows for a seamless and dynamic interaction among the institution’s programs—exhibitions, education and conservation among them.
With a rebooted vision and mission statement that has recast it from repository to steward, protector, enricher and advocate of its holdings, the Lopez Museum contributes “meaningfully to the education and cultural fulfillment of its various audiences.”
“It requires us to reach out and engage with current voices, to partner with different institutions to create a larger awareness of Filipino art and culture in the contemporary sense and be more relevant. It also pushes us to strengthen our engagement with contemporary artists,” museum executive director Cedie Lopez Vargas said of the update.
Installation shot of gallery with the works of Felix resurreccion Hidalgo on exhibitThus, for years now, exhibits at the Lopez Museum have no longer been confined to wallbound works. Visitors are as likely to see installation, video or performance art as Lunas, Hidalgos and Sansos when they attend a Lopez Museum event. Pushing boundaries even further, the museum regularly ventures outside of its four walls, literally and virtually.
“Everything is always rooted in a theme that’s carried by the art collection because we make it a point to marry its voice with more contemporary voices,” Vargas noted. “We are strengthening this connection further so that it comes to a point where you don’t think of just the art collection or just the library because everything has been interwoven.”
This means visitors who view an exhibiting artist’s work in effect also see the research that the latter conducted in the library in the process of preparing for the show.
Claro Ramirez Jr. and Eileen Legaspi Ramirez cocurators of the Lopez Memorial MuseumFor the museum’s ongoing exhibit, Beat, thirtysomething artists Nikki Luna and Ernest Concepcion take their place alongside masters like Hidalgo (“The Assassination of Governor General Bustamante,” “Ofelia” and “La Derota de Limahong”), Jeremias Navarro (“Flying Machine for Icarus”) and Danilo Dalena (“Talo”).
“There is a deliberately forlorn and somber tone to this outing. Images of the prostrate and crestfallen easily evoke a stance of defeat, a succumbing to odds,” Eileen Legaspi-Ramirez wrote in her curator’s notes.
“But Beat also linguistically traverses a more mobile positionality, possibly one that suggests a desire to plod on in sheer resilience or blind resolve. By staying on in the present tense rather than as the more definitive ‘beaten,’ this exhibition also conscripts the energies of artists Nikki Luna and Ernest Concepcion to effect stagings of confrontation with the difficult, the resistant and even the impossible.”
Beat continues the Lopez Museum’s explorations of the intersections of the colonial and recent past alongside contemporary issues.
Artists Nikki Luna and Ernest Concepcion flank guest Angel AquinoAccording to Vargas, when it was first opened to the public in 1960, the Lopez Museum was primarily a library housing the rare books owned by her grandfather, Lopez Group founder Eugenio “Eñing” Lopez Sr.
Don Eñing was a nationalist— a year later, he would go on to orchestrate the buyout of Meralco from the Americans— with a penchant for going on book hunting trips abroad. He snapped up valuable first-edition Filipiniana books and manuscripts, periodicals and maps that made up the core of his collection. Along the way, he had also put together “the single largest collection of Lunas and Hidalgos of any individual or institution,” including Luna’s iconic “España Y Filipinas” and Hidalgo’s “La Barca de Aqueronte” and “El Asesinato del Gobernador Bustamante.”
Beginning at the close of the 1980s, Eugenio “Geny” M. Lopez Jr. and Roberto M. Lopez sought to bring the museum’s art collection up to par with the holdings of the library. Don Eñing’s sons led the push to acquire more artworks, especially those by Filipino modernists and National Artists, thereby infusing the exhibits with a more contemporary flavor.
The art collection includes about 600 masterpieces, while the library’s ever-growing collection boasts of more than 20,000 materials on Philippine history and culture.
Installation shot of Bencabs Recuerdos oil on canvas 1985In 2005, the museum started its massive digitization program. The undertaking’s thrust was fourfold: “to capture, catalogue and store images of original materials; make these images searchable/accessible/retrievable for a greater range of users; protect and preserve the originals by reducing handling; and contribute to making the operation of the library cost-efficient.”
The program has borne fruit in the gratified reactions of researchers who come expecting to dig through the archives using good old elbow grease.
“They’re very happy to have discovered that our materials are now digitized and easy to access, which means we are now more accessible to younger researchers,” Vargas noted. “After all, one of our commitments is to make ourselves very accessible and researcher friendly.”
Juan Luna Espaa y FilipinasA parallel program to digitization is conservation. The Roberto M. Lopez Conservation Laboratory, named for Don Eñing’s youngest son who was one of the museum’s early advocates, attracts its share of clients and kudos despite deliberately not advertising its services. A guest from Germany even expressed amazement that such a gem existed in a country like the Philippines. Vargas had to explain that the lab was concentrating on building its expertise and deepening its bench of technical consultants before going full blast in accepting outside jobs.
For now, the requirements of the museum’s own collection are paramount, although about 50% of the work the lab does is for external clients. As Vargas stressed: “If you don’t take care of what you have, you’re actually taking two steps backward. You have to move forward, that’s why the stewardship, the caring and the preservation of our collection is important.”
Meanwhile, the museum’s institutional collaborations are going strong, particularly the Locus Redux fora and Zero In, the 11-year-old consortium with four other Manila-based museums.
De Moluccis Insulis 1524For 2012, the Zero In members— the Lopez Museum, Ateneo Art Gallery, Ayala Museum, Bahay Tsinoy and Museo Pambata—will take to the provinces to share their expertise with communities outside of Manila. As part of the pilot program, they will help a town in the Visayas put up its own community museum.
Through all these programs and collaborations, the Lopez Museum—one of the most enduring and constant legacies of Don Eñing—hopes to remain relevant and to sustain its contemporary voice, Vargas said.
Through all these programs and collaborations, the Lopez Museum—one of Don Eñing’s most enduring and constant legacies—hopes to remain relevant and to sustain its contemporary voice, Vargas said.


Choosing the Right Book/eBook for Your Pain
Where do I Begin?
By Sherwin Nicholson | Updated May 1, 2020
There are more books about back pain in print than ever before. The list continues to grow every day. With the popularity of smartphones, e-readers, tablets and self-published eBooks, back pain sufferers can access an unlimited amount of help for their pain.
The reality that back pain affects each one of us either occasionally, or on a daily basis, generates the high demand for much-needed help. There is no longer a shortage of assistance, but an overabundance.
We need access to data 24hrs a day
Because our very busy society requires us to limit our leisure time, books and eBooks continue to have an advantage. Simply Googling for help on ‘back pain’ can result in a very broad range of suggestions that can be overwhelming and confusing.
Among the many options for help such as a family physician, physiotherapist, chiropractor, massage therapist, and more, other options include books and eBooks. Most are authored by these very practitioners while some come from self-published professionals.
These days, the question is not ‘Why should I get a book on back pain?’, but ‘Which one?’ and ‘Will it work for me?’
The choices you need to make
To determine which book is suitable, look for the following:
- It intends to treat the exact nature of your pain.
- You do not want to run the risk of applying the wrong treatment and increasing your risk of injury and pain. Begin first with the strict advice of you medical doctor or back specialist.
- What the book is intended to treat directly and not superficially.
- The treatment involves at least 2 issues/deficiencies affecting the body (rarely is it one).
Focus is important for the reader
Some books are written to answer virtually every possible form of back pain. Although very comprehensive, the reader may not feel as though their specific pain is being personally addressed. Someone with a specific type of pain may only find a fraction of the book useful rather than the entire book itself. In addition, there is a lot of time wasted trying to filter out what is useful and what is not.
The range of advice and solutions may not be sufficient to fit the entire book and may even seem generalized. You would be essentially reading just a part of the book rather than the entire book itself. Books should be written with personal appeal, cover to cover rather than a something for everyone solution.
At first, these comprehensive books may give you the reassurance that your own specific condition should be covered. However, as you continue to read through the pages, you’ll find that it is lacking depth or specific goals.
Use the following tips to narrow down your choices to find the most appropriate book
Avoid exceptional claims that speak to you with:
- Miracles cures or quick cures
- 7, 10 any number of steps/days to a pain-free back
- Secret solutions to back pain that only the Author would know
- Claims of help that ‘your doctor doesn’t want you to know’
- Deliberate criticisms of mainstream treatments
- Deliberate criticisms of mainstream practitioners
- Claims that their method has never been used before
- Claims that their method is a complete solution to end all pain
- Claims of pain relief that most would consider ‘immediate’
Determine whether the content is clear and concise
- Books need to provide a treatment plan that informs you of your unique needs and issues
- Does the book contain so much information, that you do not know which part of the book applies to you or where to begin?
- Does the book encourage you to understand more about your body and back?
- Does it give a specific treatment for the pain and in depth?
- Does it help you understand why you are still struggling and the reasons for this problem?
- Does the book provide the support it is intended to give immediately and comprehensively?
- When reading the book, does it feel like a textbook, novel or a manual?
- Does the Author make you feel engaged or inspired? Or do you feel overwhelmed or disinterested?
- As you progress through the book, are you more encouraged, or are you frustrated?
- Is the book authored by someone who has experienced your pain or merely helped people who have experienced your pain?
- Does the Author have the credentials? Both training and hands-on/personal experience should be considered
Look for the right treatment plan
- Treatment from beginning to end
- A clear plan on what to do, not merely suggestions
- A valid explanation of why their particular plan is important
- An appropriate balance of both information to instruction
- A clear plan that explains what to do throughout and what it entails
- Proper, concise, detail so as not to introduce room for error or vagueness
- A Treatment plan that one can relate to and not merely just do
- Above all, a treatment that makes common sense
By following these suggestions, you will be able to improve your chances or finding the right treatment for your pain. It will be less frustrating, and you will save time, effort and money. Not everyone believes that books are the best source of information or help for treatment, but they certainly are among them.
Get more help here:
- How to Use the eBook (Where to begin? How many per day? How long?)
- What are the exercises that I will be doing and what is in the book?
- What have other customers thought about the book?
- Where can I order my own copy?
- I don’t like reading as a treatment. Do you have a video alternative?


