28 May 2014
Asian Rural Women’s Coalition (ARWC):
International Day of Action for Women’s Health: Rural Women Raise SRHR Issues
As the world commemorates the International Day of Action for Women’s Health, rural women continue to speak up on sexual andreproductive health and rights (SRHR).
The travelling journal on SRHR, entitled Our Stories, One Journey: Empowering Rural Women in Asia Pacific and Africa on SRHR, collects the experiences and struggles for SRHR by rural women across 17 countries in the global south. In writings, drawings, and photographs, the journal has highlighted continuing struggles for SRHR by rural women, who told of lack of access to health care, child marriage, unsafe abortion, workers’ rights violations, and other pressing SRHR issues in their own lives and communities.
On 28 May 1987, women’s rights activists proposed to celebrate this day as the International Day of Action for Women’s Health, to give women and girls a chance to speak out on SRHR issues they faced. Today, 27 years later, it is apparent that SRHR issues are still largely unheard, and unresolved.
On its seventh stop, the travelling journal made its way to Vietnam. Previously, it was in the hands of an indigenous Nepali woman who organises health camps for farmers in an impoverished community that faces the problems of child marriage, domestic violence, and hazardous working conditions. Kumari Waiba of the Youth Welfare Society wrote about how these SRHR issues are being brought up at the local level through information campaigns and public dialogues.
In Vietnam, the travelling journal follows the story of 30-year-old Ke Thi Hach. Ke Thih is a member of the Women’s Union of the Hong Quang Commune, A Luoi district, Thua Thien Hue province in Vietnam. In the journal, she will talk about the inaccessibility of family planning methods and contraception for women in her community, which are mainly involved in paddy and corn farming. Even while Ke Thi is formally educated, she lacked the proper information on contraception methods. This led her to almost miscarry her second child.
Ke Thi’s story, as well as the stories of the other women who have participated in the journal so far, shows that more needs to be done to ensure that women’s health is upheld as a right. It shows that SRHR must be included in the priorities of governments and international institutions. As the Post-2015 Development Agenda is drawn up, a holistic approach to women’s health is indispensable in responding to the felt needs and aspirations of grassroots rural women.
The travelling journal, which started early this year, is acollaboration of the Asian Rural Women’s Coalition (ARWC) and the Asian-Pacific Resource and Research Centre for Women (ARROW).###
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I spent 18 years in K-12 education, serving in various capacities. For the entire time, I was in the classroom, teaching subjects ranging from introductory computer science to pre-calculus and physics and mentoring first-year teachers. As the director of technology for 17 years. I was responsible for the purchase, installation, maintenance, and support of all technology, including managing a 300-user Google Apps for Education account. When I was an assistant principal, I handled all discipline issues, evaluated and documented staff performance and effectiveness, and conducted numerous in-services. I even spent 10 years coaching volleyball and track and served as athletic director for 1 year.
I have helped two schools go through the accreditation process, performed research and delivered a report for another to implement standards-based grading, and helped schools positively transition through substantive leadership changes. When a school identifies and adheres to its mission and vision, success will follow, and I have been fortunate to help schools in this endeavor.
My current research interest examines the digital divide in an educational context. This research includes the social, cultural, and economic factors which led to the development of the digital divide, the present-day circumstances that allow the continuance of the digital divide, and the resulting impact. For decades, quantitative data has shown that the digital divide persists. While technology continues to evolve rapidly, the issues preventing the closure of the digital divide have remained the same. There are undeniable links between societal inequities, educational inequities, and the digital divide. Hermeneutic phenomenology is a qualitative methodology that brings the experiences of the impacted to the forefront and pairs well with the theoretical frameworks of equity theory, critical theory, and Critical Race Theory. The intent is to provide a new perspective of the digital divide and inspire further efforts that will lead to its closure.
Doctor of Education Higher Education Administration
Oral Roberts University, Tulsa, OK
Master of Education School Administration, High Honors
Oral Roberts University, Tulsa, OK
Bachelor of Science Computer Engineering
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
Publications and Presentations
Moland, J. C., Jr. (2022). Perceptions of their experiences with the digital divide: A hermeneutic phenomenology of first-year college students (Publication No. 2671944549) [Doctoral dissertation, Oral Roberts University]. ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global.
Moland, J. C., Jr. (2021, March 26). Experiencing the digital divide [Oral Presentation]. LSUS Regional Student Scholar Forum.
Moland, J. C. (2021). Fitting In When You Stand Out. In Templeton, E.; Love, B.H.; Johnson, O. (Eds.), Elevating marginalized voices in academe: Lessons for a new generation of scholars. Routledge.
Moland, J. C., Jr. (2021, February 24). Bridging the digital divide [Paper presentation]. American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education 73rd Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, United States.
Moland, J. C., Jr. (2020, November 5). The digital divide in higher ed [Guest lecture]. GHED 806: History and Future of Higher Ed, Oral Roberts University, Tulsa, OK, United States.
Nonpublic Bulletin 741 Task Force Member – 2018
International Christian Accrediting Association (ICAA) External Review Team Member – 2016, 2010
TeachMeet Nashville Presenter – SMARTBoards in the Classroom – 2011
TeachMeet Nashville Presenter – Collaboration with Google Apps – 2011
Oral Roberts University Educational Fellowship Regional Conference Presenter – Growing Technology in Your School – 2009
Project MISE (Modeling Inquiry Science Education) Instructor – 2009
Kappa Delta Pi – 2018-present
Apple Teacher with Swift Playgrounds Recognition – 2016-present
ASCD – 2015-2018
Google Apps Education Individual Qualified – 2011-2012


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Saturday, July 13, 2013
Apocalypse Blog Hop + Giveaway (INT)
If you read my blog regularly, then you know how much I LOVE dystopian books, and so I just had to participate in this blog hop and giveaway hosted by Heidi@Rainy Day Ramblings,Maja@ The Nocturnal Library and Christy@ Love of Books.
WHAT'S UP FOR GRABS: (1) Copy of a Dystopian Book (of your choice) up to $10 from The Book Depository (Make sure they ship to your country before entering!)
NOTE: I will allow anything Sci-Fi or Fantasy as well, it doesn't have to be strictly Dystopian, just something along those lines!
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The ancient pharaohs of Egypt believed their lives were everlasting and one with the gods. Through burial and rituals, their tombs were a place of sacred beliefs and earthly treasures. The ingenuity of the Egyptians felled raiders of all sorts, securing their belongings for thousands of years. Do not disturb the dead - stay back! Many have died from the mythical "curse of the pharaoh."
Like the ancient Egyptians, we all have our own reclusive desires to be left alone. Having been rejected by Coptic churches around the United States, Homerik wanted to do something special and create a curse for this piece in the old language. Instead, through academia, they found a real curse from the "Cannibal Hymn" of the pharaoh Unas: the ninth and last ruler of the Fifth Dynasty during the time of the Old Kingdom.


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POEMS BY HOLLY WREN SPAULDING
Familiars, the collection of poetry by Holly Wren Spaulding in which these poems appear, is available directly from its publisher, Alice Green & Co., and from the independent Literati Bookstore. The collection’s official launch date is November 30, after which it will be available from Amazon.
Holly Wren Spaulding is an interdisciplinary artist, teacher, and author, most recently, of Familiars: Poems (Alice Greene & Co., 2020). Holly is the founder and director of Poetry Forge, where she works with emerging writers to develop new work and complete books.


