International Alliance for Women in Music
2022 Pauline Alderman Award Winners
The International Alliance for Women in Music is pleased to announce the winners of the 2022 Pauline Alderman Awards for Outstanding Scholarship on Women in Music.
Book Prize Winner
Rae Linda Brown
The Heart of a Woman: The Life and Music of Florence B. Price
University of Illinois Press, 2020
The Heart of a Woman is the first-ever biography of Florence B. Price, a composer whose career flourished from the 1930s to 1950s. She gained her reputation when the Chicago Symphony Orchestra premiered her Symphony in E Minor in 1933, the first time a major American orchestra had performed a large-scale work by an African American woman composer. Price’s years in Chicago formed the core of a working life that saw her create around 300 works in diverse genres, including symphonies and orchestral suites, art songs, vocal and choral music, and arrangements of spirituals.
Through interviews and a wealth of material from public and private archives, Rae Linda Brown illuminates Price’s major works while exploring the considerable depth of her achievement. Brown also traces the life of the extremely private individual from her childhood in Little Rock through her time at the New England Conservatory, her extensive teaching, and her struggles with racism, poverty, and professional jealousies. In addition, Brown provides dozens of musical examples for musicians and scholars.
Rae Linda Brown earned her PhD in musicology from Yale University in 1980 and focused her scholarly work on early 20th century African American classical composers, becoming the preeminent international authority on Florence Price, writing articles and creating critical editions of her piano and orchestral music.
Rae Linda Brown died in 2017, leaving her completed manuscript amassing three decades of work to be published posthumously as The Heart of a Woman by the University of Illinois Press.
The book reveals not only profound insights into her music but also accounts for the personal challenges the composer faced being an exceptional woman of her time in the arts. Adjudicators agreed that this publication is “incredibly significant, not only for women, gender, and music, but for the intersection that these concepts have with race,” and one added: “What the author does exceptionally well here is fully contextualize all the influences on Price, how many different types of music circles she was active in, and how that resulted in her own unique approach to classical or other styles of composition.”
Leila Webster Memorial Music Award
Leta E. Miller & J. Michele Edwards
University of Illinois Press, 2020
Chen Yi is the most prominent woman among the renowned group of new wave composers who came to the USA from mainland China in the early 1980s. Known for her creative output and a distinctive merging of Chinese and Western influences, Chen built a musical language that references a breathtaking range of sources and crisscrosses geographical and musical borders without eradicating them.
Leta E. Miller and J. Michele Edwards provide an accessible guide to the composer’s background and her works, with extensive interviews complementing in-depth analyses of selected pieces. The authors highlight Chen’s compositional strategies, her artistic elaborations, and the voice that links her earliest and most recent music. They also address issues such as gender, ethnicity and nationality, transnationalism, border crossing, diaspora, exoticism, and identity.
Adjudicators agreed that this publication is “profoundly significant,” exhibiting “outstanding scholarship, and written in a way to appeal to a broad readership.” One commented that for those “who are not keenly aware of these decades of Chinese history, this work provides a valuable perspective on the Cultural Revolution, while maintaining a laser focus on Chen Yi’s life and the importance of her work.”
Musicologist Leta Miller specializes in 20th-century American music. Her publications include books on music and politics in San Francisco in the early 20th century, and a biography of Aaron Jay Kernis.
J. Michele Edwards, conductor and professor emerita of music at Macalester College, specializes in twentieth- and twenty-first-century women musicians and composers. She has contributed numerous articles to journals and books such as Women and Music: A History, Musicology and Globalization, and The Cambridge Companion to Conducting, as well as to reference works such as The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, International Dictionary of Black Composers, and Women in the Middle Ages: An Encyclopedia. ̈
Jeanice Brooks & Kimberly Francis
“Serious Ambitions: Nadia Boulanger and the Composition of La ville morte”
In Jeanice Brooks, ed., Nadia Boulanger and Her World, 19-53. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020
This book chapter investigates the personal and collaborative relationship between Nadia Boulanger and Raoul Pugno as they composed their opera La ville morte. Based on her newly released daybooks, this chapter provides insight into Boulanger’s aspirations, reveals the reality between Pugno and Boulanger’s unequal partnership, and analyzes how misogyny affected her creative development and compositional output as a female composer in early twentieth-century France.
