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Christians, Sabians and Muslims [and also Zoroastrians, Hindus and Jews] translated from mostly Greek and Roman Empire books into Arabic.
For example, Abu Yahya Ibn al-Batriq translated from Greek into Arabic some works of Galen of Pergamon, Hippocrates and Ptolemy, and Baghdad mathematician Al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf translated Euclid’s “Elements” from Greek.
The Abbasid Caliph al-Mamun may have financed travel to Byzantium to purchase many books.
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Thābit ibn Qurra, who was not a Muslim but a Sabian star-worshiper living in Baghdad, translated “The Conica” of Apollonius of Pergamon from Greek into Arabic in the 9th century.
CHRISTIANS, SABIANS AND MUSLIMS TRANSLATED BOOKS INTO ARABIC
In the 8th and 9th centuries, translations from mostly Greek and Roman Empire books, (half of the translations being made by Christians) provided the knowledge that Muslim scholars would later make additions to.
Muslim websites, and even some Wikipedia articles, mistakenly give Muslims credit for many things actually borrowed from non-Muslims.
In the late 8th century and early 9th century, the Syrian Muslim scholar Abu Yahya Ibn al-Batriq translated from Greek into Arabic some works of Galen of Pergamon, Hippocrates and Ptolemy. At around the same time, Baghdad mathematician Al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf translated Euclid’s “Elements” from Greek into Arabic.
Translation from Greek to Arabic greatly expanded during the mid 9th century, when a Syriac-speaking Nestorian Christian named Hunayn ibn Ishaq (Johannitius) translated books from Greek into Arabic. He also wrote his own book on treatment of eye diseases. The Abbasid Caliph al-Mamun may have financed his travel to Byzantium to purchase many more medical and other scientific and philosophy books, which he and his son and nephew translated into Arabic.
Qusta ibn Luqa was a 9th century Melkite Christian who traveled throughout the Byzantine Empire purchasing Greek books.
Among the works translated into Arabic were
a) Plato of 400 BC Athens who wrote about reflections in concave mirrors.
b) Aristarchus of Samos was an astronomer of around 300 BC who wrote that the earth and the other 5 known planets traveled around the sun, and listed the 6 planets in the sequence of their distance from the sun.
c) Diocles in about 200 BC, who wrote about parabolas, burning lenses, spherical aberration and the mathematics of parabolic reflecting mirrors.
d) Theodosius of Bithynia was a late 2nd century BC astronomer who wrote about spherical geometry of the sky.
e) The Roman philosopher Seneca the Younger wrote that rainbows appear when water is sprayed, and wrote that light passing through cylindrical glass rods shows colors.
f) Hero (or Heron) of Alexandria was a 1st century inventor who built steam-powered mechanical “robots” for use in Greek temples.
He also wrote a 4 volume work on building water clocks.
g) Dioscorides, an army surgeon in the eastern part of the Roman Empire that later became the Byzantine Empire, beginning in the year 77 wrote books on medicine including over 500 botanicals, and including sleeping potions of opium for use as an anesthetic during surgery.
h) Around the year 140, Ptolemy in Alexandria (then part of the Roman Empire) wrote about astronomy, mathematics and optics. Muslims demanded a copy of his book as terms of a peace treaty (which Muslims later broke) with the Byzantine Empire.
i) Around the year 160, Galen of Pergamon (a Greek living in the Roman Empire) wrote medical books, including material on drugs prepared from plants and animals, anatomy, inflammation and fevers.
j) The 5th century Hindu astronomer Aryabhata claimed the planets and the moon do not have their own light but reflect the light of the sun, wrote about spherical trigonometry, published a table of sines, and wrote about algorithms for solving quadratic equations
k) Paulos of Aegina was a 7th century Byzantine Empire physician who wrote a 7 volume medical encyclopedia, 2 volumes of which were on surgery. Included in the encyclopedia were such topics as treating drooping eyelid by sewing it open, and using the blunt end of a couching needle to push cataracts away from the front of the eye.
l) Some Persian converts to Islam, Jews, Sabians, Hindus and Zoroastrians also translated works into Arabic. Caliphs and wealthy Muslims often financed the purchase of books and the translations.
m) In the 8th century, the Hindu medical encyclopedia Sushruta Samhita was translated into Arabic.
n) In 773, Al Fazari translated “Correctly Established Doctrine of Brahma”, written in India in 628 by a Hindu named Brahmagupta, which contained explanations of algebra, algorithms, and the number zero.
Image by ibn Qurra, digitized at Oxford University, via Wikimedia Commons.
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I had a blast attending Proverse Publishing‘s Autumn Reception at the Helena May last Thursday, mixing and mingling with the winners and finalists of the 2021 Proverse Poetry Prize! Congrats to all and to Proverse for organizing such a fun event! I’m also excited to be interviewing a couple of them for my next series of Mental Ideas, which will broadcast in 2022. S2 explores the relationship between mental health and imagination in a psychedelic way! First up is the incredible Vishal Nanda, who blew me away with his lively speech and inspired poetry book Please Stand Back From The Platform Door. Vishal is a fellow ‘bipolar bear’ (as he signed his book to me), but I’m certain that’s the least interesting thing about him. He is donating ticket sales from his upcoming book launch on Dec 8 to mental health charity Mind. Don’t miss it!!!
After reading my first poem for the first time at the HKU Libraries Reading Club and miraculously resisting the impulse to sing it, more potential peril looms this week when I’ll be sneaking into the studio and recording War of Voices for Dr. Ahmed Elbeshlawy‘s Voice Your Passion poetry channel! The poem will be up Oct 18!
The poem was published by Proverse and Chinese University Press April 22, 2021 after winning a place in the 2020 Proverse Poetry Prize anthology, Mingled Voices 5. A film of the event will be available on the Proverse/ HKU websites.
I have to admit I’m a little nervous about this. Not because I’m a nervous public speaker. Just because War of Voices is the first thing I’ve written where I don’t hear my own author’s voice AT ALL! Whose voice do I hear? Unfortunately, it’s Aled Jones’ voice, circa 1980s, when he sang the Christmas hit, Walking In The Air.
Why is this bad? Why do you think!!! Because I sound nothing like an 8 year old choir boy with an angelic voice. I sound, at best, like a cat that’s being strangled slowly to death by a python. So I guess my greatest fear is of breaking into song midway through the reading.
Your prayers that this will NOT happen on Thursday are very much appreciated at this difficult time.
Woohoo! My first attempt at penning a poem was published April 22, 2021 by Proverse Publishing and Chinese University Press and my copy arrived today! Mingled Voices 5 is an anthology of poems on the theme of ‘Hunger’ by poets around the world that won or were shortlisted for the 2020 International Proverse Poetry Prize.
All the featured poets are incredible and I can only put my own inclusion down to a fortuitous accident or a moment of drug or alcohol relapse on the part of the editors. 🤣 Mingled Voices 5 is available in paperback and as an ebook. It’s free to subscribers of Kindle Unlimited!
The 2021 Proverse Poetry Prize is now open for entries! This year’s theme is ‘Shielding’ open to interpretation any way the poet chooses. Submissions close June 30, 2021!
Also open for submissions by Hong Kong based poets is RTHK‘s annual poetry competition. This year’s theme is ‘White’ open to misinterpretation any way the reader chooses! Entries close July 12!
One little hit of dopamine I experienced last year was winning a place in the 2020 Proverse Poetry Prize Anthology for my first bash at writing a poem! War of Voices is my little rant on social media, populism and propaganda. The anthology, called Mingled Voices 5, will be published by Proverse and Chinese University Press as an ebook and in paperback THIS WEEK (April 22), but is already available for preorder on Amazon!
I’m also writing a humorous short story for the Hong Kong Writer’s Circle‘s 2021 anthology. This year’s theme is After The Storm. I seem to have been mentioned in the same sentence as ‘storm‘ quite a bit recently, which is either profoundly disturbing or deliciously serendipitous. If I don’t blow myself out, the anthology will be launched at the HK Lit Fest and published in Nov!
In a daze to learn my first (and only) poem, War of Voices, has won a place in the 2020 Proverse Poetry Prize and will be published in Proverse Publishing‘s 2021 anthology next April! Which place (last place?) will be announced at a reception in Hong Kong Nov 19!
My late grandfather, a poet, who also dabbled in banking, would be proud! I’d love to say he was an inspiration but since his legacy is all in Welsh (and it’s a sin to translate Welsh poetry into English) it’s impossible for me to tell if he’s been much of an influence or not.
Thank you, Proverse! You have made a wannabe poet with more issues than Vogue very happy.