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“Kaisergabel” is Olaf Arndt’s second novel. In lighthearted narration he tells the story of the Federal Republic at the golden end of the “Wirtschaftswunder” (50ies and 60ies economic boom). With wit and verve Arndt unfolds the story of three generations of a family who cannot agree on their ideals.
Kaisergabel is a 240-page novel written in German language and edited by mox & maritz Bremen (January 2022).
for reviews pls scroll down!
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the 540-page novel Unterdeutschland (2021) has been well received by the German media.
It was praised by the press as “deliciously entertaining” (FAZ), a “novel of the century” (Neue Rheinische Zeitung), a “sovereign literary game” (Junge Welt) and a “rabid text” (ORF Austrian radio) – a “Heisenberg-poetics of madness that Arndt has virtually perfected.” (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung)
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reviews of Kaisergabel
In the literary supplement (along with Leipzig Book Fair) of the Berlin based newspaper “Junge Welt”, Kai Köhler writes in his full-page (sic!) review titled “Aufstieg und Beton” (Rise and Concrete) on March 16, 2022: “The book is a great novel because Arndt shapes attitudes through narrative perspectives.”
Just one day later, on March 17, WestZeit follows with a very nice article by Karsten Zimalla:
“But did Q at the age of 17 … actually took a suicidal leave from the wrong world? Or did she just went off on a long journey? Does or did the ÜberSister ever exist? Many questions in this clever book, brilliantly constructed both the scenarios, and language alike, Kaisergabel also stands out from the usual mass-produced books in terms of design with its fine typesetting and two colorful ribbons. “Kaisergabel” is a novel in which (not only) West Germans in their 50s will recognize much. In protagonist Mike Mandt perhaps even themselves…”
in the April 2022 issue of STADTKIND Hannover, Anja Dolatta states enthusiastically: “With “Kaisergabel” Olaf Arndt manages the remarkable balancing act between relaxed narration and perfect composition. The sophisticated novel construction with several time levels makes it possible to create a complex family chronicle against the backdrop of real topographical and urban historical details, ranging from the 20th to the 21st century and enriched with whimsical elements.”.
Already in February 2022 the Neue Rheinische Zeitung concluded: “My secret candidate for the literary bestseller ranking – conveys not only a literary-narrative pleasure, but it also provides haptic-aesthetic pleasure due to its design.”
In number 2/21 of the bi-weekly journal for politics, culture and economics, Ossietzky, the reviewer ranks the “strictly composed, but at the same time loosely narrated, highly authentic-looking and captivatingly fascinating novel construction” between “Kempowski, Sebald … and Arno Schmidt.”
Kaisergabel has three chapters.
In chapter 1 (1975), the 15-year-old aspiring novelist Mike Mandt is trying to psychoanalyze his mother. he regards her as the dictator of the family – who has dedicated her total life to class advancement. the acquisition of status symbols and precious objects replaces the personal relationship between the mother and her children.
As Mike needs help for his giant project dissecting his family roots, he is cooperating with his sister Q – who is (to say the least) behaviorally conspicuous. even though the sister has a very vital anarchic personality, it becomes – over the first 100 pages of the novel – more and more opaque, if the sister exists at all or if she’s only a projection of Mike’s mind.
In chapter 2 we look back to the years 1895 to 1910. In Polonia where the paternal line of the family comes from, we witness a collective murder. we follow the brothers, the primal ancestors of Mike & Q, on their flight-on-foot from the East towards Lower Saxony, into the west of Prussia and Berlin. we see how simple men from the working class can become house owners just buy their will and determination: The first and maybe most important step in class advancement. The price for the ascent are a several corpses of family members metaphorically hidden in the cellar.
In chapter 3 we find back Mike two years later, in 1977. His sister has – not to a surprize – committed suicide. Mike feels lost and lonely. but he goes ahead typing and recording to complete their joint project of an in-depth investigation about their family.
Mike’s father is participating in one of the mega-projects of the post-war era: he is re-designing the city of Hannover as a car-friendly town. on the “tabula rasa” (clean table) of the city plan (emptied by Hitler´s air warfare) the German engineers and politicians realize their high-flying dreams that have been thought out during the III. Reich.
the oversized “Kaisergabel”, a highway link positioned right in the middle of a traditional working class neighborhood, embodies symbolically the common-sense of cutting-off all traditions and roots. we experience the beginning of a new petite-bourgeois lifespan with a proper family home, a well tended garden, where not a single leave is allowed to move without authorisation, we watch the mother in her new beautiful clothes and modern furniture, and immediately understand all that small luxuries as the all-inclusive insurance for a society that first and foremost wants to prevent itself from ever crashing again.
adolescent Mike is telling this part of the family history like an adventure story. he praises and admires his fathers accomplishments – but at the same time he also sees that their personal life is withering under the weight and adversities of the class advancement.
Arndt astutely portrays the siblings, with their devotion to cutting-edge recording technology, as natives of the electronic age: as bold pioneers whose grandchildren today seek to answer all their questions in the communicating channels of their digital devices.


Part I…. The “A” word… *Alzheimer’s*
She holds her first and only great grandchild, Gavin. Yet she has no comprehension of whose sweet baby this is. Nor does she recognize her only granddaughter, the mother of the child she holds. She tries her best at pretending she does.
Alzheimer’s had robbed her of her memory like a thief in the night.
Mother (“Mutti” in German) as she was known to us, delighted everyone she met with her unrelenting charm, bright smile and twinkling eyes. Her laughter was contagious. Mercifully, this was the one thing Alzheimer’s was unable to steal from her.
And for this I shall be eternally grateful.
At the time the photo above was taken, I was becoming uncomfortably familiar with Alzheimer’s, as I watched the slow regression of a strong and vibrant woman who loved life to the fullest.
Schooled in opera, voice, and music.. both at the University of Vienna in her homeland Austria as well as as in Italy, Mutti was an accomplished soprano and cellist. She possessed the voice of an angel.. and music was her life.
World traveled and fluent in several languages, this engaging woman now struggled visibly with a body and mental faculties which were failing her miserably. To say this was painful to watch on a daily basis is truly the greatest understatement.
Yet to the end, she retained her love of life and delightful sense of humor.
Mutti passed away July 3rd, 2009.
It’s not been two years yet, and her presence here in my home where she passed remains painfully palpable. For nearly four years my sister and I had taken turns sharing her care between us after it became undeniably clear that Alzheimer’s had taken yet another hostage. For 6 month intervals my sis Pati and I would take her in to live with us respectively. Arizona with Pati and “Roo” for the cooler winter months, then here with hubby and me in Virginia for the summer months, to escape the AZ. heat.
It was on my last watch here with me that she passed. And true to her style, she would not easily relinquish this life she so loved. She fought death for 30 hours as I held vigil by her bedside. She held on to the last fragile thread of life as long as she was able, as I nursed her and wiped her brow… and played my entire library of classical music softly in the background to smooth her transition from this life to the next.
Hearing being the last of the senses to go, I know she heard that music.
Mutti now adds her voice to those of the multitude hosts of angels above..