Jeanice Brooks is a professor of music at the University of Southampton. She specializes in Renaissance music, music in interwar France, and music and gender. She is the author of The Musical Work of Nadia Boulanger: Performing Past and Future between the Wars and Her Courtly Song in Late Sixteenth-Century France.
Kimberly Francis is a Professor of Music at the University of Guelph and the Director of Interdisciplinary Studies for the College of Arts. Her work focuses on intersections between gender and cultural engagement in the field of musicology. She is the author of Teaching Stravinsky: Nadia Boulanger and the Consecration of a Modernist Icon and the editor of Nadia Boulanger and the Stravinskys: A Selected Correspondence.
Adjudicators described the chapter as “excellent” and said it “offers a new perspective on women composers during the period” and “exposes the ambiguities and inequities of the collaboration” between Nadia Boulanger and Raoul Pugno.
Maria Callas’s Lyric and Coloratura Arias (33 1/3)
Bloomsbury Academic, 2021
Ginger Dellenbaugh is a music historian, opera singer, and part-time professor at the Eugene Lang College at The New School in New York. She received a B.M. in Vocal Performance from Vanderbilt University and an M.A. in Liberal Studies from The New School for Social Research. Her work has been published in Oxford American, The Journal for Interdisciplinary Voice Studies, and Public Seminar. Her current research involves patents of music notation in the USPTO.
Maria Callas’s Lyric and Coloratura Arias is the 163rd book in Bloomsbury’s critically acclaimed 33 1/3 series. It explores the lasting legacy of famed soprano Maria Callas through her 1954 recital album. Dellenbaugh examines Callas’s vocal technique, the cultural reception of her voice in classical music and pop culture, and the simulacrum of Callas as a mythic diva.
Adjudicators praised Dellenbaugh’s “beautiful writing style” and “evocative language… while remaining both accessible and rigorous.” In the words of one adjudicator, this book is “a meditation on Callas in the vein of Alex Ross’s best public scholarship, merged with the personal analytical style of authors like Catherine Clement and Philip Gossett.”
“Creative Authorship and the Filipina Diva Atang de la Rama.”
Journal of Musicological Research 40, no. 4 (2021): 297-322.
Isidora Miranda is an Assistant Professor of the Practice in Musicology and Ethnomusicology at the Blair School of Music. Her work primarily focuses on the history of music and theater performance in the Philippines in the early twentieth century.
This article details Filipina soprano Atang de la Rama’s career in Tagalog sarsuwela and vaudeville against the backdrop of American imperialism, rising Filipino nationalism, and the emergence of a women’s rights movement in early 20th-century Philippines. It investigates the role of performer as a locus of creative authorship and de la Rama’s cultural and political influence.
Adjudicators described it as “riveting, thoroughly researched, and informative.” In the words of one adjudicator, “Miranda masterfully blends first-hand sources, historical context, auditory elements, societal views, and contemporary research into formulating a convincing narrative regarding de la Rama and her legacy.”
The Pauline Alderman Awards were founded in 1985 by the International Congress on Women in Music to honor the memory of pioneering musicologist Pauline Alderman, Ph.D. (1893-1983), founder and chair of the Music History Department of the University of Southern California.
Every two or three years we call for scholars to submit their best work in the categories of Book, Article, or Reference work. Past winners include some of the most distinguished scholars writing about women and music.
Special thanks go to the adjudicators of the 2022 Awards: Vivianne Asturizaga, Rachel Becker, Morgan Davis, Mark Everist, Carolina Hengstenberg, Jennifer Lamont, Angela Miller-Niles, Kimberly White, Kathryn Woodard, and Amy Zigler.
Warmest congratulations to our winners, and deepest thanks to authors, publishers, and others who nominated many important new scholarly works on women and music.
Please see the IAWM website for further information on future award cycles.


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Second Design 04
The Manuscripts in Progress
The SFAA Historians worked on updates to our published books, from 1990-2004. I have most of this work in the form of Microsoft Word documents. These documents are organized the same way as the published books. That is, each separate Word document covers descendants of a specific person. Each can be tied to one specific Dwight number and person.
Because these are computer files, I believe that I can mine each document for names. I believe I can catch the name at the beginning of each formatted paragraph, and capture an excerpt such as the paragraph itself.