Fri, 22 July 2011
Learn French and Haitian Creole with "Godfather's Mercy - Parenn Pran Pitye! plus Haitian Creole, French, and English Phrases and Vocabulary
"Godfather's Mercy - Pitye, Parenn! or Parenn Pran Pitye; plus Popular French, English, and Haitian Creole Phrases"provides you with the most popular basic phrases in French, English, and Haitian Creole. It also comes equipped with easy-to-use vocabulary in all three languages. In addition, it presents Tijan's story and his godfather's mercy on him. Fatherless, 10-year-old Tijan decides to leave the treeless mountaintop where he lives with his always-drunk mother in search of an elusive education in crop-rich downtown Leogane, Haiti. Will Tijan reach his dream of learning how to read and write? Will her mother even realize that he went missing? Find out how His godfather, Mr. Bonifas, convinces his wife as he decides to offer to Tijan the same opportunities and access to education and a better life their own children enjoy. The text of this story is translated into English from Haitian Creole.
Learn French, English, and Haitian Creole with this new booklet. Read the story of Tijan and his godfather, Mr. Bonifas!
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Sat, 16 July 2011
French Notes and Textbook for English Speakers
French Textbook and Notes for English Speakers: Salut! Bonjour, Bonsoir, Merci, Au revoir! was written to help you conquer your fear of one of the most beautiful languages of the world. It is designed to meet your travel and education needs. It provides you with the right set of vocabulary, pronunciation, and explanations you need to fully study Moliere's language. This textbook comes equipped with a corresponding podcast and a related blog that provide you with ongoing support pertaining to pronunciation and explanations of cultural facts, artifacts, and more difficult verb patterns. In this book, you will find cultural notes, rules of thumb to avoid major faux-pas, and lots of exercises to help you have mastery over key language nuances, patterns, structure, and phraseology. Get additional information at http://frenchlessonpodcast.libsyn.com and http://labaguettefrenchlesson.blogspot.com
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French for English and Creole Speakers!...is a French textbook written specifically to give you as well as all beginning, intermediate, and advanced learners of French the support you need to master this beautiful language. This textbook comes equipped with a podcast and a blog that provide you with ongoing support pertaining to pronunciation and explanations of cultural artifacts. In this book, you will find cultural notes, rules of thumb to avoid major faux-pas, and lots of exercises to help you have mastery over key language patterns, structure, and phraseology.
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The Project Management Institute, (PMI®), “Project Management Body of Knowledge”, (PMBOK®), describes the various work environments and rates the level of control project managers get in each. At the bottom is the matrix organization and at the top, “Projecticized” PMP certification . These provide low to high control to the project manager. Industry has now coined the phrase, “Project Management Office”, (PMO), to indicate the highest level of project control. This is the organizational model that you should work towards.
The PMO offers companies the ability to control projects due to the authority given to project managers. The project manager is given complete command of his resources as they are needed. The resources are unavailable for other assignments without the express consent of the project manager. If a project experiences any threats, the project manager can be empowered to bring the required resources of the whole organization to the aid of the project. As well, all projects are required to completely document their results which are stored in a repository. An individual acts as a librarian to safeguard the repository which forms an intellectual asset of the company. All future projects are reviewed by the office prior to the project start up date.
Similarities with existing projects are examined to take advantage of expertise in the organization. Resourcing issues are discussed with the whole organization in mind. Expert staff and critical equipment are engaged as necessary to complete strategic work for the whole organization. The library of project knowledge becomes increasingly valuable as it documents more specifics of successful projects and mitigation steps taken to correct faults.
The PMO establishes mandatory documentation protocols to be followed by all project staff at each stage of project execution. This ensures that knowledge is captured and protected. Future projects gain a time advantage by reviewing the library for stored issue resolutions. The negative effects of staff departures is lessened since the PMO has documentation of all work performed by such staff.


Fake bands and musicians abound in literature. Sometimes they help a writer create a sense of verisimilitude in an otherwise foreign setting, for example, the characters in Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange listen to invented bands (The Heaven Seventeen, Johnny Zhivago, Googly Gogol), as well as recognizable names like Beethoven, thereby making the picture of a dystopian future more complete. But there’s another reason for creating fictional musicians. Through the use of such characters, a novelist can to bring an entire era to life, and to explore the many facets of any given period. What follows is an entirely subjective list of some of my favourite musical characters; characters which I think help to define their era:
Charlie Hero in The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi.
The scene is ‘70s Tory England, a time of racial conflict and suburban boredom, but also, for Kureishi’s characters, a time of energy and transformation. When Charlie first appears he’s a Bowie obsessed fop, a mediocre musician desperately looking for a way out of suburbia. The arrival of punk is his chance, and he unhesitatingly ditches his old band and long hair to join in, eventually ending up in New York a bona fide rock star. Kureishi drew on his own adolescence in Bromley for much of the novel, and another local lad, Billy Idol, acted as a model for Charlie. (Idol was a suburban follower of punk, and member of the Bromley Contingent. He went on to take part in the Second British Invasion, which saw a host of punk-flavoured pop acts selling their Englishness to America.)
The Castillo Brothers in The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos.
Hijuelos’ Pulitzer Prize winning novel follows two Cuban brothers who ride the wave of Latin music that engulfed New York in the ‘50s. There’s the eldest, Cesar, a macho, passionate singer with an unquenchable thirst for women, and his little brother, Nestor, a frail melancholic, who writes endless versions of the same song, ”Beautiful Maria of My Soul,” a lament for a lost love back home. The sweat and glamour of the New York clubs is intercut with the brother’s attempt to break into the white world of television, with the help of a real life Latino hero, Desiderio Arnaz.
Robert Frobisher & Vyvyan Ayrs in Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell.
Like Hijuelos, Mitchell offers us not one, but two, fictional musicians. The first, Robert Frobisher, is a louche, bi-sexual debt-dodger, who travels to Belgium with a view to exploiting the second, Vyvan Ayrs, a famous composer and syphilitic recluse. Although Frobisher’s character was inspired by Eric Fenby, an amanuensis to the great composer Frederick Delius, his voice owes more to the writings of Christopher Isherwood, the preeminent chronicler of the decadent underworld that existed between the wars in Europe. Mitchell also gives us two fictional pieces of music; firstly a symphony called “Eternal Recurrences”, which Ayrs hears in a dream, and secondly Frobisher’s own “Cloud Sextet”, a six-part composition which mirrors the puzzle-like structure of the novel itself.
Pretty much anything by Tom Pynchon
No article about fictional musicians would be complete without a quick word on Thomas Pynchon. Almost every one of his books makes passing references to a host of fictional bands, from Sick Dick and the Volkswagens in The Crying of Lot 49, to Eddie Enrico and his Hong Kong Hotshots in Vineland. Not only that, Pynchon habitually pens lyrics to non-existent songs. Gravity’s Rainbow, his award-winning magnum opus, contains upwards of a hundred fake songs, including “The Penis He Thought Was His Own,” “Loonies on Leave!”, and “Puke-a- hook-a-look-i Island.”
Sing along classics every one. If only they had a tune.


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The Big Creative Act
The big act of creation occurred on the second day. On the second day, God spoke repetition into existence. When the reader sees for the second time the words ‘and there was evening, and there was morning,’ a relationship is spoken into existence. There are now two days. They are similar, and the similarities can be enumerated. But they are also different, and one must consider the differences.
Information is implied by the relationship between days. Meaning now emerges in an efficiency not realized from an unstructured text. Meaning is communicated by either satisfying or frustrating an expectation established by a repetitive pattern.
Why is the second day not declared good?
Why do the third and sixth day have two creative acts while the others have one?
Why does God name the night and day, the heavens and the land and sea, but not the big and small light, and the animals?
In a structured text, the words have meaning, the absence of words have meaning and the arrangement of words have meaning.
The creation account is conspicuously structured. This text declares meaning through that structure. We are to continue forward into the rest of the book prepared to find meaning not only in its words, but in its repetitions and its literary patterns. The creation account exposes the method of the author.