Insurgency and the Artist explores not merely how Indian printmakers and artists responded to the freedom struggle but also how the art they fashioned invoked their own conception of the nation, their sense of the past, and the contors of the movement for India’s emancipation from the yoke of colonial oppression. Recent scholarly work has been almost entirely riveted on nationalist prints, and much of it has focused on the idea of Bharat Mata, but this book seeks to furnish a more rounded account of the artwork — including etchings, paintings, woodblocks prints, and cartoons — contemporary to the freedom struggle and also highlights the work of neglected artists such as Babuji Shilpi, S.L. Parasher, Zainul Abedin, and M.V. Dhurandhar, among others. The author considers how the Indian past was rendered as one of martial resistance to ‘foreign’ rule, the manner in which artists worked with mythic material, and, of course, the treatment of the larger-than-life figures of Gandhi, Bhagat Singh, Subhas Bose, and other patriots in nationalist art. This gloriously illustrated work simultaneously offers a narrative history of the freedom struggle and the rich interplay of text and images is designed to offer insights that neither conventional histories nor images can offer in isolation. Insurgency and the Artist is also an inquiry into how ideas travel across borders, the porousness of culture, and the relationship of art to politics.
Below is an excerpt from the chapter Bharat Mata: The Feminine in Politico-Religious Iconography which sheds light on one of the most prominent symbols of the Indian Freedom Struggle, Abanindranath Tagore’s Bharat Mata.
The visual iconography of Bharat Mata kept pace with the literary invocations, receiving its first significant embodiment in a watercolour or ‘wash’ painting by Abanindranath Tagore, the nephew of Rabindranath. She appears in the saffron robes of an ascetic, her four hands bearing the four gifts that the mother bestows on her children: shiksha (learning); diksha (spiritual initiation); anna (food); and vastra (clothing). The halo around her suggests her divinity; the four white lotus flowers at her feet point both to her purity and her ability to stay above the fray; her bare feet grace the light green earth; and altogether she bears the comportment of someone who is dainty, of restrained disposition, almost ethereal. But this gentle representation was to be short-lived: the swadeshi movement got off the ground the same year Abanindranath had completed his watercolour, 1905, and militancy was in the air. The radical leader Sandip of Rabindranath’s novel, Ghare Baire (The Home and the World,1916), explains to Bimala, the wife of the well-to-do and yet enlightened landlord Nikhil whom he has seduced with his passionate exhortations, ‘Have I not told you that, in you, I visualize the Shakti of our country? The geography of a country is not the whole truth. No one can give up his life for a map! When I see you before me, then only do I realize how lovely my country is.’1 What will men not do if they can turn the nation into a goddess? Abanindranath had at first titled his painting, Bangamata, ‘Mother Bengal’, but as the spirit of swadeshi captivated the nation and the anti-colonial struggle continued to gain adherents around the country, he decided to rename it Bharat Mata. As the iconography of Bharat Mata developed, the four icons with which Abanindranath had linked her were shelved. Had Abanindranath executed his painting a year later, it is perhaps possible that Bharat Mata might have borne aloft the first flag developed by the Congress in 1906, which bore the three colours that eventually made their way into the tricolour that was adopted by the Republic of India.
It is possible to view the iconography of Bharat Mata as developing in broadly two directions from around 1920 to the end of the anti-colonial struggle and India’s emergence as a free nation. In an influential study which has been the cornerstone of work in colonial cartography as much as the nationalist prints which are presently under discussion, the scholar Thongchai Winichakul introduced the idea of the ‘geo-body of a nation’ to designate ‘a certain portion of the earth’s surface which is objectively identifiable’. He elaborates that ‘it appears to be concrete to the eyes as if its existence does not depend on any act of imagining. That, of course, is not the case. The geo-body of a nation is merely an effect of modern geographical discourse whose prime technology is a map.’2 Sumathi Ramaswamy’s book is a detailed study of the cartographed form ‘associated with the mapped configuration of the nation’ that Bharat Mata takes in nationalist art, and she finds instances of this in Tamil literature as early as 1907–09.3 Though some early representations point to her as a nurturing maternal figure, Ramaswamy notes that readers of the publications where the cartographed image of Bharat Mata appears were just as likely to envision her in more militant terms, and she relates this development to the rise of militant strands within the nationalist movement before the ascendancy of Gandhi around 1920.
However, to add to Ramaswamy’s own understanding of how the Bharat Mata iconography evolved, where one strand of this iconography leaned towards an adumbration of the sorrows of a shackled and helpless Mother India, the other strand leaned towards a vision of Mother India arming her children, bestowing her benedictions on them, and animating them with her shakti (energy).
160 Rabindranath Tagore, The Home and the World, tr. Surendranath Tagore (New Delhi: Penguin Books, 2005), 73.
161 Thongchai Winichakul, Siam Mapped: A History of the Geo-Body of a Nation (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1994), 17.
162 Ramaswamy, The Goddess and the Nation, 17–23.
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Vinay Lal is a cultural critic, writer, blogger, and Professor of History and Asian American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). His intellectual and research interests include South Asian history, comparative colonial histories, cinema, cultures of sexuality, and the thought of Mohandas Gandhi among others. His twenty-some authored and edited books include 'The History of History: Politics and Scholarship in Modern India' (Oxford, 2003); 'Of Cricket, Guinness and Gandhi' (Penguin, 2005); and 'The Fury of Covid-19: The Politics, Histories, and Unrequited Love of the Coronavirus' (Pan Macmillan India, 2020). He is a founding member of the Backwaters Collective on Metaphysics and Politics and the editor of its book series from Oxford, including 'India and the Unthinkable' (2016), and 'India and Civilizational Futures'.


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Shine As the Sun: C.S. Lewis and the Doctrine of Deification
2007年11月1日, 5:39:54 | Chris Jensen
It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses.—from “The Weight of Glory”
When he was president of the Oxford Socratic Club during the 1940s and 50s, C.S. Lewis featured weekly discussions on “repellent doctrines.” By these, he meant traditional Christian teachings that seemed puzzling or implausible— teachings on suffering, miracles, hierarchy, and the like. Lewis thought these doctrines conveyed truths that modern people most needed to know but were least likely to recognize: “We must never avert our eyes from those elements in [our religion] which seem puzzling or repellent; for it will be precisely the puzzling or the repellent which conceals what we do not yet know and need to know.”1 For many Christians today, deification would be such a doctrine. Deification (also known as theosis or divinization) sees salvation not merely as divine pardon but rather as a process of spiritual transformation that culminates in mystical union with God. As Lewis understood it, human beings could one day enter into the very beauty and energy of God and become “true and everlasting and really divine persons.”2 In his book Mere Christianity, which can be seen as a manifesto on the subject, Lewis argues that the whole purpose of Christianity is to turn people into what he variously calls “new men,” “little Christs,” “Sons of God”—and “gods and goddesses.”
Lewis knew such language might give many of us a shock, but he insisted that this is “precisely what Christianity is about.”3 Although largely forgotten by Christians today, deification is at the heart of Lewis’ vision of reality. From his sermons to his apologetic essays, from his space fiction to his children’s stories, one can hardly find a corner of his literary universe that is not illumined by the idea. Although scholars in recent years have begun to explore “the overlooked Lewis”—including his affinities with Christian mysticism and the details of his spiritual formation in the Church of England—little attention has been given to the importance of deification in Lewis’s thought, or to its place within the larger constellation of his beliefs including joy, myth, temptation, and sacramental life.4 To understand it not only promises to bring us closer to the mind of C.S. Lewis, but to offer fresh perspective on the pursuit of happiness and the possibilities of the faith.
A Forgotten Strand
It is not surprising that some modern Christians might find this idea baffling or even heretical; but neither is it surprising that Lewis did not since his mind was “shaped by the whole scope of intellectual history and Christian thought… liberated from the narrow confines of the religious views of the day.”5 Lewis encountered the idea of deification everywhere from St. Athanasius to George MacDonald, and he knew the doctrine was held from earliest times by many church fathers (like Athanasius) who helped establish the canon of the New Testament and the doctrines of the Trinity and Incarnation.6 These fathers taught that Adam and Eve were created in the image and likeness of God, but after the fall they were estranged from their creator and subject to pain, sorrow, and death. Deification, then, is the restoration of the divine likeness that humanity lost along with its beauty, purity, and incorruption. In holding to deification, not only was Lewis in harmony with Eastern Orthodoxy, where the doctrine remains a distinguishing mark, but with many voices in the West like St. Augustine and St. Bernard of Clairvaux—and a forgotten strand of Anglican tradition including Lancelot Andrewes, Richard Hooker, Charles Wesley, and Ann Griffiths.7 If Lewis has been called a “thoroughly Western man,” it is equally true that he articulated ideas like deification in terms that are “profoundly in harmony with the patristic and Orthodox standpoint.”8
Lewis, of course, was not a systematic theologian, nor did he construct a tidy formula of deification. Rather than use the term explicitly, he conveyed the idea in scriptural terms of being “in Christ,” becoming “new creatures,” or sharing in the “glory of God,” as well as with literary images like the celestial light, the face, the dance, the fountain, the marriage, the winged horse, and the statuecometolife. Significantly, rather than Lewis the scholar or Lewis the rationalist, it was Lewis the poet, Lewis the Romantic, Lewis the lover of myth, and Lewis the imaginative writer who was most sensitive to this idea’s power. In this, too, he showed himself kindred to the mystical tradition of the Christian East, where theology is more experiential than systematic, more poetic than propositional. As one contemporary Anglican author has noted, “The language of transforming love is used most effectively by poets rather than theologians…[and] in the East poets and theologians are sometimes the same people.”9
Despite his poetic bent, Lewis didn’t follow the path of Emerson or others who blurred dogmatic boundaries by confusing God and creation or by teaching that human beings are naturally divine. Only God is transcendent, uncreated, and divine by nature. Therefore deification does not mean the “actualization” or “realization” of one’s latent divinity, a belief that is less Christian than monistic or pantheistic. Nor does deification mean that human beings eventually will evolve into something essentially equal to God (as suggested by the bumper sticker that proclaimed, “I am a Goddess: Worship Me”). Lewis was always clear on the difference between creature and Creator—an irreducible ontological distinction. Deified human beings forever remain human while at the same time sharing in divine grace or energy, just like blazing iron in the fire shares the properties of flame but doesn’t cease to be iron. Human beings will not melt into an impersonal God like a salt statue tossed into the ocean, or become new and independent divine beings in a type of polytheistic evolution. For this reason, Lewis cannot be categorized with Neoplatonists, Hindus, Mormons, or even certain Christian mystics who seemed to lose sight of the essential distinction between God and humankind.