Since each of these documents was typed by hand, there is a lot of “fuzzy logic” involved in successfully capturing the names. Thus this information would be added to the database slowly, over time.
However, you can probably see how this now fits into the scheme of things. As with the table of contents of the published book, each document can be registered with a descendant line, Dwight number and name, and file name/location.
When I mine the document for names, these can become part of a searchable master names list. I expect to capture an excerpt of surrounding text, so that the name has some sort of context useful to the end user / researcher.
This provides us with two revenue opportunities.
- First, the names list with text excerpts may allow a person to realize that they have found the right place. They can figure out exactly which volumes of genealogy they’d like to purchase from the SFAA.
- Second, we can collect and publish (on CD) all of the Manuscripts in Progress for a given descendant line. Thanks to this data design I might be able to generate a coherent Table of Contents for the CD, giving Dwight Number, Name, and file name/link, just like the printed books’ tables of contents.
The ideal solution would be to turn these Manuscripts in Progress into coherent single genealogies. A quarter century later, we haven’t yet managed this. This, at least, gets the material out to the persons most interested in that material.
The Seven-Volume Index
I do have a (printed on paper) index of all names of all seven printed volumes, including married names. It may be that, once commercially scanned, I can reprocess the information to create a usable names index. Each entry contains descendant line, volume and page number where the name appears. From the page number, in most cases, we can infer the relevant Dwight number.
So, if the digitization ever comes to pass, this presents a revenue opportunity. We can publish a complete index of everything in our seven published volumes.
We currently have scans of this index, one PDF file per letter of the alphabet. It might actually be worthwhile to put those online and make them public. People know how to use an index, and might find what information they can purchase as a book.
If we create a proper database from the Seven-Volume Index (which is far in the future), this would also allow us to show all names for a given page. Our researcher finds the right name, but doesn’t know if it’s the right person of that name. Our researcher could then look at the list of ALL names on that page. If he or she recognizes several of those names, our researcher will know it’s the right page, and be inclined to purchase the book.
The Walther Barnard Manuscript
This set of Microsoft Word documents would print out to several thousand pages. It covers the Sarah (Strong) Barnard line. It’s so large that it gets its own CD.
As with the other Manuscripts in Progress, I believe it’s feasible to mine the documents for primary names, with excerpt text to give context and distinguishing information.
I don’t think it requires anything separate in the way of data design. It will require separate mining software.


Fear not, thou mother of the children: for I have chosen thee, saith the Lord.
 For thy help will I send my servants Esau and Jeremy, after whose counsel I have sanctified and prepared for thee twelve trees laden with divers fruits,
 And as many fountains flowing with milk and honey, and seven mighty mountains, whereupon there grow roses and lilies, whereby I will fill thy children with joy.
 Do right to the widow, judge for the fatherless, give to the poor, defend the orphan, clothe the naked,
 Heal the broken and the weak, laugh not a lame man to scorn, defend the maimed, and let the blind man come into the sight of my clearness.
 Keep the old and young within thy walls.
Friday, May 1, 2015
 Fear not, thou mother of the children: for I have chosen thee, saith the Lord.
Saturday, April 25, 2015
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Background and history
The Great Disappointment was a major event in the history of the Millerite movement, a 19th-century American Christian sect that formed out of the Second Great Awakening. Based on his interpretations of the prophecies in the book of Daniel, William Miller, a Baptist preacher, proposed that Jesus Christ would return to the earth during the year 1844.
The specific date of October 22, 1844, was preached by Samuel S. Snow. Thousands of followers, some of whom had given away all of their possessions, waited expectantly. When Jesus did not appear, the date became known as the Great Disappointment.
Between 1831 and 1844, on the basis of his study of the Bible, and particularly the prophecy ofDaniel 8:14—"Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed"—William Miller, a Baptist preacher, predicted and preached the imminent return of Jesus Christ to the earth. He first assumed that the "cleansing of the sanctuary" represented purification of the earth by fire at Christ's Second Coming. Then, using an interpretive principle known as the day-year principle, Miller, along with others, interpreted a prophetic "day" to read not as a 24-hour period, but rather as a calendar year. Miller became convinced that the 2,300-day period started in 457 B.C. with the decree to rebuild Jerusalem by Artaxerxes I of Persia. Simple calculation revealed that this period would end—and hence Christ would return—in 1843.
