Giuseppe Giannaccare1,2; Marco Pellegrini1; Matilde Roda1; Leonardo Taroni1; Stefano Sebastiani1; Federico Bernabei1; Adriana Ferreira de Araujo Litvin3; Fabiana Moscardelli1; Emilio C. Campos1
PURPOSE: This study was conducted to analyze the profile and publication rate of abstracts in indexed journals presented in the cornea section at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology Annual Meeting and to further identify potential predictive factors for better outcomes.
METHODS: Abstracts accepted for presentation at the 2013 Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology Annual Meeting in the cornea section were sought via PubMed and Scopus to identify whether they had been published as full-text manuscripts. First author’s name, time of publication, journal’s name, and impact factor were recorded. A multivariate regression was performed to explore the association between variables and both the likelihood of publication and the journal’s impact factor. A Kaplan-Meier analysis was performed to evaluate the time course of publication of abstracts.
RESULTS: Of the 939 analyzed abstracts, 360 (38.3%) were published in journals with a median impact factor of 3.4. The median time interval between abstract submission and article publication was 22 months. The multivariate analysis revealed that abstracts were more likely to be published if they were funded (OR=1.482, p=0.005), had a control group (OR=1.511, p=0.016), and had a basic science research scope (OR=1.388, p=0.020). The journal’s impact factor was higher in funded studies (β=0.163, p=0.002) but lower in multicenter studies (β=-0.170, p=0.001). The Kaplan-Meier analyses revealed significant differences in the publication time distribution for basic science vs clinical abstracts (χ2=7.636), controlled vs uncontrolled studies (χ2=6.921), and funded vs unfunded research (χ2=13.892) (p<0.05).
CONCLUSION: Almost 40% of Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology abstracts were published within 5 years from submission. Funding support, basic research scope, and controlled design were the determinants of better outcomes of publication.
Keywords: Abstracting and indexing as topic; Bibliometrics; Congresses as topic; Meeting abstract; Publications/statistical & numerical data; Cornea
OBJETIVO: Analisar o perfil e a taxa de publicação em periódicos indexados de resumos apresentados na seção de córnea da reunião anual da Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology - ARVO, para identificar potenciais fatores preditivos com objetivo de obter melhores resultados.
MÉTODOS: Artigos que foram aceitos para apresentação no encontro anual da Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology - ARVO 2013 na seção de córnea foram pesquisados via PubMed e Scopus para identificar se haviam sido publicados como manuscritos com texto integral. Nome do primeiro autor, data de publicação, nome da revista e fator de impacto foram registrados. Foi feita uma regressão multivariada para estabelecer uma associação entre as variáveis e a chance de publicação e o fator de impacto da revista. Foi utilizado o método Kaplan-Meier para analisar o tempo da apresentação até a publicação dos artigos.
RESULTADOS: Dos 939 artigos analisados, 360 (38.3%) foram publicados em revistas com um fator de impacto médio de 3.4. O intervalo de tempo entre a submissão do resumo e a publicação do artigo teve como mediana 22 meses. Na análise multivariada, resumos tinham mais chance de publicação se tinham algum tipo de financiamento (OR=1.482, p=0.005), tinham grupo controle (OR=1.511, p=0.016) e estavam no âmbito da pesquisa científica básica (OR+1.388, p=0.020). O fator de impacto da revista era maior em estudos financiados (β=0.163, p=0.002) e mais baixo naqueles multicêntricos (β=-0.170, p=0.001). A análise Kaplan-Meier mostrou diferenças significativas na distribuição de tempo até a publicação de resumos de ciência básica vs clínicos (χ2=7.636), com grupo controle vs sem grupo controle (χ2=6.921) e financiados vs não financiados (χ2=13.892) (p<0.05).
CONCLUSÃO: Aproximadamente 40% dos resumos apresentados no encontro da Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology - ARVO foram publicados dentro de 5 anos da submissão. Financiamento, pesquisa no âmbito da ciência básica e presença de grupo controle foram fatores determinantes para melhores resultados em relação à chance de publicação.
Descritores: Resumos e indexação como assunto; Bibliometria; Congressos como assunto; Resumo de reunião; Publicações/estatística & dados numéricos; Córnea
Abstracts submitted to national and international meetings represent an important opportunity to present the current research activities and to gain useful feedback from the scientific community. The subsequent submission to a scientific journal through a peer-review process allows a more rigorous evaluation of the data presented, as well as their dissemination to a global audience through international search databases.
In general, the selection process of abstracts submitted to a meeting depends on a Scientific Committee that reviews and selects studies according to the potential scientific impact of the contribution. However, not all meeting abstracts end up being published in a peer-reviewed journal later. Previous studies have documented the publication rate of abstracts presented at national and international conferences of various specialties and have been used as an indicator of conference quality(1-5). A systematic review indicated that the publication rate of accepted abstracts presented at overall biomedical congresses ranged from 22% to 63%, depending on the methodology, specialty, author experience, and results of the single research(6). However, till date, very poor information is available regarding the publication outcome of abstracts presented at international Ophthalmology Congresses(7).
The aims of the present study were to investigate the (a) demographics of abstracts presented at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) 2013 Annual Meeting, (b) publication rate by peer-reviewed journals, and (c) potential predictive factors for better outcomes of publication.
In this retrospective cohort study, abstracts presented at the ARVO 2013 Annual Meeting (Seattle, WA, USA) in the Cornea scientific section were identified and retrieved from the archive website. For each abstract, the following data were recorded into a database: abstract number, authors’ names, number of authors, affiliation of the first author, number of centers, sample size, main topic, research scope (basic science or clinical research), methodology (prospective or retrospective, randomized or nonrandomized, presence of a control group), and financial support.
A comprehensive literature search was then conducted using the PubMed-NCBI and Scopus databases. The search was restricted to the period between December 2012 (abstract submission deadline for ARVO 2013) and February 2018. Two independent investigators initially searched for the abstracts by combining the names of the first and last author. If no corresponding paper was found, the first author name was combined with various keywords from the title and the text of the abstract. The search was repeated for all possible keywords until either a match was found or all combinations were exhausted. Only publications with consistent hypotheses, study designs, and results were accepted as true matches. For each matching publication, the first author’s name, time of publication, journal’s name, and impact factor (IF) at the time of the publication were collected.
The SPSS statistical software (SPSS Inc, Chicago, IL) was used for data analysis. Univariate linear regression was performed to evaluate the association between variables and the likelihood of publication and between variables and the IF of the journal. A multivariate logistic regression and a stepwise linear regression were respectively performed to predict the publication rate to predict the IF of the journal, including independent variables that reached a significance level of <0.05 in the univariate analysis. A Kaplan-Meier analysis was performed to analyze the time course of the publication of abstracts. P<0.05 was considered to be statistically significant.
A total of 939 abstracts submitted to the ARVO 2013 Annual Meeting in the Cornea scientific section were included in this analysis. Table 1 shows the demographic characteristics of these abstracts. Regarding the geographic distribution of these abstracts, the affiliation of the first author spanned 41 different countries. In the majority of them, the affiliation was with an institution located in North America (531 abstracts; 56.6% of the total), followed by Europe (184 abstracts; 19.6%) and Asia (179 abstracts; 19.1%). South America, Oceania, and Africa were represented with 23 (2.5%), 22 (2.3%), and no abstracts, respectively (Figure 1).
Of the analyzed abstracts, 360 (38.3% of the total) were published until February 2018. The number of authors during the publication process increased significantly from 5.0 ± 2.1 (mean ± standard deviation) in the abstracts to 6.2 ± 2.6 in the published articles (p<0.001). In 234 of the published articles (65%), the first author remained the same as that of the abstract, whereas in 126 studies (35%), there was a change in the first author. In particular, in 67 cases, the gender of the first author remained the same, whereas in 59 cases, there was a sex mismatch (36 cases from female to male, 23 cases from male to female). Journals with >1% of the total publications are listed in table 2. These 19 journals together accounted for 71.4% of all published articles. The median IF of the journals in which the abstracts were published was 3.4 (range 0-10.7). In total, 71.9% of the published abstracts appeared in journals related to the field of Ophthalmology. Among these, the official journals of the ARVO Society had the highest number of published articles (76; 21.1% of the total).
Table 3 shows the number of abstracts grouped according to each main subsection along with the corresponding publication rate and the journal IF. There was no significant difference in the publication rate among the various main topics (χ2=18.487, p=0.071), whereas a statistically significant difference was found in the journal IF (p=0.003). In particular, the topic cell biology had the highest IF, whereas the topic contact lens had the lowest IF.
A univariate binary logistic regression analysis was conducted to ascertain the effect of the variables on the likelihood that the abstracts were published (Table 4). Results showed that basic science studies had a significantly higher publication rate than clinical studies. Similarly, prospective, controlled, and financially supported studies had a higher publication rate. In contrast, multicenter studies had a lower publication rate than single-center studies. A multivariate logistic regression revealed that studies were more likely to get published if they were financially supported (OR=1.482, p=0.005), had a control group (OR=1.511, p=0.016), and had a basic science research scope (OR=1.388, p=0.020). The entire model was significant (p<0.001) and explained 33% of the variance in the publication rate.
A Venn diagram analysis was performed to explore the effect of the financial support, the presence of a control group, and the basic research scope on the publication rate (Figure 2). The publication rate was 41.5% when at least one of the three parameters was present (i.e., the abstract was financially supported and had a basic research scope or a control group) and increased to 47.3% when all the three parameters were present.
The median time interval between abstract submission and article publication was 22 months (95% confidence interval: 20.0-24.1). Figure 3 shows the results of Kaplan-Meier analyses for the time course of the publication of abstracts based on the research scope (Part A), the presence of a control group (Part B), and the funding support (Part C). A log-rank test disclosed a statistically significant difference in the publication time distribution of basic science vs clinical abstracts (χ2=7.636, p=0.006), controlled vs uncontrolled abstracts (χ2=6.921, p=0.009), and funded vs not funded abstracts (χ2=13.892, p=0.001).
A univariate linear regression analysis performed to explore the association between abstract variables and journal IF (Table 5) revealed that studies with a higher number of authors and financial support were published in a journal with a higher IF, whereas multicenter studies were published in a lower IF journal. A multivariate stepwise linear regression demonstrated that the journal IF was higher in case of financially supported studies (β=0.163, p=0.002) and lower for multicenter studies (β=-0.170, p=0.001). The entire model was significant (p<0.001) and explained 6% of the variance in the IF.
Dissemination of the data obtained from a research project generally begins with the presentation of an abstract at a meeting and often culminates with the subsequent complete publication in a peer-reviewed journal. Previous studies analyzing the publication outcomes of meeting abstracts had identified different characteristics of the abstracts that were associated with higher publication rates(1-5). A recent investigation on the abstracts presented at the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) 2008 Annual Meeting reported a publication rate of 39.1% and demonstrated that the factors that correlated with a higher publication rate were oral presentations focused on certain types of subspecialty(7). Furthermore, a focus on rare diseases, affiliation with a US-based institute, and funding correlated with publication in journals with a higher IF.
In the present study, we analyzed the publication outcomes of approximately 1000 abstracts presented at the Cornea scientific section of the ARVO 2013 Annual Meeting. Because almost half of the randomized clinical trials presented at the ARVO 2001-2004 Annual Meetings have been shown to exhibit some degree of discordance compared with subsequent publications(8), we considered only full-text manuscripts with consistent hypotheses, designs, and results as true matches. We determined an overall publication rate of 38.3%, which was similar to that reported for the AAO 2008 Annual Meeting(7) but slightly lower than that reported from a Cochrane systematic review incorporating almost 30,000 abstracts from overall biomedical meetings(6).
More than two-thirds of the published articles were disseminated in journals related to the ophthalmic field, with the highest number being published in the official journals of the ARVO Society. The median IF of the overall journals in which the abstracts were published was 3.4. This value is slightly higher than the median IF reported for papers originated from AAO abstracts (2.9)(7). This result is even more significant considering that the number of ARVO abstracts presented in the Cornea section is similar to the total number of the overall AAO abstracts, irrespective of the topic. Although the IF is an indicator that suffers from some limitations, it is valued quite strongly with regard to the perceived quality of the journal(9). A relatively high IF of the published ARVO abstracts may depend on the fact that some articles were published in basic science journals with a very high IF, even when the majority of them were published in ophthalmological journals.
Previous studies investigating the relationship between the geographic distribution of abstracts and their likelihood of publication have reported contradictory conclusions(7,10,11). In our analysis, the first author in more than half of the abstracts was affiliated with an institution located in North America. However, there was no association between the nationality of the first author and the publication rate or the journal IF.
An evaluation of the potential predictors of publication may provide valuable information for scientists approaching toward the preparation and submission of abstracts. In the present study, the parameters of financial support, presence of a control group, and basic research scope were associated with a higher likelihood of the abstracts being published. In particular, the publication rate increased to 47.3% for the abstracts that were financially supported and had a control group and a basic research scope.
Financially supported abstracts were also published in journals with a higher IF than non-supported studies, which is consistent with the results reported by Mimouni et al.(7). This finding may be the result of the abundant resources provided to the researchers in case of funded studies. Moreover, the funding party may operate a filtering process, thereby granting financial support only to the studies considered as worth investigating. The financial sponsorship of clinical trials provided by pharmaceutical industries has increased significantly over the years(12). Despite an increasing focus on the transparency surrounding financial conflict of interest, the role of pharmaceutical industries in the production of scientific evidence still represents a relevant concern for several researchers. Previous studies have demonstrated that trials funded by pharmaceutical industries are more likely to be associated with statistically significant pro-industry findings(13-15). The possible explanations include publication bias and the selection of an inappropriate comparator to the product being investigated.
Abstracts that had a basic (as opposed to clinical) research scope were more likely to get published. This finding is consistent with the results of a previous systematic review that analyzed almost 15,000 abstracts submitted to dozens of meetings(16). The authors of that review hypothesized that basic and clinical research studies may differ in terms of both quality of conduction of the study and presentation of the results. However, the existence of a bias in favor of basic research cannot be excluded, as previous studies have emphasized the tendency of chairpersons and senior research advisors to perceive basic research activities of higher quality compared with clinical research activities(17).
In general, a rigorous method for scoring the quality of a research is to assign an appropriate level of evidence according to the study design. In the present study, abstracts that had a control group exhibited a higher publication rate than uncontrolled studies. This result was not surprising, because in the hierarchical system of classifying evidence, controlled studies are deemed to have higher quality than uncontrolled studies(18).
The data derived from this study might help young researchers when approaching toward the conception of a research project and later to the preparation and submission of an abstract. However, they should not forget that the ultimate aim of a biomedical research is not to generate publications anyhow but to add novel data that could be useful to improve the current understanding, diagnosis, and treatment of diseases.
The major limitation of this study is the lack of information concerning the reasons for unpublished abstracts. In fact, it would be interesting to analyze the number of abstracts that were not submitted for publication at all or those that did not survive the peer-review process. A previous study surveyed those authors whose abstracts were presented at an orthopedic meeting and never published as full publications. Only few authors had confirmed that their manuscripts were submitted and rejected, whereas more than one-third of them stated that they never submitted the abstract for full publication(19). The common barriers to publication were the lack of time and interest for full publication and the difficulties in collaboration among co-authors. Another limitation of this study is associated with the fact that the academic title of the first author of the abstracts was not available, which consequently hampered the inclusion of this additional parameter in the predictive analysis.
Almost 40% of the abstracts accepted in the scientific section of Cornea of the ARVO 2013 annual meeting were published in peer-reviewed journals within 5 years from submission at the congress. The parameters associated with a higher publication rate were funding support, basic research scope, and the presence of a control group.
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Submitted for publication:
December 13, 2020.
Accepted for publication: January 22, 2020.
Disclosure of potential conflicts of interest: None of the authors have any potential conflicts of interest to disclose.
Funding: This study received no specific financial support.


