GILES: Yes, I'm, I'm afraid it is. You see, Spike has also called out the Order of Taraka to keep Buffy out of the way.
Kendra: De assassins? I read of dem in de writings of Dramius.
GILES: Oh, really? W-w-which volume?
Kendra: I believe it was six, sir.
BUFFY: Um, how do you know all this?
Kendra: From me studies.
BUFFY: So, obviously you have a lot of free time.
Kendra: I study because it is required. The Slayer handbook insists on it.
WILLOW: There's a Slayer handbook?
BUFFY: Wait. Handbook? What handbook? How come I don't have a handbook?
[Drabbles & Short Fiction]
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- Release (Giles, E, Torchwood xover) by Unfeathered
- It's A Mural Dumbass! (Buffy/Reader, G) by december_dream
- Torchwood Aftershock: Halloween 22 and 23 (Xander, T, Torchwood xover) by madimpossibledreamer
- Empire of Dirt (i will make you hurt) Ch. 1-2/? (Buffy/Faith, E) by punchup
- While You Were Hunting Ch. 1/? (Ensemble, M, SPN xover) by Hannah_Girl
- Operation Red Zone Ch. 1/? (Buffy/Angel, unrated) by Nooty
- Missing You (Giles, Willow, unrated) by banduraqueen
- The Spider, The Slayer and The Key Ch. 1 (Ensemble, T, MCU xover) by Aragorn_II_Elessar
- L'amore troverà la via CH. 1/74 (Buffy/Spike) by boulouzou
- Never Is A Promise Ch. 19 (Buffy/Angel, T) by butimbroken
- Distant Thunder, Chapter 21 (Buffy/Spike, E) by Axell
- The Key is Donnie Summers, Chapter 28 (Buffy/Spike, E) by Girlytek
- Married At First Spuffy, Chapter 2 (Buffy/Spike, T) by Lavender Bixby
- These Violent Delights, Chapter 24 (Buffy/Spike, E) by Touchstoneaf
- Pictures of You, Chapter 66 (Buffy/Spike, E) by kats_meow
- How did you react to Angel trying to kill Wesley in Season 3? (Buffy/Spike, ) by jdpm1991
- Plenty of Fish , Chapter 1 (Buffy/Spike, T) by all_choseny
- Day and Night , Chapter 21 (Buffy/Spike, E) by Soulburnt
- Favored of the Gods, Chapter 30 (Buffy/Spike, E) by Soulburnt
- Lil’ Ripper Makes a Friend, Chapter 28 (Buffy/Spike, E) by Soulburnt
- Thanks for the Memories, Chapter 1 (Buffy/Spike, M) by Soulburnt
- Be Brave, Chapter 2 (Buffy/Spike, T) by Ajmilone
- Death Wish, Chapter 26 (Buffy/Spike, E) by Sigyn
- Married At First Spuffy, Chapter 3 (Buffy/Spike, T) by Lavender Bixby
- Hung Up, Chapter 8 (Buffy/Spike, E) by kats_meow
- An Unexpected Arrival Ch. 6 (Ensemble, T) by Greywizard
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- The Replacement: Reloaded Ch. 6 (Xander, E, multiple xovers) by ShadowMaster
- What do you think you are, a Jedi or something? Ch. 54 (Buffy/Faith, M, Star Wars xover) by Blackhat
- Echoes of Beljoxa 7: Precious Gifts (Buffy/Spike, E) by myrabeth
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- How did you fill in the gaps? by TypicalPsychology6
- I never actually got far enough into Buffy the Vampire Slayer to experience the Spike/Buffy romance by her-villainous-crush
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- Spike - no matter your feelings by lilbadassy
- I just finished Buffy for the first time... by ashley45star
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Contact and Context: New Directions in Gestalt Coaching presents a dynamic range of accounts from leading organisational coaches, describing how they ground their practice in Gestalt theory and methods, and how they are working creatively within the broad scope of this versatile and powerful approach. Pulsing with stories from the front lines that illustrate what is distinctive about Gestalt coaching, the book contains case studies that involve challenging circumstances and deep learning for all stakeholders. With attention to pivotal micro-moments of the change process in the art of coaching, explorations of whole human intelligence, descriptions of co-emergent process, ‘creative experiments’ with clients, and other practical applications to organisational life, this collection will be invaluable to all coaches who wish to explore what Gestalt has to offer their practice, as well as to managers and organisational leaders.
This book is a welcome contribution to the coaching literature. It provides a full appreciation of the range of contributions from Gestalt Psychology to the field of coaching. Every coach will find something here that will both expand and deepen their thinking and their practice. This book emphasises two aspects that are central to quality coaching - how we turn up (our presence as a coach) and how we attend to the context in which the work is happening.
Peter Hawkins, Professor of Leadership, Henley Business School; Chairman, Renewal Associates; and author of many books on coaching, team coaching, supervision and leadership.
This is a treasure-chest of ideas, methods and frameworks from a wide rage of experienced Gestaltists that you can dip in to and discover gems that will stretch your thinking, deepen your understanding and enrich your practice of Gestalt coaching.
John Leary-Joyce, President, Academy of Executive Coaching; author, 'The Fertile Void - Gestalt Coaching at Work’.
This important book represents a diverse collection of papers on organisational coaching from a Gestalt theoretical perspective. These articles are tied together by their focus on process, creativity, the 'here and now', and relational connectedness - all important concepts of a contemporary Gestalt approach.
Joe Melnick, Founding Editor, Gestalt Review; Chair, Cape Cod Training Programme, Gestalt International Study Centre; co-editor, ‘Mending The World - Social Helming Interventions by Gestalt Practitioners Worldwide’.


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How to Build a Kayak – A Beginner’s Guide
If you’ve been dreaming of paddling your very own kayak, you may be wondering how to build a kayak. After all, this is an adventure, and it’s a great way to spend your spare time. While it may take you more time than you’d like, it can also be a lot of fun. Here are some tips to get you started. You’ll need patience, perseverance, and the right equipment. pedal kayaks for fishing
After the hull is constructed, you’ll need to attach the deck beams. These will extend from one side of the kayak’s hull to the other. They will be used to support the deck and create compartments for buoyancy. It’s a good idea to cut extra plywood panels and glue them to the hull to form a bulkhead for the kayak’s deck. Then, you can attach a slatted stern to the kayak’s hull using plywood screws.
To build a kayak, you will need a woodworking shop and fibreglass cloth. If you’ve never built a kayak before, this step-by-step guide is a great resource. It’s an easy to follow, step-by-step guide, and contains many details that are rarely covered in other texts, including the installation of rudders and steering gear. This book should be a must-have for anyone considering making a kayak. It should be available in comprehensive public library collections.
To make the hulls stiff and strong, you need to use urea-formaldehyde resin. You can purchase this resin in a powder form or use it in the same way. When you’re done, you can glue together the strips and start assembling the kayak. Then, glue the strips together and wait for them to dry. You can use masking tape to hold the strips together, but be sure to cut the ends neatly.
The best books to learn how to build kayaks will cover the basics and the skills you’ll need to get started. You can look up books about boat building on the internet, or you can find instructional DVDs or guides. If you’re a beginner, you may want to purchase a kayak kit that comes with pre-cut plywood components. Those kits will also include hardware and epoxy to help you complete the project. You can then begin paddling and enjoying your new craft.
Next, you’ll need to prepare the hull. First, sand it down. Afterward, apply a layer of resin to the inside surface. You’ll want to use two types of resin. Both resins stick to wood better than polyester, but whichever one you choose, make sure to test the two before you buy it. Once the epoxy has dried, you can use the paint scraper to remove excess resin.
Building a kayak is an excellent exercise, and a great way to learn more about woodworking. Even if you have little experience or knowledge of construction, building a kayak will give you a sense of pride in your work and be a great hobby. And who can deny that a kayak built by you is a great family heirloom? If you want to build a kayak that will last for generations, consider buying a kit or taking a class.