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Soon after joining A V O N Cosmetics Ltd as an Independent Sales Rep in June 2012, Richard discovered the database resources to which these archive pages are linked. Used in conjunction with the physical brochure, finding a particular item is a great deal easier than flicking through the pages.
It will take a bit of practice to learn how to find exactly what you are looking for and the functionality
is only as good as the database will allow... i.e. Richard was unable to find a way to retrace the steps needed to
access the database and with unannounced improvements, this is likely to be improved by
Sometimes, the database URLs get changed and some results are password protected, nevertheless, familiarity with the terminology will quickly eliminate attempting to access unavailable results. Where the title is prefixed with 'FL' for 'First Look', public access is restricted.
Clicking on any of the brochure images at Richard's 2017 Archive webpage will open a new window from where a search term like 'mascara' can be used to search the entire archive database when the 'include archive' checkbox is selected. The results page will list all references to the search term beginning with the newest brochure, which will often be a future edition.
The best way to place an
An alternative method is to access Richard's 2017 Archive webpage, as described, where items can be selected from a current brochure and their reference numbers entered into an email template. Richard will be able to respond with a confirmation email which will advise about product availability.
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Richard hopes that these Archive webpages will help people to select the precise
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And not just music. It's October 1989, and we're on a family holiday on Arran. I've a new, burgeoning obsession: mountains. Somewhere in the last couple of years I've shifted from being an often reluctant hanger-on trailing after my dad in soggy home-knit pullovers and hand-me-down plus fours, a sort of unspoken apprenticeship. Something has come to fruition, a tipping point has been reached. Maybe it's age, an accrual of confidence, a first secure foothold in the arts of map and compass, whatever - but now I want more than anything to get out there into the hills, alone or with others, it doesn't matter. Oh and there's this list of mountains called Munros.
So, back to Arran. We're in a bookshop and after scanning the outdoors shelves I come away with a little volume called 'Memorable Munros' by Richard Gilbert. Sitting in the back of the car, I start devouring it straight away. It hits me hard and leaves a crater. It turns out to be one of the most inspiring outdoors books I'll ever read, and it's stayed with me for life.
|Monadh Liath, 1989|
|Braeriach again, 1994|
|Ben Vorlich (Loch Lomond), 1995|
And that, perhaps, is why 'Memorable Munros' had such an effect on me. It showed me that great adventures were accessible; that human, not superhuman, qualities were needed. All this whilst never glossing over the dangers and difficulties or 'dumbing down' the hills to our level or pretending risk can be obliterated. 'A Diary of Ascents of the Highest Peaks in Scotland' - maybe that doesn't quite cover it after all.
Young Explorers Trust: Richard Gilbert obituary
|The Fara above Dalwhinnie, 2000|


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Recent research has confirmed that the mammy was almost entirely invented from whole cloth. She appears, for certain, in the post-Civil War memoirs and novels of writers attempting to reclaim the memory of the Old South; but she is almost entirely absent from the oral histories of former slaves recorded by the Federal Writer’s Project in the 1930s. Jessie W. Parkhurst first exposed the fictional sources and equally fictive characteristics attributed to the mammy in her 1938 article, The Role of the Black Mammy in the Plantation Household. Nearly fifty years later, Catherine Clinton confirmed Parkhurst’s findings: “The Mammy was created by white Southerners to redeem the relationship between black women and white men within slave society in response to the antislavery attack from the North during the antebellum era, and to embellish it with nostalgia in the post-bellum period. In the primary records from before the Civil War, hard evidence for her existence simply does not appear.” And in timing the appearances of the mammy, Cheryl Thurber concludes from her review of the principle sources of white Southern writings, that “references to mammy in the Confederate Veteran magazine, American popular songs, memoirs, and fiction confirm that more was written about the mammy at the turn of the century than during the antebellum period, the Civil War, or Reconstruction. The real expansion of the mammy mythology coincided with Progressivism, the New South movement, and the later phases of the Confederate Lost Cause movement.” The mammy icon served as a mean of retrieval of the Old South, but it also functioned as an oppositional icon to the mulatta as well as a complementary construction to the Southern belle.
The mammy icon functioned as a buttress to the utopian construction of the imagined Old South. The mammy confirmed the notion that in the Old South and the New South, race relations were mediated by nurturing love and kindness. The icon – middle-aged or older, over-weight, de-eroticized Black woman – negated the rape ok Black women by white men, transferring the responsibility for hundreds of thousands of mixed-race individuals to the Black rapist. Thurber reminds us that Herbert Gutman, in his The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom, 1750-1925, had concluded that “most black domestic workers in white households were young single women,” and William Alexander Percy, in his memoir Lanterns on the Levee (1941), had described his mammy accordingly: “Nain was sixteen, divinely café-au-lait.” In reality, rather than the perverted mythology, this sexually charged circumstance had predictable outcomes. As Darlene Clark Hine has observed, “Virtually every known nineteenth-century female slave narrative contains a reference to, at some juncture, to ever-present threat and reality of rape.” But the mammy icon displaced the Harriet Jacobses, the Elizabeth Keckleys, and the Nanis. And in their place was constructed the Southern belle, the beautiful, childlike, white female who incited the lust of Black men. This fantastic crime rationalized the lynching of black males, transfiguring political violence (intimidation of black voters, disfranchisement) into acts of moral justice. And as Thurber notes, the popularity of the icons of the mammy and the Southern belle reached their heights simultaneously during the early twentieth century.
Forgeries of Memory & Meaning: Blacks & the Regimes of Race in American Theater & Film Before World War II, páginas 60-61, de Cedric J. Robinson.