B.A. ( Western Ontario )
M.A. ( Michigan State )
Ph.D. ( Liverpool )
Areas of Interest:
African Regional Geography
Society, Environment and Development
Regional Geography of Africa south of the Sahara
Health and underdevelopment in Africa
Hausa Indigenous medicine
Colonial photographic representation of Africa
Stock, R. (2008). “Production strategies: artisan production”. In The New Encyclopedia of Africa (2 nd edition).
Stock, R. (2004). Africa south of the Sahara : a Geographical Interpretation (2 nd edition). New York : Guilford Publications, 477 pp.
Stock, R. (1995). Africa south of the Sahara : a Geographical Interpretation. New York : Guilford Press, 1995, 435 pp. (Paperback editions in 1995 by Longman UK and 1998 by Guilford Press).
Stock, R., and C. Anyinam (1992). “National governments and health service policy in Africa ”. In D.A. Itavyar and T. Falola, eds. The Politics of Health in Africa . Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, pp. 279-292.
Stock, R. (1986). “Disease and development or the underdevelopment of health? Critical perspectives on Third World health issues”. Social Science and Medicine, vol. 23, pp. 689-700.
Stock, R. (1985). “Islamic medicine in rural Hausaland”. In B.M. duToit and I. Abdalla, eds. African Healing Strategies . Buffalo : Trado-Medic Books, pp. 29-46.
Stock, R. (1985). “Health care for some: a Nigerian study of who gets what, where, and why?” International Journal of Health Services , vol. 15, pp. 469-484.
Stock, R. (1983). “Distance and the utilization of health care facilities in rural Nigeria ”. Social Science and Medicine , vol. 17, pp. 563-570.
Stock, R. (1976). Cholera in Africa: Diffusion of the Disease, with Special Reference to West Africa . London : International African Institute, 127 pp. (Republished by LIT Verlag, Munster-Hamburg, 1998 with International African Institute in the Classics in African Anthropology Series).


A tribute to Anna Mani, an inspiring Indian physicist who overcame challenges and made significant contributions to the field of meteorology
Google has chosen to celebrate the life and achievements of Anna Mani, an accomplished Indian physicist, on what would have been her 104th birthday. A trailblazer in the field of meteorology, Mani made significant contributions to the study of the atmosphere and weather. As an Indian woman in a male-dominated field, she overcame numerous obstacles, leaving an inspiring legacy for future generations of scientists.
Breaking Boundaries: Anna Mani’s Early Life and Education
Born on August 23, 1918, in Travancore, British India (now Kerala, India), Anna Mani displayed an early passion for science, which would shape her life’s work. Despite facing societal and cultural challenges, she pursued her education with determination, obtaining her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in physics from the University of Madras.
In 1945, Mani received a scholarship to study at the University of Cambridge, where she worked under the guidance of renowned physicist C.V. Raman. During her time at Cambridge, she focused on the study of the properties of diamonds and crystal structures, earning a second master’s degree in physics.
A Meteorological Pioneer: Anna Mani’s Research and Contributions
After returning to India, Anna Mani shifted her focus to meteorology and joined the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD). Her work in the field made a lasting impact on the understanding of the Earth’s atmosphere and weather phenomena.
Mani’s most significant contributions include the development and standardization of meteorological instruments. She designed and calibrated instruments such as rain gauges, sunshine recorders, and ozone spectrophotometers, which were essential for accurate weather observations and predictions. Under her leadership, India became a leading producer and exporter of high-quality meteorological equipment.
Throughout her career, Mani published numerous research papers, particularly focusing on solar radiation, ozone, and wind energy. Her work on harnessing wind energy for electricity generation laid the foundation for India’s wind energy program.
A Lasting Legacy: Remembering Anna Mani
Anna Mani retired from the IMD in 1976, but her passion for science and meteorology continued unabated. She devoted her later years to research and mentoring young scientists, inspiring future generations to pursue careers in the field.
Mani passed away in 2001, but her legacy lives on through her groundbreaking work and trailblazing spirit. By commemorating her 104th birthday, Google is ensuring that her story continues to inspire others and that her contributions to science are remembered and celebrated.
Anna Mani was a remarkable physicist who made significant contributions to meteorology, breaking barriers as an Indian woman in the world of science. Her inspiring journey and dedication to her field serve as a powerful reminder of the impact that one individual can have on the world. On her 104th birthday, Google’s tribute to Anna Mani is a fitting recognition of her enduring legacy and an invitation for all to learn from her resilience and accomplishments.


14 June 'Southampton Football Club'. A talk by Dave Juson, BA (Hist). Official historian of The Saints.
12 July 'A Hampshire Policeman'. By Jim Brown who started as a constable at Shirley Police Station, Southampton, and patrolled his beat by bicycle when Lordshill was still an agricultural area. This promises to be a highly entertaining account by one whose book about it has been published, and signed copies will be on sale at the meeting.
9 August A production by the son of one of our members, whose family was involved in helping Jewish people escape from Germany during WW2.
13 September 'The Canals and Waterways of Hampshire'. A talk to be given by Robert Sanday.
11 October The Port of Southampton, by John Gurney
8 November On the closest date we could get to Halloween. 'Hampshire Ghosts' by Robert Sanday, with many thanks to Richard Felix for pernmission to use his DVD 'Hampshire Ghosts' during this presentation
13 December 'Under the Queen's Colours'. The prize winning author Penny Legg will talk about her latest book, 'Under the Queen's Colours'.......the stories of men and women who have served in the armed forces since the coronation of the Queen. Signed copies of Penny's book will be on sale.


By Victoria Cepeda
The last time that I read a book that compelled me to share its message/content with everyone that was willing (or unwilling) to listen was a few years back. The name of that book was The Shadow of The Wind or “La Sombra del Viento” written by Carlos Ruiz Zafon. It was a work of fiction that left me temporarily delusional thinking that I could pen similar work with a bit of time and discipline. Ha.
As someone that enjoys history, I am always searching for new treasures. The only prerequisite is that the book, though initially written to inform, could also double as a pageturner. The knowledge one stands to gain is immeasurable. As fate would have it, I have been fortunate to have acquired a copy of such a book and to have met its charismatic author in person. The book is Hispanic New York: A Sourcebook. Its author/editor is none other than Claudio Iván Remeseira, a New York-based award-winning journalist, writer and cultural critic born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Claudio arrived in New York in 2000 for a seminar for economic and business journalists at Columbia U. During the interview he told us that:
“At that time I was doing economic, political and cultural reporting at La Nación, Argentina’s second largest newspaper. In 2001 I was admitted at Columbia J-School for a mid-career master in Journalism. One of my goals was to learn more about US literature, so I ended up taking a course on American civilization with Andrew Delbanco, who ended up being my mentor. At the same time I started doing research on the cultural history of Hispanics in New York (The piece on Archer Milton Huntington and the history of the Hispanic Society of America was my master’s thesis). My idea was to write a book on the cultural history of Latinos in New York.”
The sourcebook is an anthology of essays on the city’s Latino, Latin American and Iberian cultural heritage (primarily since the late 1800s to the present). In it you will find, among others, an excerpt of Berbardo Vega’s Memoirs – A Contribution to the History of the Puerto Rican Community in New York. Jose Marti’s “Vindication of Cuba” in the form of a letter that he sent to the editor of the now defunct Evening Post. Also Gabriel Haslip-Viera’s “The Evolution of The Latino Community in New York City”. Then yet another interesting piece by Ed Morales on “The Story of Nuyorican Salsa” from there we hop to Antonio Muñoz Molina’s “Spanish in New York”. All detailing the omnipresence and contributions of Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, Cubans, Spaniards, Sephardic Jews since the beginning of the 20th century. In the case of Sephardic Jews (originally from Portugal and Spain) their presence in New York City dates back to the 17th century. We go on to explore “Creole Religions of the Caribbean” by Fernandez Olmos and Paravisini-Gebert. Lastly, Roberto Suro’s “New York” is a synopsis of Dominicans’ pilgrimage and their contribution to the city.
Of great significance to me, among all the essays found within the book, is Andrew Delbanco’s foreword. Delbanco, who happens to be Columbia University’s Director of American Studies, refers to Claudio’s book as a point of referrence to help dispel the old concept held by “Americans that still think of “the Spanish element of our Nationality (originally coined by Walt Whitman) as an alien subculture within a “mainstream,” America formed exclusively by English-speaking settlers and their descendants. In other words, when you’ve read this book, no one will be able to argue against the value Hispanics/Latinos have added to New York City.
Also, found within this anthology are Virginia Sanchez Korrol’s “In Search of Latinas in U.S. History: 1540 – 1970s” that incorporates the often invisible Latina, of this timeline, into the historical fold and cobble stones of New York City. The book ends with Claudio’s master thesis work “Splendid Outsider: Archer M. Huntington and the Hispanic Heritage in the U.S.” Huntington ignored all oppositions and sneers about creating an institution about Spanish culture. In Claudio’s words ” what is ironic is that it was a Protestant New Englangder’s money that paid for providing Catholic Spain with a greater measure of respect in the United States.” In 1904, Huntington founded the Hispanic Society of America that still stands open to the public at 155th street on Broadway.
Claudio credits his late grandmother with inspiring him. It was during his childhood, while listening to his grandma tell stories about the family, that his love for story telling and writing first emerged. His basic advice to young Latinos is to learn about their history and be open to external influences too. That’s the great teaching of cultural mestizaje: mixtures enrich us.
- Claudio is also the founder and director of The Hispanic New York Project, hosted by Columbia University’s Center for American Studies.
- The winner of the Latino International Latino Book Award in the category of Best Reference Book in English (2011).
- Publisher and general editor of his own blog hispanicnewyorkproject.blogspot.com
- Member of the Advisory Board of the Library & Archives of El Centro de Estudios Puertorriqueños at Hunter College (City University of New York), the board of the Latin American Cultural Week (LACW),
- Advisor to the organizers of the Festival de la Palabra in New York.
Other literary work and publications by Claudio Remeseira have appeared in Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas, Salmagundi magazine, Huffington Post, Primera Revista Latinoamericana de Libros, Hora Hispana (Daily News), Diario Rumbo (Texas), El Nuevo Día (Puerto Rico), El País (Spain), and La Nación, Página/12, Noticias, and Lilith magazine (Argentina).
After our meeting with Claudio, we were elated and inspired. His warm personality makes him the more endearing to us. He remains humble despite all this accomplishments and ongoing contributions to our community. That is just plain remarkable and commendable. In all honesty, Hispanic New York is a must have for those that hold their Hispanic/Latino heritage in the highest of regards.
To order Hispanic New York, visit Amazon.com.