Welcome to the Astromaid Chronicles, a slack-jawed, hurly-twirly, fritter fratter tip-toe exposition of all things Feminine, 20-Something, Traveler and Real.
The Astromaid is a fictitious character comprised of half-astronaut and half-mermaid, which serves as a not-so-delicate metaphor for the author’s two great aspirations in life: to be an astronaut (the explorer of the skies above) and a mermaid (the explorer of the worlds below).
This is my take on life. The delicate, weird, ugly, raw, amusing and sometimes-sparkling balance of the various worlds in which I live. The world of an independent woman, of a twenty-something, of a lover, of a writer, of a traveler, of a seeker.
These are the Astromaid Chronicles.


As the mother of Wes Moore, who spoke at the Clinton School about his best-selling memoir on overcoming the obstacles that face a fatherless, young black man, Joy Moore is constantly asked: “How did you do it?”
Joy’s answer is “presence.” Specifically, seven different ways of being a force in a child’s life, ensuring that they feel your influence. We can’t always be physically there for our children, but the power of presence can help us be a voice in the back of their minds that guides them through difficult times.
In “The Power of Presence,” Moore explores seven pillars of presence—heart, faith, mind, courage, financial freedom, values, and connectedness—that all parents can use to positively influence their children. Using compelling stories from women who have been there and practical advice on everything from savings accounts to mindfulness, this book is a compassionate look at what it takes to raise great kids, even in less than ideal circumstances.


Awesome-MakerDAO is a community-curated list of MakerDAO-related content and resources to which anyone can contribute. The long-term goal is developing a self-maintaining document, where anyone can get paid to add or update content and find and replace typos, with clear guidelines around how to update its resources.
This guide details the suggested logic contributors should follow to improve Awesome-MakerDAO.
Follow the provided guidelines to help preserve a consistent and clean formatting style.
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The MakerDAO Community Grants program supports members that provide useful contributions and improve Maker's document base. Inquire about bounties and incentives in #community-development on MakerDAO's chat.
New users should see Awesome-MakerDAO as their starting-point to learn about Maker. Members should be able to share AMD with friends and acquaintances that are looking for a crash course on Maker and its basics.


A file database is usually an efficient and convenient way to store information within a doc. It is almost like key-value shops, but offers more flexibility for taking care of content.
Report sources are a useful gizmo to store XML, JSON, and serialized PDF documents. They are also helpful for catalogs. Using a document databases to store a catalog enables easier usage of the content.
These kind of databases great use cases that require almost instant access to the info. However , they are really not perfect for storing sensitive information.
When compared with relational directories, papers are much more quickly to load. And so they offer eventual consistency. For instance , if you transform a report, the changes usually do not affect all the other documents. Should you have a large number of records, it may be better to use a database that is more scalable.
A report store can be used to maintain a collection of user profiles and other documents. Unlike relational databases, they just do not require the creation of new fields or data kitchen tables to accommodate the growing numbers of documents.
Depending on documents database the sort of document you need to store, you should use different indexing options. For example , you can search documents based on their very own metadata. Also you can query documents based upon their content material.
Some well-known document data source systems consist of MongoDB, Couchbase Server, and Amazon DynamoDB. Other options contain DBMSs apply JSON, YAML, or XML.
The document store question language lets you query documents based on all their content or metadata. Also you can check the accord of the things stored in the database.


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Have you ever heard the name Hijab Imtiaz Ali? You search the name in Google and what you just get are the endless details and images of the Hijab controversy in Europe. Well, it used to be a Muslim female name which shows that the word obviously has a positive connotation. It seems out of fashion today but I think I would love to name my daughter “Hijab”, one day. No matter how horrible feeling those dumb so called reformists associate with this beautiful word.
My personal view is that Hijab is a woman’s very personal matter. Observing Hijab or not is her’s choice to decide, not her husband or father’s. Ironically the woman I am talking about, named Hijab Imtiaz Ali never wore Hijab and was one of the very first Muslim women in India to come out of their homes and play active role in society. Hijab was from an aristocratic family of the Princely state of Hyderabad Deccan. A born writer, Hijab started writing at a very young age. One of her best works “Meri Natamam Mohabbat”, which is considered one of the best love stories ever written in Urdu literature, was written at the age of twelve. Within a few years, she grew up to become the Princess of publishing world. Her short stories were always in demand and her work was published in best magazines of the time. She was popular throughout Subcontinent. Her stories were very romantic with a lot of natural, beautiful and sensitive imagery of life. Her unique style of sentence construction and repeated use of some selected beautiful words made her work very special and distinguished her from her contemporaries. Another specialty of Hijab’s stories and novels was that she always used same characters in different situations. Her famous characters Dr. Gaar, Sir Harley, Dadi Zubeida, and Habshan Zonash etc remained with her throughout her writing career which spanned on more than 60 years. Yet her readers were never bored, in fact these characters became a beautiful and memorable part of the legend of Hijab Imtiaz Ali. She was the pioneer romanticist in Urdu literature.
Her novels “Meri Natamaam Mohabbat” & “Zaalim Mohabbat” were huge hits of their time. Both were beautiful modern romantic stories. She published a few short stories collections. Hijab also translated Louisa May Alcott’s famous classic novel “Little Women” into Urdu. Her diaries were also published in magazines and were later compiled in a couple of books. A very special part of her daily diary was during the 1965 Indo Pak war which was later published with the name of “Mombatti ke Samne” (In front of the Candle). It was so named because during the war, blackout was observed at night and Hijab used to write her diary in the candle light. It is a very interesting account of the days of war in Lahore. Hijab was the most natural person in her real life as well as in her writings. She was so upset with the reports of nuclear bombs and chemical weapons and their impact on human beings and natural life that she started researching and wrote her award winning novel “Pagal Khana” (Mad House). She studied renowned psychologist Sigmund Freud in detail and was fascinated by his concept of subconscious. This provided background material for another of her great novels “Andhera Khwab” (Dark Dream). Although, being one of the greatest Urdu writers ever, Hijab had another talent too. She was the first Muslim woman pilot in Indian subcontinent, which even impressed Mohtarma Fatima Jinnah who always used to wonder how she became a pilot.
To link new generation with Hijab Imtiaz Ali, I would remind you of some great childhood or adolescence memories. Do you remember the famous PTV sitcom of late 1990s or early 2000s named “Teen Bata Teen”?? And remember the guy who always revolved a key chain in his finger. His name is Ali Tahir and Hijab was his grandmother. Hijab got married to Imtiaz Ali Taj in early 1930s. You must remember Imtiaz Ali Taj from your Urdu course. He was the person behind Chacha Chakkan and Anarkali. He was a renowned journalist and also wrote for radio and films. They had only one daughter Yasmeen Tahir who later on became one of the most famous voices of Radio Pakistan. Yasmeen’s husband Naeem Tahir is a great television artist (Shan and Fawad Khan’s father in film “Khuda Ke Liye”).
Hijab died in March 1999. She spent last years of her life in a comfortable home in Model Town, Lahore with her children. In her real life, Hijab was a critical thinker and a very sensitive person. Her style of thinking and vision was different from ordinary people. Very small details affected her. That is why she used to get upset with minor disturbances in her environment. Model Town, Lahore has been the scene of some major terrorist attacks in past few years. Sometimes I think how Hijab would’ve felt after hearing the explosions and seeing broken glass of her room window.
The Queen of Urdu Romanticism rests in peace in Lahore.