A book titled “Palms to Peaks: The Art of Janet Edwards,” published by Esri Press, is a collection of more than 60 full-color works that capture the history and natural beauty of California, including vistas, palms, flora and fauna of the state, including southern, northern, and coastal regions. Each color image is accompanied by a quote from Janet, and commentary by Fred Edwards, with insights into the regional and personal history of each depicted scene. The cloth-bound and jacketed edition includes an overview of the artist’s etching technique and process, which often includes a surrounding embossed image.
The first book-signing event was at Barnes and Noble, Redlands on Saturday, November 12, 2011, The book continues to be sold at Barnes and Noble, independent book stores, at Redlands Art Association, at ESRI Book Store – Redlands, at the artist’s studio, and on the internet.
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Some books of the bible have little to redeem themselves. A few of them you could throw out, like Obadiah and Jude. Others should stay in the canon despite their odious theology. I’m thinking today of I Maccabees and Galatians.
Not only are I Maccabees and Galatians filled with important (and rather exciting) historical information, their offensive outlook is balanced by biblical counterparts. I Maccabees is tempered by II Maccabees, and countered by the apocalypse of Daniel. Galatians is corrected by Romans — by the same apostle learning from his mistakes. Let’s examine these cases.
I & II Maccabees and Daniel
The Maccabees books are in the Catholic and Orthodox bibles, but they should be in the Protestant canon too. They relate the story of the Jewish revolt against Antiochus Epiphanes that lasted from 168-160 BC, and resulted in an independent Jewish state which hadn’t existed since the sixth century. The independence wasn’t actually granted until 143, and would only last until Rome took over in 63, but it’s the crucial inter-testamental event that forms the basis for Hanukkah. The Maccabean revolt was a war of religious ideology — as much as the Islamic jihad has been since the days of Muhammad. The book of Daniel was written during the Maccabean revolt, as an apocalyptic wish-fantasy of the Greek empire getting annihilated by God. Here’s how the three books compare:
I Maccabees validates holy war, and the attempts of the Maccabeans to enforce Jewish religion by force of arms. The heroes of the book are those who led the revolt: the priest Mattathias and his five sons, the third being the famous Judas “Maccabeus” or “the Hammer”. The Maccabees were basically like the modern Taliban: willing to kill anyone, even their own people, for budging an inch from what the Torah required. The first person Mattathias killed was a fellow Jew in the temple, for not standing pure against the Greeks (I Macc 2:19-28).
II Maccabees, however, has a different agenda. While it doesn’t condemn the Maccabean jihad, it shines an approving spotlight on martyrs more than militants. It subordinates militarism to martyrdom, and as a result we get a different group of heroes. Judas Maccabeus is still lauded because he was so legendary, but the true resisters are people like Eleazar, who suffered torture and martyrdom when he refused to eat forbidden food (6:18-31); or Razis, who killed himself rather than the enemy — by plunging a sword into his own stomach, jumping off a balcony, and finally tearing out his own entrails (14:37-46). In II Maccabees, being a faithful Jew is about willing to die for the purity of one’s faith, preferably without resorting to arms even if the latter is a necessary evil.
Then there is Daniel. If I Maccabees teaches the holy cause of war, and II Maccabees teaches the superior resistance acts of spiritual protest and martyrdom, Daniel is about the supreme faith that leaves the rightings of all wrongs to God. It is God who will wreak vengeance on the kingdoms of men, as he sees fit, and in the meantime, God’s people should not be resorting to Taliban-esque violence as they see fit. Like the book of Revelation, Daniel is an apocalyptic fantasy, and while it suggests a God who is savage and punitive, it’s at least a fantasy (there is no real danger of the world being torn apart and its people decimated in the manner described) which allows believers to focus on the good part of the myth. Apocalypses are wrong but for the best of reasons, as they reflect a yearning for God to defeat evil, redeem the world, and hold humanity responsible for the wrongs they inflict on others.
Galatians and Romans
Paul’s letters about the law aren’t systematic treatments of faith-righteousness. They are responses to ethnic pride and bigotry. In Galatians, unfortunately, Paul counters with a bigotry just as bad. Philip Esler has suggested that Galatians is not an appropriate text for theological guidance in our world today. Rather than try to unite competing groups of Jews and Gentiles, Paul made matters worse by writing off Jews beyond the pale — lambasting them as illegitimate descendants of Abraham through Hagar (rather than Sarah), and portraying the Torah as a yoke of slavery.
In Romans, on the other hand, where again Jews and Gentiles are in conflict, though for different reasons, Paul learned from his past errors. He essentially adopted an approach advocated by modern social-theorists, who tell us that people should assert their ethnic differences (at least to a degree) in order to resolve inter-group conflict. The attempt to erase ethnic identity only makes matters worse, which is why Paul avoids repeating the Galatian offense, “In Christ there is neither Jew nor Greek” (Gal 3:28).
In fact, Romans corrects almost all the earlier offenses. In Galatians Abraham was made out to be the heir of uncircumcised Gentiles (Gal 3:6-9), but in Romans he is the heir of the uncircumcised and circumcised in equal measure (Rom 4:1-17). In Galatians the Torah was an active agent in consigning Israel to sin (Gal 3:19-24), but in Romans the Torah is holy (Rom 7:12), and it is either passive in relation to sin (Rom 7:7-13) or has nothing to do with it at all (Rom 7:14-25). Most importantly, while in Galatians the promises to Israel were no longer in force, replaced with the promise of Christ (Gal 3:19-26; 4:1-2), in Romans the promises to Israel are still being fulfilled, but in an unexpected way (Rom 11:13-32), and with the result that the pagan nations have now become a means to an end. In Galatians, the Christian church is the true Israel (Gal 6:16); in Romans, Israel is Israel (Rom 9-11), and should be respected accordingly. Romans concludes by telling Jews and Gentiles to “welcome the other” and to respect each others practices (Rom 14:1-15:6).
Romans, in short, provides a very helpful basis for dealing with ethnic conflict. Galatians is a recipe for disaster, and it’s no surprise that Paul lost his churches in Galatia.
Should I Maccabees and Galatians then be rejected from the canon?
Not necessarily. I Maccabees does offer insights into the motivations for holy war, and Galatians shows how bigotry can be escalated in the name of fighting it. Unenlightened books of the bible can be useful in showing believers how not to behave. This is risky though, because most people are taught that all scripture has positive instructional value. I would suggest that negative-instructional books have a place in the canon provided there are enough positive supplements which cover the same ground. I Maccabees is supplemented by II Maccabees and, even better, Daniel. Galatians shows Paul fighting fire with fire; Romans is his repentance. Counterparts like these don’t emerge in Islam. Jihad and intolerance saturate the Islamic canon, and to go against these elements is to kill the patient. Militant supremacist texts in the Qur’an explicitly supersede the (very few) texts that counsel peace and tolerance, in any case.
I Maccabees and Galatians are good examples of negative instructional books. They show Jews and Christians how not to behave, especially by their biblical counterparts.


From tomorrow until Sunday 25 the 12th edition of the Caracas Book Fair will be held, with activities in face-to-face and digital format.
Under the slogan "Caracas: an open book", there will be poetry recitals, book presentations, forums, talks and other news, through Fundarte's social networks.
More than 40 activities will be available at this fair, which will be a showcase for the main editorial novelties in the country, as well as in Colombia, Mexico, Argentina and Haiti.
Writers will be present such as Iván Cruz Osorio, Masiel Monserrat, Indira Isel Torres and Jocelyn Martínez (Mexico), Freddy Yezzed and Stefhany Rojas (Colombia), Lautaro Rivera and Fernando Vicente Prieto (Argentina), Vijay Prashad (India) and Roberto Sambra (Chile ).
The honoree will be the anthropologist and historian Iraida Vargas, a renowned scholar of our historical and recent past. Joining her will be Inti Clark, Gabriel Jiménez Emán, Antonio Robles, Celsa Acosta, Jennifer Gugliota, César Seco, Rosa Elena Pérez, Ximena Benitez, Roger Herrera, William Osuna and William Torrealba, among many more.
There will be face-to-face activities such as literary creation workshops and poetic-musical recitals in the circuit of cafes in the historic center.
Readers will be able to purchase free books at www.fundarte.gob.ve and will know the winners of the Stefania Mosca National Literature Prize.


The Schatzalp library is a true treasure trove. It contains well over
5000 books in German, French, and English, plus an additional few hundred in
languages such as Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Hungarian, Polish, Rumanian,
Swedish, and Russian.
From the English Collection
Most books date from the end of the nineteenth and first half of
the twentieth century and are bound in fine red leather. The bulk is devoted to
the best which European literature has to offer, from Sophocles to Stendhal,
Goethe to Nietzsche, Shakespeare to Calderón.
Essays, librettos, and project drafts by Richard
Quite a few of these books are rarities prized by collectors. In
the German library there is, for example, an entire set of beautifully bound
volumes with essays, librettos, and opera projects by the composer Richard
Wagner (1813-1883), while the French library contains an exquisite collection of
Chinese poems translated by Judith Gautier, the woman Wagner bombarded with love
letters while composing his last opera.
Le Livre de Jade: Poems translated from the Chinese by
(with handwritten Chinese name of the author, „Yü-di-de“,
To the delight of history and art history buffs, the library also
contains volumes upon volumes of richly illustrated journals, weeklies, and
monthlies from the early 20th century (the Art Nouveau period) as well as a
variety of yearbooks and scientific journals.
Illustrated Journal from the beginning of the 20th
An entire section is devoted to political and cultural world
history. Apart from scientific studies, it also includes historical novels,
biographies, and memoirs. Some important works (such as Jacob Burkhardt’s famous
study on the Renaissance) are present in several languages. And there are some
exotic gems: for example Lafcadio Hearn’s fascinating Japanese ghost stories
from the end of the 19th century ...
Japan-Essays, Ghost Stories („Kwaidan“) and Novels by
The collection is rounded off by reference works for the curious:
dictionaries, geographical maps, lexica, and encyclopaedias: historical gems
from the treasure of the Schatzalp library.
Reading Room, some furniture are originals
Compiled by Prof. Monica Esposito and Prof. Urs
App, Kyoto, Japan, during their visit at Schatzalp in August