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Read-Aloud Books Read-Aloud Books. Target specific sounds with Read-Aloud Books that partner well with any phonics lesson that corresponds to a particular book's target sound. Read-Aloud Books also build critical phonemic awareness skills.
Find more than 50+ FREE read aloud books online and stories read aloud for kids of all ages at these amazing websites - perfect for reading on the go!. No matter what their age, kids LOVE to listen to stories - some of those most requeted are included on this list of 50+ Favorite Read Aloud Books for Kids. Ask any child and I'll bet they tell you that one of their favorite parts of their day.
Meet Read Along. Our new speech-based reading tutor app. Built with AI, it helps young readers learn the way they're used to - by reading out loud. One of the benefits of read along books is that your child doesn't have to work quite as hard to understand how to pronounce a new word or understand the meaning behind a story. Read alongs take off the pressure, so your child can just enjoy the written word. Later, after having heard the story read out loud, your child can go back, stop the audio, and try to read the words on his own.
The. Here’s a short one to learn, memorize or simply read along with. For those who don’t have the patience to sit and listen to a hour book on headphones, poetry is your friend. Baudelaire is a good poet for listening comprehension because he wrote in a comprehensible prose style that still adhered to rhyming forms. 2. Litterature audio. This is another free site that includes a lot of. 2. Some advised French books for beginners 1 / Le Petit Nicolas, by Rene Goscinny. A great classic to study French, quite old it’s but never the less not gone out of fashion.
It’s funny and sweet and will take you into a world of childhood. Nicolas is a little boy who loves school, especially during the school brakes. In the school, he meets yard his classmates Alceste, Geoffrey, Eudes.
Many translated example sentences containing "reading a read along" – French-English dictionary and search engine for French translations. Sometimes things are lost when literature is translated out of its original language. But bilingual books -- sometimes called dual-language books -- are a great way to enjoy literature when your language skills aren't quite good enough to enjoyably read the original.
The following are French books with English translations, classics that include the original French as well as the translations. Smashwords. If you want free books to read online that aren’t just fiction, this is the website for you. Smashwords is an easy-to-use eBook site with a variety of genres, including poetry.
Many translated example sentences containing "read along the line" – French-English dictionary and search engine for French translations. read along translation in English - French Reverso dictionary, see also 'read out',read up',read into',read over', examples, definition, conjugation. From the award winning MindChamps Educational Institute, comes a uniquely commissioned collection of Read- Along Books.
These are fun, engaging reading experiences which cater to various reading levels for children between the ages of Designed to engage the children’s senses, each book will have specialised features to increase your child’s love of reading.2,6/5(59). The znzd.prodecoring.ru Free French Audiobooks Downloads section features the Best Free French Audiobooks available to download online on MP3 audio.
We can read books on our mobile, tablets and Kindle, etc. Hence, there are many books coming into PDF format. Below are some websites for downloading free PDF books where you can acquire as much knowledge as you want. If you want to annotate or comment while reading on PC, you could click the download button below to read and add bookmarks to your PDF books.
French for Kids: 10 First Reader Books with Online Audio and Vocabulary Words (Beginning to Learn French) Set 1 by Language Together Germaine Choe. out of 5 stars Paperback. $ # My First French Word Book (French Edition) Mandy Stanley. out of 5 stars Paperback. $ # Un Deux Trois: First French Rhymes Opal Dunn. out of 5 stars Paperback. $. Funbrain offers a range of online books for all ages. We will help develop not only your kid's reading skills, but their love of learning as well.
Click here. 2. Les Aventures de Tintin. Difficulty: Beginner - Intermediate (source: znzd.prodecoring.rug) Plot:The series is set during a very realistic 20th century, and is about a young Belgian reporter who goes on great adventures to solve crimes and get stories with the help of his trusty four-legged companion, Snowy, the white fox terrier dog. Why read it? Like Asterix, Les Aventures de Tintin is a timeless.
Search the world's most comprehensive index of full-text books. My library. My first introduction to read along books was with those little packets that many libraries have with a picture book and an audio CD to go along with it. When Ella was about 2, these started to be lifesavers in the car.
Instead of complaining endlessly about being buckled in her carseat, she’d happily turn the pages as the CD read the book aloud to her.
If your library doesn’t have those. Others will be books that are a part of my collection. Regardless, I firmly believe that the best way to grow readers in my classroom is to read and read and read some more.
Read on for my first pick in this series! Read Aloud Wednesdays: Dans mon sac à dos. After a brief stint in Grade 2 French Immersion, I am heading back to Grade 1! My. I still love the feeling of a real book in my hands; paper, glue, stitching, and all. But there is a website that sparked my interest in digital books. Digital Read-Alouds. A few months ago, I was introduced to One More Story, an online library of children's literature.
Without over-the-top animation or lots of bells and whistles, One More. Science Books Online lists free science e-books, textbooks, lecture notes, monographs, and other science related documents. All texts are available for free reading online, or for downloading in various formats. Select your favorite category from the menu on the top left corner of the screen or see all the categories below. A Read Along book and CD» Im Forum nach read along suchen» Im Forum nach read along fragen: Recent Searches.
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Curious George Feeds the Animals Book & CD (Read Along Book & CD) Part of: Curious George ( Books) out of 5 stars Paperback $ $ Get it as soon as Tue, Dec FREE Shipping on orders over $25 shipped by Amazon.
More Buying Choices $ (35 used & new offers) Other formats: Kindle, Library Binding Disney Princess Magical Tales Read-Along Storybook and CD. to read along definition in English dictionary, to read along meaning, synonyms, see also 'read',read in',read out',read up'.
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NEW YORK — Olympic gold medalist and civil rights activist Tommie Smith is working on a graphic novel based on his life.
Norton Young Readers announced Tuesday that “Victory. To stay! Raising My Fist for Justice” will be released on September 27. Smith is writing the book with Derrick Barnes, and illustrations will be provided by Dawud Anyabwile.
Smith, 77, won a gold medal after placing first in the 200 meter sprint at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City. He is best remembered for what happened next, when he and bronze medalist John Carlos raised their gloved fists in protest against racial injustice at the medal ceremony as the US national anthem was played. play. Both athletes were suspended from the US team and forced to leave the Olympic Village.
“Young readers will find a story of bravery, activism and a cry for freedom from one of the most iconic figures in American sports,” Norton says of the upcoming book.
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Roanoker who fled China tells his storySometimes you befriend people, seemingly ordinary people who turn out to have extraordinary stories. Such is the case with Nancy Chang from Roanoke, according to Dr. Hayden Hollingsworth and Dr. Bert Spetzler, who helped Chang record her story in “My Extraordinary Journey,” now available on Amazon Kindle.
“This short memoir is the story of Wing Si, now Nancy Chang,” Spetzler wrote in a recent email to the Roanoke Times. “This is the heartbreaking story of a family initially torn apart during the communist takeover of China and how, through the power of will, determination and faith, they found a new beginning in America. “
In the book, Chang talks about the changes she and her family went through after the communist takeover, including the disappearance of family members, and her “re-education” on a farm where she cleaned stalls at bare hands.
Her parents and two siblings fled to Hong Kong, leaving her at age 16 to care for her five younger siblings. The youngest was 2 years old.
“Through her courage and determination, she was able to keep the siblings healthy and together and reach Hong Kong four years later,” Spetzler wrote. “Many twists and turns later, she then recounts her life and her new beginning in America.”
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Come have a look! Our Lady of Grace Parent Council has purchased a number of excellent parenting resources. They are on display in the school office. These books can be borrowed by parents through the school library automation system. Some of the titles include Raising Confident Girls, Keys to Parenting Your Anxious Child, Boys of Few Words ... Continue reading "Books for Parents"
School Boards across Ontario are demonstrating their commitment to Truth and Reconciliation by providing Land Acknowledgements that honour Indigenous Peoples and traditional lands. At the York Catholic District School Board (YCDSB), we echo the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB) and the Assembly of Catholic Bishops of Ontario (ACBO) in their response to the Calls to Action through the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
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Coach Ayisha discusses how to be optimistic in order to obtain success in life in Coach Talk (TM) Ep 6.
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For as long as I can remember, I've been a reader, and aspired to be a writer.
As a young child, I read simple books with my mum, and at a very young age, began to read for myself. I started out with Mr Men and Garfield picture books, but quickly moved onto Enid Blyton, avidly reading every chapter, loving the fact that I could get lost in these worlds and get to know these amazing characters.
I read everything I could get my hands on, and was on first name terms with the local librarians, always in there, getting new books to race home and pore over.
As I got older, I moved on to more teenage fiction - Sweet Valley High, Point Horror, that sort of thing.
I wrote constantly - journals, poems, short stories. I never ran out of inspiration, and was delighted that when I asked my English teacher if he believed I could be a writer, he replied "Absolutely, and I fully expect you to dedicate your first book to me".
Into my adult years, I loved chick lit, but also enjoyed non-fiction, especially self improvement books and books about philosophy, psychology and religion. There was always something new to learn, and I was never happier than when I was browsing the shelves of a bookshop.
In fact, books and music were pretty much all I spent my money on...as I've said before, clothes and make-up really weren't my "thing", if I ever had a few spare quid, you could find me happily wandering in a music store or bookshop. There's something magical about old bookshops, isn't there? You just don't know what treasures you might find.
Anyway, fast forward to now. How many books have I read in the past three years? Um....none. Well, maybe one, but I re-read that, having read it years before, so it doesn't count.
What's happened to me? Well, it's a combination, I guess. For one thing, I'm always so busy during the day with the house and the kids, by night time, I don't really have the energy to concentrate on anything too lengthy or involved.
For another thing, the internet happened. Now, I love the internet, don't get me wrong, but it has completely killed my attention span.
You know the story, you wake up, you check your phone. You make a cup of tea, check your phone. Feed the kids, check your phone. Have a shower, check your phone. Go out, check your phone. Come home, check your phone. Hell, I can't even make it through a half hour TV programme without checking my sodding phone!
I know I'm not alone, but I think technology moves so fast and is so immediate, it's ruined a lot of people's ability to concentrate on anything for any length of time.
Nowadays, I read the odd blog post, Facebook post, web news article (which I've probably seen on Facebook), and that's fine. I have time for that. I can concentrate on these things, because they're only a few hundred words long and then I can go about my business again.
Reading books is much harder, because I struggle to find time to read more than a chapter at a time, then it might be a few days before I can read another chapter, by which time I've lost the plot and forgotten stuff, and eventually it becomes so long between chapters that I lose interest entirely and yet another book is consigned to the "I never did get round to that" pile.
Time to change all that. I mean, how hard can it be? I miss reading, I miss getting so excited about the next chapter that I race through all my jobs just so I can get back to my book. Time to set myself an internet curfew, set aside some real, uninterrupted (except maybe by kids) time and just read an actual paper book.
After all, just as I believe you can't be a truly great cook unless you love eating and appreciate good food, you can't be a truly great writer unless you love reading and can appreciate good prose.
I've borrowed a copy of "The Burgess Boys" by Elizabeth Strout to get me back in the habit. My friend (who happens to be the librarian!) raved about it and said it lit the touchpaper to get her out of the same bad habits that I'm in, and reignited her love of reading. I really hope it does the same for me!
Do you read? Do you wish you read more often? And most importantly, can you recommend me any good books? I'd love to hear from you!