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THIS exquisitely written book is like a stroll through an old Eastern Cape garden, full of sounds and smells, colours and textures, described with the sweet and beautiful detail of a miniature landscape.“Loquats half-maimed,
eaten by mousebirds … Garden of trampled dandelion,
the jungle of a child.”
Marguerite Black is blonde and willowy, has film-star looks, talent, drive, courage and intelligence, with an enviably supportive family. She also has Friedreich's Ataxia, a crippling neurological disorder that has worsened over the years. Now, aged 28, she can't walk unaided, no longer has proper control over her hands and arms, and probably faces severe speech impairment and cardiac disease in the not too distant future. Given her prognosis, The Dandelion Diary could be expected to be sombre and heart-wrenching; instead it is an affirmation of life, of love and of joy. She presents her childhood memories not as faded Polaroids, but as detailed scenes, set within diamonds; this is a woman who has always had a sensual appreciation of the moment, and the talent to allow us to relive it with her in crystal clarity.
Black spent her childhood in Grahamstown, just a few blocks from where I grew up. Her father worked in the economics department at Rhodes University, and was one of the most popular lecturers on the staff. Obviously intelligence, good looks, talent and charisma run in the Black family, along with the ataxia.
When she describes her childhood, she dwells on a wealth of positive sensations: swimming in the dam in the summer; polishing the copper in the garden under the loquat tree. The raucous clamour of the hadedas, the sound of children's songs, the singing of myriad birds and buzzing of insects, the soporific January heat, and the sudden, violent electric storms are all brought to vivid life not only in her prose, but also in her poetry.
For Black, the glass always seems to be at least half full, and even hot nights made terrible by mosquitoes, and bitingly cold Eastern Cape winters are fondly remembered.
It was only after the family moved to Stellenbosch that the ataxia, which already plagued her older brother, began to manifest. Black’s early life should read like a nightmare since her poor balance resulted in constant accusations of drunkenness, and two car accidents — one of which resulted in the death of a close friend — exacerbated her problem. Yet she remained strong and positive.“In this maximum security prison of tamed instincts
My once malleable body has been jolted
Into this chair on wheels,
My impulses are dulled.”
Carefully faded photographs lend an intimate feel; we see her as a child with her beaming mum, her sexy dad, her gorgeous brother. But as an adult, we have Black in a wheelchair, on her modified scooter and leaning on her walking aid.
She and her brother both have jobs where they work with others who have disabilities, and actively promote public awareness of their disorder — he through Remix, the dance company he formed for dancers with handicaps, she by her PR work and writing. “I have an urge to put words into the void that surrounds ataxia. My writing is a way of saying: this is also important, because this is my truth."
Dandelion Diary does indeed put words into that void, and ends by quoting from an e-mail campaign the siblings started to encourage research on ataxia, and to offer their services as test subjects. The last words of the book encapsulate Black's philosophy. “We will continue," she says. “Fighting and hoping.”


During his life, Du Bois spent much time promoting equal rights for the African American population, as opposed to their submitting to white ideologies. He became involved in numerous organizations and periodicals and made great contributions to history and politics, having great influence on the lives of African American.
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Learning about African American literature is an important way for students to develop their understanding of the literary canon. This lesson offers essay topics that will help students think more.
African American Literature is a composite of many different life stories and experiences African Americans have had to endure throughout a lifetime. From African American Heritage, which goes all the way back to literature written by African's who were brought to America as slaves up to now (which.
African American literature, body of literature written by Americans of African descent. Beginning in the pre-Revolutionary War period, African American writers have engaged in a creative, if often contentious, dialogue with American letters. The result is a literature rich in expressive subtlety.
One mode of Langston Hughes writing was what might be thought of as African American uplift. That mode included large dramatic monologues such as “The Negro Mother,” The Colored Soldier,” and the “The Black Clown.” Those readings was large at African American institutions and were mostly attended by middle-class African-American.
She won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. The history of African American literature is vast and varied. Whether you’re interested in learning more about slave narratives and their role in abolition or about the impact of the Harlem Renaissance on 20th-century literary forms, you should be sure to explore the works of these writers.
The Harlem Renaissance was a turning point in African American literature; it was no longer read mainly by black people, but started to be absorbed into the whole American culture. Due to all reasons mentioned above Harlem Renaissance stands as one of the most celebrated movements in African-American culture and American history. It is known as.
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The Norton Anthology of African American Literature New York Booker T.Washington, during the 59 years of his life, rose up from being a slave until the age of nine, to forming a school for African Americans and the education of thousands of African Americans in the pursuit of self sufficiency.Washington has also been deemed as the most famous African American orator and civil rights leader of.
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Does African-American Literature Exist? African-American literature can be described in many different ways. According to Gibson, African-American literature should: empower the black community, convey the writer’s thoughts and meaning, and may or may not contain a political message (Gibson).
Moreover African American being a large population in the United States contributed immensely to the arts and literature of the American society. He also drew the attention of the readers of the book to the unjustified fact of exclusion of the African American history and culture from the authorized description of American history during 1960s.


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Civil War State Seals
Two major types of electrotype copies were produced by Colonel John Pickett in the year 1872. This seal had been ordered by the Confederate government and it totally represents the equestrian portrait of Washington. On the other side of the flip, the seal also represents the phrase of “Deo Vindice”. The solid silver which is an entirely completed one was sent to the US and finally, the seal arrived at the Richmond in the year 1864. Then in the year, 1865, the seal was smuggled by a specific clerk in the State Department. In the year 1872, John T. Pickett had a series of the electrotype copies of the unique original seal before giving it to the Thomas Selfridge. Eventually, the reproduction took in the unlimited numbers and the copies were sent to the orphans in the South. In the present era, the original impressions are an important one. It is said to be that the great seal of confederate states of us include the electrotype impressions such as the original dye silver including the gold plated one.


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EEBO-TCP is a partnership with ProQuest and with more than 150 libraries to generate highly accurate, fully-searchable, SGML/XML-encoded texts corresponding to books from the Early English Books Online (EEBO) Database.
Early English Books Online
The EEBO TCP corpus consists of the works represented in the Early English Books Online collections known as Short Title Catalogues I and II (based on the Pollard & Redgrave and Wing short title catalogs respectively), as well as the Thomason Tracts and the Early English Books Tract Supplement collections. Together these trace the history of English thought from the first book printed in English in 1475 through to 1700. The books in these collections include works of literature, philosophy, politics, religion, geography, history, politics, mathematics, music, the practical arts, natural science, and all other areas of human endeavor. The assembled collection of more than 125,000 volumes is a mainstay for understanding the development of Western culture in general and the Anglo-American world in particular. The STC collections have perhaps been most widely used by scholars of English, theology, linguistics, and history, but these resources also include core texts in art, women’s studies, history of science and medicine, law, and music.
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The 2011 edition of the C.A.R.E. Guide contains student activities, educator reflection opportunities, and video clips of experts sharing research and practice tips for educating culturally diverse students and students from low-income families.
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Find out how students who are difficult to motivate are motivated outside of school and bring those interests inside the schoolhouse where they can be used to direct students toward academics.