A woman caught in a deadly game. The CIA and the KGB couldn't stop her.
Love brought them together, deception tore them apart
"New York Times" Bestseller - A True Story
Part 1: Husband, Lover, Spy by Janice Pennington
Part 2: Husband, Lover, Spy by Janice Pennington.
The dramatic story of "The Price is Right" hostess Janice Pennington's desperate search for her missing husband. Betrayed by friends and abandoned by the government, she is forced to embark on a dangerous journey
Every weekday twelve million people watched the glamorous hostess, Janice Pennington, on the game show "The Price Is Right. " Janice's smile on camera hid the nightmare her life had become offstage.
On September 27, 1975, her husband, Fritz Stammberger, disappeared in the restricted area along the Russian, Afghanistan, and Pakistan borders. It took her seventeen years to discover his fate. Not only is this a compelling and true love story but also an exciting political thriller.
In July 1992, when Russian President Yeltsin stated that there might be American POWs held against their will in the former Soviet Union, Janice and Carlos give their marriage one last chance. They embark on a final search.


ADULT CHRISTIAN EDUCATION
It’s A Question of Faith:
Exploring Christian Faith’s Most Important Questions
We begin our Christian Education course for adults on Sunday, September 14th, at 9:00 AM in the parlor of First Congregational Church of Beloit. Each session, led by Rev. Kendell Nordstrom, will last until 10:00 AM.
You may choose to attend one, several, or all of the sessions, since each (except for one) do not follow a particular sequence. Study sheets for the next week’s course are on the tables in the Gathering Space.
September 21 “How Did Jesus’ Death Save Us?”
Rooted at the heart of the Christian faith is the stubborn declaration that Jesus "died for us." Precisely why his death came to mean so much to Christians has, however, been a subject of wonderful and diverse exploration over the ages. Christians have come to understand the "how" in the "somehow" power of Jesus' death in three general ways: forgiveness, inspiration, and revelation. This study explains the three understandings and encourages us to appreciate the mystery, the "somehow," of our atonement through Jesus Christ.
September 28 “Is There Life after Death?”
Just what does the Christian faith teach us about life beyond death? The world’s philosophies and religions offer a variety of options for us to believe: natural death as the end, immortality of the soul, reincarnation, resurrection of the body, and others. Which of these options best express what the Bible says?
October 5 “What Is Sin?” (Part 1)
How does the Bible describe sin? And is it as important as the church through the centuries has said? Have we, in our contemporary culture, perhaps outgrown sin? Is it only a leftover from a more primitive time? What is the big deal about sin?
October 12 “What Is Sin?” (Part 2)
We can find a basic definition for sin in the Bible, but it is the theologians and the teachings of the church that help us examine what sin means for our faith and our lives. In this session, we will build upon the exploration of sin from the first session and introduce some theological vocabulary to help us talk about sin and our faith.
October 19 “Does Hell Exist?”
What should Christians believe about Hell? This study examines where the concept of hell comes from, including ancient and Biblical concepts of hell, and encourages participants to discuss their own beliefs about hell. This study also considers the relationship between salvation and hell, as well as the questions, "Should Christians believe in hell?" and "Does salvation by faith in Jesus mean that non-Christians are going to hell?"
October 26 “What Is Heaven Like?”
Ideas about heaven have changed over time. How can we understand heaven today? In this one-session adult study, participants will explore views of heaven as exhibited in the Bible and in ancient cultures, and discuss their own ideas of heaven.
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Bible 101 is for children of reading age and older. The class is for parents and children to learn the basics of the Bible while having fun with their parents. In the class there are games, crafts, and a scavanger hunt.
Adult Bible studies are held throughout the year. Past studies of this year were; "The Purpose Driven Life," Jewish Festivals, Using Your Spiritual Gifts, 1 Peter Walk the Talk, and "The Shack."
Five Practices group is a group of individuals taking Biblical practices and applying them towards ministry. All are welcome.
God and Me
God and Me is for boys or girls involved in the scouting program. Individuals will earn their religious emblem while having fun.


DR. B.R. AMBEDKAR’S THOUGHTS AND INDIAN GOVERNMENT POLICIES FOR WOMEN EMPOWERMENT IN INDIA
Keywords:Government policies, Economics, Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, Women empowerment
This article provides an overview of Dr. B. R. Ambedkar’s thoughts and how these thoughts are important in present government policies for women empowerment. This is the qualitative type of research and inductive approach has adopted for the conclusion. In the rising India where seemingly more and more women enter various fields to work alongside men there are many struggles that they put up to achieve where they are and there are many more glass ceilings that they need to break open and move up before they achieve a position of complete equality. Dr. Ambedkar’s exposure the western education and his deep understanding western philosophy and ideals made him appreciate the climate equality that prevailed and aspire for the same to the disadvantaged sections of the society which included women of India. Dr. B. R. Ambedkar expressed his views on the state of life of all women. He stated that women must be treated equally and given equal prestige. He insisted on Hindu Code bill suggesting the basic improvements and amendments in assembly. He also insisted and evoked all the parliamentary members to help to pass the bill in parliament. Eventually, he resigned for the same. The teachings and thoughts of Dr. Ambedkar are useful not only women but also all the Indian even today. His deep concern and feelings for all round development of women is expressed from his each sentence and word.
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Hover / Tap each book of the Bible to view a brief description of the narritives found in it. Many of the descriptions are from BibleStudyTools.com.
Bibleinfo.com describes the Bible as a library of 66 books, written by 40 authors including Army Generals, Kings, Shepherds, Priests, Fishermen, Doctors, and Government Officials, over a period of about 1500 years. The 39 books of the Old Testament were composed between 1400 and 400 B.C., the 27 books of the New Testament between A.D. 50 and A.D. 100. According to a 2015 survey by the American Bible Society, 88% of USA households own at least 1 Bible.
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Howdy. I’m Shawn T. Smith, PsyD. I’m a psychologist in Denver, Colorado. I got my doctorate from the University of Denver in 2006 and have been in private practice ever since. I am primarily interested in what makes for wise and successful relationship choices.
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The Tactical Guide to Women: How Men Can Manage Risk in Dating and Marriage
For men, love is a high-stakes gamble. The right woman can be the best part of a man’s life, and the wrong one can lead to personal and financial ruin. In today’s climate, no man should venture into romance without a reliable risk-management strategy.
The Tactical Guide to Women delivers a solid plan for allowing the right women into your life, and keeping the wrong ones at a safe distance. You’ll discover how to:
- Identify good women of low drama and high character
- Reduce your vulnerability to women who seem perfect for you—but aren’t
- Spot the early warning signs of emotional instability
You’ll also learn:
- Critical techniques for seeing women clearly
- The most common mistakes that lead men into disastrous relationships
- How to reduce the odds of a good relationship going bad
Impeccably researched and backed by the author’s decade of clinical experience, The Tactical Guide to Women provides men with desperately needed, rarely discussed strategies for finding sanity, joy, and companionship. This is not another book about getting laid. This book is about not getting screwed.
If you came here for the references to accompany the audiobook, click here for the PDF.
The Practical Guide to Men: How To Spot the Hidden Traits of Good Men and Great Relationships
Good men are everywhere, and they are searching for terrific women. So why are they hard to find? And why do so many women make life-altering mistakes by choosing the wrong men?
The answer is distressingly simple. Good men don’t always know how to attract women, and women don’t always recognize good men.
But don’t despair! The Practical Guide to Men holds time-tested wisdom for spotting good men who are searching for great relationships. You’ll discover…
- The three pillars of a good man. Men of character possess these basic traits.
- The twelve-point man inspection. These questions will help you evaluate his relationship readiness.
- Ten self-deceptions that lead to costly relationship errors. Find out how to avoid common mistakes women make when choosing men.
The Practical Guide to Men is a celebration of romance, and it’s the perfect guide to finding love in these complex times.
The Woman’s Guide to How Men Think: Love, Commitment, and the Male Mind
Men are like the ocean… deeper than they look and easy to misread. The Woman’s Guide to How Men Think bridges the gulf between the sexes by explaining how men see the world, and how they view the women in their lives. You’ll discover…
- The most important thing to men, and how it affects romance
- Why men change after they commit to a woman
- The most damaging mistake women can make with men
- How to help a man open up
- Strategies for handling the most common misunderstandings
You’ll also learn why men often feel frustrated and criticized by their partners, how to deal with male silence without putting men on the defensive, and how some of the most frustrating male traits may actually be thoughtful—but misunderstood—attempts at problem-solving.
Surviving Aggressive People: Practical Violence Prevention Skills for the Workplace and the Street
Whether an aggressor is a seasoned predator or an irate individual, hostility is almost always preceded by warning signs–if we know what to look for. Surviving Aggressive People dissects the psychology of aggression. It exposes the subtle cues of impending violence and offers timeless methods for transforming a potential disaster into a peaceful victory. Using time-tested methods for conflict management and crisis intervention, this book offers persuasion and peacemaking skills that historically have been reserved for law enforcement, psychologists, and other professionals working the front lines of emotionally charged situations. In today’s world, these skills are a must for everyone. Newly updated, with a special appendix for healthcare workers, the enduring knowledge in Surviving Aggressive People can help deter hostility before it spins out of control. It might even save your life.
The User’s Guide to the Human Mind: Why Our Brains Make Us Unhappy, Anxious, and Neurotic and What We Can Do about It
Your mind is not built to make you happy; it’s built to help you survive. So far, it’s done a great job! But in the process, it may have developed some bad habits, like avoiding new experiences or scrounging around for problems where none exist. Is it any wonder that worry, bad moods, and self-critical thoughts so often get in the way of enjoying life?
Based in acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), The User’s Guide to the Human Mind is a road map to the puzzling inner workings of the human mind, replete with exercises for overriding the mind’s natural impulses toward worry, self-criticism, and fear, and helpful tips for acting in the service of your values and emotional well-being—even when your mind has other plans.
- Find out how your mind tries to limit your behavior and your potential
- Discover how pessimism functions as your mind’s error management system
- Learn why you shouldn’t believe everything you think
- Overrule your thoughts and feelings and take charge of your mind and your life