- نام فارسی:مشخص نشده ! نام انگلیسی:Mushoku Tensei: Isekai Ittara Honki Dasu
- نام اصلی:無職転生 〜異世界行ったら本気だす〜, Jobless Reincarnation: I Will Seriously Try If I Go To Another World مترجم به فارسی:مشخص نشده !
- آخرین جلد منتشر شده :12 آخرین قسمت منتشر شده :61
- زبان :انگلیسی محصول :ژاپن
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Eine ausführliche Biographie von Radde ist in deutschen Nachschlagewerken kaum hinterlegt. Nach seinem Tod erschien in „The Geographical Journal, Vol. 21, No. 5 (May, 1903), pp. 563-565“ ein Nachruf von seinen Weggefährten Kropotkin und Freshfield, der den Schaffensweg Raddes bestens beleuchtet.
Kropotkin, P. and Freshfield, D. W., "Obituary: Dr. Gustav Radde", in: The Geographical Journal, Vol. 21, No. 5 (May, 1903), pp. 563-565
Forschungsreisender, *27.11.1831 Danzig, †16.3.1903 Tiflis (Georgien)
Obituary: Dr. Gustav Rade
Gustav Radde was born on November 27, 1831, in Danzig, the son of a schoolmaster. As a youth he was befriended by Dr. A. Menge, and assisted by the Natural History Society of his native town to start on a scientific career. Still quite a young man – that is, in 1852-1855 – he had the good fortune to be employed in the Crimea by the old botanist Steven in collecting plants and as a draughtsman for making drawings of plants. Under the guidance of his enthusiastic master, Radde travelled on foot over most of the hilly parts of the Crimea. During that time he also made the acquaintance of a local landowner, M. Shatiloff, for whom he made a Natural History Museum, which, at a later date, was presented to the Moscow University. During these years he published several valuable articles in the Bulletin de la Société des Naturalistes de Moscou ("Versuch einer Pflanzenphysiognomik Tauriens," 1854; "Beiträge zur Ornithologie Russlands," 1854; "Thierleben am Faulen Meere," 1855), and one on the Crimean Tartars in the Journal of the Russian Geographical Society (1857). Botany, zoology, and ethnography were thus already his favourite subjects.
In 1855 began the great period of exploration of Eastern Siberia. Steven recommended Gustav Radde to the Geographical Society for this task, and in that year Radde went as a botanist and a zoologist to that country and to the newly annexed Amur region with the expedition under Ludwig Schwartz. He travelled there for four years, made the tour of the northern part of Lake Baikal, then almost unknown, observed the migrations of birds in Transbaikalia, and spent a full year in the Little Khingan, studying the fauna and the vegetation of the southern portion of the Amur. In 1858, after the expedition had terminated its work, he made an extremely interesting journey to the highlands of the Sayan (Irkut valley) and to the peak Munku-Sardyk, the only snow-clad peak on the frontier of Eastern Siberia. The collections which he brought in from Siberia were immense, and included specimens of 1760 vertebrates and about 50,000 invertebrates.
The results of these journeys are embodied in two quarto volumes of his 'Reisen im Süden Ost-Sibiriens' (I. 'Die Säugethierfauna,' 1862; II. 'Die Festlands-Ornis,' 1864), published by the Russian Geographical Society and containing the description of his extremely valuable zoological collections, and in a volume of shorter reports, entitled 'Berichte über Reisen in Süden Ost-Sibiriens,' published in vol. xxiii. of Baer und Helmersen's 'Beiträge zur Kenntniss des Russischen Reichs,' 1861. These reports are admirably written, especially in the part which deals with Radde's journeys up the valley of the Irkut and to the Munku-Sardykand the Chohondo region. His intelligent study of the method of Humboldt is perceptible in these reports, and they are the best specimens in all the modern geographical literature of Siberia of a graphic description of the whole of nature, physical and organic, including man, as it appears in these highlands. Strangely enough, these 'Reiseberichte,' which might have been such good guides for Russian travellers, have not been published in Russian, but there are Russian editions of the 'Reise.'
In 1864 Radde moved to the Caucasus, where he soon grew interested in the fauna, the vegetation, and the inhabitants of that fascinating and varied region, and founded at Tiflis a Natural History Museum, to which for the rest of his life he devoted his main activity, and which he made one of the richest and best of local museums. He was also the director of the Tiflis Public Library.
His main literary works on Caucasia were 'The Ornithological Fauna of Caucasia' (in Russian) and 'Ornis Caucasica,' which he began to issue in 1885 at Cassel, and of which he published several fascicules, and his 'Berichte über die biologisch-geographischen Untersuchungen in den Kaukasusländern' (Tiflis, 1866). He published, both in German and in Russian, a great number of separate sketches of his journeys, which appeared, in German, in Petermanns Ergänzungshefte and Mitteilungen – such as "Vier Vorträge über den Kaukasus" (Ergzh., No. 36), "Aus den Hochalpen des Daghestan" (idem., 85), "Karabagh"(idem.,100), "Das Ostufer des Pontus" (idem., 112), "Der Nordfuss des Daghestan" (idem., 117), or in separate volumes, "Khevsuria and the Khevsurs" (Cassel, 1878), 'Talysch und seine Bewohner' (Leipzig, 1885); while in Russian he published a number of smaller monographs in the Memoirs (vols. vii., viii.) and the Izvestia of the Caucasus Geographical Society (vols. ii., iv., v.), as also in the Caucasian Kalendar (Russian). He also made a journey to the Transcaspian region, described in his 'Preliminary Reports of an Expedition to the Transcaspian Region and the Khorassan,' published (in Russian) at Tifis in 1891.
In all these works Radde gives excellent and lively pictures of the lands he visited – their fauna, their flora, and their inhabitants – though less beautiful, it must be said, than his Tunka and Munku-Sardyk pictures. He wrote also a good general article, "The Caucasus," for 'Picturesque Russia,' and a sketch of his sea voyage round Asia, 'Twenty-three thousand miles on board the Yacht Tamara.' Of his scientific work during the Transcaspian expedition, the first volume only has been published (in German), under the title of 'Wissenschaftliche Resultate der Transcaspischen Wissenschaftlichen Expedition: Band I. Zoologie.' His most important botanical work concerning the Caucasus was 'Grundzüge der Pflanzenverbreitung in den Kaukasusländern,' which constitutes the third volume of the well-known 'Vegetation der Erde,' edited by Profs. Engler and Drude. This is a very serious and most valuable work.
At the time of his death he was engaged in the publication of a work 'Die Sammlungen des Kaukasischen Museums,' of which three volumes (out of six) have appeared (Zoology, Botany, Geology).
In 1898 the Russian Geographical Society awarded to Dr. Radde its chief medal – the Constantine medal – the analysis of his work having been written by Prof. Kuznetsoff (see 'Yearly Report of the Russian Geographical Society' for 1898). He had been awarded the Patron's Medal of the Royal Geographical Society in 1889.
Some of the preliminary reports of Radde, written almost on the spot or immediately after this or that journey in the Caucasus and elsewhere, were from time to time criticized by specialists for small mistakes which he had made here and there. They remain, nevertheless-especially the Siberian reports – models of what reports of journeys ought to be for giving a general picture of the nature of the country visited, embodying its vegetation, its fauna, and the manner of life of its human inhabitants. The writer of these lines cannot recommend any better reading for young geographers than Radde's Siberian 'Reiseberichte'; and if some day a collection of the best geographical reports be made for the use of geographical students – which would be a most desirable enterprise – Radde's reports will surely occupy in such a collection an honourable place.
A few days ago I received from Dr. Radde a volume, with a card, "Best greetings; suffering much, but hope to finish the Geology." Before it reached me, the announcement of his death had appeared in the newspapers. For old acquaintance sake, I should like to add a few words to the notice contributed by Prince Kropotkin.
I made Dr. Radde's acquaintance at Tiflis in June, 1868. He and Dr. Abich were then the representatives of science in the Caucasian capital. Caucasia had at that time its own Court and its own administration. Dr. Radde's scientific attainments and their European recognition placed him in the end in such a position that he was selected as the companion of Grand Duke Michael Nicholavich in his yacht voyage to India and Japan, and in 1895 and 1897 he was again selected to accompany members of the Imperial family on a visit to the North African coast-lands.
Time has only strengthened the first impression Dr. Radde made on me as a youth, that of a man with an extraordinarily wide interest and power of observation in various branches of Natural Science. Specialization is no doubt a quality, but it may also be a defect in a traveller. The man who has never made a mistake in life or science has lived and worked in a very narrow groove. Dr. Radde was well fitted to be a pioneer of knowledge in new regions. He was admirably qualified for the receipt of one of the gold medals of the Royal Geographical Society, which was bestowed on him in 1889--nine years before he received the chief medal of the Russian Geographical Society. The formal statement of the grounds of our Society's grant has recently been quoted in Germany as the most complete summary of Dr. Radde's claims, and may, I think, be appropriately repeated here: –
"The Patron's Medal to Dr. G. Radde (Director of the Natural History Museum, Tiflis), for a life devoted to the promotion of Scientific Geography, as a traveller, observer, and author, and particularly for his five years' travels in Eastern Siberia (1855-60), his persistent exploration of the Caucasian chain (1864-5 and 1876-85), Mingrelia, Abkhasia, Karatchai, Daghestan, and of the Armenian Highlands, and the Caspian coast (1875-80), and his services as chief of the Transcaspian Expedition in 1886. Also for the important works in which he has recorded the result of his explorations: (1) 'Reisen in Ost-Siberian, mit Karten,' 1862-4; (2) 'Die drei langen Hochthälern Imeritiens;' (3) 'Vier Vorträge über den Kaukasas,' 1874; (4) 'Aus den Hochalpen des Daghestan,' 1886; (5) 'Die Chewsuren und ihr Land,' 1878; (6) 'Reisen um die Persisch-Russischen Gränzen,' 1885; (7) 'Vorläufiger Bericht über die Expedition nach Manchurien und Khorassan,' 1887. And particularly for the talent with which, while paying special attention to various branches of natural history, especially ethnology, ornithology, and botany, he has kept in view their relations to Geography, and has made it his main object to set out in a clear and comprehensive manner the physical characteristics of the countries he has explored, with their causes and effects (see Nos. 1, 3, and 5). And finally, for the zeal, energy, and artistic intelligence he has exhibited in the arrangement on a Geographical basis of the Natural History Museum at Tiflis."
Douglas W. Freshfield