Do Books Make You Rich?
There are many books that you can purchase for those who are interested in making money. The Unshakable Book by Tony Robbins and the 4 Hour Work Week Book are just some of the many. These are all great books and have been helpful to a lot of people.
Eat That Frog Book
The Eat That Frog Book is more than just a book about Frogs. It’s a six-step guide to improving your time management abilities and completing more tasks in fewer hours. This is a guideline for using the most effective technology to remind yourself of important tasks. It is also important to establish a regularity of taking things in the proper order.
If you’re looking to finish your job well, you will need to take some time planning and strategizing. As you are doing this, you will be required to make choices about which tasks are the most important. This will help you get there.
There are many methods to accomplish this objective. One of the most effective methods is to select a particular narrow goal to concentrate your attention. You could choose to write a book.
The 4hr Work Week Book
The 4hr Workweek is an excellent place to begin for those who are interested in the latest fad in productivity. The book is more than just productivity. This book is a step by step guide to living a more joyful life.
One of the best aspects of this book is the quality of the information. You’ll be able to learn from successful entrepreneurs. Some of the advice is skewed from personal experience, but there are some gems here for the serious entrepreneur. In a nutshell, Ferriss isn’t afraid to share his failures and successes. You will be more productive if you are willing to reframe the unanswerable.
There’s a lot of buzz surrounding the latest trend in productivity. But Timothy Ferriss’ Four Hour Work Week is a must for anyone who wants to live a happier, more fulfilled life.
Dotcom Secrets Book
Russell Brunson, CEO of ClickFunnels, wrote DotCom Secrets. It’s an actionable guide to online marketing.
This book is a great source for new marketers as well as entrepreneurs. It’s easy to read and has lots of useful information. The lessons will remain relevant as long as social media remains available.
One of the major concepts in this book is the creation of your own funnel. This book will show you how to tell your story, get your message out, and promote your product to the right audience.
This book will help you create your business without spending money. The author will show you how to create a product that people will want to buy. He will also teach you how to get customers to your site and keep them coming back.
The Power of Being Rich A Book
Napoleon Hill’s books can be considered self-help classics. His book, Think and grow rich, is still very well-known. The book provides step-by step guidance on how to become wealthy.
In the book, the author reveals 17 elements of success. These factors are specific beliefs and actions. This guide is complete and is accessible to anyone.
You need to have the right mindset and mindset to achieve success. You must think about your goals and aspirations with the proper determination and perseverance. It takes time to develop your persistence. However, it will be worth the effort.
In the book, the author offers an intellectual framework to achieve prosperity by positive thinking. He also offers practical advice and mystic secrets.
The book is written in a clear and witty manner. This makes it a perfect book for children who are reading.
Unshakable Book Tony Robbins
The Unshakable Book by Tony Robbins and Peter Mallouk may not be an original financial guide however it is the triumvirate of a readable guide to success. The author is not an expert by any means however he does have an ability to deliver specific information on a variety of topics. One of his most popular topics is the nitty gritty of investment jargon. It allows novice investors to navigate the murky waters of the stock market. This witty guide to affluence will get you started on your way to investing and prosperity.
The Unshakable is a comprehensive collection of helpful tips, tricks, and the best practices to make the most of your wealth, with some of the most effective ideas found in the most surprising places. Anyone looking for the ultimate in financial education should read this book. This book is packed with practical tips and advice as well as inspiring tales.


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Rooted in traditional European periodization, Early Modern Studies has evolved to consider the political expansions, cultural translations, and networks of exchange that began in the medieval period and continued through the 18th century. Through diverse disciplinary methods, UCLA scholarship on early modernity explores cultural, philosophical, and social changes in local enclaves, circumscribed regions (the Mediterranean, the Pacific and Atlantic basins, South Asia and the Indian Ocean, continental interiors) and expansive geographies. By highlighting these pre-1800 historical transformations, Early Modern Studies contributes to our understanding of the deep roots of the present.
UCLA boasts a distinguished faculty in Early Modern Studies, with particular strengths in the fields of History, Political Science, Musicology, Art History, English, French, Italian, and Spanish, as well as in interdisciplinary approaches including ecocriticism, the study of material culture, and transnational, postcolonial, and cultural studies, to name but a few. With strong support from the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies and the Center for 17th- and 18th-Century Studies, as well as the UCLA Special Collections, Clark Library, and other area collections, including the Huntington and the Getty, UCLA is at the vanguard of reimagining Early Modern Studies.


Most of us know the basics of the story of the birth of Jesus Christ: Mary and Joseph on their journey from Nazareth to Bethlehem, the overcrowded inns, the stable, baby Jesus in his manger, the three wise men, or Magi, bearing gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh.
Why then, when you look at this wonderful felt nativity scene from Kyrgyzstan, are the three Magi joined by a fourth? We have the usual three: Balthasar, Caspar, and Melchior – but beside them stand a fourth, mysterious figure. Some stories call him Artaban; a wise man who also saw the star signalling the birth of a king and decided to follow it. On his way, he became distracted and ended up not making it to the stable to greet the little baby Jesus. Instead he spent his years (and the gifts he had intended for the little new king) on helping the needy, and did not meet Jesus until thirty years later, just before his crucifixion.
Another legend of the Fourth Magus stems from Russia*. It describes a tall bearded man, dressed in a woollen coat and hood, who saw the star all the way from his northern, wintry home, and decided to follow it to meet the new king. Where the other Magi rode camels, the Fourth Magus lashed reindeer to his large wooden sledge, packed it with gifts for the little king, and set off towards Bethlehem. Alas, he never made it. Did he succumb to the icy winter? Did he get lost on his way? Who knows…? But some of the story of the Fourth Magus must have seeped into our legends and stories of Christmas today, where many children are still sitting on Christmas night, waiting for a tall, bearded man, riding a reindeer sledge full of gifts.
Merry Christmas from us here at ethnographica!
*The story of the Fourth Magus was borrowed from a text by Mary-Gabrielle Blanchet, from The Clarion, January 2005.