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Almost Island, the literary journal, has released its Monsoon 2021 issue.
The issue is edited by poet Togara Muzanenhamo and features the work of 7 Zimbabwean poets, including whooooooooooop!, one Iz Mazano.
I am super overjoyed to share the same space with these poets, many of whom I have known, watched and learnt from for many years.
Introducing the Monsoon 2021 issue, editor Sharmistha Mohanty, writes, “Almost Island has published the singular and accomplished work of Zimbabwean poet Togara Muzanenhamo over the past decade. He has also been a guest at the Almost Island Dialogues in 2019. For this issue we invited him to give us a glimpse of some contemporary poets from his country.
Togara, in his editorial, talks about the journey Zimbabwean poetry has taken in the years since Independence in 1980.
He writes, “Before the turn of the century – the previous generation of poets were primarily influenced by the language of various American and English poets – but they were also influenced by a handful of African poets writing with the same colonial concerns. Within the poems of Musaemura Zimunya, Charles Mungoshi, Julius Chingono, Chengerai Hove and Dambudzo Marechera – one can hear the echoes of many poets – from Charles Bukowski, to William Wordsworth to Aimé Césaire and Léopold Senghor.”
Introducing the poets whose work appears in the issue, Togara says, “The poets presented here express themselves with introspective and extroverted artistic worth and all write with a gaze on the country’s evolution. Five of the poets live permanently in Zimbabwe, but another textured feeling of the country is also provided by the outer-eye of the two who live abroad. As one generation of writers passes on to the next – the music of their words is something that pleases me greatly to share.”
Here are the poems I contributed to the issue.
Founded by prose writer Sharmistha Mohanty, Almost Island publishes two issues a year and is based in New Delhi, India.


I’m a regular contributing writer for BuzzFeed Books, Book Riot, and StarTrek.com, and my work has also appeared in The Nashville Scene, SFWA, Think Inclusive, and more. I’m the co-creator of Baby Librarians, a children’s book review website, as well as its social media manager on Instagram and Facebook. My short stories and poems have been published in Abyss & Apex, Devilfish Review, Pulp Literature, and Nonbinary Review, among other publications. I have an MA in English and taught university English for 4 years. I currently copy edit for a major website, maintain its WordPress media library, and edit for Salt and Sage Books. My family and I live in Nashville, TN, where I can be found chasing my toddler, reorganizing my bookshelves, hiking, and naming all the birds I see.
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You are listening to Saturday Show Podcast, episode number 111. My name is Frank Marcopolos. I am the author of the novel ALMOST HOME, the short story collection INFINITE ENDING, and the novelettes A CAR CRASH OF SORTS, and WOMYN DO: THE HEALING OF JOHNNY REBEL, all available on Amazon. I am also the former editor and publisher of the respected literary zine, THE WHIRLIGIG. You can find me on twitter, YouTube, or FrankMarcopolos.com, where this podcast feed stems from. It is also available on iTunes, Stitcher, and Google Play Music.
On this episode of the podcast, we will do an analysis of the short story, “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin. This story is in the public domain, and the text is available online. In addition, I have performed an audiobook version of the story which is available on this podcast feed as well as on YouTube, at my channel, http://youtube.com/brooklynfrank.
Quoting Wikipedia now on the basic background of the author: Kate Chopin, born Katherine O’Flaherty (February 8, 1850 – August 22, 1904), was a U.S. author of short stories and novels. She is now considered by some to have been a forerunner of the feminist authors of the 20th century of Southern or Catholic background, such as Zelda Fitzgerald.
From 1892 to 1895, she wrote short stories for both children and adults that were published in such magazines as Atlantic Monthly, Vogue, The Century Magazine, and The Youth’s Companion. Her major works were two short story collections, Bayou Folk (1894) and A Night in Acadie (1897). Her important short stories included “Désirée’s Baby,” a tale of miscegenation in antebellum Louisiana (published in 1893), “The Story of an Hour” (1894), and “The Storm”(1898). “The Storm” is a sequel to “The ‘Cadian Ball,” which appeared in her first collection of short stories, Bayou Folk. Chopin also wrote two novels: At Fault (1890) and The Awakening(1899), which are set in New Orleans and Grand Isle, respectively. The characters in her stories are usually inhabitants of Louisiana.
Within a decade of her death, Chopin was widely recognized as one of the leading writers of her time. In 1915, Fred Lewis Pattee wrote, “some of [Chopin’s] work is equal to the best that has been produced in France or even in America. [She displayed] what may be described as a native aptitude for narration amounting almost to genius.”


Over the years Amsterdam Mamas has shared stories from community members who want to share their birth stories. We have gathered here some of the stories that feel are particularly relevant to the international community here in Amsterdam. If you have a story you'd like to share (anonymously or not) please contact us - we'd love to hear from you.
The Gift of Giving Birth: A powerful story of a courageous Canadian mother who gave birth after being diagnosed with breast cancer
Birth at 28 Weeks: Courage and strength come in many forms. By sharing the story of her son's birth at 28 weeks, this mama demonstrates her courage and strength delivering a healthy, premature baby boy.
The Expatish Mother Gives Birth: A mama tells her story of IVF to motherhood, including a cautionary tale on the effects of prune juice during birth ... Not for the fain of heart.
An Unexpected Home Birth: Queens Day (now Kingsday), the Netherlands' great party day, was not the ideal time to go into labour, but then ...
Weird in the Ward: A humourous hospital birth, involving heroic pushing and threats of violence ...
An UnexpectedTurn of Events: An unexpected and eventful pregnancy ends with an unexpected surprise!
My Daughter Witnessed the Birth of Her Brother: Would you let your child be present at the birth of their sibling? This mama did and it brought something amazing and uinexpected to the experience.
An Ordinary Day: How to give birth to one child while taking careof another? A home birth was the solution for this mama
An Unexpected Pregnacy and an Unexpected Birth: A mama with PCOS gets pregnant and has some twists and turns to the moment of holding her newborn son
Not to Plan but Perfect: A French mama had planned for a hospital birth but her baby decided to do it the Dutch way and surprised her with a speedy home delivery!
PCOS - A Success Story: Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome is a challenge but not a barrier to having a baby