Despite the urging of his supporters, Miller never announced an exact date for the expected Second Advent. But he did narrow the time period to sometime in the Jewish year 5604, stating: "My principles in brief, are, that Jesus Christ will come again to this earth, cleanse, purify, and take possession of the same, with all the saints, sometime between March 21, 1843 and March 21, 1844." [clarification needed] March 21, 1844, passed without incident, but the majority of Millerites maintained their faith.
Miller's interpretation of the 2300-day prophecy timeline and its relation to the 70-week prophecy
Beginning of the 70 Weeks: The decree of Artaxerxes I of Persia in the 7th year of his reign (457 BC) as recorded in Ezra marks beginning of 70 weeks. King reigns were counted from New Year to New Year following an 'Accession Year'. The Persian New Year began in Nisan (March–April). The Jewish civil New Year began in Tishri (September–October).
After further discussion and study, he briefly adopted a new date—April 18, 1844—one based on the Karaite Jewishcalendar (as opposed to the Rabbinic calendar). Like the previous date, April 18 passed without Christ's return. In the Advent Herald of April 24,Joshua Himes wrote that all the "expected and published time" had passed and admitted that they had been "mistaken in the precise time of the termination of the prophetic period." Josiah Litch surmised that the Adventists were probably "only in error relative to the event which marked its close." Miller published a letter "To Second Advent Believers," writing, "I confess my error, and acknowledge my disappointment; yet I still believe that the day of the Lord is near, even at the door."
In August 1844 at a camp meeting in Exeter, New Hampshire, Samuel S. Snow presented his own interpretation, which became known as the "seventh-month message" or the "true midnight cry". In a complex discussion based on scriptural typology, Snow presented his conclusion (still based on the 2300-day prophecy in Daniel 8:14) that Christ would return on "the tenth day of the seventh month of the present year, 1844." Using the calendar of the Karaite Jews, he determined this date to be October 22, 1844. This "seventh-month message" "spread with a rapidity unparalleled in the Millerites experience" amongst the general population.
October 22, 1844
1843 prophetic chart illustrating multiple interpretations of prophecy yielding the year 1843
October 22 passed without incident, resulting in feelings of disappointment among many Millerites. Henry Emmons, a Millerite, later wrote,
I waited all Tuesday [October 22] and dear Jesus did not come;– I waited all the forenoon of Wednesday, and was well in body as I ever was, but after 12 o'clock I began to feel faint, and before dark I needed someone to help me up to my chamber, as my natural strength was leaving me very fast, and I lay prostrate for 2 days without any pain– sick with disappointment.
The Millerites had to deal with their own shattered expectations, as well as considerable criticism and even violence from the public. Many followers had given up their possessions in expectation of Christ's return. On November 18, 1844, Miller wrote to Himes about his experiences:
"Some are tauntingly enquiring, 'Have you not gone up?' Even little children in the streets are shouting continually to passersby, 'Have you a ticket to go up?' The public prints, of the most fashionable and popular kind…are caricaturing in the most shameful manner of the 'white robes of the saints,' Revelation 6:11, the 'going up,' and the great day of 'burning.' Even the pulpits are desecrated by the repetition of scandalous and false reports concerning the 'ascension robes', and priests are using their powers and pens to fill the catalogue of scoffing in the most scandalous periodicals of the day."
There were also the instances of violence: a Millerite church was burned in Ithaca, and two were vandalized in Dansville and Scottsville. In Loraine, Illinois, a mob attacked the Millerite congregation with clubs and knives, while a group in Toronto was tarred and feathered. Shots were fired at another Canadian group meeting in a private house.
Both Millerite leaders and followers were left generally bewildered and disillusioned. Responses varied: some continued to look daily for Christ's return, while others predicted different dates—among them April, July, and October 1845. Some theorized that the world had entered the seventh millennium—the "Great Sabbath", and that therefore, the saved should not work. Others acted as children, basing their belief on Jesus' words inMark 10:15: "Truly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child shall not enter it." Millerite O. J. D. Pickands usedRevelation to teach that Christ was now sitting on a white cloud and must be prayed down. Probably the majority, however, simply gave up their beliefs and attempted to rebuild their lives. Some members rejoined their previous denominations. A substantial number joined the Shakers.