The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business is a book written in 2012 by Pulitzer-prize winning American journalist Charles Duhigg. It explores the science behind how habits are created as well as reformed in human beings.
Maximising the greatest days of the year.
The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said, “No good deeds are better than what is done in these first ten days of Dhul-Hijjah.”
Last night, Israeli forces stormed Masjid Al-Aqsa – Islam’s third most holiest site – and attacked peaceful worshippers. This is Muslim Youth Network’s statement regarding this vicious attack to all our Muslim Brothers and Sisters to find out how you can help.
“Weighing nearly 140kg was a massive wake up call for me… Today I’m glad to say I weigh 95kg.”
Our brother shares lessons from his inspirational weight-loss journey; consistency is key. #MYNwrites


This unique and exclusive documentary opens the door to life at the Lyric Theatre in Hammersmith, west London, during summer and autumn 2017. DT+ goes behind the scenes to access all areas of the company, from their extensive young people’s programme to the key planning stages for their main house production of Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull.
Moira Buffini explores how she works with the past to write about the present, with particular reference to her World War II play Gabriel, which emerged out of a desire to write about the lives of women during the war.
Actor Ray Fearon brings the character of Othello to life by combining readings from Shakespeare’s text with intimate insights into his own experience of playing the Moor. He considers how Othello swings like a pendulum between love and hatred, and how the opposing use of verse and prose consolidates this effect.
In forensic detail, and by unpacking the layers of disguise embedded within the play, actor Zoe Waites analyses the language and rhythms of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night and considers how these tools help bring the character of Viola to life.
In this inspiring and extraordinary exchange of ideas, Professor Carol Chillington Rutter, editor of Clamorous Voices: Shakespeare’s Women Today, revisits the seminal book with one of its most celebrated interviewees, Harriet Walter. With reference to Walter’s subsequent career and, more recently, her foray into playing male roles, the two explore Shakespeare’s characters and plays in fascinating detail.
Professor Kate McLuskie, former Director of the Shakespeare Institute, leads two directors – Lucy Bailey and Phillip Breen – and two actors – Ray Fearon and Zoe Waites – in an in–depth discussion of gender with reference to Julius Caesar and As You Like It.
Professor Kate McLuskie, former Director of the Shakespeare Institute, leads two directors – Lucy Bailey and Phillip Breen – and two actors – Ray Fearon and Zoe Waites – in an in–depth discussion of love and sex with reference to Romeo and Juliet, The Taming of the Shrew, Othello and A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Professor Kate McLuskie, former Director of the Shakespeare Institute, leads two directors – Lucy Bailey and Phillip Breen – and two actors – Ray Fearon and Zoe Waites – in an in–depth discussion of family with reference to Macbeth, King Lear and The Merry Wives of Windsor.
Professor Kate McLuskie, former Director of the Shakespeare Institute, leads two directors – Lucy Bailey and Phillip Breen – and two actors – Ray Fearon and Zoe Waites – in an in–depth discussion of conflict with reference to Titus Andronicus, King Lear and A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Stubbs and Stewart intricately explore Andrew Bovell’s script, animatedly discussing fresh textual interpretations of the play’s key scenes, in an analysis that develops in front of the camera.
Oswald explores the symbiotic responsibility of opening the play to an audience in soliloquy, inviting them as friends on a shared journey, while coming to terms with and conveying the emotional singularity of her own story.
Barker outlines his process of learning to play a son, a daughter, a brother and a sister, within the precincts of the same character. He discusses the edifying journey through language, science and autobiographical illustration, which allowed him to sit comfortably in playing the understanding that there are as many stories about transition as there are people who experience it.
Casey discusses the interrogative discomfort of exploring the semi-abusive relationship between Pip and her mother, and how Andrew Bovell’s writing looks, at first glance, like prose, but is almost dance-like in rhythm and quality.
Mylan reads Things I Know To Be True as a continuous crisis point for Ben, an impending train wreck, hurtling towards a catastrophic act of envy and selfishness. He describes developing Ben’s character by learning his extremes, before pulling back to something stiller to internalise that turmoil, and explains that every moment of the production is intensely physical, even in its stillness.
“The writer is the thing. Sometimes I feel that I haven’t really earned the accolades – I didn’t write it, I’m only saying it out loud really. But when those big parts come along you do have a huge responsibility, and I will rise to that because I am my worst critic... So it's exhausting doing theatre, but wonderful.”
"We're attracted to the weaker and darker sides of ourselves, because that's what we are trying to solve all the time, I think - our vulnerabilities and our fears. That's why it's great to play them, to share them. You're sharing your own puzzles and people are watching because they want to solve the conundrum."
"I think everything I have experienced in my life is both things. When you give birth to your first child, it's the most extraordinary event you will ever have encountered; but of course giving birth is the most ordinary thing. The same is true of death, presumably. All the great events in our lives are both ordinary and extraordinary."
George shares why he credits Berkoff with inventing physical theatre, the distance between the suspension of disbelief and belief itself, and the physics of playing a beetle.
Talking About Plays
Meera Syal is one of the UK's best-known performing arts polymaths, having turned her hand to acting, writing, singing and producing across both stage and screen. She is currently playing the role of Nurse in Kenneth Branagh's all-star Romeo and Juliet at The Garrick Theatre.
In this interview, Meera explores the origins of her stage-adapted novel Anita and Me and reflects upon the joy of collaborative work and why it's important for a writer to invest in the small characters.
Tarek Merchant discusses the technicalities of Musical Direction and explains how his role is a constant conversation with the composer, director, sound designer, musicians and cast. He expounds on the necessity to form a robust and shared musical vocabulary with the wider creative team, and explores the symbiotic relationship between the architecture of a production’s design and that of its music.
How do you take a 40,000 word classic novel and transform it into a piece for the stage? Join the director, writer, composer and actors as they reveal how they took Thomas Hardy's classic Far from the Madding Crowd and made it work on the stage.
Leila Benn Harris played Emily in Aaron Lee Lambert's musical From Up Here, developed by Perfect Pitch.
Leila reflects on the experience of originating a role, being filmed in performance on stage, and what she considers to be her favourite moments of working on the production.
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In this unique insight into the secret world of backstage, Digital Theatre go behind the scenes at the Clapham Community Project during the RSC and Told by an Idiot’s young people’s production of The Comedy of Errors.
This short film explores the development of Craig Adams and Ian Watson's new musical LIFT, as it happened.
From the first morning meet and greet to devising movement sequences, join the cast and creative team in the rehearsal room.
Created by Perfect Pitch. Filmed and edited by Wayne Eagles.
Julia Ford took to the Liverpool Everyman to play opposite David Morrissey in Gemma Bodinetz’s post-apocalyptic Macbeth. Ford considers how Lady Macbeth was able to persuade her husband to commit murder, and explains how she, as an actor, interprets Shakespeare’s words – and silences.


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Portable Parallel Branch-and-Bound Library
IntroductionThe Portable Parallel Branch-and-Bound Library ( PPBB-Library ) presents an easy way to parallelize sequential Branch-and-Bound algorithms for several architectures. A user of the library, who wants to run his sequential algorithm on a parallel system, needs neither knowledge about the hardware architecture nor the parallelization mechanisms.
Each parallel running process of the Branch-and-Bound application maintains the point of view of the sequential algorithm. The library overtakes the management of the subproblems, which are created during execution of the Branch-and-Bound algorithm. Load balancers provided by the library take care of a balanced distribution of the subproblems.
The quality of the load balancing strategy is essential for the parallel performance of a sequential efficient Branch-and-Bound algorithm. The user of the library is able to implement own load balancing strategies instead of using the application-independent load balancing algorithms included in the library.
Thus, on the first hand the library can be used for the automatic parallelization of sequential Branch-and-Bound algorithms. On the other hand it can be used for implementing and testing load balancing strategies while the loads are provided by a particular Branch-and-Bound application.
The library is designed to run on any distributed memory multicomputer architecture using the given message passing functions and is written in C.
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Rome – "War and Peace … in Europe and the Balkans" - ESI lecture at the Nato Defence College
ESI's Gerald Knaus gave an online lecture on the Western Balkans at the NATO Defence College in Rome. He analysed NATO and EU intervention policies in the region and examined possible future roles and developments for both NATO and the EU. In addition, Gerald provided an analysis of expectations by Western Balkans countries towards other international key actors and an overview of the political, social, and economic issues and dynamics in the region. He also talked about lessons from past interventions in the Balkans and associated risks.
After his presentation, Gerald participated in an online Q&A with students from the NATO Defence College in Rome.
- "Escaping the Hamster Wheel: For a reformed, merit-based EU accession process that offers a credible interim goal"
- "Abandon clichés about Bosnia: Push EU-related reforms instead of arbitrary conditions"
- "Start EU accession talks with North Macedonia: Keep your word. Strengthen reformers"
- "No partition: Why Kosovo and Serbia must not discuss territory"
- "Anti-Corruption Report for the West Balkans: Measure corruption in order to fight it"
- "How to teach war in the Balkans? For a comprehensive analysis of 20th century history textbooks"