“My mom had a family tradition: when a guest came into our home, they were asked to sign our guest book. It recorded their names, the date and a space for a brief comment. On this momentous day, Mom of course had the book with her for all to sign—a lasting memory of the day, and a way for her to place names with faces. Ted’s name was there, dated August 22, next to his signature: Ted Larkin.
“To most, Ted was a hardworking farmer, living with his wife and family. His unassuming character disguised him as he went about his daily farming routine. He kept mostly to himself, but there was another side to him—a well-concealed and unsuspected dark side.
“My exact age the first time Ted had me alone is not clearly defined. What I do know is that my earliest experience with him was sometime before the age of five….”
Sharing stories like this, from a perspective we rarely hear—a therapist’s own healing journey—Faith Donaldson creates a rare resource that will help anyone who has suffered trauma to see their life in a new light.


Promise me you will not spend so much time treading water and trying to keep your head above the waves that you forget, truly forget, how much you have always loved to swim – Tyler Knott Gregson
It has been a tough part of life as the challenges that we face every day becoming real and queuing to be resolved. We get tired, as we enter this weird space in highered where we have to make sure we wrap up this year strong. In the chaos, I must anchor in, this periodically I lose my shit. How do you remind yourself of the purpose of it all?
Hygge (pronounced ‘hooga’) which is Danish for creating a sense of coziness. This is one of my favorite words in another language, along with my very well-documented love for ubuntu. It may be hard to say, but I find everyone has not stopped people from finding out that hyggee might be a recipe for a happier life. Oxford even listed hyggee as one of their words of the year of 2016. But what is hygge really for me? Can cashmere socks be my hygge? can clean organized comfy apartment be hygge? I think it will be a life long discovery to understand the unique Danish concept of hygge.
One thing that I know, the more I become aware of myself the more I find that I have the power to create a warm atmosphere and start to enjoy the good in life. There is nothing I find to be more hyggee than sitting with people, discussing the big and small things in life. Hygge is such a deep philosophy word and a way of life that could help people to understand the importance of gratitude, to be simple, to slow down, to unwind, enjoying the pace of life. The goal to create space and time to do nothing but enjoy the little things with family and friends is the ultimate way to have hyggelig home!
I’m currently reading Present over Perfect by Shauna Niequist. I have been reading this book intently, as I really feel like there are moments where it feels like she is literally talking to me. It’s given me a lot to consider in my journey for inner peace. She makes so many on-point remarks and her shift inspiring thinking been giving me a lot of powerful will to change the way I see myself and the world. I want this book to be the guideline to change me internally and guide me to enact upon it. It’s hard! Usually, with a book, I can comb through chapter by chapter quickly, but this book has made me taking my time (which has been forever!) because I keep needing to stop and reflect. Highly recommended life journey book.
Just want to documented this journey and to remind myself to keep working on myself.


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of this manual on Participation will be distributed in the
Southern African region. The manual is available in English and
Portuguese. Its stored in South Africa and the distribution process
will start in July 2005.
The manual is produced as a joint effort by trainers from six partner
organisations from four different Southern African countries: CHRR
and PAC from Malawi, NCA and Civnet from Zimbabwe, Asserco from
Mozambique and CBRC from South Africa. This combined effort is know
as the Civic Education and community mobilisation cluster or Civcom.
A main bottleneck in Civic Education is to reach grassroots people
in an effective way. Further analysis shows that those who deliver
the message are the weakest elements in the system. Training, motivation
and logistical preparations of volunteer grassroot trainers are
often insufficient. Therefore the production of a series of grassroot
manuals, improved organisational systems to work with volunteers
and a quest for funding were identified as major elements for a
regional Civic Education strategy
This manual builds on an earlier manual on civic education, which
was highly successful in promoting democracy in Malawi. It was called
Gwira Mpini Kwacha: Civic Education to build local democracy.
This new manual hopes to show that active participation is in fact
an important strategy to reduce poverty.
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|In the closing decades of the 12th century AH, Wahid Bihbahani, the symbol of usuli campaign against the Akhbaris, breathed new life into the practice of usuli principles among Imami circles. This was carried further by the likes of Shaykh Ja`far Kashif al-Ghita’, Mulla Ahmad Naraqi and Sahib al-Jawahir (i.e., the author of al-Jawahir, Shaykh Muhammad Hasan Najafi). However, the greatest link between the Jawahirite fiqh and that of the century and half later was established by Shaykh Murtada Ansari (d. 1281 AH), whose expansion of the usul al-fiqh in its practical aspect reshaped the Imami usuli fiqh and left a deep impress on the next generations of faqihs. The most prominent and distinctive aspect of Shaykh Ansari’s system is his way of approaching various fiqhi fundamentals, an approach whose main lines are delineated in the introduction to his al-Fara’id. In this most seminal of his works, Shaykh Ansari, instead of getting entangled in the discussions of the prevailing usuli methods of his time, envisages the state of a bewildered religious practitioner (mukallaf) faced with a multitude of shar`i rules and obligation and divides the level of his knowledge with regard to these issues into the three categories of certainty (qat`), probability (zann) and doubt (shakk). His method is based on the assumption that in case of clarification of these categories for the mukallaf, he would gain the competence to navigate his way through the wide array of shar`i rules and practices.
The Shaykh devotes minimum space to the discussion of certainty, given its innate and indisputable authority. The authority of zann which was widely accepted, with some variations as to its scope of application, among the jurists of Hillah and which has been discussed in the science of usul al-fiqh as a digressive issue is given extensive treatment in al-Fara’id as a well established theory. The most salient discussion in al-Fara’id, and the high point of the Shaykh’s theoretical genius, relates to the topic of doubt and the way in which it figures in the life of the mukallaf vis-à-vis the religious rules and practices. Shaykh Ansari posits four types of practical principles: istishab, takhyir (having the option to choose), bara’ah, and ishtighal (or ihtiyat, i.e. caution). None of these notions are the inventions of the Shaykh and all have their roots in the teachings of the first few centuries AH. None the less, the integration of these four principles within the framework of a single system aimed at dealing with cases of uncertainty is an innovation of Shaykh Ansari. He adopts a philosophical approach in his elaboration of the various possibilities under which doubt may occur. According to him, doubt may occur in connection with a previous matter (an instance of istishab) or not. In the case of the latter one may exercise caution (an instance of takhyir) or not. In the case of the former, the subject of doubt is either the actual necessity of the obligation (an instance of bara’ah) or the necessity of its performance by the mukallaf.
It should be noted that in the fiqhi system of Shaykh Ansari and his followers, practical principles or, in the legal terminology, legal obligations are given the largest scope, a fact that contributed to a wider application of formal argumentation in the resolution of fiqhi issues. The fiqhi idea of a “system of practical principles” was given a practical framework by the Shaykh in his book of al-Makasib, his masterwork in terms of setting forth a system of fiqh based on an usuli foundation.