By mid-1845, doctrinal lines among the various Millerite groups began to solidify, and the groups emphasized their differences, in a process George R. Knight terms "sect building". During this time, there were three main Millerite groups—in addition to those who had simply given up their beliefs.
The first major division of the Millerite groups who retained a belief in Christ's Second Advent were those who focused on the "shut-door" belief. Popularized by Joseph Turner, this belief was based on a key Millerite passage: Matthew 25:1-13—the parable of the ten virgins. The shut door mentioned in Matthew 25:11-12 was interpreted as the close of probation. As Knight explains, "After the door was shut, there would be no additional salvation. The wise virgins (true believers) would be in the kingdom, while the foolish virgins and all others would be on the outside."
The widespread acceptance of the shut-door belief lost ground as doubts were raised about the significance of the October 22, 1844, date—if nothing happened on that date, then there could be no shut door. The opposition to these shut-door beliefs was led by Joshua Himes and make up the second post-1844 group. This faction soon gained the upper hand, even converting Miller to their point of view. Their influence was enhanced by the staging of the Albany Conference. The Advent Christian Church has its roots in this post-Great Disappointment group.
The third major post-disappointment Millerite group also claimed, like the Hale- and Turner-led group, that the October 22 date was correct. Rather than Christ having returned invisibly, however, they concluded that the event that took place on October 22, 1844, was quite different. The theology of this third group appears to have had its beginnings as early as October 23, 1844—the day after the Great Disappointment. On that day, during a prayer session with a group of Advent believers, Hiram Edson became convinced that "light would be given" and their "disappointment explained." Edson's experience led him into an extended study on the topic with O. R. L. Crosier and F. B. Hahn. They came to the conclusion that Miller's assumption that the sanctuary represented the earth was in error. "The sanctuary to be cleansed in Daniel 8:14 was not the earth or the church, but the sanctuary in heaven." Therefore, the October 22 date marked not the Second Coming of Christ, but rather a heavenly event. Out of this third group arose the Seventh-day Adventist Church, and this interpretation of the Great Disappointment forms the basis for theSeventh-day Adventist doctrine of the pre-Advent Divine Investigative Judgement. Their interpretations were published in early 1845 in the Day Dawn.
The Great Disappointment is viewed by some scholars as an example of the psychological phenomenon of cognitive dissonance and True-believer syndrome. The theory was proposed by Leon Festinger to describe the formation of new beliefs and increased proselytizing in order to reduce the tension, or dissonance, that results from failed prophecies. According to the theory, believers experienced tension following the failure of Jesus' reappearance in 1844, which led to a variety of new explanations. The various solutions form a part of the teachings of the different groups that outlived the disappointment.
Members of the Bahá'í Faith believe that Miller's interpretation of signs and dates of the coming of Jesus were, for the most part, correct. A requirement being the condition of Jews in Palestine being allowing gathering them, the Edict of Toleration, as it came to be known, played a role in prophetic interpretations when it became known. This too was picked up by Bahá'ís who believe that the fulfillment of biblical prophecies of the coming of Christ came through a forerunner of their own religion, the Báb. According to the Báb's words, April 4, 1844 was "the first day that the Spirit descended" into his heart. His subsequent declaration to Mullá Husayn-i Bushru'i that he was the "Promised One"—an event now commemorated by Bahá'ís as a major holy day—took place on evening of May 22, 1844. It was in October of that year that the Báb embarked on apilgrimage to Mecca, where he openly declared his claims to the Sharif of Mecca. The first news coverage of these events in the West was in 1845 by The Times, followed by others in 1850 in the United States. The first Bahá'í to come to America was in 1892. Several Bahá'í books and pamphlets make mention of the Millerites, the prophecies used by Miller and the Great Disappointment, most notably William Sears'sThief in the Night.
- Jump up^ William to Joshua V. Himes, February 4, 1844.
- Jump up^ Knight 1993, pp. 163–164.
- Jump up^ Bliss, Sylvester (1853). Memoirs of William Miller Memoirs of William Miller. Boston: Joshua V. Himes. p. 256.
- Jump up^ Samuel S. Snow, The Advent Herald, August 21, 1844, 20.
- Jump up^ Knight 1993, pp. 217–218.