PH Blog Tour Sign-Up: Forest of a Thousand Lanterns by Julie C. Dao
October 5, 2017
Title: Forest of a Thousand Lanterns (Rise of the Empress #1)
Author: Julie C. Dao
Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy, Retelling
Release Date: October 10th, 2017
Publisher: Philomel Books
An East Asian fantasy reimagining of The Evil Queen legend about one peasant girl’s quest to become Empress–and the darkness she must unleash to achieve her destiny.
Eighteen-year-old Xifeng is beautiful. The stars say she is destined for greatness, that she is meant to be Empress of Feng Lu. But only if she embraces the darkness within her. Growing up as a peasant in a forgotten village on the edge of the map, Xifeng longs to fulfill the destiny promised to her by her cruel aunt, the witch Guma, who has read the cards and seen glimmers of Xifeng’s majestic future. But is the price of the throne too high?
Because in order to achieve greatness, she must spurn the young man who loves her and exploit the callous magic that runs through her veins–sorcery fueled by eating the hearts of the recently killed. For the god who has sent her on this journey will not be satisfied until his power is absolute.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Julie C. Dao is a proud Vietnamese-American who was born in upstate New York. She studied medicine in college, but came to realize blood and needles were her Kryptonite. By day, she worked in science news and research; by night, she wrote books about heroines unafraid to fight for their dreams, which inspired her to follow her passion of becoming a published author. Forest of a Thousand Lanterns is her debut novel.
Julie lives in New England. Follow her on Twitter @jules_writes. Julie is represented by Tamar Rydzinski of the Laura Dail Literary Agency.
THE BLOG TOUR
I would like to thank Penguin Random House International for agreeing to partner with me for this 5-day PH blog tour.
This is a PH blog tour for Forest of Thousand Lanterns, a debut YA novel by author, Julie C. Dao. This novel is the first book for the Rise of The Empress series. This is a review blog tour, with the option of adding other contents such as fan arts, playlist, quotation graphics, etc, to go with your blog tour post.
The tour will run from October 27th to October 31st, 2017 with one to two blog stops each day. Netgalley widgets will be sent to participating bloggers, and physical copies will be passed along throughout the weeks before the blog tour. You must agree to pass the book within the allotted days you are given, shoulder shipping expenses for the next blogger in line, and to include the giveaway rafflecopter on your post.
NOTE: This is open to Philippine-residents book bloggers ONLY. There will only be 9 spots for this tour, so there’s no guarantee that you’ll have a spot if there will be more than 9 sign-ups. This will be on a first come first serve.
For interested bloggers,
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We recently had the opportunity to look through a drawer of ”memories” during a recent visit with Ruth’s uncle. One of the treasures was a spiral notebook written by Ruth’s great grandmother, Mabel Louise Hervey (1863-1960), wife of George Rogers Wales and mother of Susan Hervey Wales Rollason.
The 30 plus pages of the spiral ring notebook start at her birth as Adelaide Francis Gifford, her adoptive family, Abraham and Elizabeth Boynton Hervey, her courtship and marriage to George and the birth of her children. She remembers being stranded in a snow storm on the train ride home from the Centennial celebration in Philadelphia in 1876, and much more. Follow this link to read the Biographical Notes of Nana.