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While the girls have been enjoying hearing these stories, they have also been learning valuable lessons about gratitude, manners, responsibility, personal inspiration and positive values. Research shows that 95% of our behavioral patterns are established by the age of 6, so instilling these positive lessons into our children before the age of 6 is so important. Simple rhymes like, “After I wake up and hop onto the floor, I always make my bed before I walk out the door” are easy for the girls to memorize and repeat to themselves. My favorite book is Get Inspired With Max which teaches the importance of being yourself, believing in yourself, taking responsibility and having a positive outlook.
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Our environmental educational centre provides written sources of reference for students and members of the community to access, to be better aware of their surrounding, flora and fauna (plants and animals) that they may come across when exploring within nature.
Kingsford, R. 1991 Australian Waterbirds: A Field Guide, Kangaroo Press Pty Ltd, Kenthurst Notes: Waterbirds: useful and light-weight guide for work in creeks and swamps, easy to use, with description, distribution, habitat, colour photographs.
Morcombe, M. 2000 A Field Guide to Australian Birds. Steve Parish Publications, Archerfield, Qld
Schodde R. & Tideman S. 1990 Reader's Digest Complete Book of Australian Birds Reader's Digest, Sydney
Simpson, K. and Day, N. 1996 Field Guide to the Birds of Australia, A book of Identification 5th edition, Penguin Books, Ringwood Notes: Use for identification and the attached handbook is useful for beginners.
Slater, P., Slater, P. and Slater, R. 1996 The Slater Field Guide to Australian Birds, Weldon, Sydney
The G Pizzey & Knight Field Guide to the Birds of Australia, Harper Collins Publishing.
Fisher, R. 1995 A Field Guide to Australian Butterflies, Surrey Beatty & Sons, Chipping Norton, NSW
Harvey, M.S. and Yen, A.L. 1989 Worms to Wasps, Oxford University Press, Melbourne
Hawking, J.H. & Smith, F.J. 1997 Colour Guide to Invertebrates of Australian Inland Waters , CRC for freshwater Ecology, Murray- Darling Freshwater Research Centre
Simon-Brunet, B. 1996 Spiderwatch: A Guide to Australian Spiders, Reed Books, Port Melbourne
Moulds, M. S. 1990 Australian Cicadas, UNSW Press, Kensington
New, T.R. 1996 Name that Insect: A guide to the insects of South-Eastern Australia, Oxford University Press, Melbourne.
Zborowski, P and Storey, R. A Field Guide to Insects in Australia, Reed Books, Port Melbourne
Churchhill, S 1998 Australian Bats Reed, New Holland Pty Ltd
Menkhorst, P and Knight, F. 2001 A Field Guide to the Mammals of Australia, Oxford University Press, Melbourne.
Strahan, R. 1995 The Mammals of Australia, Australian Museum/Reed Books, Chatswood
Smith, A. and Winter, J. 1997 A Key and Field Guide to Australian Possums, Gliders and Koalas, Surrey, Beatty & Sons
Triggs, B. 1996 Tracks, Scats and Other Traces: a field guide to Australian Mammals, Oxford University Press, Melbourne
Benson, D H and Howell, J, 1990 Taken for Granted: the bushland of Sydney and its suburbs,Kangaroo Press, Kenthurst, NSW
Bishop, A. 1996 Field Guide to the Orchids of New South Wales and Victoria, UNSW Press, Sydney
Bradley J. 2000 Bringing Back the Bush Lansdowne. The Rocks
Carolin, R. 1991 Beach Plants of South East Australia, Sainty & Associates, Potts Point Notes: Coastal plants: useful for common plants on dunes.
Costermans, L. 1983 Native Trees and Shrubs of South-eastern Australia, 2nd edition, Rigby, Adelaide Notes: A simple guide to most of the larger native plants with colour photographs and a brief introduction to their ecology.
Cronin, L. 1989 Key Guide to Australian Ferns, Palms and Allies, Reed Books, Sydney
Debenham C. The Language of Botany The Society for Growing Australian Plants
Edgar, G.J. 2000 Australian Marine Life – Revised Edition - The Plants and Animals of Temperate Waters Reed New Holland
Enwhistle, T.J., Sonneman, A. & Lewis, S.H. 1997 Freshwater Algae in Australia Sainty & Associates, Darlinghurst, NSW
Fairley A. & Moore P. 1995 Native Plants of the Sydney District Kangaroo Press. Kenthurst
Floyd, A.G. 1989 Rainforest Trees of Mainland South-eastern Australia, Inkata Press, Sydney Notes: Rainforest trees: with 385 species this text is comprehensive for rainforest trees.
Low T. 1989 Bush Tucker -Australia's Wild Food Harvest Angus and Robertson. Sydney
Mitchell, M. 1996 Native Grasses: Identification Handbook for Temperate Australia, Agmedia, East Melbourne.
Muyt A. 2001 Bush Invaders of South East Australia R.G. and F.J. Richardson. Victoria
Nicholson Nan & Hugh 1996 Australian Rainforest Plants I,II, III, IV. Terania Rainforest Publishing. The Channon, NSW
Parsons, W.T. & Cuthbertson, E.G. Noxious Weeds of Australia 2nd Edition CSIRO Publishing
Robinson, L. 1994 Field Guide to the Native Plants of Sydney, Kangaroo Press, Kenthurst
Sainty, G.R. & Jacobs, S.W.L. 1981 Water Plants of New South Wales Sainty & Associates, Darlinghurst, NSW
Tame, T. 1992 Acacias of South-eastern Australia Kangaroo Press
Young, A.M. 1982 Common Australian Fungi New South Wales University Press
Wheeler, D.J.B, Jacobs, S.W.L and Norton, B.E. 1990 Grasses of New South Wales; 2nd Edition, University of New England, Armidale
Williams J.B., Harden G.J. & McDonald W. J.F. 1984 Trees and Srubs in Rainforests of NSW and Queensland. University of New England Printery, Armidale.
C.D. ROM Fungimap 1.1 Sep 2001 Royal Botanic Gardens. Melbourne.
Reptiles and frogs
Barker, J.T., Grigg, G. and Tyler, M. 1995 A Field Guide to Australian Frogs, Surrey Beatty & Sons Pty Ltd. Notes: Illustrates and describes the frogs of Australia, covers all of the 200 or so frog species found in Australia. Descriptions, photographs, distributions. Line drawings of anatomical details.
Cogger, H.G. 1996 Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia, Reed Books, 22 Salmon St, Port Melbourne 3207
Griffiths, K. 1997 Frogs and Reptiles of the Sydney Region, University of NSW Press, PO Box 1,Kensington, 2033 Notes: For identification for the Sydney region, especially for beginners.
Hoser R.T.T 1989 Australian Reptiles and Frogs. Pierson & Co. Mosman
Swan, G. 1990 A Field Guide to the Snakes and Lizards of New South Wales, A Three Sisters Publication, PO Box 104, Winmalee, NSW, 2777 Notes: A pocket sized guide containing descriptions and studio photographs of all the species. A list of references but no key.
CD Frogs of SE Australia
Grigg, G.C. and Barker, J. 1973 Frog Calls of south-Eastern Australia, University of Queensland Nature Sound CDs www.naturesound.com.au Note: Has a great range
Fish and other marine life
Allen, S.R., Midgley, S.H. & Allen, M. Field Guide to the Freshwater Fishes of Australia Western Australian Museum CSIRO Publishing
Davey, K. A Photographic Guide to Seashore Life of Australia New Holland Publishers
Hutchins, B. & Swainston, R. 1986 Sea Fishes of Southern Australia Swainston Publishing Perth
Kuiter, R. 2000 Coastal Fishes of S.E. Australia Publisher Gary Allen Smithfield
Blay, J. 1994. The Australian Native Plant Gardener's Almanac, Southwood Press, Marrickville
Edmanson, Jane. 1992 Working Manual for Gardeners, Lothan Books, Port Melbourne Note: A month-by-month guide to practical tasks to do in the garden
Lieth, Helmut (ed). Phenology and Seasonality Modelling, Chapman & Hall Ltd, London
Reid, Alan 1995 Banksias and Bilbies: Seasons of Australia, Gould League of VictoriaSeale, Allan. 1991 Gardener's Calendar, Treasure Press Australia
Smith, M. 1994 Bush Mates: A guide to the wildlife of Nelson Bay Self-published.
White, G. 1994 The Natural History and Antiquities of Selbourne Folio Society, London
Specialised reports on flora and fauna
Morris, A. K. Editor 2002 Central Coast Bird Report for 1999, Central Coast Group, Birding NSW
Payne, R. 1993 A Proposal for the Protection of Rainforest Remnants in the Gosford & Wyong Areas, NSW National Parks Association, Sydney
Blomfield, J. Hawkesbury to Hunter – Coastal Walking Publisher Killcare Wagstaffe Trust
Collier, B. 2000 Discovering the Central Coast Envirobook Annandale
Daly, J. & L. Take a Walk in a National Park – Sydney to Port Macquarie RRP $25
Elder, B. 1993 Day Trips Around Sydney, A daytrippers Guide to 200 km Around Sydney Lothian Publication Company, Victoria
Fairley, A. 1974 Along the Track – A Guide to Bushland around Sydney
Levis, C. & Savage, C. 2001 4WD Tracks Close to Sydney Boiling Billy Publications Marrickville