National Press Club welcomes "Mr. President", the book
While the District of Columbia is vigorously preparing for the Inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump, the National Press Club hosted a book launching today for “Mr. President.” Compiled by Rev. Darryl Sims and Barbara Williams-Skinner, “Mr. President” gives an interfaith perspective on the 8 year term of President Barack H. Obama and his family. Attending the launch were 14 of the 84 contributors who helped to capture the legacy of our beloved President. Each gave insight of the administration from their diverse backgrounds as prominent religious leaders.
Guests received their signed copy of the publication upon entering the Holeman Lounge, Thursday afternoon. The room was filled with excitement and curiosity as everyone thumbed through its content. National Press Club President, Thomas Burr, began with opening remarks. Honoree after honoree spoke of the magnitude and gratitude of having experienced the first black president of the United States.
With a common theme of disappoint and anxiety as a result of the newly elected leader of the free world, the books impeccable timing afforded an uplifting reflection of the achievements in the African American community. The interfaith perspective brought together religious leaders and worshipers of all beliefs and backgrounds to bond together for a common purpose of celebration and remembrance.
“There's no doubt that becoming the first black President of the United States of America is Barack Obamas greatest legacy. His remarkable success in office has delivered a significant blow to negative stereotypes as it pertains to African Americans” - Dr. Sims in an interview.