I'm not entirely sure how this all happened.
Playing Beyond the Notes: A Pianist Guide to Musical Interpretation (Oxford University Press, 2013)
Playing Beyond the Notes demystifies the complex concepts of musical interpretation in Western tonal piano music by boiling it down to basic principles in an accessible writing style. Author and veteran piano instructor Deborah Rambo Sinn tackles a different interpretive principle, explaining clearly, for example, how to play effective ornaments and rubatos. As a whole, the book helps pianists understand concrete ways to apply interpretive concepts to their own playing and gives teachers practical ways to teach interpretation to their students. The book is illustrated with over 200 repertoire excerpts and supplemented by a companion website with over 100 audio recordings. Playing Beyond the Notes is essential reading for all performing pianists, independent piano teachers, and piano pedagogy students. Since its publication in 2013, universities across the US have adopted Playing Beyond the Notes as a textbook for their piano pedagogy courses, including Penn State University, Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, and Oklahoma University. hi def book cover
"I find the book by Deborah Rambo Sinn a most valuable addition to the library of a performer, teacher, and music lover. It is in my opinion a must for any music shelf." --Menahem Pressler, Distinguished Professor of Music, Indiana University, pianist of Beaux-Arts Trio, and soloist
"Deborah has written an amazingly thorough compendium of the pianist's interpretive dilemmas. With precision, insight, and a strong dash of unique humor, she has addressed complex issues in a highly understandable way - providing an excellent resource for performers, teachers, and students!" --Timothy Shafer, Professor of Piano, Penn State University
"A useful and intelligently written book and seems to represent years of accumulated teaching wisdom. Sinn is tireless in the pursuit of solving passages unto the last sixteenth note, and often refreshingly precise in her explanations...Will allow teachers and students to think analytically about common interpretive situations at the piano." --College Music Symposium
"A perfect resource book (aka tool) for the studio teacher or for teen and adult students. It is written clearly, without either pretension or condescension and with detail but not great length...You can find a specific piece of advice or answer to a question, or, you can immerse yourself and read the entire book from cover to cover. Since it is intended as a textbook, it is perfect for studio group lessons as well...This book is a keeper!" --PianoAddict.com
Pocket Piano Proficiency: A revolutionary way to learn the skills you need
Finally, a piano skills book that you don't have to lug around! This 260+ page book fits on your phone or tablet and can be opened in any PDF reader, like Adobe Acrobat or forScore.
Pocket Piano Proficiency: a revolutionary way to learn the skills you need offers basic piano skills in a new way. Author and veteran piano instructor Deborah Rambo Sinn wanted to find a solution for getting students to learn these solidly and efficiently–along with finding a way to combine this with developing excellent aural skills. Ultimately, she sought a way to quickly make these skills relevant to understanding larger concepts of music theory.
Traditionally, it takes a long time of learning individual skills before a student can grasp how they all work together. Pocket Piano Proficiency flips this model, introducing tasks in chunks of like material. The circle of fifths appears from the first pages, demonstrating connections between keys from the start. The book’s pedagogical organization moves students from the easiest to more complex skills, allowing them to scaffold successfully from one chapter to the next.
The eBook format allows for a new way of learning these skills that a black and white printed book does not afford. Each page contains several layers of helpful material that can be accessed by zooming in and out. Because only one level of information can be accessed at a time, students need to assimilate information from around the page to successfully complete each task (see video.) Additionally, the use of color cues for tasks further organizes each chapter. As an example, red is used for the simplest keys or most common concepts.
Additionally, the use of color cues for tasks further organizes each chapter. As an example, red is used for the simplest keys or most common concepts.