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See below for items relating to Isle of Wight dialect, folk song, legends and customs, also links to websites with similar material. CONTRIBUTIONS WELCOME, see foot of page.
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Tales and Legends of the Isle of Wight with the adventures of the author in search of them by Abraham Elder, published 1839. Reprints are available. Stories and Legends Elder’s Tales
The Vecta Garland by Albert Midlane published 1860. Poem about May Day Customs in Newport, p73. Stories p75, 78 and 86. Vecta Garland
Text of ‘A Glossary of Words in use in The Isle of Wight (Original Glossary XXIII) compiled by Major Henry Smith RM with additions by C Roach Smith, published by the English Dialect Society in 1881. Reprints are available. This work was a major source for WH Long. Dialect words and examples of use in dialogue and poetry. Folk Songs sung on the Island, local Superstitions, Customs, Festivities, Sayings, Recreations. Isle of Wight Words A link to the copy of XXIII held by Cornell University Glossary XIII
WH Long’s Dictionary of the Isle of Wight Dialect, Subscribers’ Edition published 1886. Reprints are available. Major source of Dialect with examples, Folk Song, Mummers’, Customs. Long’s Dictionary
Revival of the Custom of Beating the Bounds of the Fleming estate in 1910. Boundaries
Victorian Poetry: Poets of the Wight compiled by Charles John Arnell, published 1922. Includes Dialect poems by Sir Frederick Black, p 238-242 and Percy Goddard Stone p326 and Stories. Poets of Wight
Website containing words, sheet music and recordings of a large number of Isle of Wight Folk Songs, also details of Country Dances, Legends, Stories, Festivities and Singing Games. isleofwightfolkarchive.co.uk
Extracts from Cock & Bull Stories: Animals in Folklore, Dialect and Cultural History (2008) by Alan R Phillips. on Dialect, Place names, Recreations, Stories: Introduction, Cats and Dogs, Cockerels, Cattle, Foxes, Hares, Insects, Pigs, Rats, Sheep,
Miscellany, from a variety of sources, of Customs, Sayings, Festivities, Mummers’, Pastimes and Folk Songs The way we were
Shroving Customs also cake and treats distributed on New Year’s Day shroving
Recollections of childrens’ Singing Games and other games played on the Isle of Wight Games Remembered
Information about Mummers collected by Stephen Roud Roud collection
NEW Recollections of Folk Song Club venues Folk venues updated
Article and photograph on Folk Song activity at the Sloop Inn, by Brian Reeves, originally published in ‘The Bridge’. Bridge Sloop item
Article and photograph on early Folk Song Clubs by Mike Butler. Early Clubs
Article on Morris Dancing, local records from 1595 to 2015, by Brian Reeves, originally published in ‘The Bridge’. Bridge Morris item
Article on St. Boniface and the Well by Richard Downing. Stories, Legends. StBonifaceWell
Customs and Legends from St Helens St Helens
Brief details of 107 paranormal sightings from Legends, Stories and recent reports. Paranormal records
University thesis in which James Rayner discusses Celtic influence on the Isle of Wight Dialect. Rayner’s thesis
Anglo-Saxon Isle of Wight Legends article. Anglo-Saxon legends
Isle of Wight Christmas Festivities article. Christmas traditions
Short piece about Dialect use in the 1980s. 1980s dialect
Photographs from the Stears family. Morris, Country Dances Bonchurch Stears
Postcard from 1913 about King Arwald
Morris dancers in Niton, 1926 Morris 1926
Photographs 1950 onwards
Men of Wight, Morris, early performance MOW 73
Mummers, Morris Christmas now
School Dance Group Carisbrooke group
*** Recordings of the final rehearsal by The Trilanders before their performance in 1971 at Folk Fest 5 (The Scout and Guide National Folk Music Festival) at The Albert Hall. The musicians are Martin Tennant, aged 21, Robin Holbrook 18, Jeff Taylor 17, Paul Elliott 17. The Advertising Man by Laurie Say https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iZZ9pz_a9A Muirsheen Durkin, Irish traditional https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETTDHDbwE7g
First dance of Whitgar Morris, Lilibulero, September 2015 Whitgar
‘Folk On Wight’ by Brian Reeves, describes the Isle of Wight folk scene from 1940s to 2000. Folk Songs, Festivities, Morris Dancing. In print, copies available from firstname.lastname@example.org, also a CD of the songs.
‘Legends and Lays of the Isle of Wight’, in Dialect, by Percy Goddard Stone published 1912. This does not seem to be available online but reprints are available.
‘Hampshire and Isle of Wight Folk Tales’ by Michael O’Leary, has fourteen Stories and Legends for the Island. In print.
Anonymous poem, pre 1970s.
The Dictionary of Isle of Wight Dialect by Jack Lavers, pub 1988. Out of print.
Do you have any additional material or suggestions for links to go on this page? Anything on Isle of Wight traditional culture and history – legends, folk tales, songs, tunes, dances, customs would be great. It is possible to add recordings and videos via a Youtube link. Please email: email@example.com
Thanks for contributions, ideas, help- Ian Anderson, Maurice Bower, Mike Butler, Peter Chick, Sally Colegrove, Richard Downing, Graham Drudge, Keith Grist, Deborah Hollebon, Carole Holmberg, Tony Jones, Steve Love, Jo Palfrey, Alan Phillips, Brian Reeves, Dave and Anwyl Williams, Peter Yardley.