"A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good."—Samuel Johnson
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23 September 2012
Signs and Wonders
I read so many short stories in the 1990s that I thought I'd burnt out on them. These days, those that can hold my interest are usually weird, like Rivka Galchen's or Ben Loory's. Yet Ohlin's collection can't really be called weird, treading as it does the familiar ground of middle-class life and loss. She writes of marriage, children, grief, and death, of educated women in their thirties and men who offer them their charm but little else. It somehow feels very fresh without feeling very different.
23 September 2012
This novel about an anthropologist pursuing a development guru across the Kalahari desert is like nothing else I've ever read. Rush's heroine is a steel coil, strong yet jittery, and the object of her crush is her mental and physical match, a man of remarkable accomplishments who talks of life's goal being to reduce the amount of time required to decently maintain oneself so that you can have all the time you want for reading. I have never in one book encountered so many words I didn't know, and without a working knowledge of Latin I doubt I caught half the references in their wordplay, yet this book was funny nonetheless, and a pleasure to read. They banter, and bicker (the narrator compares marriage to two parties trying different wrestling holds on each other until one of them gets tired and goes limp) and they try to create something beautiful against the backdrop of an unforgiving climate and the apartheid regime in Southern Africa, which, in the early 1980s, is rotting, but not quickly enough. Like any great novel it's all about understanding people, whether they are Batswana or Westerners. As the heroine says, "I want to know the rules, because there are always rules. People who tell you there aren't tend to be hiding their knowledge of the rules for their own advantage."
18 July 2012
The World Without You
I checked out this book because I read somewhere that it's the sort of classic novel they don't write anymore. Unfortunately, it's the sort of novel they write all too often. Henkin's characters feel like characters rather than people, and it's almost impossible to keep track of who is speaking because they all have the same smart-aleck voice. What sets this book apart is that it seems to take place in a parallel universe, where logic and the laws of physics don't apply and where the inhabitants attempt to exhibit convincing human behavior but fail badly. I don't have the space to list the many examples of baffling questions asked in the middle of conversations or of flat-out contradictions, not all of which are explained by poor editing. When the reader is asked too many times to believe something impossible (a character jams dental floss into her gums and blood drips into the sink; a man recalls changing a baby's diaper with his feet) she loses her trust in the writer, who either doesn't live in our world or just isn't paying attention. This is a writer who seems to be trying to keep his work interesting by grabbing words out of the thesaurus rather than working to find the right ones (a slightly built, elderly woman walking through a house "ferries herself" past the refrigerator and "traffics" into the hallway). The setup is that a family is gathering for a weird combination of a tombstone unveiling and a party, in memory of the brother, a journalist who was killed in Iraq. Henkin doesn't bother to make the brother anything but an adored saint, a guy who as a college student bought sandwiches for a crowd of homeless men, in yet another story lacking a ring of truth. He does insert as many anti-Bush jabs as he can, which, for his audience, will hardly be challenging, much less relevant. It's an easy read, one I enjoyed mainly for the bizarre exchanges and physical impossibilities.
18 July 2012
Jean Hanff Korelitz
I found this novel on my public library's "popular library" shelf, which is a small collection of classics, contemporary fiction and narrative nonfiction, in trade paperback form, generally of reliably good quality. It's the same place I discovered Lauren Fox, who, like Korelitz, I hadn't heard of before I picked up her book, and, as with Fox, I now intend to read everything she ever writes. Korelitz, like her protagonist, worked as an admissions officer for Princeton, and clearly gave a lot of thought to her job. She uses her protagonist, Portia, as a mouthpiece for her thoughts on how, contrary to popular impression, the admissions process at top-tier universities is an equalizing force rather than a perpetuation of elitism. Portia is given to long and quite interesting speeches on the topic. As observant and opinionated as she is about her work, Portia is strangely lacking in self-awareness when it comes to her own life. She has a secret, which is revealed gradually, a complicated relationship with her mother, and a charming love interest. It's a pleasure to read a book with an academic setting that deals with adult problems unrelated to the battle for tenure. Korelitz has a knack for capturing how real people live in the modern world, and that, combined with the unfolding mystery and the informative inside look at college admissions, makes for a wonderful novel. Warning/Reassurance: From what I've read online, the 2013 Tina Fey/Paul Rudd movie said to be based on this book bears no resemblance to it, not even in plot. Of course, a Tina Fey/Paul Rudd movie is worth seeing no matter what it's based on.
18 July 2012
Then Came You
Authors: If you use the title of a pop song as the title of your novel (are you listening, Wally Lamb?), you must keep in mind that the reader is going to get that song stuck in her head every time she picks up your book. Jennifer Weiner chose well, intentionally or not, with the title of Dionne Warwick's 1974 hit with the Spinners. And the book itself is yet another pleasant Jennifer Weiner read, clicking along satisfyingly with a pause in the action every so often to describe in detail what everyone is wearing. Infertility brings together four women from different walks of life, each playing a role in the exchange of money for reproduction. Weiner seems to be trying to make each character sympathetic in her own way, except when she's using them to make mean girl comments about one of the others. It's the snobs versus the slobs. Something I noticed: As in the novel Commencement, the pretty, proper Caucasian college girl who never thought of herself as a lesbian falls for an Asian woman. Coincidence, or does the woman's being Asian make her unthreatening?
Also by Weiner: Good in Bed and Best Friends Forever
18 July 2012
Free Food for Millionaires
Min Jin Lee
By chance, this is the third book I read in a row (see the two above) that features Princeton University. First-generation Korean American Casey Han is floundering after her graduation from Princeton. Why can't Casey support herself? Is it that she is too stubborn to accept help? Is it the common modern problem of talented young people given too many choices and lacking direction? Is it that all good things come only to those who don't need them (see the title)? Is it just that it's 1993 in New York City, the lull before the dot com boom? Actually, after following Casey around for 600 pages, the answer seems to be simple: she has tastes that far exceed her means and no money management skills. The novel reminds me of Maugham in its matter-of-fact storytelling, its lack of judgment about its characters, and its musing on the subjects of money and love. This long novel also has plenty of room for Casey's friend Ella, the beautiful and dutiful Korean daughter; Casey's mother, an old woman at 43 toiling at her dry-cleaning business; and Casey's benefactor, Sabine, the wildly successful and imperious hatmaker and businesswoman, as well as a flurry of weddings, affairs, and divorces. Lee seems to tire a bit around page 400, but by then you'll be well hooked.
12 May 2012
The Marriage Plot
The heroine is writing her thesis at Brown about how 19th century novels are all about who a woman will marry. Which is what this book is about. Which means it's really about the men in question, the alpha, a a mentally ill scientist, and the beta, a religious seeker. Immensely readable, but after it's done you realize you've just read Marjorie Morningstar, set in the 1980s.
12 May 2012
Friends Like Us
Lauren Fox and
Best Friends Forever
A single, physically awkward, vaguely Jewish woman in her mid/late-twenties lives in the Upper Midwest and makes whimsical art. She has a complicated relationship with her best girlfriend since childhood, is distant from her parents, and has one sibling, a brother, to whom she is devoted even though he hasn't always been nice to her. The plot is set in motion by her high school reunion. So far, this describes both books. Which to read? It depends on how you feel about happy endings. If you want to read home-decor descriptions that are more decadent than most sex scenes and you enjoy a story where, like in the author's earlier work, a heroine perseveres despite the world's mild disapproval, choose Jennifer Weiner. If you have a high tolerance for Lorrie Moore–style punnery and appreciate a story where, like in the author's earlier work, a woman wrecks a relationship and doesn't get forgiven for it, choose Lauren Fox.
12 May 2012
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
The author immersed herself in the lives of the residents of a slum outside Mumbai. She follows the story of a one-legged woman who sets herself on fire out of resentment for her garbage-dealing neighbors' relative success. The book, which reads like a novel, makes clear that being poor makes people take out their frustration on other poor people, which should come as no surprise. As with Random Family, the reader can't help but wonder how the author could watch these terrible things happen in these people's lives, and what the point of the book is, however elegant the writing.
More about India: Sideways on a Scooter
12 May 2012
Beautiful Thing: Inside the Secret World of Bombay's Dance Bars
Another look at the impact of sexism and lack of education on Indian lives, but with a lot more cash, which doesn't make things any better. Not nearly as beautifully written as Boo's book (see above), but this author is a presence in her book and her subjects' lives, spending time with the dancers and following their stories as they try to wrest themselves free of "the life," though they have few other options.
12 May 2012
No Cheating, No Dying: I Had a Good Marriage. Then I Tried to Make It Better
The author and her husband have been married more than ten years, have two kids, and work together as writers in their home office, which means they frequently spend 22.5 hours a day in each other's company, and they still make up reasons to run errands with each other. And they have sex every other day. Clearly, theirs is about the last marriage in America that needs any improving and this book is just a way to fund the completion of their home renovation so they can finally have a door on their master bedroom bathroom (something that, by the way, only a very happily married couple could get along without for any length of time). But Weil is a good writer, and who doesn't like a peek inside someone else's marriage? A chance to ponder: what would I do if my spouse butchered a lamb in the kitchen, or hated kissing, or forced me to dump a friend that he didn't like? It works for them, and most of us should be so lucky.
12 May 2012
edited by Ayesha Mattu and Nura Maznavi
Muslim women—traditional and modern, gay and straight, converts and Muslim-born, older and younger, single and married (sometimes in polygynous marriages)—write with honesty and candor about their love lives. Many write under pseudonyms, and several, particularly those struggling to reconcile their religion and their homosexuality, despair of finding happiness.
12 May 2012
Would It Kill You to Stop Doing That? A Modern Guide to Manners
Many people like to share their opinions on manners, and not all are as witty as Alford, but few have such spectacularly bad judgment. He shares his passion for a game called "touch the waiter" where he and his dining companions try to touch their server without being noticed. He advocates chastising strangers who fail to yield the right of way on the sidewalk. He takes seriously a woman who flies off the handle at her coworker for not texting her a congratulatory message after the birth of her baby. And he advises a man who has a one-night stand with a closeted guy who blows him off to write the closeted guy an angry letter. Modern manners have much room for improvement, but this might be the rare guide that makes them worse.
"There was so much to read, for one thing, and so much fine health to be pulled down out of the young breathgiving air... I was rather literary in college—one year I wrote a series of very solemn and obvious editorials for the Yale News—and now I was going to bring back all such things into my life and become again that most limited of all specialists, the 'well-rounded man.' This isn't just an epigram— life is much more successfully looked at from a single window, after all." —F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Contact: books at so much to read dot com


(Just a single rule: mix-tape-style, no more than one film per director. You know, because otherwise the whole thing would be pointless.)
Romance • dir. Jean Vigo • 1934 • France
My dad is a prodigious reader. One day, aged about 16, I rifled through some boxes full of his old books, up in the loft. One slender paperback, in particular, caught my eye: a yellowing Penguin Books edition of The Trial by Franz Kafka. It had one of those iconic, minimalist Penguin covers: two solid bands of orange, top and bottom, and a band of cream in between containing exactly two pieces of information – title and author’s name. On the inside front cover was a brief description of the book, which asked as many questions as it answered, and inside the back-cover a black and white photograph of its author, looking inscrutable but also directly at the camera. Everything about the book commanded my attention. I wanted to know who Kafka was, and I couldn’t wait to start finding out.
According to that inside-cover description, The Trial was a “phantasmagoria.” What did that even mean? Of course, I looked it up: (noun) A shifting medley of real or imagined figures, as in a dream. I still remember vividly what it was like to hold this extraordinary book in my hands. It was intoxicating – I had discovered hidden treasure and now its riches were laid out before me, gleaming once again. Maybe only one time since have I felt a similar rush of sensations: sitting down for the first time in front of Jean Vigo’s L’Atalante. If you haven’t already, I urge you to watch it. Set mostly on a French canal barge in and around 1930s Paris, it is a beautiful and strange glimpse into a disappearing world. A story about young love – wild, faltering, and tender – made by a brilliant young filmmaker who died shortly after, at the age of 29. A phantasmagoria.