NewSouth Books, which has decided to edit-out the racial slurs which appear in Mark Twain literature, has responded to my blog post in the comments section:
We understand there are strong feelings about this; we feel strongly too about the sanctity of literature, and opposing censorship.
What is perhaps unclear in the article above is that this edition is not meant to pretend as though the offensive language doesn’t exist; rather there is a detailed introduction included in this volume that addresses the language, its historical context, and the ongoing debate in schools as to whether or not to teach Twain’s work because of the language. No reader can read this book without facing the question of including or excluding the language; this book is about the language question, not hiding from it.
If the publication sparks good debate about how language impacts learning and/or about the nature of censorship or the way racial slurs exercise their baneful influence, then our mission in publishing this new edition of Twain’s works will be more emphatically fulfilled. We encourage everyone to read an excerpt from Dr. Gribben’s introduction at http://www.newsouthbooks.com/twain. Thanks!
That brings up another question: If the publisher finds it acceptable to confront the language head-on, why not place the note in the front of the book and then leave the original text alone?
The publisher has apparently decided that instead of reading the original, classic Twain text, kids should be told something controversial exists and then read the watered-down, PC version. The publisher is still censuring the text rather than allowing students to read the original work and confront reality.
A note in the front of the book doesn’t change that.


About the Author
Attila Szalay-Berzeviczy is a noted Hungarian economist and a banking and capital markets executive with over 30 years of experience in Austria and Central-Eastern Europe. Between 2004 and 2008, he served as the president of the Budapest Stock Exchange and is a proud recipient of the Knight’s Cross Order of the Republic of Hungary, awarded to him in recognition of his contribution to the development of the Hungarian securities market and pension system.
As an amateur historian, Attila has been studying the 1914–1918 period since he learned of the involvement of his great-great-grandfather, Albert Berzeviczy, and that of his cousin, Béla Berzeviczy, in the Great War. Albert served as the president of the Hungarian Academy of Science during the war. He was a close friend of Prime Minister István Tisza and a loyal supporter of Emperor Franz Josef, and he strongly and publicly opposed the declaration of war on Serbia, fearing that it would lead to the disintegration of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Béla was a high ranking officer in the Dual Monarchy’s Army, leading various cavalry and infantry army units into battle on the Russian, Italian and Romanian Fronts from the first day of the war until the very end, before being appointed Chief of the General Staff of the Hungarian Royal Honvéd Army in March 1920.
Since 2012, as a professional photographer, he and his company — Historical Military Photos — have been producing First and Second World War-related photographic images for — among others — the French company, the Beaches of Normandy Tours. In 2014, on the eve of the centenary of the start of the Great War, he began to work on his book: In the Centennial Footsteps of the Great War.
(Excerpt from > https://www.greatwarbook.com/us/ / Sept. 20, 2022)


East of East: Mapping Community Narratives
Transforming the Archive
As a historian of migrantion I am in a position to think critically about the relationship between archives and underrepresented communities, especially people without U.S. citizenship. In addition to searching for migrant agency in U.S. and Mexican archives, I am actively involved in constructing an archive with and for underrepresented working communities of South El Monte and EL Monte. I founded and co-direct South EL Monte Arts Posse’s “East of East: Mapping Community in South El Monte and El Monte,” a public history and archive project that seeks to build a reciprocal relationship among academics and community members and transform how underrepresented communities enter the historical record and think about their own history.
By conducting oral histories with community members, hosting writing workshops with Spanish speaking women at Zumba studios, and digitizing city and family archives we place residents at the center of the production of primary sources. With these new sources we invite journalists, academics, and activists to write 3,000-word essays, which we in turn use to gather more primary sources from community members. In many instances, we then invite our authors to deliver lectures and host conversations at the local high schools, senior centers, non-profit centers, and public libraries. These essays along with creative non-fiction pieces about place by acclaimed writers like Michael Jaime Becerra, Toni Plummer, Alex Espinoza, Carribean Fragoza, and Polo Molares are the basis of our book project. By creating knowledge collectively and building a living archive that is constantly growing, we destabilize the notion that a definitive, static historical narrative exists.
Funding & Support for East of East
To date East of East has received funding Los Angeles City’s Department of Cultural Affairs, National Performance Network, Columbia University’s History in Action (five times), Latino Americans: 500 Years of History and in-kind contributions from local community members and faculty, La Historia Society, Rio Hondo Community College, Columbia’s Oral History Office, UCLA’s Oral History Office and Public History Program, South El Monte High School, and the city of South El Monte and El Monte.
Valley Public history initiative, Fresno State
Founder & Director
Fresno State's Valley Public History Initiative seeks to uncover the lost history of the Central Valley, build reciprocal relationships between academics and the public, provide opportunities for everyone to experience history in unique and innovative ways, and to train future public historians.
Our public history and archive projects seeks to radically alter the relationship between academia and the general public by creating a new model for how archives are created and how historical knowledge is disseminated. VPHI also seeks to showcase new and exciting public history projects, ones which provide unique ways of experiencing and thinking about history. In the winter of 2017, VPHI hosted the official book launch for Tim Hernandez’s documentary novel All They Will Call You, which brought to live the lost history of the plane crash at Los Gatos. In the Spring, Diego Flores Magón, the great grandson of Mexican Revolutionary Enrique Flores Magón, discussed how La Casa de El Hijo Del Ahuizote in Mexico City is using the archive (both documents and the space) to create new interdisciplinary modes to engage political, social, and economic issues relevant to both Mexico and the United States.
Undergraduate and graduate students at Fresno State have the opportunity to take oral history and public history courses with Dr. Guzmán and to become public history fellows and public history interns. In these various roles, Fresno State students conduct oral histories, build digital archives, lead walking tours, produce short videos, write and publish short essays for online publications, and document family and local histories.
VPHI is currently running two public history projects. "Straight Outta Fresno," co-directed by UCR Phd candidate and Fresno State adjunct Sean Slusser and Dr. Guzmán, and "The Other Football: Tracing the Game's Roots and Routes in the San Joaquin Valley." For more on these projects visit Tropics of Meta.
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Devotions, guides, tips and other materials that can be used to facilitate a greater awareness and understanding of mental health and the Church.
How can a church become a sanctuary—a place where individuals living with mental health challenges feel safe, supported, and a sense of belonging? The Sanctuary Course was created to inspire and equip communities of faith that are asking this important question. Developed in consultation with mental health professionals, theologians, and people with lived experience, this eight-session study guide explores key mental health topics and examines meaningful ways to offer companionship, support recovery, and promote wellbeing.
Lifting the Lid is a six-week Bible study course focused on faith and mental health. Created with small groups in mind, drawing on well-known Bible stories, it’s a free study resource to help churches explore the topics of emotional and mental wellbeing, using the Bible as a guide.
This discussion guide can be used as a Bible study that will help individuals and churches not just broaden their perspective about mental health, but USE their perspective to help themselves and others. It is intended to be used alongside the book Grace for the Afflicted.
Let this study be the beginning of opening up to one another in a safe environment about mental health issues.
This 12-week curriculum for small groups on the topic of mental health is based on the core concept that healing and wellness for those struggling with mental health concerns happens in community. It specifically explores how God is at work bringing healing into our lives through the Gospel and participation in community within the Church. The curriculum helps guide small groups into meaningful conversations as it explores six practices of healing community as outlined in Scripture. Originally designed by leaders at Broadway Christian Church in Ft. Wayne, Indiana, this small group curriculum can easily be adapted for an engaging Bible study at any church.
This downloadable resource contains practical advice in sections 1 and 2 for pastors and other church workers who counsel congregation members experiencing despair. Section 3 contains a Bible study that can be used in one-on-one counseling with individuals. The Bible study could also be adapted for use in a small group Bible study setting.
These resources will help you communicate with your members about the Faith.Hope.Life.campaign. They may be used without permission, either in their current form, or as you choose to modify them to suit the culture, language, and customs of your particular faith community. These materials conform to Faith.Hope.Life. editorial guidelines; however, the theological or spiritual perspective of each is that of the contributor or the author and not necessarily that of the Action Alliance or the Faith Communities Task Force.
Christian litanies addressing suicide, from Action Alliance.
Being vulnerable to admit you have depression is difficult enough, but it is often more difficult when you are a pastor. Rev. Gabe Kasper, LCMS pastor in Ann Arbor, MI, shares his personal story of depression and offers a sermon on mental illness pointing us to the hope we have in Christ.
How can a preacher best address suicide from the pulpit? This book provides wise advice on a range of topics, including suicide prevention, funeral sermon preparation, and post-crisis care.
Addresses mental illness as a disease of the brain that sometimes leads to suicide and how churches can respond in light of this perspective.
Find a variety of resources - including litanies, hymns and praise songs, prayers, camera-ready graphics and sermons - to support your church's mental health ministry.
This tool is designed to be used with clergy, members of congregations, family members and anyone desiring to learn more about mental illness and how to respond with compassion and care. It can be used as a small group study or as a resource to quickly find information on a specific topic when the need arises.