Ray Bradbury, who’s always rejected ebooks, is finally giving in and allowing the digital release of his classic Fahrenheit 451 :
At age 91, Ray Bradbury is making peace with the future he helped predict.
The science fiction/fantasy author and long-time enemy of the e-book has finally allowed his dystopian classic ‘Fahrenheit 451’ to be published in digital format.
First published in 1953, ‘Fahrenheit 451’ has sold more than 10 million copies and has been translated into 33 languages.
It imagined a world in which the appetite for new and faster media leads to a decline in reading, and books are banned and burned.
Author J. K. Rowling was also against releasing her Harry Potter series as ebooks, but has since relented, though the release date has been delayed.
As a big ebook fan, I’m glad to see more authors jump on the bandwagon, albeit a bit reluctantly. I don’t believe ebooks mean the death of reading at all. For me, it’s made life easier, in that I can now carry with me a large selection of books on my ereader. The portability aspect, as well as the space savings — I was getting crowded out of my house — make ebooks my format of choice for reading.


Learn How to Make your Own Beautiful Handcrafted Jewelry
Every Jewelry Design Project on the Website, Now with Step-by-Step, Printable Instructions!
You're about to learn how easy it is to make your own beautiful handcrafted jewelry for fun...or profit!
For the first time, the entire set of jewelry design projects, including Bracelet, Necklace and Earring designs from www.making-jewelry.com is now available in one convenient eBook that you can download instantly! You can easily print this comprehensive Jewelry Designs book on your home printer and have it as a handy reference guide when you are making your own jewelry. Print one project sheet--or print them all!
Jewelry making has become an enormously popular hobby, and it's no wonder--with just a few simple techniques you can begin to craft your own gorgeous jewelry to wear, give as gifts, or even sell your handcrafted jewelry for profit. There are so many wonderful beads, tools, and components available, that nearly anyone can make jewelry with a little know-how. And if you're looking for new design ideas along with easy step-by-step instructions, this book is for you! Plus, all of the jewelry designs can be easily modified with your own beads, colors, and findings, so use the designs as inspiration to spark your very own fresh jewelry design.
"Jewelry Designs - Easy Designs and Instructions for Making Your Own Handcrafted Jewelry" details everything you need to know to get started making your own beaded jewelry. Now available in an instantly downloadable book!
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TOMS RIVER – The Toms River Branch of the Ocean County Library will host the “3rd Annual Ocean County Library Autism Resources Fair” from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, Apr. 7. This will be the largest Fair to date with more than 40 agencies expected to attend.
The Fair will provide a forum in which families affected by autism can access the resources of state, county, and local organizations. Participating groups will include medical professionals, therapists, advocates, schools, and other agencies.
The Fair will include the following programs:
- A keynote address, “Guardianship and Special Needs Planning,” by Christine Matus, Esq. of the Matus Law Group.
- “ABA Therapy: An Overview,” by Cyndee Policastro-Smith, BCBA, of the Family Resource Network.
- “Employment Opportunities for People with Autism,” by Tara Cunningham, CEO, Specialisterne USA and Jessica Vail, Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor I, New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development
- “Service Dog Law,” by Louise and Kim Bratnik of Canine Companions for Independence
- Balloon Art by Cheryl Schwendel
- An appearance by the Vader’s 501st Legion “Star Wars” Costumed Characters
The main entertainer will be Kevin Spencer, Educator and Artist, who will present his magic show “Hocus Pocus,” a sensory-friendly, relaxed family performance. This show is sponsored in part by Ocean County College and the Ocean County Library Foundation.
There will also be therapy dogs, sensory storytimes, and drop-in arts and crafts. Light refreshments will also be provided.
The event is sponsored by the Ocean County Library Foundation and by Christine Matus, Esq., of the Matus Law Group.
Registration is not required for this free event. However, in-person registration will be required for the sensory storytimes. For more information, call the branch at 732-349-6200 or visit theoceancountylibrary.org/events


Gordon & Li Li: Learn Animals in Mandarin for iOS and Android
Gordon & Li Li love animals – especially sharks, killer whales, polar bears and hippos! The Gordon & Li Li mobile app makes learning Chinese interactive and fun for kids of all ages. With their smartphone or tablet in hand and a zoo full of adorable animated critters, kids have Mandarin at their fingertips. Gordon & Li Li: Learn Animals in Mandarin brings the joy of Michele Wong McSween’s acclaimed Mandarin/English bilingual board book series to kids’ favorite gadgets.
Each slide features one animal with original animation by artist Nam Doan – along with the animal’s name written in English and pinyin, and the Chinese character. Younger readers can easily swipe through each page and hear the words spoken in English and Mandarin. Older readers can take their learning a step further by learning how to write the Chinese character with a special tracing feature. Tracing allows kids to use their fingertips to write and master Chinese characters in an intuitive and natural way. The app is designed to engage kids as they grow.