Sisijoke.com – A tropical library is a great way to enhance the cultural and educational experiences available to students. The tropical style of decorating makes a perfect backdrop for any type of study environment. Whether you want to bring a tropical theme to your home or office, or you are interested in incorporating this style into a current school or public library, you will find a wide selection of styles that will meet all of your needs. When selecting tropical design elements for your space, it is important that you do not create a focus or main point that dominates the room. Instead, use subtle touches throughout the room to create a relaxing, enjoyable atmosphere that encourages learning.
Create a South Pacific Feel in The Tropical Library
Create an impression of the South Pacific in your tropical library. Create your library in a unique style that inspires you. You can bring this tropical style into your classroom, home library, or even a private office. Choose a tropical rug to accent your floor or choose bookcases with bright, bold prints to emphasize a specific aspect of a book or publication. Your tropical library will invite people to come and sit and read for many years to come.
Accentuate the beauty of nature around you. The ocean, mountains, and beaches are a great way to create a tropical library that looks and feels like you are on vacation. You may choose a shelf design that mirrors a flight of stairs or choose a bookcase that is made of glass from the ocean. To make this tropical library a true show piece, hang tropical birdcages on the wall in vibrant colors. A few snails in a bowl of sand will make a wonderful centerpiece for your tropical library.
Create a special environment for your book collection. A popular tropical design element is a bookcase or shelf that is embellished with seashells. Use these decorative pieces along with photos of your favorite tropical places and natural scenery to create a tropical theme. If you prefer, add candles or incense in the room to further the effect. The use of incense will remind you of the scent of a tropical forest when you are reading your favorite book.
Add a Splash of Color to The Bookshelf
Add a splash of color to your bookshelves. This can be done with the help of some tropical wall art. Placing a large heart-shaped painted flower on the end of a shelf can be an interesting touch for your tropical library. Another great way to bring life back into your bookshelves is by using brightly colored decorative paint. You can paint your bookshelves in the same bright colors as your walls and then highlight the titles with a tropical-themed brush.
When it comes to decorating your library, it is best to stay away from using patterns or too many details. Instead, opt for a more simplistic style. This will allow you to really let your personality shine through. Make sure to also use bright colors that will enhance your tropical theme.
Smaller Tropical Library Decoration
For smaller tropical library decorating, consider hanging some palm trees from the library’s ceiling. They will look great against the backdrop of the tropical-themed library. Other tropical library decorations can include bamboo plants. These can be placed in areas such as the hallway, the dining room, or the living room. You can even have these plants hang outside on the back porch or deck. Using tropical plants with tropical themes is a great idea because they offer a unique look that can blend into any environment.
In tropical libraries, there are endless possibilities for tropical themes, colors, and designs. Use this guide as a start for decorating your library. You can find many more ideas and tips for decorating a tropical-themed library online. If you are looking for a special gift for a tropical-themed friend or loved one, you may want to check out our site for ideas on tropical gifts. We are happy to receive guest post submissions from you.


Behind The Scenes: Rediscovering Kate Carew
Interview: Dr. Katie Johnson (Historian/Author.)
Sisters in Sin: Brothel Drama in America, 1900-1920
The prostitute, and her sister in sin – the so-called ‘fallen’ woman – were veritable obsessions of American Progressive Era culture. Their cumulative presence, in scores of controversial theatrical productions, demonstrates the repeated obsession with the prostitute figure. Sisters in Sin recovers a slice of theatre history in demonstrating that the prostitute was central to American realist theatre. The brothel drama’s stunning success reveals much about early twentieth-century American anxieties about sexuality, contagion, eugenics, women’s rights and urbanization.
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Co-Writer: Anna Jhirad
Director of Photography: Carlos Chiossone
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Production Assistant: Leann Baliff
Executive Producer: Samuel Pollard
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theartsdesk in Paris: The Oldest Film Star of All by Ronald Bergan:
Cinema and the Tower made a legitimate couple, both being offsprings of mechanical art and having a relation with riveted architecture - one with its bolts and the other with its splicing. It should be remembered that the Eiffel Tower is only six years older than the cinema, and that the birth and growth of cinema were almost immediately parallel to the birth and growth of modernism in the other arts. It is fitting, therefore, that La Ville-Lumière (of which the Tower is the beacon) should have played host to the first public performance of the Cinématographe on 28 December 1895 at the Salon Indian in the Grand Café in the Boulevard des Capucines presented by the brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière. There is a poetic congruity of their name and profession. Let there be Light! And lo there was Cinema! And the Eiffel Tower was featured almost immediately in the new art.
On cinema’s lifelong love affair with the Eiffel Tower.