The series follows newlywed antique shop owner Melinda Gordon, who has the ability to communicate with the earthbound spirits of the recently deceased. She must learn to overcome skepticism and doubt to help send their important messages to the living and allow the dead to pass on to the other side.
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Papyri.info has two primary components. The Papyrological Navigator (PN) supports searching, browsing, and aggregation of ancient papyrological documents and related materials; the Papyrological Editor (PE) enables multi-author, version controlled, peer reviewed scholarly curation of papyrological texts, translations, commentary, scholarly metadata, institutional catalog records, bibliography, and images.
Trismegistos was conceived in 2004 when Mark Depauw was granted a Sofja Kovalevskaja Award of the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung to set up his own research team at a German university, in this case Cologne. For more details and to join the Website: Trismegistos
EVWRIT – Everyday Writing in Graeco-Roman and Late Antique Egypt (I – VIII AD)
A Socio-Semiotic Study of Communicative Variation.
This project, funded by the European Research Council (2018 – 2023), aims to generate a paradigm shift in the understanding of Graeco-Roman and Late Antique communication. Non-literary, ‘documentary’ texts from Ancient Egypt such as letters, petitions and contracts have provided and continue to provide a key witness for our knowledge of the administration, education, economy, etc. of Ancient Egypt.
Sapienza Centre for the Study of the Mediterranean and Near East in Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages
The Sapienza Centre for the Study of the Mediterranean and Near East in Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ageses initially set up as a laboratory — aims to provide a forum (both physical and virtual) for the critical study of Late Antiquity (roughly defined as the 3rd-8th centuries, but taking into account specific experiences of individual cultural traditions), investigated according to different methodological perspectives and different research skills.
LitPapArs – Greek and Latin Literary Papyri from Graeco-Roman and Late Antique Arsinoites (4th BC – 7th AD): Texts, Contexts, Readers
University of Salerno – University of Florence – University of Genoa – University of Parma
The project, funded by the Italian Ministry of Research and University under the scheme PRIN 2017 (2020-2024), aims to outline the dynamics of diffusion and reception of Greek literacy and literary culture through a comprehensive survey of the Greek and Latin papyri coming from a key zone of Egypt: the district of Fayum (ancient Arsinoites), where ‘classical’ texts were read from the Hellenistic period to Late Antiquity.
- The DigiLab Research Center of Sapienza University of Rome was created to strengthen interdisciplinary scientific research in the field of heritage and cultural production, the management of particularly complex instruments and laboratories in the sector of digital technologies for culture, the communication and enhancement of cultural heritage.
- Website: https://digilab.uniroma1.it
Centro Interuniversitario per la Storia e l’Archeologia dell’Alto Medioevo
The Inter-university Center for History and Archeology of the early Middle Ages, founded in 2005 by Riccardo Francovich, Stefano Gasparri and Cristina La Rocca, aims at bringing together, at least in Italy, the research activities of the early medievalists promoting and improving the cooperation between archeology and history.
The project Littera Visigothica is the brainchild of Ainoa Castro Correa and started in September 2013. It aims to share her current work, as a researcher and teacher, on medieval manuscript sources written in Visigothic script, the first writing system used in the medieval Iberian Peninsula. This includes its characteristics, evolution, graphic testimonies – charters, cartularies, and codices – and their historical and cultural context.
PLATINUM – Papyri and LAtin Texts: INsights and Updated Methodologies. Towards a philological, literary, and historical approach to Latin papyri
The aim of PLATINUM is to scrutinize Latin texts on papyrus from several points of view in order to highlight their substantial contribution to our knowledge of innovations in ancient Roman literature, language, history, and society, especially in the multilingual and multicultural contexts of the Eastern part of the Empire between the 1st century B.C. and 8th century A.D. The first phase of the project will consist in assembling, updating and publishing critical editions, in order to present a new and more accurate corpus of Latin papyri on an easily accessible online platform. The second phase will be focused on providing the texts with a specific, pluridisciplinary commentary that gives new insights on Roman culture.
Reuniting fragments, identifying scribes and characterizing scripts: the Digital palaeography of Greek and Coptic papyri
This four-years project funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) and hosted in the University of Basel started on September 1st, 2018. It aims to lay the foundation for an online interface through which papyrologists would be able to look for similar – or identical – handwritings to a given papyrus and typical samples of writings for a given period.
Current Website: https://altegeschichte.philhist.unibas.ch/de/digpaleo/
Website under construction: http://d-scribes.philhist.unibas.ch


Number and Counting Rhymes and Jingles: A number and counting book for junior classes. It is photocopiable.
MakeSure Maths: A series of 8 learning workbooks covering the whole of the primary mathematics curriculum. Three assessment pages included. Answers are in removable centre section.
Maths Zone: a series of 8 textbooks for the pupil learning maths with the help of the Resource Teacher or Learning Support Teacher.
Maths Together: a series of 6 manuals from Junior/Senior Infants to 6th Class level.
Number Facts: a series of 3 books on Multiplication, Division, and Addition & Subtraction.
Tangrams: a hands-on book with lots of mathematical activity in shape and space.
Dictionary of Primary Maths: all the terms encountered at primary level.
Spelling Progress: a series of four spelling workbooks.
All of the above books were written by primary school teacher Florence Gavin MA(Ed).
Mental Health in Children and Adolescents: A Guide for Teachers.
All the books are published and printed in the Republic of Ireland
Metric Wooden Rulers: 25cm and 30cm school rulers.
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These books have profoundly impacted my approach to design ethics, team collaboration, and craftsmanship. Pro-tip: I highly recommend using the Libby app (and your local library card) to read or listen to most of them for free.
Between the World and Me
Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why.
Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
Good to Great
How to Win Friends and Influence People
Intercom on Jobs to be Done
The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up
Nomadic Furniture (2 volumes)
James Hennessey and Victor Papanek
Ruined by Design
Steal Like an Artist
Thinking with Type
Ways of Seeing