Week 32 #52ancestors in 52 weeks
Rose Elania Tilbrook COOPER was the youngest daughter of Charles COOPER and Ann WHALEN. Rose was born on the 2nd May 1880 at Robe in South Australia and was the youngest of 9 children. The family lived around the Robe, Kingston Wangolina area. While Rose was the youngest she certainly had the longest name. No-one is sure where the Rose actually comes from and it could be from her mothers side of the family of whom very little is known. The Elania comes from her mothers middle name. Her mother Ann didn’t use Elania when she married, but it was used in her obituary later in life. TILBROOK was the maiden name of Rose’s grandmother. Charles had come to Australia with his parents in the late 1850’s after being born in Helions Bumpstead. Ann was an Irish immigrant girl and we think WHALEN is the correct spelling ass that is how Walter WHALEN COOPER is spelt. Walter was the only child to die as a youngster.
Rose’s father Charles was a shearer as were many of her brothers. They had made a name for themselves and worked around the district as shearers. While Rose was the youngest child as well as daughter, all bar one of her siblings survived to adulthood. This would have been very unusual in this day and age where deaths from childhood diseases was much more common.
In 1909 Rose married Herbert NOSWORTHY at her parents residence at Wangolina. After her honeymoon at Mount Gambier they made their home firstly at Mount Benson. See their story at Independence Week 27. https://loadesofbranches.wordpress.com/2018/07/17/independence-week-27. Like many women of her time Rose was busy running a household, managing the homestead along with bringing up a family of 6 children. Rose passed away in August 1960 and is buried at the cemetery at Lucindale, South Australia.
 Featured Image – Robe Hotel prior to building of the sea-wall. Sand dunes extended right to the roadway. The sandy beach below the dunes disappeared when the seawall was built in 1874. The photograph shows the Robe Hotel on the corner and various other buildings leading up to the Customs House which was built in 1863 to cater for the Chinese passing through the port trying to avoid paying the Arrival Tax. The sand has all but covered the road in front of the buildings where a horse drawn carriage can be seen.This image has no known copyright restrictions. Please refer to the State Library’s Conditions of use. Robe B7777 photos, State Library SA
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The su*icide of Katelyn Nicole Davis is truly a dep*ressing and p*athetic story. The tr*agic end of the 12-year-old girl, who apparently could not find meaning in life, is still considered one of the most te*rrible d*eaths of our time.
Iss*ues related to sui*cide and social media have attracted so much attention around the world lately, with Katelyn’s su*icide being considered one of the most insane but very touching d*eaths captured on camera.
As many have pointed out, the de*ath of Katelyn Nicole Davis has really drawn the necessary attention to sui*cide prevention, online bu*llying, child ab*use, poverty, offline b*ullying, and child neglect.
There is so much to know and learn from the sui*cide story of a beautiful American teenager. Just read on to find her and other lesser-known facts.
Brief Bio of Katelyn Nicole Davis
Until her t*ragic de*ath on 30 December 2016, Katelyn Nicole Davis was a 12-year-old girl born on 20 February 2004 in Rome, Georgia, in the United States of America. Tammy Michelle Rogers and Matthew Reed Davis are her parents. She is an American of American nationality and of Caucasian ethnicity.
She grew up without her father present. According to the teenager, her father refused to pay child support but would spend hours playing video games. Her mother is married to Anthony Lee Rogers, with whom she has two young stepbrothers, Abigail Lee Rogers and A.J. Lee Rogers, as she stated in one of her videos.
Katelyn Nicole Davis attended Cedartown Middle School but did not continue her education because her mother could not afford to support her. Her only chance of attending college came after she joined the National Leaders Association for Young Leaders, which promised to pay for her education, but her stepfather allegedly told her she was “too stupid to get involved in something like this” and eventually burned the papers in her face.
The Su*icide of Katelyn Nicole Davis
The incident occurred on December 30, 2016, in the evening hours, when the twelve-year-old filmed herself walking from her room to the courtyard of her family’s home.
The entire video, which is 42 minutes long, shows the teenage girl preparing a noose, hanging it from a tree, and then taking her own life by briefly strangling herself. The su*icide was streamed live on Live.me, a popular app for teenagers, and posted under her user name “ITZ Dolly”.
Davis, clearly demoralized by fear and stress, could be heard in the video crying and pleading for forgiveness for the act she was about to commit. She then admitted to being physically and sexually abused by a family member named Anthony Lee Rogers Sr.
Her lifeless body was captured by the camera for about 20 minutes after she hanged herself. The live stream was abruptly cut off by repeated phone calls, and by the time the neighbors realized what had happened, it was too late to save her life. She was later taken to Polk Medical Center, but she died after only a short time.
Katelyn’s last video was not the first disturbing video to appear on her timeline. Previously, in the last month of her young life, she had broadcast live dozens of dis*turbing videos, so many of which captured her other su*icide attempts.
Her last sui*cide attempt before her actual dea*th was due to a drug overdose, but she was resuscitated in the hospital. Just days before her de*ath, she was caught on camera cutting her thigh, lap, and wrist – she screamed out loud because she was depressed and tired of life.


The Little Girl And Her Books
The Little Girl And Her Books2 mins 395 2 mins 395
A little girl locked herself in a library for two years and emerged armed with prodigal wisdom, an enviable cocktail of memorable moments with her worldwide acquaintances and an unmatched fire and determination resonating in every cell of her body to thwart the society's constant attempts to exploit her weaknesses from the day she set foot on this alien land.
As the smell of burning flesh emanating from the graveyard across the street launched an assault on her olfactory senses, she reminisced nostalgically her adventures over the course of the two unbelievably fast-paced years.
Beginning with her induction into the Famous Five which led to them being rechristened as the Successful Six, her days in the Swiss Alps with her closest acquaintance Heidi, her petty squabbles with The Book Thief on book choices which was followed by her lucky run-ins with Mr. Willy Wonka who introduce her to the kind Charlie and the Oompa-Loompas, the cute and beautiful Alice, the surrealistic Wizard of Oz and the charming Old Man of the Sea who accompanied her to meet her friend Juliet in far away Verona only to hear of her tragic sacrifice for the sake of love. She then went on to meet the famous Watson-Holmes combo who had by now retired, her Muggle friend Hermione Granger, the mysterious Mowgli and the interesting and intriguing Robert Langdon and Hercule Poirot who saved her from Count Dracula.
It was then that the revelation that she was now a bibliobibulic YOUNG WOMAN hit her and she was wrested away from those memories which in turn made her realise that she had an imminent meeting with her friends Annabeth Chase, Percy Jackson, and Artemis Fowl to attend at Camp Half-Blood. She then proceeded to walk down the pavement.


The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg should be on every prisoner’s books-to-read wish list.
Forming good habits, changing old habits, reducing bad habits – are all much easier when you understand how habits are formed in our brain stem’s ancient ‘lizard brain’ area beyond conscious awareness.
Habits are not formed or changed the way most people believe. You will be fascinated by this useful book.
— Prisoner in Sing Sing Correctional Facility, Ossining, NY
Note: When sending books to prisoners, it is usually required that books be sent directly from the publisher or bookseller. Please check the rules for the specific facility, which can usually be found on the website. (If you don’t see mail rules on the site, look in the family handbook, also usually available to view and/or download on the facility website.)


Through the idea of religion, the West continuously speaks of itself to itself, even when it speaks of others. For when it does so, it is implicitly in relation to the perfected model that it thinks itself to be. This is narcissistic objectification.
The paper should be of interest to anyone who is participating in the emergent 'Western Buddhism', especially those who are curious about how ongoing (and in my opinion, circuitous and misdirected) debates on whether 'Buddhism' is properly a religion or philosophy, or whether 'Western Buddhism' should totally discard the 'cultural accretion' of traditional Asian Buddhism to become fully secularised, have come about. For readers in academia, and particularly the field of Buddhist Studies (or Religion Studies more generally), the paper represents my attempt to explore the proposals by John Makransky about the need to develop what he calls Buddhist critical-constructive reflection, a mode of discourse that brings together the sacred and scholarly pursuits of the Buddhist scholar-practitioner (and which does not subordinate the truth claims of Buddhism under the will to knowledge-power of the academy) to explore new interfaces between Buddhism, academia, and society. My argument is that the aims of Buddhist critical-constructive reflection invites autoethnographic approaches to writing and analysis.