Book Review: Kindred Spirits….
Kindred Spirits: How the Remarkable Bond Between Humans & Animals Can Change the Way We Live
by Dr. Allen M Schoen.
Broadway Books, $23.95.
As the title implies, this intoxicating blend of tension and passion is all about bonding – not male, female or the at-the-office type. But man and animal.
It opens on a fast track, if that's possible, on a frigid New England winter night, detailing how Schoen and his "attending assistant, nurse and helpmate," Megan, save the life of an embattled Jesse, a pregnant Jersey cow in labor, and quickly moves across the emotional terrain of many other cases.
The bond between Schoen and Megan was one of those rags-to-riches stories. He saved the 4-year-old diseased and abandoned dog's life and she repaid him many times over.
In fact, Megan evolved into Schoen's unofficial soul mate. "She seemed to feel it was her job to offer tenderness to any wounded or needy animal," he says. "I let her accompany me on my nightly rounds and on emergency calls, where she'd always wait calmly outside the exam-room door, wagging her tail and wanting to come in and see the patient as soon as possible.
"Invariably sensitive to the situation, she mastered the art of a cautious approach, so as not to frighten the animal. Once she was perceived as non-threatening, Megan would shower her charge with soft, warm licks. Her maternal, loving nature permeated every room. "….Over the 10 years we spent together, Megan administered to a veritable Noah's ark of animals: dogs, cats, ferrets, horses, cows, lambs and so on. She was truly an ecumenical aide. On one occasion she even saved the life of another golden retriever by giving her own blood. When she did so, she patiently extended her paw up to meet the needle, just as she had when I first saved her life."
While Schoen received a well-rounded education at the Cornell University School of Veterinary Medicine, he emphasizes the spirited dog was "my guide on a journey to a deeper, clearer perception of all that is truly considered healing. Step by step, through example, metaphor and insight, she reopened the doors to my heart and soul; she reawakened my sense of kindred connections to animals I had felt as a child."
But Kindred Spirits is more than a swirling mix of Schoen's most memorable cases, it waxes philosophical about the fusion of priorities in veterinary medicine between Eastern and Western medicine and prioritizing treatment modes to alleviate pain and suffering for the patient. He says, "Acting from love, I believe, provides the best trajectory to a healthy and fruitful life. And few outside influences motivate us to act from love more than a caring relationship with an animal."
There is a tendency in books about animals to romanticize, to fantasize, to make claims that verge on senseless, says Schoen. I am not saying that the human-animal bond is the most important one on Earth or the most powerful. But I do feel when this bond is strong, it can help create a solid foundation for a healthy, evolved life." Abundant and uncontradicted evidence is helping to build a case for the acceptance of alternative or Eastern modalities in veterinary medicine.
Schoen, who labels himself an integrative holistic veterinarian, is a subscriber to both those and conventional Western modes as one case after another reflects in this absorbing portrayal.
Hence, much of the volume centers on the role of acupuncture, in particular, along with Chinese and Western herbs, nutrition, chiropractic and touch therapy in patients' wellness.
As the title implies, Kindred Spirits is not a one-way adventure. Animals have the potential to give back to us just as much as we offer them, which the author calls "co-species healing".
"Science can't explain it. But I know it exists. My proof consists of all the anecdotal evidence I have amassed over my two decades as a veterinarian, and it has been corroborated by other like-minded women and men in the field."
The colorful mosaic of anecdotes is not tear jerking, rather a blend of refreshing realism and celebratory energy.
If I had one bone to pick, it's the author's failure to credit Dr. Leo Bustad, one of the patriarchs of the human-companion-animal bond movement or list his book, Compassion: Our Last Great Hope, Selected Speeches of Leo K. Bustad, in the resources. In 1974, Bustad established the People-Pet Partnership Program at Washington State University and was co-founder and first president of Delta Society in 1977.


Vendetta in New York: Terranova Uncovers History and the Old World
Dennis Loiacono, co-writer of the upcoming play Terranova, was doing family history when he stumbled upon archival articles about Josefina Terranova, a young 16-year-old Sicilian girl who was put on trial in 1906 New York for murdering her abusive aunt and uncle. He was drawn into the tumultuous true story of an impoverished immigrant girl who signifies so much about what life was like for Italians in the United States in the early twentieth century, when they poured into New York harbor by the masses. Many of them transported ancient customs that
conflicted with the American way of life they encountered. The play Terrvanova presents a girl who is both typical and extraordinary, submissive yet ultimately aggressive in her call for justice.
Young Josefina is given to her relatives to be brought up, since her mother is too poor to care for her, and her father is deceased. She finds a world of violence and incest in the home of her aunt and uncle, who force her to work in a brothel and have no qualms exploiting her in appalling ways. Josefina's world seems to brighten up when her aunt and uncle arranged her marriage, one tradition of her Old World Sicilian culture. The solace Josefina finds her in marriage is short lived, and the archaic notion of the vendetta from her Sicilian roots is carried out in a brutal yet arguably justifiable act.
Dennis's experience growing up with a grandfather who was an immigrant from Sicily partially inspired him to co-write Terranova with his cousin Pamela Monk. They intend to show Terranova's audience what countless people endured in order to assimilate into American environments. Discrimination and poverty commonly confronted immigrants, and the strongest conquered these facets of life. Watching his older family members retain some Italian cultural aspects and acquire American lifestyles taught Dennis about the rocky road to assimilation that many stumbled upon to achieve success and eventually feel a sense of belonging.
Josefina is a villain for some and a heroine for others. Yet her strength and will to live are undeniable, and the documented attention to her trial from Italian immigrants across the American landscape suggests that her fate represented a greater fate for young women of her time.
The themes of Terranova are manifold and heart wrenching. One feels sympathy for the abused Josefina who has limited to no say in how the course of her life unfolds—until the day she commits murder. In the eyes of Americans, she is a killer who must be severely punished with her life. Yet the act of violence that ensues in Terranova may be condonable from the viewpoint of Old World tradition. In the Sicilian culture in which Josefina was born and raised, one's reputation is immeasurably important: when a woman's reputation is spoiled, she is worth nothing. For Josefina, her admittance into a new family meant safety and her only prospect for a new life. Her aunt and uncle robbed her of many things, but Josefina would not allow her reputation to die without revenge. This is the Old v. New World conflict that Terranova poses to viewers. How can we justify the murder of two people by placing the fault on the Sicilian vendetta, and when that tradition of retaliation sparks murder in America, what is to be done?
In 1906 women had few basic rights, and for Josefina to be on trial probably meant imminent death. A hotshot New York lawyer takes her defense, and through his efforts, the real story is set loose in a dramatic sequence of courtroom testimony. People faint as the horror and shame are released in words as Josefina explains how and why she takes her vendetta. Another aspect of the Old World portrayed in Terranova is religion and its role in the lives of Italian immigrants. Josefina's claim that she heard the voice of God telling her to murder her relatives may not validate her deed to Americans; but in Sicily, is this a credible excuse?
A notable theme that writers Dennis Loiacono and his cousin Pamela Monk explore in Terranova is how immigrants and following generations change. It is natural to give up aspects of a culture and replace them with new ones adopted from one's immediate surroundings. Perhaps it is even advantageous to abandon to the wayside those archaic traditions of the Old World: the obsession with honor, pride and fulfilling the vendetta that would restore reputation through the enemy's downfall. Through their work Dennis Loiacono and Pamela Monk hope the audience will acknowledge that "we must remember where we cam from" and bear witness to the struggle of one girl who battles so much to survive.
Terranova will be playing at The Lafayette Street Theatre, 45 Bleecker Street (at Lafayette), Sunday August 16th through Thursday August 27th.
Written by Pamela Monk and Dennis Loiacono
Directed by Theresa Gambacorta