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In the continuing efforts to help people who are alienated or love someone who is alienated the International Support Network for Alienated Families (ISNAF) announces the release of a handbook to validate and corroborate the experiences of alienated parents dealing with Parental Alienation (PA) to other individuals in their lives that may not understand PA. Although the average therapist, attorney, minors’ counsel, and family law judge may have a limited knowledge of PA and find the handbook a valuable resource, the main goal of the handbook is to be used as an informational tool for alienated parents. The handbook briefly outlines in a succinct format important information from books, articles, and papers written by the professionals with which ISNAF has collaborated and recommended to its members. Professionals such as Dr. Amy Baker, Dr. William Bernet, Dr. Steven Miller, Dr. Michael Bone, Linda Gottlieb LMFT, Brian Ludmer, and Catherine MacWillie have presented to our families and worked on their cases.
ISNAF, the International Support Network for Alienated Families, is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) founded in 2008. Our Board is comprised of Alienated Parents and Former Alienated Parents who have first-hand experience dealing with this type of abuse and have been successfully reunited with their children. Other members are currently in the legal process, as well as those that continue to strive for reunification with their adult children. ISNAF works with individuals and families dealing with PA by offering monthly in person support group meetings and conference calls. Many have attended our Conferences, Workshops, Colloquium, and Symposium. For additional information about the organization, please visit our website at http://isnaf.info/
The handbook provides essential and useful information regarding PA. Practical advice on navigating the difficulties of divorce and custody by those affected by PA is discussed in detail. Highlights include a thorough explanation of PA, its causes, ways to effectively deal with the life-altering situations caused by it, as well as useful parenting suggestions for those suffering the effects of PA. Also included is information on choosing an effective attorney, expert witness, court strategy, dealing with social services and false allegations, restraining orders, and problems caused by social media.
Additionally, personality disorders and how they manifest themselves in individuals involved in PA is another useful facet of the handbook. Hope for reunification is offered in a thorough discussion of this important topic. A glossary of terms closes the handbook and provides a comprehensive definition for terms common in the world of PA. The handbook is a must-have for anyone dealing with the heartbreak of PA and its related issues. It has proven to be a useful tool for parents who are trying to educate their families, attorneys, minors’ counsel, evaluators, therapists, clergy, pediatricians, and educators.
The handbook brings practical knowledge and information to families, professionals, and lay people without having to read endless books or frivolously spend limited resources. Moreover, it provides an easy to use tool for both parents and professionals to learn about the dynamics of PA.
To purchase the Handbook go to thewebsite at http://isnaf.info/ where you can use PayPal.
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Phillis Wheatley was the first African American to publish and the first American woman to try to support herself through her writing.
After learning to speak, read, and write English with remarkable ease, Phillis Wheatley began to compose poetry, and the verse that made her reputation was an elegy for George Whitefield, a Methodist minister whom Phillis Wheatley had seen preach in Boston shortly before his death in 1770.
Her elegy, reprinted throughout the colonies and in London, earned her international fame.
As a female African American poet, she captured much attention, and her only published volume, Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, appeared in 1773 with a foreword attesting to her talent signed by eighteen prominent Bostonian men and a portrait of the author sitting at her writing table with a pen in hand.
Regarding slavery, she wrote in a letter in 1774 that “in every human breast, God has implanted a Principle, which we call Love of Freedom; it is impatient of Oppression, and pants for Deliverance.”
She supported the American Revolution and admired political figures such as George Washington, with whom she corresponded.
Glenn Beck continued his “Founders Friday” series, this time with “Women of the American Revolution.”
A question from the audience came about Phillis Wheatley, who had been enslaved when she was 8 years old but was purchased by a Boston family and made a part of their family. She wrote a poem called “To his Excellency General Washington,” and Washington invited her to his home as thanks for the poem.
Unfortunately the revisionists have fairly successfully darkened the reputation not only of the men of the revolution, but the women as well, replacing them with “heroes” like the racist eugenicist Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood.
It’s time we pushed ourselves away from the foul table of revisionism and came to terms with our American history–both the great successes and the failures. Because for all our failures, ours is still the most noble, inspiring history in all the world.
To His Excellency, General Washington
By Phillis Wheatley
Celestial choir! enthron’d in realms of light,
Columbia’s scenes of glorious toils I write.
While freedom’s cause her anxious breast alarms,
She flashes dreadful in refulgent arms.
See mother earth her offspring’s fate bemoan,
And nations gaze at scenes before unknown!
See the bright beams of heaven’s revolving light
Involved in sorrows and veil of night!
The goddess comes, she moves divinely fair,
Olive and laurel bind her golden hair:
Wherever shines this native of the skies,
Unnumber’d charms and recent graces rise.
Muse! bow propitious while my pen relates
How pour her armies through a thousand gates,
As when Eolus heaven’s fair face deforms,
Enwrapp’d in tempest and a night of storms;
Astonish’d ocean feels the wild uproar,
The refluent surges beat the sounding shore;
Or thick as leaves in Autumn’s golden reign,
Such, and so many, moves the warrior’s train.
In bright array they seek the work of war,
Where high unfurl’d the ensign waves in air.
Shall I to Washington their praise recite?
Enough thou know’st them in the fields of fight.
Thee, first in peace and honours,—we demand
The grace and glory of thy martial band.
Fam’d for thy valour, for thy virtues more,
Hear every tongue thy guardian aid implore!
One century scarce perform’d its destined round,
When Gallic powers Columbia’s fury found;
And so may you, whoever dares disgrace
The land of freedom’s heaven-defended race!
Fix’d are the eyes of nations on the scales,
For in their hopes Columbia’s arm prevails.
Anon Britannia droops the pensive head,
While round increase the rising hills of dead.
Ah! cruel blindness to Columbia’s state!
Lament thy thirst of boundless power too late.
Proceed, great chief, with virtue on thy side,
Thy ev’ry action let the goddess guide.
A crown, a mansion, and a throne that shine,
With gold unfading, WASHINGTON! be thine.
Drawing of Nancy Ward by George Catlin
Nancy Ward: Beloved Woman of the Cherokee
Nanye-hi (ᎾᏅᏰᎯ: “One who goes about”), known in English as Nancy Ward (c. 1738–1822 or 1824) was a ghigau, or beloved woman of the Cherokee nation, which meant that she was allowed to sit in councils and to make decisions, along with the other Beloved Women, on pardons. She believed in peaceful coexistence with white people.
Nancy Ward and the Revolutionary War
During the Revolutionary War, the Cherokees were divided on the issues of helping the British and whether force should be used to expel American settlers on Cherokee land. Nancy’s cousin, Dragging Canoe, the son of Attakullaculla, wanted to side with the British against the white settlers. Ward, however, spoke up in favor of supporting the American settlers.
In May 1775, a delegation of Shawnee, Delaware, and Mohawk emissaries traveled south to help the British win the support of the Cherokees and other tribes. That July, the Chickamauga Cherokee band of the Tennessee River Valley led by Dragging Canoe began attacking white settlements and forts in the Appalachians and in isolated areas of Virginia, the Carolinas, and Georgia. In retaliation, state militias destroyed Cherokee villages and crops. By 1777, the militias would force the Cherokee to give up some of their land.
In July 1776, Ward warned white settlers on the Holston River and on the Virginia border that the Cherokees were planning an attack. Later, she saved the life of a captured white woman who was about to be executed. The white woman’s husband was William Bean, reportedly a friend of Daniel Boone and a captain in the colonial militia. Ward and Mrs. Bean developed a friendship during the time that Mrs. Bean remained with the Cherokees, and Ward learned about dairy farming from her. Apparently out of gratitude, Ward’s village was spared from being razed when the frontier militia made its way through Cherokee lands.
Meanwhile, Dragging Canoe and his band continued to attack American settlements with arms supplied by the British. Finally, in 1778, Colonel Evan Shelby and 600 men invaded Dragging Canoe’s territory. The result was that Cherokee resistance from that point forward was limited to minor conflict.
In 1780, Ward provided American soldiers with advanced warning of a another Cherokee attack, and tried to prevent retribution against the Cherokees by the whites. According to Felton, Ward even arranged to have a herd of her own cattle sent to the hungry militia. Nevertheless, the North Carolina militia would again invade Cherokee territory, destroying villages and demanding further land cessions. In the ensuing battle, which Ward had tried in vain to stop, she and her family were captured by the Americans; she was eventually released and allowed to return to her home in Chota.
In July 1781, Ward helped negotiate a peace treaty between the Cherokees and the Americans. The signing of the treaty freed the Americans to move a detachment of troops to fight with George Washington’s army against the British General Cornwallis in the final battle of the American Revolution.
He said, “What’s the matter Brother Wolf? Can I help you?” wa-ya cried, “I can’t open my eyes. Oh, please help me to see again.” U-wo-di-ge tsi-s-qua said, “I’m just a little brown bird but I will help you if I can.” Wa-ya said, ” u-wo-di-ge tsi-s-qua, if you can help me to see again, I will take you to a magic rock that oozes red paint. We will paint your feathers gi-ga-ge.”
Citico Creek & Tanasi
The Monument reads:
“The site of the former town of Tanasi, now underwater, is located about 300 yards west of this marker.
Tanasi attained political prominence in 1721 when its civil chief was elected the first ‘Emperor of the Cherokee Nation’.
About the same time, the town name was also applied to the river on which it was located.
During the mid-18th century Tanasi became overshadowed and eventually absorbed by the adjacent town of Chota which was to the immediate north.
The first recorded spelling of Tennessee as it is today occurred on LT. Henry Timberlake’s map of 1762.
In 1796, the name Tennessee was selected from among several as most appropriate for the nation’s 16th state.
Therefore, symbolized by this monument, those who reside in this beautiful state are forever linked to the Cherokee heritage.”