A.S.P.E.N. and NAIT Publish White Paper on Disease Related Malnutrition and Enteral Nutrition
The National Alliance for Infusion Therapy (NAIT) and the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (A.S.P.E.N.) Public Policy Committee and Board of Directors have developed a white paper titled: Disease-Related Malnutrition and Enteral Nutrition Therapy: A Significant Problem with a Cost-Effective Solution. This paper should be used to provide legislators, regulators, and other stakeholders with a basic understanding of disease-related malnutrition and its impact on outcomes, as well as an overview of enteral nutrition therapy and its particular impact on outcomes and cost. This work is not a comprehensive review of the literature but rather a basic overview of this important area.


|The most amazing bookcase I've ever seen. Ever. Found here.|
Last week I posted the bookcase in our baby's nursery. I love that it is a front facing case, so the colorful covers of all the books are easily visualized...my favorite way to display children's books. This design makes them SO EASY to browse! These kiddo friendly book displays are visually stunning to my eye....as children's books tend to be beautiful with their whimsical and colorful book cover designs.
These are some of the bookcases I've seen around the web that make me weak in the knees. Umm..yes...for some reason bookcases do tend to make me all sappy and weak in the knees.
|Nifty color coding...but I like the utilization of this corner space...found here.|
|Found here....this article is where I got the term, "library wall." I like that.|
|Not a built in...but a rad lil option. Don't remember where I picked this lil image up.|


HAMTRAMCK, Mich. – That statement, written in a letter to her parents by a young Polish immigrant woman in Chicago in 1891, summarizes the essence of the immigration experience for women. Dr. Thaddeus Radzilowski, who has written on the history of Polish immigrant women, will lecture on this topic on April 27, 2017 at the Warren Civic Center Library (1 City Square, Warren, MI 48093) at 6 p.m.
The immigration experience of women paralleled, in many ways, that of their male counterparts. Yet it was distinctive in many of the challenges and opportunities it offered. Women immigrated as part of family groups, as mothers with children reuniting with husbands, joining fiancés, and as single immigrants seeking adventure and wider opportunities in the New World. America transformed them. It changed their outlook and allowed them to accomplish things that would have been impossible in the villages they left behind. They crossed the oceans alone, found employment in distant cities, chose their own marriage partners, and built homes, families, and communities without the support of female relatives. They, in turn, also transformed America. They built a new society and a new culture in urban neighborhoods in smoky industrial cities, and on remote farmsteads on the American prairies. They created a myriad of organizations, clubs, and circles, as well as neighborhood networks to replace the support systems of village and family they left behind.
The lecture will be followed by questions and discussion. The discussion will open opportunities to explore the individual and family stories of audience. It is sponsored by the Piast Institute and funded in part by a grant from the Michigan Humanities Council.
For more information, please contact Ashley Fallon at firstname.lastname@example.org or call the Piast Institute at (313) 733-4535.


what is the use of getmain and freemain in cics?
Sat, 11/26/2011 - 07:07
what is Getmain AND Freemain"; ; ; ;
Wed, 01/04/2012 - 19:07#1
getmain and freemain
These are used to obtain additonal memory for the program's use (getmain) and return it to the system when it is no longer needed (freemain). Many cics coders never issure either.


Chapter 28 of the book of the Acts of the Apostles sees the shipwrecked prisoners and their guards safely brought to the Island of Malta.
The local people gathered together to support and greet the newcomers. They watched Paul shake a viper off his arm and into the fire. Then, when he suffered no harm they thought he was a god. The ship’s passengers were entertained for three days by Publius, the island’s leader. Paul, healed Publius’s father and may other sick people. We read in Acts 28:10 that the Maltese honoured them when they left and ensured that they had what they needed.
Acts 28:11 tells us that they had been on Malta for three months. We noticed Luke, the writer of Acts, had joined them. From Acts 28:11 the narrative is written in the first person. They sailed to Puteoli then went on to Rome meeting brethren on the way. These “brethren” would have been fellow Christians, baptised into Jesus’ name and so becoming sons of God and Brothers of Christ.
Acts 28:16 tells us that once in Rome, Paul was under house arrest.
Acts 28:17-20 describes Paul’s discussions with fellow Jews. He explained why he came to Rome. They reassured him that they’d had no correspondence from Judea and were interested to hear what Paul had to say.
Acts 28:23-27 we read once again what Paul said to all the Jews he met. He refers to the Prophets and the Law of Moses. Showing that Jesus was the promised Messiah.
Acts 28:28 Therefore let it be known to you that the salvation of God has been sent to the gentiles and they will hear it.
The final three verses conclude the book of Acts. The Twelve apostles and the people they taught formed a community of believers in Jesus, the promised Messiah. Many of them suffered for his sake. The community grew in number and the gospel spread through the middle east. Salvation through Jesus, the son of God was preached to the Jews first then to anyone who believed and was baptised into his name.