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Blackfoot Words is a database of lexical forms in Blackfoot (Algonquian). By “lexical forms” we mean inflected words, stems, and morphemes. These have been collected and digitized from many different written sources. We created the database and this website to provide access to a large amount of lexical data for the Blackfoot communities and for language researchers.


I received this rule and ordinance from our blessed Pope, HeraclasAccording to Eusebius Church History Book 7 Chapter 7.4.
Then his successor Pope Dionysus.
Saint Dionysius of Alexandria, named "the Great," 14th Pope of Alexandria & Patriarch of the See of St. Mark from December 28, 248 until his death on March 22, 264 after seventeen years as a bishop. He was the first Pope to hold the title "the Great" (before aBishop of Rome even). Dionysius' large surviving correspondence provides most of our information about him. Only one original letter survives to this day; the remaining letters are excerpted in the works of Eusebius.Very interesting considering Alexandria was the Hot Bed of Gnosticism, and what I've observed about some earlier Bishops of Alexandria.
Catholicism took a long time to become what we know it as. But the Seeds of it were there even in Pre-Nicean Christianity.
Jesus said to "call no man Father".


Hello bookish lovelies! There are two different TBR challenges/weekly tag/memes, but they are similar: Goodreads TBR Cleanup and Down the TBR Hole. Now for both of these you choose to either keep or toss books off your Goodreads TBR. Down the TBR Hole has you start with the oldest additions to your TBR list and Goodreads TBR Cleanup uses a random number generator to choose a different place in your TBR list every time.
I decided to go with the Goodreads TBR Cleanup (created by @ Mega Bunny Reads) as I’ve tried to do Down the TBR Hole before but found myself not sticking with it. If you’re interested in Down the TBR Hole, then you can check out Lia @ Lost in a Story — she has a new blog @ Sunflowers and Wonder
How It Works:
- Go to your Goodreads want-to-read shelf.
- Ask Siri (or any other generator) to pick a number between 1 and however many books are on the list.
- Go to that book and look at it and the 4 after it, for a total of 5.
- Read the synopses of the books.
- Decide: keep it or should it go?
For the number selection, I used an online random number generator.
TODAY’S RANDOM NUMBER: 287
The never-before-told story of one woman’s heroism that changed the course of the Second World War
In 1942, the Gestapo sent out an urgent transmission: “She is the most dangerous of all Allied spies. We must find and destroy her.”
This spy was Virginia Hall, a young American woman–rejected from the foreign service because of her gender and her prosthetic leg–who talked her way into the spy organization deemed Churchill’s “ministry of ungentlemanly warfare,” and, before the United States had even entered the war, became the first woman to deploy to occupied France.
Virginia Hall was one of the greatest spies in American history, yet her story remains untold. Just as she did in Clementine, Sonia Purnell uncovers the captivating story of a powerful, influential, yet shockingly overlooked heroine of the Second World War. At a time when sending female secret agents into enemy territory was still strictly forbidden, Virginia Hall came to be known as the “Madonna of the Resistance,” coordinating a network of spies to blow up bridges, report on German troop movements, arrange equipment drops for Resistance agents, and recruit and train guerilla fighters. Even as her face covered WANTED posters throughout Europe, Virginia refused order after order to evacuate. She finally escaped with her life in a grueling hike over the Pyrenees into Spain, her cover blown, and her associates all imprisoned or executed. But, adamant that she had “more lives to save,” she dove back in as soon as she could, organizing forces to sabotage enemy lines and back up Allied forces landing on Normandy beaches. Told with Purnell’s signature insight and novelistic flare, A Woman of No Importance is the breathtaking story of how one woman’s fierce persistence helped win the war.
Every week I will choice to keep or toss a book. What books are you keeping and tossing? (Which is breaking the rules but what can I say, I’ve always been a rebel)


Wednesday, 21 September 2011
Check one, check two
Atul Gawande is one of my favorite non-fiction writers. A surgeon, he writes with unsparing honesty and insight about the realities of modern day medical treatment - with particular emphasis on the things we get wrong, and the things that, with little effort, we could easily improve. I picked up his first book, Complications (2002), in a Boston airport bookstore and found it compulsive and fascinating. I'm a sucker for medical case histories, especially when they're recounted in such lucid, humane terms. What I found instantly refreshing about Gawande's work was his willingness to document his own errors and fallibilities, even when they had had potentially fatal or debilitating consequences for those under his care. He's the opposite of the Surgeon-as-God: Gawande is simply a normal human being trying to do his best in a staggeringly complex and ever-evolving field. His second book, Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance (2007) was just as interesting, although it broadened the scope of discussion far beyond Gawande's own case histories. If you're a reader of the New Yorker, you'll likely already have encountered some of Gawande's lengthy and engrossing essays on modern medicare.
If you have been keeping up with Gawande's writings, his third book, The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right (2009) can't help but feel over-familiar in places. But it's worthwhile all the same: it;s a book about an amazingly simple and yet potentially world-changing idea: the notion that the checklist is one of the most powerful tools we've yet designed to enable us to cope with complex tasks. Gawande talks about the introduction of the checklist in aviation circles as a consequence of the sheer difficulty involved in flying the B-17, which at the time of its development was by far the most complicated aircraft ever developed. When the best pilots in the military couldn't cope with the number of tasks needed to get the thing in the air without crashing, there was no option but to define the necessary actions in a written-down sequence. After the introduction of the checklist, Gawande notes, B-17s proved extraordinarily reliable and airworthy. But they were almost unflyable without it. The checklist culture - involving not only physical lists, but also the devolution of responsibility to many individuals, not just one big, all-powerful boss - has infiltrated many walks of life, from building construction (modern buildings are amazingly safe, but only because of the culture involved in their construction and assembly) to high-end restaurants. Strangely, though, it had not been widely implemented in the medical world - at least not at the level of surgeons and anaesthetists (Nurses, apparently, were much better at realising the value of this tool). Gawande's book is essentially a document of the slow process of persuading medical professionals that checklists not only have value, but can lead to astonishing improvements in basic care. It can be as simple as making sure everyone really has washed their hands, or that the lines fed into patients really have been changed when they're meant to be.
It's fascinating, thought-provoking stuff, and as always it's a model of clarity, elegance and the basic understanding that patients are people, not black boxes.