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My rating: 5 of 5 stars
I love, love, love Decky books. Decky is the nickname of the author, R.E. Bradshaw. I have read many of her stories. Her writing is enjoyable. She brings the reader into her worlds. We sit in on all the adventures. I hope someday her stories will become movies or television series. They are worth it!
What was most exciting about Molly: House on Fire? Characters from Ms. Bradshaw’s previous novels appeared and are there to help out in this thriller. I love when authors do that.
The mystery kept me guessing. I did figure out who but I couldn’t figure out the how or why as I read. The ending was a bit of a surprise. AND it feels like more could be written on Molly and her life. Yay!
This was such and exciting tale that I had to move a couple books from my “to read” to my “currently reading” shelf. Great job, Decky!
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
This was an Inter-Library Loan. That meant I only had two weeks to read it. Yikes! And the font… well, it was darker and good sized, but the lines were too close together. That made it difficult for me to read, but not impossible. Under really good lighting and short sips of the book, I managed to finish. Yay! I thought often, that Jean Little, herself, would have had a hard time reading this. My eyes aren’t nearly as bad as hers were, but I have similar problems. I have two eyes that operate independently from each other. Tracking is a big problem for me. In fact, I mostly read with one eye. The other goes on vacation. Its function is for far away. When I was young I had to hold the books really close. Not so close as to get print ink all over my nose, but near enough. As my eyes age, they let me pull the book away a bit.
With floaters, diabetes, and macular degeneration, I have deep fears of blindness. On the other hand, I have a great fascination with how people deal with it. I have always been amazed at abilities the disabled people portray. I remember reading about Helen Keller when I was in grade school. The week I got to see Miracle Worker on television, I walked around my house pretending to be blind to see if I could do it. After all, my great grandmother was blind. She made pot holders on her sewing machine for everyone in the family. She managed to get around her house just fine. No one lived with her. She had no guide dog, that I know of. And she never complained. Her conversations were like normal, none drew attention to her blindness. She could whip out her harmonica and play us all tunes. She was amazing. I could see and I couldn’t sew or play the harmonica.
Anyway, back to the book. This is the second part of Ms. Little’s autobiography. Her eyes were getting worse. That’s bad for a writer. Especially for back then. Her way of writing a book was with a typewriter. How, if you can’t see, do you go through the editing process? Granted she had a good support group with family and friends. People would read to her. She was already established with an editor and publisher, but she was also a bit of a perfectionist, as we should be at that stage.
As Jean Little goes through all these setbacks you see her honest reactions. No, she isn’t always graceful in her acceptance of her disability or the ways around it. I loved the fact that she was able to show her grumpier side, or the parts when she did feel sorry for herself. She let us see her faults, her humanness. That was what kept me reading, I think. That and the dog. Oh, I wanted to hug that dog!
Within these pages, Jean sprinkled in poetry. Hers and others. She gives us clues into her reading life, her favorite authors and books. For those who love childrens’ books, it is fun to see titles or authors of much adored reads of the past.
Now that I have finished reading the book, I want to see a part three. I want to go read her childrens’ books and those she admired that I didn’t read as a kid or mother. I understand she has a website. I am off to go research. I hope you enjoy this autobiography as much as I did.


A quarter of the way through Mr. Peanut, I’d decided not to review it. The story had already twisted into a double helix, the ideas about marriage and its ever-changing kaleidoscope of emotions had already set my mind spinning; I knew I couldn’t do it, and what’s more, I didn’t want to try.
But to not tell you about this book would be a disservice to this blog and my master plan to take over the — no, I just wanted to tell you what I can about this complex, dramatic, ruminative novel by a talented writer with one dark mind.
The jacket copy of Mr. Peanut describes the novel as “structurally and emotionally” complex, and for once, the jacket copy is right. The frame from which the book hangs is the story of David and Alice Pepin, a video game designer and a counselor for troubled kids who have been together for 13 years and through many, many of Alice’s desperate and destructive diets. But when the Pepins’ story turns complicated – Alice is found dead in her kitchen, covered in the peanuts she is deathly allergic to, and David’s fingers have been down her throat – we are suddenly sucked into the stories of the two detectives involved, as well. Ward Hastroll, whose wife Hannah has not gotten out of bed for five months for no apparent reason, and Sam Sheppard, the Sam Sheppard, each have their own stories of marital woe.
Almost every review of Mr. Peanut references Ross’ first lines: “When David Pepin first dreamed of killing his wife, he didn’t kill her himself. He dreamed convenient acts of God.” Which sums up the rest of the book both succinctly and inefficiently, as statements both enough and not-enough at the same time. (Just like anything that can be said about marriage, really.)
If the plot and the characters sound a tad challenging, it’s because they are. Ross is a gifted writer, but even his talent might not have carried this book. What kept me reading – indeed, what has already made me describe Mr. Peanut as “great” – were the sections where he broke down marriage, as much as anyone can.
‘She said, “Prove it.”
“That it’s going to improve.”
It required nothing miraculous of him. He simply had to be there, for Marilyn and for his son. There, as in inhabiting his life at home. There, as in treating now first. On a practical level it was the simplest thing: He took the boy off his wife’s hands when he returned from work. When she asked him for something – a favor, a last-second errand, or help with a household chore – he gave it. When she came to bed they talked. But spiritually and psychologically it was entirely different and required what couldn’t be faked: he was there. Whereas before he’d seen his wife and son as a kind of encroachment on his life, their needs as something that halved and rehalved the distance between him and what he wanted, and he’d therefore at every turn resisted every little thing asked of him, now he did the opposite. And he could feel the small joy it added to everything, and which in turn added accrued interest. It was so simple, really.’
That it’s not that simple – not that simple at all – is what sets this subtle, circuitous, and curious novel apart, all on its own.
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This book was published by Knopf in June 2010. For more information, including an excellent Q & A, visit the author’s website. And if you click the IndieBound logo below to buy your own copy of Mr. Peanut, you’ll support independent booksellers, me, and your own loving and murderous marriage.
FTC Disclosure: This review was based on a copy of the book that I borrowed from the public library.


Instructional Modules for Professional learning Responding to Opportunities and Valuing Educators (IMPROVE) is a peer-reviewed virtual professional development resource. Modules within the resource are collaboratively authored by candidates in their final semester of coursework in the EdD in Curriculum & Instruction at Gardner-Webb University and promote positive, data-informed, sustainable change in instructional practices or organizational structures to improve student learning at the K-12 level and beyond.
The learning cycle featured in the modules in this resource is based on the STAR Legacy Cycle developed by the IRIS Center (2013); http://iris.peabody.vanderbilt.edu/) and based on the work of Dr. John Branford and colleagues (National Research Council, 2000).
Julie Conn, Michelle Bennett, Cari Maneen, and Terree Andrew
This module explores descriptive purposeful feedback and its use as a strategy for differentiation and as a formative assessment tool. This module explores in detail research integral to understanding what effective and purposeful feedback is and the importance of providing specific and descriptive feedback. This module provides an evaluator the understanding and tools for how to use purposeful feedback to determine if a student is meeting the established performance criteria or if more intensive intervention is needed.
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The Biodiversity Heritage Library has a wonderful collection of resources about our shared biodiversity online. What is “biodiversity”? Wikipedia explains it as follows:
Biodiversity, a contraction of “biological diversity,” generally refers to the variety and variability of life on Earth. One of the most widely used definitions defines it in terms of the variability within species, between species and between ecosystems. It is a measure of the variety of organisms present in different ecosystems.
The goal of the Biodiversity Heritage Library is to improve “research methodology by collaboratively making biodiversity literature openly available to the world as part of a global biodiversity community”.
It is a remarkable resource, especially for school projects and for all you science geeks. One of the best parts of the Library is its extensive Flickr collection which has an enormous collection of scans and imagery.
The Library “serves as the foundational literature component of the Encyclopedia of Life” which you can find here. What is the Encyclopedia of Life?
Our knowledge of the many life-forms on Earth – of animals, plants, fungi, protists and bacteria – is scattered around the world in books, journals, databases, websites, specimen collections, and in the minds of people everywhere. Imagine what it would mean if this information could be gathered together and made available to everyone – anywhere – at a moment’s notice.
To increase awareness and understanding of living nature through an Encyclopedia of Life that gathers, generates, and shares knowledge in an open, freely accessible and trusted digital resource.
Between the Library and the EOL, these are wonderful biodiversity resources. Definitely worth bookmarking for all those school projects and personal exploration. I’ve added both sites to our Sources page.
NASA publishes a large collection of photos and videos of our planet as seen from the International Space Station. They offer a truly spectacular view of our home.
What really stands out, particularly when you watch the videos, is that you don’t see borders and the many differences that divide us. Instead, what you see is the one, beautiful planet that we all share.
A wonderful example of this is astronaut Jeff Williams’ video of the Earth as he passed overhead during a recent visit to the International Space Station. This video, titled “Jeff’s Earth” is mesmerizing on a big HD TV:
When you drop a piece of molten glass into cold water, the result is a tadpole shaped piece of extremely hard glass.
Well, at least the head of the drop is very strong. The tail is actually quite delicate.
The reason Prince Rupert’s Drops are so strong is that the outer layer of glass hardens almost straight away, while the inside takes a bit longer. When hot glass cools down (and this happens with water turning into ice too), the glass shrinks. This means that the inside of the glass drop is cooling down and shrinking but the outside is already cold and hard so the glass pulls towards the centre of the drop and makes it really, really strong inside.


Collection: Heath and Heather
Heath & Heather was established in 1920 by Samuel Ryder, an entrepreneur whose fortune was first made selling garden seeds in ‘penny packets’. Samuel’s elder brother, James, was a keen herbalist producing books on Herbal Remedies for a post-World War population looking for natural, preventative healthcare.
“Our Herbal Remedies are Nature’s cures – and Nature, by slowly and surely getting down to the cause of the trouble, is always right.”
– The Famous Book of Herbal Aids to Health & Fitness, Heath & Heather Ltd. 1938
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