The apparitions of Fatima by the Blessed Virgin Mary are some of the most well known Marian apparitions approved by the Catholic Church. But sometimes even the most famous apparitions have details that are overlooked. In this video Catholic speakers Ken and Janelle Yasinski discuss the begins of the Fatima apparitions beginning with the Angel of Peace. In this video you will learn: who was the Angel of Peace What was said in the this apparition to the children of Fatima what is the angle of peace prayer the necessity of the divine law regarding peace the importance of the gift of faith
- Satan tried to steal Christmas and Medjugorje. But his attempt was unsuccessful.
- Ernest Hemingway keeps a promise with the Virgin Mary with special gift to the Blessed Mother


Which Yoga Is Right For You? A Complete Guide To Yoga Styles
From Yin to Vinyasa, there is a style for every body and everybody.
Taking the first steps towards practicing yoga can be daunting if you're not born with the innate flexibility of a Russian gymnast, and you don't know your Bikram from your bingo wings. Well, it's time to grab life by the lululemons - use this trusty guide to yoga styles to help you choose the best practice for you - you'll be bendier than a pretzel before you know it!


August 14, 2018 @ 6:30 PM
Colchester Town Offices 781 Blakely Road
Outer Bay Conference Room, 3rd Floor
a. Minutes of July 24, 2018
a. Errors and Omissions on Grand List – R. Vickery
b. Approval of Clean Water State Revolving Fund Planning Advance Loan and Authorization to enter Engineering Services Agreement (Malletts Bay Sewer Project) – B. Osborne
c. Amendment to Capital Budget and Plan (Library HVAC System) – B. Osborne
a. For July 2018
a. Week Ending August 10, 2018
· Leaf Collection Update – TBA
· Selectboard general input on FY 20 Budget – August 28
· Malletts Bay Avenue Land Lease – August 28
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Friday, December 31, 2010
Meant to write more here the past few weeks but the role of Nurse Mommy to La Princesa has been all-consuming until the last few days. She's doing well and needing less attention. So with the cold weather (-4C) in Victoria this week, I find the time and the motivation to get back to the sultry heat of the Yucatan, in my mind at least.
What I remember from my first experience in Merida was a feeling like being inside a Gabriel Garcia Marquez novel. The tropical feeling, the sense of time slowing to a standstill in the heat. The horse-drawn calesas certainly added to the atmosphere. That timeless sense is harder to find now, almost 30 years since my first visit, in the city's centro, now full of persistent hawkers of tourist wares. But I found it in abundance when I stepped into the public library.
The library wasn't exactly easy to find. The signage isn't very prominent, and after it was first pointed out to me on a previous trip I couldn't seem to find it again.
To enter this library was like stepping back in time - most modern libraries don't have card catalogues anymore. The "silence" sign is a throwback to an outdated concept of libraries as well. Contrary to the stereotype, librarians don't go around shushing the patrons anymore. It was certainly quiet in the library on this evening, with a handful of students bent over their laptops at the tables.
In a small room at the back of the library I found something you probably won't find in any other library in the world. The "Seccion Yucateca" is dedicated solely to Yucatan authors and topics. Librarian Ana Cana works in the Yucatecan section and graciously allowed me to take her photo.
The section includes clipping books compiled by librarians on key Yucatan issues and events. Hurricanes, artists, any kind of local issue. These pre-internet clipping books are a labour of love. They take a lot of time to compile but for anyone researching one of these topics they replace impossibly long hours paging through fragile old newspapers or deteriorating microfilm reels. (Do they even have those? How do they hold up in the heat and humidity, I wonder?)
I am looking forward to spending hours in this place in the near future, improving my Spanish reading skills and learning more about local history and culture.
As I'm tinkering with this post for the 14th time (or so) before publishing it, I see that "el Gabo" himself, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, is coming to Merida for a couple of days, starting January 10th. I wonder whether the place also reminds him of his own novels?


Welcome, friends, to the world of the Tornalian Saga–a world where imagination and myth are made real. It is a world where the fate of men and women depends upon their actions, not upon destiny, prophecy, or divine intervention. It is a world where powerful magic follows consistent natural rules. In Tornalia, religion is a matter of faith, human and non-human cultures are diverse and unique, and good and evil come in many shades of gray.
Tornalia is a fairly small continent set in the northern hemisphere. Throughout most of its history, the peoples of Tornalia have lived their lives ignorant of other lands, although most of them are descended from ancient settlers from the tropical continent of Arreiya. Traditionally divided into seven to twelve distinct regions, Tornalia contains a wide variety of climates and landforms, and is home to a diversity of flora, fauna, and cultures.
The major regions of Tornalia include (from north and west to south and east): Ilkenlad (tundra, ice cap, and evergreen forest), Lorania (mixed forest and heath), Arveia (temperate rainforest), Dornalujia (rainforest, savanna, and swamp), Aisgirth (tundra, evergreen forest, and ice cap), The Badlands (grassland, desert, and evergreen forest), Khath (desert), Torlakra (grassland, dry forest, and floodplain), Evarra (savanna, grassland, and dry forest), and Vraith (monsoon forest and heath)
A Brief History
The earliest civilization on the continent of Tornalia was developed by the Thadrim, the ancestors of the Dwarves. The Thadrim had a strict caste system and a magic-centric culture. Their empire collapsed at the onset of the most recent glacial period, or Ice Age, which may have been triggered by their sorcerers. Tornalia’s contemporary cultures began to develop in the centuries following the end of the Glacial Age. Humans and Elves had migrated to Tornalia from Arreiya. As the glaciers retreated, these groups moved further and further north. The Elves developed an almost symbiotic relationship with the forests of Tornalia, while the Humans favored the plains and coasts. Eventually, three main civilizations developed–the Elves created the Arven civilization, and the Humans developed two civilizations, one on each side of the Elder Mountains. These human civilizations each eventually coalesced into a single state: Lorania in the west and the Torlak Empire in the east.
Peoples & Cultures
The large human states of Lorania and the Torlak Empire coexist with others: Arveia of the elves; Lan Xing, founded by exiles from Arveia; the city-states of the Dwarven Realm; and the mysterious floating cities of the reclusive Ivjenza; as well as numerous nomadic and settled tribes and clans of Humans, Dwarves, and Korrlim (called Goblins by some). These days, the vast majority of Korrlim live on the three Goblin Reserves under the jurisdiction of the Torlak Empire.
Human cultures of Lorania include the majority Loranians (descendents of the Lar, Del, and Verdyn ethnic groups), the Travellers, various druidic groups, and the peoples of the western isles: the Kalai and Arava cultures. Human cultures of the Torlak Empire include Tor, Sar, Evarran, and Vrai peoples. Each of these categories can be divided into various sub-groupings, tribes, and clans.


"At the Tidal Flats" is a series of photographs taken by Kiyoshi Niiyama (1911-1969) on the Imazu Beach in his hometown of Ehime, Japan. After returning to his hometown after the war, Niiyama one day came across a strange scene of tidal flats created by nature and the climate. He was able to take only 20 or so negatives within a few hours before the tide rose, and although he visited the Imazu Beach many times after that, he never saw such a scene again.
The book includes 15 vintage prints that Niiyama himself completed from the negatives. The book also provides a glimpse into the angles of view and composition of Niiyama's graphical sensibility, which is highly regarded as subjectivist photography, as well as the historical background of photography at the time. We believe that it is a valuable series of photographs that can be a documentation of the state of the Imazu Beach, which has now been reclaimed and transformed, as well as of the climate and this rare phenomena at that time.
The richness of the natural environment of the sea at that time, which overflows from the photographs, and the joy of Niiyama in witnessing it. The photographs are full of the abundance of natural marine life of the time, and the joy of witnessing it.
Kyoshi Niiyama was born in Ehime Prefecture, Japan in 1911 and graduated from Tokyo Denki Senmon Gakkō (Tokyo Institute of Electricity). In 1935, he joined Rikagaku Kenkyusho (RIKEN) and in the following year, began his photographic career as a member of the Pearlette Dōjinkai (Pearlette Camera Coterie) and published his work in various salons and international photography magazines. Several of his works were selected for the London and Paris Salons, and for contests in the magazines: American Popular Photography and Photomonde. He later became involved in the development of amateur photographers in Japan through his activities with the All Japan Photographic League and the Tokyo Photographic Society. In 1958, he joined Asahi Kogaku (Asahi Optical Co., Ltd.) and became the director of the Tokyo Service Center. He passed away in May 1969. The German photographer Otto Steinert, who advocated "Subjektive Fotografie" (Subjective Photography) in the 1950s, made his work widely known throughout the world, and it is still appreciated today both in Japan and abroad.
Freelance graphic designer and art director. He is involved in web, advertising, and signage design, with a focus on graphic design. He is also an analog synthesizer player and a member of the folk electronic sound quartet "Kufuki".