“Woman is a living symbol of the strangeness of the universe and its radical heterogeneity. As such, does she hide life within herself, or death? What does she think? Or does she think? Does she truly have feelings? Is she the same as we are? Sadism begins as a revenge against feminine hermeticism or as a desperate attempt to obtain a response from a body we fear is insensible.” Octavio Paz–Labyrinths of Solitude.
Paz’s definition of an unabashedly macho notion of an hermetic Mexican identity makes the thought of Adela Breton arriving side-saddle on a mule, shrouded in black, startling. It also does much to explain the yoking together of images and the surrealist nature of the four painters discussed by Dawn Ades in her talk “Labyrinths of Solitude”. We saw how, while retaining many distinctly Mexican characteristics: atachment to landscape, preoccupation with identity and a love of fiesta-bright colours, Frida Kahle, Maria Izquierdo and the Surrealists Remedies Varo and Leonora Carrington sought to define their identity both as women and as artists in relation to that macho culture.
Fresh from the spas of Bath, Adela Breton (1849-1923) travelled frequently to Mexico between 1894 and 1907 to record Mayan wall frescoes and statues. Inheriting her father’s interest in archaeology, as well as his “inherent propensity to wander”, Adela Breton returned to Mexico thirteen times, despite physical hardships and nagging arthritis, spurred on by a passion for Mayan colour.
Travel, self-image and cultural identity were the themes for a day of events entitled “Women and Mexico” to celebrate International Women’s Fortnight at Bristol Museum. An exhibition of over sixty local artists, entitled “Women For Art” accompanied “The Art of Ruins: Adela Breton and the Temples of Mexico”. The Bristol-based Mexican performer Heo Legorreta singing “La Bamba” and other Mexican folk-songs brought to life Adela Breton’s sketches of Mexico and the reconstructed Doorway of the Upper Temple of the Jaguars which formed her stage. She sent sound sailing through the ruins where once only the grass sang. Later, her swirling Mexican dancing electrified the usually still museum hung with skeletons of dinosaurs.
“Purposeful Lives: Victorian and Edwardian Women who Broke the Mould”, a talk by Dr June Hannam of Bristol Polytechnic, discussed the context of Adela Breton’s achievements by focussing on the involvement of Bristol women in the affairs of the day.
“Our Nature lies in movement; complete calm is death” wrote Pascal. The movement of women since ancient times, as nomads, as slaves, as explorers and the movement of the infant both within the womb and rocked in its mother’s arms, to some extent explains the motivation of women travellers past and present. In her talk “Women on the Move” Myfanwy Vickers considered travellers like Jean Battan who, disguised as a man, circumnavigated the world; James Miranda Stewart Barry, who spent forty years in the British Army disguised as a male doctor so that she could travel; Mary Kingsley, travelling to the West Coast of Africa and basking in the “ecstasy of travel”; and Lady Anne Blunt who defied delightfully shockable Victorian society by travelling through Arabia in tweeds and keffiyeh.
Travel as a form of defiance and of freedom, a means both of defying patriarchal expectations and of realising personal and professional goals, is celebrated in the determination of all such women. It was, however, suggested from the floor that such individual achievements had no place in a feminist continuum. What does solo travel by women of independent means do for the feminist cause? she quibbled. The answer is women are individuals whose identity must be personal before it can be public.
It was only after the deaths of her invalided parents that Adela Breton was free to travel, visiting Central and South America, Egypt, Australia, Japan and Fiji between 1900 and her death in 1923. In 1894 she went to Mexico. A trained watercolourist, accomplished photographer and amateur archaeologist, she then contacted Alfred P. Maudsley, a noted British archaeologist and Mayan specialist. Maudsley recommended that she travel to the Mayan city of Chichen Itza, c. AD800 to 1100, in the Yucatan peninsula, to verify the accuracy of some of his drawings. This was the beginning of years spent meticulously recording buildings, architectural and free-standing monumental sculpture, mural paintings and other smaller objects.
At Chichen Itza Adela made casts of the sculpture and copied the paintings of its Great Ballcourt, the largest ballcourt in Meso-America. Her life-size copies, and quarter size details, of the frescoes of the Temple of the Jaguars are remarkable for their accuracy. She loved the Pre-Columbian blues and reds and pastel greens, her imagination delighted by its polychrone stone and stucco sculpture. “These people saw in colour and light and shade”, she revelled. Nevertheless, what she couldn’t actually see, she wouldn’t paint, remarking: “… in attempting a reproduction of this kind there must be a tight rein on the imagination, for when the eye has become somewhat accustomed to the style, it is easy to imagine details …”
The murals of the Upper Temple of the Jaguars which Adela copied represent the most complete and graphic depiction of Mayan warfare and its aftermath since the late Classic murals at Bonampak, Chiapas. Her records are thus central to an ongoing debate over the origins and foreign influences of the vanishing art of these ancient cities now eroded by weather and acid rain. Similarly, her copies of the murals in the Temple of Agriculture in structure known as Teopancaxco in Teotihuacan, near Mexico City, now deteriorated, are the most comprehensive ever to have been made.
The watercolour sketches of Mexican ruins and landscapes have a luminous quality. They preserve the tranquility of what were then isolated and unfrequented sites, bright greens and mustard yellows offsetting the structures which even in the sketches Adela Breton records in detail. She paints with a photographic eye, sometimes framing ruins or panoramas with ancient archways or monuments, sometimes including passers by for perspective.
Her watercolour sketch of the ruined courtyard of the Palace of the Columns at Mitla is enchanting. Pablo Solorio, her devoted Indian manservant, sits amongst the remains. The desolation of the arid landscape gives one a sense of the immensity of Adela Breton’s task, the solitariness and the bleaching heat.
Adela was fully accepted by everybody, with the exception of Edward Thompson, United States Consul to the Yucatan, who was irritated by her female presence and her quiet persistence. She travelled by train or horseback, staying in anything from haciendas to thatched huts and temple ruins. Her exported sense of Victorian propriety, which fuelled comments like “the young women here all ride astride which is so unnecessary and ungraceful”, surprisingly did not prevent her from disregarding the stereotypical expectations of the Victorian spinster.
That her work did not receive the acclaim it deserved until recently may allegedly be due to archeological fashion. It perhaps has more to do with gender and the domestic duties that framed her quest. Shortly before her death she wrote: “It is too bad of Mr Thompson not to let you have my cenote drawings. They can be of no use to him. I will try to do some more, but have quantities of things waiting to be done, & much of my time now goes on household work though I simplifly as much as possible.” [To Tozzer, 24 June 1921]
“suspicion, dissimulation, irony, the courteousy that shuts us [the macholaway from the stranger, all of the psychic oscillations with which, in eluding a strange glance, we elude ourselves, are traits of a subjected people who tremble and disguise themselves in the presence of the master.”
You only have to look at the self-portraits of Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) to see how such colonising has been transferred. Frida Kahlo was for a long time famous as the wife of the muralist Diego Rivera (inspired, incidentally, by the murals at Chicen Itza recorded by Adela Breton). His public art, his initially revoluntionary and later allegorical state-commissioned murals contrast with Kahlo’s private and introspective self-portraits. The Mexican notion of chingada, of the woman as the symbol of passivity and of the violated Mother and therefore as Nothingness, is surely contained in “Self-portrait”, 1931′. Rivera is also in the painting. He is shown as the painter, she as a small and fragile woman. She assumes the persona of a passive woman and not an active painter.
In “My Grandparents, My Parents and I” Frida Kahlo takes up the Mexican preoccupation with identity, exploring herself as a mestizo, of Spanish and Indian origin. She portrays herself as a naked infant joined by a blood red umbilical ribbon to her family. The search for an adequate identity, political and cultural as well as personal, in a tradition steeped in misogynistic mythology, clearly is not easy. It became more complicated for Kahlo after a tram accident in 1925 which prevented her from having children and which led to a series of operations.
By subverting the ex-voto convention used in most popular paintings, in which an inscription gives thanks and praise to a virgin or saint who has intervened in an event depicted beneath it, Kahlo rejects the myths of the macho and the miraculous. “Self-portrait with Cropped Hair” shows Kahlo wearing Rivera’s suit. She sits on a chair, staring perhaps accusatively, certainly defiantly. The floor, the cracked and arid Mexican landscape, is scattered with skeins of hair which also climb the chair like bindweed. She has replaced the traditionally complacent inscription of the ex-voto convention with “I am bald so you love me no longer.”
Maria Izquierdo (1902-1955), to many better known as the girlfriend of he surrealist Andre Breton, uses the motifs of the circus and still-lives to explore identity. While Paz is busy defining the woman as the “supreme mystery” Izquierdo confronts her spectators with aggressive realism. In “The Circus,” 1939′ she is surrounded by lions with male faces for whom she is performing. In her still-lives she uses an object or set of objects to confer identity. Thus in “The Bridal Veil”, 1943′ the bride is absent. It is the veil, the dressing table and toiletries and other paraphernalia that add up to the bride.
The whole day of events had been an unlikely celebration of women defining, albeit with familiar difficulty, self-identity. To link women in Bristol, past and present, the Victorian achievers and the artists exhibiting in “Women for Art”, with women in Mexico whilst highlighting the constraints of both cultures was an imaginative feat.
It doubtless explains the gusto with which visitors took up paint brushes in a self-portrait workshop led by the Mexican painter, Marisa Polin. I arrived half-way through to see a woman staring at an egg shape in lurid green, waving a paint brush and shouting “I don’t know what I look like!” There was only one way to find out: paint!


Emma Hardinge Britten (2 May 1823 - 2 October 1899)
Spiritualist, Occultist, Propagandist
The Emma Hardinge Britten Archive is an open source scholarly archive containing primary material for students of Emma Hardinge Britten. Materials include annotated editions of all major EHB texts, bibliographies of primary and secondary material, a short biographical summary of EHB's life, chronologies with backing evidentiary records, various artifacts of EHB's life, and papers and articles on topics in EHB scholarship. Want lists of EHB materials are also provided, and dealer inquiries are welcome. And the curator's blog is also available.
Latest Update: April 19, 2012: Thomas Shorter's 1867 bibliography of Modern Spiritualism is now available, with links to all available digital texts integrated.
Last updated February 3, 2009. Material rights reserved under Creative Commons license.