Cemetery preservation society
The Brown County Cemetery Preservation Society, a committee of the Peaceful Valley Heritage group, has changed its meeting date and time to 4:15 p.m., the second Tuesday of the month. The cemetery preservation committee will meet in the Archives room at the Brown County History Center, 90 E. Gould St.
A class, “Symbolism in the Cemetery” will be conducted at 6 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 9, in a lower-level meeting room of the Brown County Public Library. The class will be led by DNR Director of Special Initiatives, Jeannie Regan-Dinius.
The public is welcome at all events.
Peaceful Valley group
Peaceful Valley Heritage, Inc. is a preservation group which meets at 6:30 p.m the second Tuesday of each month in the Brown County Community Foundation (Howard F. Hughes) Building, 209 N. Van Buren St.
Meetings are open to the public.
Genealogical, cemetery societies
VAN BUREN TWP. — The Brown County Genealogical Society will meet jointly with the Brown County Cemetery Preservation Society from 1 to 3 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 12 at Mt. Zion Cemetery. The cemetery is two miles southwest of Stone Head on State Road 135 South.
Members of the cemetery preservation society will guide a walk through the cemetery to look for Henry Cross-carved headstones. There is a shelterhouse where the church used to stand.
The public is welcome. Bring lawn chairs.
BLOOMINGTON — The Brown County Widowed Group will gather at 1 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 14 for a luncheon at Red Lobster restaurant, 2617 E. Third St. Any widowed person is welcome.
To carpool, meet before 12:15 p.m. in the St. David’s Episcopal Church parking lot, at state roads 135 North and 45.
Call Joanne Day at 812-597-5593 or Keith Bradway at 812-597-0811 if attending.
Weight loss group
COLUMBUS — National nonprofit weight-loss group, Take Off Pounds Sensibly, also known as TOPS, meets in the MainSource Bank meeting room, 2310 W. Jonathan Moore Pike. Monday meetings begin with weigh-ins at 10:30 a.m. followed by the meeting at 11:30 a.m.
All are welcome to try the club for free. For more information, call Jacky Harmon at 812-603-4667 or visit the national site at tops.org/tops.
The Writers, Readers and Poets Society meets from 7 to 9 p.m. first and third Thursdays each month to read and discuss the literary compositions of those present. The next meeting is Oct. 19. Meetings are at the Brown County Public Library, 205 N. Locust Lane. All are welcome.


Slashdot Post-Googleism At IBM With Piquant - a discussion of this NY Times article by James Fallows. IBM Systems Journal fall 2004 issue discusses more in detail Unstructured information which represents the vast majority of the data collected and accessible to enterprises. This data may be in various formats and may lack the organization of traditional sources such as database records. Exploiting this information requires systems for managing and extracting knowledge from large collections of unstructured data and applications for discovering patterns and relationships. This issue presents eight papers on the tools, methods, and architectures which are evolving for managing unstructured information in areas such as life science and market research. The issue also contains a paper on managing an enterprise architecture and one on autonomic computing systems.


Color Genetics in U.S. Domestic Rabbits
The study of the genetics of rabbit colors is a fascinating and very useful part of rabbit raising. When I first became curious about why colors are what they are, I found there was a lot of old scientific information, but hardly anything recent, accessible, or understandable to the average rabbit breeder. I began searching for articles on rabbit color genetics in 1984. Friends, who had access to college libraries, began sending copies of articles to me. I spent about a year, reading all the old literature, and making notes on all the things I needed to know and wanted to remember.
In talking to other rabbit breeders, I found only a few who understood color genetics. Most were not interested, because they thought it was too hard and complicated for them to understand, or because they didn't believe it worked. Some had an interest, but didn't know where or how to get the research articles, and thought they wouldn't be able to understand them anyway.
I saw a need for a short booklet, containing just the information that rabbit breeders need to know, written in language that can be understood by almost anyone. I wrote my "Color Genetics in Angora Rabbits" in 1989. Since then, I have revised it several times. The title is now "Color Genetics in U.S. Domestic Rabbits", and better applies to more breeds. Also, since then, there have been some "modern" genetic books written. These books are all longer than mine, and give more details. Mine is written for the person who wants the "short course".
There are certain rules that the color genes follow. Learning the rules, or having them written down where you can refer to them, is a must in identifying colors. Words, describing a color, just aren't adequate.
This document is my attempt at collecting proven facts, and the most widely accepted theories, and putting them together in an easy-to-understand form, for the average rabbit breeder.
Parts of this booklet include:
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Oprah and Michelle Obama sit down for a conversation about Mrs. Obama’s much-anticipated, upcoming memoir, Becoming. Here, Mrs. Obama explains why the word “becoming” sums up her journey. Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era. As first lady of the United States of America – the first African American to serve in that role – she helped create the most welcoming and inclusive White House in history while also establishing herself as a powerful advocate for women and girls in the United States and around the world,
Michelle Obama invites listeners into her world! The first African-American to serve as First Lady, She helped create the most welcoming and inclusive White House in history while also establishing herself as a powerful advocate for women and girls in the United States and around the world, dramatically changing the ways that families pursue healthier and more active lives and standing with her husband as he led America through some of its most harrowing moments.
In her memoir, a work of deep reflection and mesmerizing storytelling, Michelle Obama invites listeners into her world, chronicling the experiences that have shaped her – from her childhood on the South Side of Chicago to her years as an executive balancing the demands of motherhood and work to her time spent at the world’s most famous address.
Michelle’s unerring honesty and lively wit, she describes her triumphs and her disappointments, both public and private, telling her full story as she has lived it – in her own words and on her own terms. Warm, wise, and revelatory, Becoming is the deeply personal reckoning of a woman of soul and substance who has steadily defied expectations – and whose story inspires us to do the same.
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Good Answer Guides 2019 to 2021
DramaWest is delighted to announce the release of our Practical and Written Good Answers Guides. We have made the exciting move to go digital! Below you will find information regarding our 2021 Guides, as well as our 2019 to 2020 guides and how to order them.
Written Good Answers Guide 2021
This guide is designed to assist teachers and students alike in preparing for the Written Drama ATAR Examination. Good Answer samples from the 2020 Drama ATAR Course Examination have been annotated to identify key features in successful responses. Also included are activities designed to extend your knowledge and guide the application of skills for future written examinations.
Practical Good Answers Guide 2021
Teachers and students are able to view three candidates as they engage with the Practical Drama ATAR Examination. Each video contains a complete performance with detailed commentary and feedback. This guide also includes interviews with the candidates on how they best prepared for their practical examination. Annotations and notes have been developed by experienced Drama educators with clear advice to teachers and students about making the most of these performance materials.
Past Good Answer Guides Available!
In other exciting news we have digitised our past Good Answers Guides and these can also be purchased and loaded to your USB via the link below. This includes:
- Good Answers Guide 2019 – based on the Drama ATAR Written Examination 2018
- 2020 Study Companion for the 2019 Good Answers Guide
- 2020 Practical Good Answers Guide
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One of The New York Times Book Review’s 10 Best Books of 2021
Shortlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize and the 2021 National Book Award for Translated Literature A fictional examination of the lives of real-life scientists and thinkers whose discoveries resulted in moral consequences beyond their imagining. When We Cease to Understand the World is a book about the complicated links between scientific and mathematical discovery, madness, and destruction. Fritz Haber, Alexander Grothendieck, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrödinger—these are some of luminaries into whose troubled lives Benjamín Labatut thrusts the reader, showing us how they grappled with the most profound questions of existence. They have strokes of unparalleled genius, alienate friends and lovers, descend into isolation and insanity. Some of their discoveries reshape human life for the better; others pave the way to chaos and unimaginable suffering. The lines are never clear. At a breakneck pace and with a wealth of disturbing detail, Labatut uses the imaginative resources of fiction to tell the stories of the scientists and mathematicians who expanded our notions of the possible.


Rosai and Ackerman's Surgical Pathology - Eleventh Edition Volume 1 (2017). Cover featuring Laura Lamps, MD and Jeffrey Myers, MD.Rosai and Ackerman’s Surgical Pathology textbook has been the best-selling text globally for generations of practicing surgical pathologists, beginning with the first edition authored by Lauren Ackerman in 1953. Succeeding editions were largely single-author texts that reflected the comprehensive experience and extraordinary knowledge base of two of pathology's most remarkable scholars, Lauren Ackerman followed by Juan Rosai.
When the time came to update this text in the form of the 11th edition, the evolution of subspecialization, combined with the lack of any single individual qualified to serve as author, required a more collaborative strategy.
John Goldblum invited Laura Lamps, Jesse McKinney, and Jeffrey Myers to join him in preserving Dr. Ackerman’s and Rosai’s legacy in crafting a new edition. Their goal, in collaboration with a limited number of contributors (compared to similar large, multi-author texts), was to preserve Rosai’s voice of experience while including the level of expertise required to keep pace with the needs of today’s students, trainees, and practitioners. The surprisingly short list of contributors includes not only Lamps and Myers, but also our own Jon McHugh and Tom Giordano; this means that nearly a third (31%) of the 2,142 pages in this 2-volume 11th Edition set reflect the work of our own Michigan faculty!