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Host Lewis Weiss visits the New Jersey Makers Day event at the Hillsdale Public Library
New Jersey Makers Day began in 2015 to enhance community engagement and develop connections among New Jersey residents by collaborating with multi-type libraries, museums, small businesses and others to promote and explore new opportunities for entrepreneurship, innovation and hands-on learning experiences. In 2016, New Jersey Makers Day was expanded to be a two-day event, which allowed sites not able to host events during the weekend (like schools, colleges and universities, manufacturers, local businesses, etc.) to still be able to provide programs, demonstrations and other events for their communities. In 2017, more than 80,000 people, including thousands of middle school students, participated in competitions to develop something from an idea into a real product. Lew Weiss interviewed several of these young people at the event. It was heartwarming to learn that more than half of the students developed a product idea to help someone else. We have compiled the video for your enjoyment about the activities at Maker’s Day from the Hillsdale Public Library where interviews were conducted at the invitation of Dave Franz.


Welcome to the website of BioBach-Music Book and Music Publishing LP
BioBach-Music Publisher’s primary task is to release sheet music, book and other publications based on a thorough analysis of J. S. Bach’s Six Solosonatas and Partitas (BWV 1001-1006) which greatly facilitate the performer’s interpretation.
Newly published book about J. S. Bach’s renowned Ciaccona for violin (BWV 1004), and even more… The authors are both professors of the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, Márta Ábrahám is a violinist, Barnabás Dukay is a composer and musicologist.
Reviews: “A new approach to Bach’s solo violin works has been revealed.” Bokor Gabriella – www.papageno.hu (orig. article)
“Excerpts from Eternity is an enormously detailed analytical study which I found fascinating to read. Since the book is so detailed it takes a long time to get through it all. However, I think that musicians who have the patience and the proper background will benefit greatly. I myself found the poster synopsis of Ciaccona particularly informative. I have never looked at the piece in such a way. To have the entire scheme of 4-measure variations in front of you is a true eye and ear opening experience. The book illuminates beautifully both the great complexity of Bach’s compositional work and the unparalleled elegance of his musical language.” Christoph Wolff – Harvard University Department of Music , Adams University Professor, Emeritus
“The book ‘Excerpts from Eternity’ by Barnabás Dukay and Márta Ábrahám is a fascinating reading from beginning to the end and it leads the reader toward the central order of unification.” Dr. Salamon Kamp – president of Hungarian Bach Society (orig. article)
“Amazing book, research and presentation! This is a reference book, reading material for life. I will definitely return to it, discovering further layers of this masterpiece. Bravi!!!” Hagai Shaham violinist, professor of Tel Aviv University
“The text seems … like a lamplight suddenly falling onto a cathedral built from notes it leads us towards an understanding of its substance. On the enclosed CD Márta Ábrahám’s mature, deeply thought-out playing reveals the order that lies within the Partita in D minor and its concluding Ciaccona – undisturbed by any momentary caprice, general flourishes or ingrained habit.” Fülöp Ránki – pianist
“In their writing they point out not only musical but also art-historical points of interest and discoveries.” Gabriella Bokor www.papageno.hu (orig. article)
“Barnabás Dukay and Márta Ábrahám carried out an exciting analysis in their book which resulted in an impressive dissertation which is quite innovative by international standards too.” Zoltán Péter – www.kortarsonline.hu (orig. article)
“The recording of Márta Ábrahám’s performance of the Partita provides a great resource for reading the notes of the music in a „multidimensional” way.” Katalin Fittler – www.gramofon.hu
It is true, one does not judge a composition principally and predominantly by the impression of its performance. But if such judgement, which indeed may be deceiving, is not to be considered, I see no other way of judging than to view the work as it has been set down in notes.
Ciaccona is the Everest of violinist.
The Ciaccona is the greatest structure for solo violin that exists.


In EDLD 5366 Digital Graphics our first assignment was to investigate an ancient body of work. The assignment asked use to identify four basic design principles. The design principles are Contrast, Repetition, Alignment, and Proximity. By using these principles a visual design can be made. I selected The Bible from Ethiopia to investigate. My first impression of this ancient work was surprising in respect to the design; I was surprised by the bold use of color and symbols. The contrast of black and red print directed my eyes to the red print. There is a repetition of blue, green and red backgrounds throughout the book. The alignment of the text is basic and some are in columns. The proximity of the text above and around each illustration seems to reflect on the story that follows.
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In the backdrop of a Colorado community mourning the loss of seven students who recently took their own lives, a school district official directed librarians to temporarily stop circulating a book that is the basis for Netflix’s popular new series titled “13 Reasons Why,” which some critics say romanticises suicide.
The order irked certain librarians who have termed the move “censorship”, and it appears to be an atypical case where the book has been removed from circulation – albeit for the time being.
It has also put the spotlight on the debate about appraising freedom of speech with concerns over the well being of students.
“It would be hard for anybody who has dealt with suicide to not have a heightened awareness of things, to perhaps be a little more cautious about things,” said Leigh Grasso, the curriculum director for the 22,000-student Mesa County Valley School District who decided to pull out the book.
The young adult novel, published in 2007, is primed on the story of a high school girl who kills herself after creating a series of tapes for her classmates to play following her death. She gave the tapes to people who influenced her decision.
Her death in the Netflix series is depicted in the final episode of the first season, and the graphic scene precipitated educational institutes nationwide to send letters to parents and guardians with tips on how to prevent suicide.
From upstate New York to the Midwest and California, school administrators have warned that the series sensationalises suicide and does not provide a good road map for people struggling with mental illness. There is no evidence that any of the Mesa County students who killed themselves since the beginning of the school year were inspired by the series or the book.
Grasso, who has not read the book or watched the series, appears to be one of only a few school leaders in the country who has taken the book out of circulation. Another school district in Minnesota temporarily pulled the book after a parent complained that it referenced sex.
The curriculum director cited media attention and recent events in an April 28 email to district librarians letting them know about her decision.
Of the 20 copies available in the school district, 19 were checked out at the time and were not affected by the directive. Still, several librarians protested, and the order was rescinded about three hours after it was issued.
Grasso said the book was made available again after librarians and school counselors determined it did not include scenes as graphic as those depicted in the Netflix series.
“I think we were just being cautious until we had the opportunity to look at the book and see how closely related to the movie it was,” she told The Associated Press.
She added that her decision did not amount to censorship because the book was not permanently banned – an argument that drew some pushback in the school district.
The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel cited one librarian saying there is a formal, board-approved process to challenge books in the district.
“I believe it is our duty to follow that process, because censorship is a slippery slope,” the librarian wrote.
The newspaper, which obtained the feedback through an open records request and did not name the librarians, reported that a middle school librarian wrote: “Once we start pulling and censoring books for all students as a reactive measure there is no line to which we follow.”
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