- Jump up^ White, James (1875). Sketches of the Christian Life and Public Labors of William Miller: Gathered From His Memoir by the Late Sylvester Bliss, and From Other Sources. Battle Creek: Steam Press of the Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association. p. 310.
- Jump up^ Knight 1993, pp. 222–223.
- Jump up^ Cross, Whitney R. (1950). The Burned-over District: A Social and Intellectual History of Enthusiastic Religion in Western New York. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. p. 310.
- Jump up^ Knight 1993, p. 232.
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- Jump up^ Knight 1993, pp. 305–306.
- Jump up^ O'Leary, Stephen (2000). "When Prophecy Fails and When it Succeeds: Apocalyptic Prediction and Re-Entry into Ordinary Time". In Albert I. Baumgarten (ed.). Apocalyptic Time. Brill Publishers. p. 356.ISBN 90-04-11879-9. Examining Millerite accounts of the Great Disappointment, it is clear that Festinger's theory of cognitive dissonance is relevant to the experience of this apocalyptic movement.
- Jump up^ James T. Richardson. "Encyclopedia of Religion and Society: Cognitive Dissonance". Hartland Institute. Retrieved 2006-07-09.
- Jump up^ Momen, Moojan (1992). "Fundamentalism and Liberalism: towards an understanding of the dichotomy". Bahá'í Studies Review 2 (1).
- Jump up^ Momen, Moojan (1999 (online)). "Early Western Accounts of the Babi and Baha'i Faiths". Encyclopedia articles. Bahá'í Library Online. Retrieved 2012-02-02. Check date values in: |date= (help)
- Jump up^ "Early mention of Bábís in western newspapers, summer 1850".Historical documents and Newspaper articles. Bahá'í Library Online. 2010-09-17. Retrieved 2012-04-14.
- Jump up^ Bowers, Kenneth E. (2004). God Speaks Again: An Introduction to the Bahá'í Faith. Baha'i Publishing Trust. p. 12. ISBN 1-931847-12-6.
Unfulfilled Christian religious predictions
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This article does not include predictions by authors of sacred texts. It includes other notable, original predictions, as well as predictions based on interpretations of sacred texts. Predictions written in major sacred texts are covered in articles such as Bible prophecy and Qur'an and miracles. Another list, which is specific to the Second Coming of Christ, can be found at Predictions and claims for the Second Coming of Christ.
This article lists predictions of notable religious figures that failed to come about in the specified time frame. They are listed according to the religious groups of which they were members.
Predictions by members of mainstream churches
Adventism has its roots in the teachings of a Baptist preacher by the name of William Miller. He first predicted the Second Advent of Jesus Christ would occur before March 21, 1844. When this date passed a new date was predicted, April 18, 1844. Again the date passed and another Millerite, Samuel S. Snow, derived the date of October 22, 1844. The un-fulfillment of these predictions has been named the Millerite Great Disappointment.
Certain Anabaptists of the early 16th century believed that the Millennium would occur in 1533. Another source reports: "When the prophecy failed, the Anabaptists became more zealous and claimed that two witnesses (Enoch and Elijah) had come in the form of Jan Matthys and Jan Bockelson; they would set up the New Jerusalem in Münster. Münster became a frightening dictatorship under Bockelson's control. Although all Lutherans and Catholics were expelled from that city, the millennium never came."
In volume II of The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, author Leroy Edwin Froom tells us about a prominent Anglican prelate, who made a relevant prediction: "Edwin Sandys (1519–1588), Archbishop of York and Primate of England was born in Lancashire... Sandys says, 'Now, as we know not the day and time, so let us be assured that this coming of the Lord is near. He is not slack, as we do count slackness. That it is at hand, it may be probably gathered out of the Scriptures in diverse places. The signs mentioned by Christ in the Gospel which should be the foreshewers of this terrible day, are almost all fulfilled.'"
Assemblies of God Church
During World War I, The Weekly Evangel, an official publication of the Assemblies of God, carried this prediction: "We are not yet in theArmageddon struggle proper, but at its commencement, and it may be, if students of prophecy read the signs aright, that Christ will come before the present war closes, and before Armageddon...The war preliminary to Armageddon, it seems, has commenced." Other editions speculated that the end would come no later than 1934 or 1935.
The founder of the Calvary Chapel system, Chuck Smith, published the book End Times in 1979. On the jacket of his book, Smith is called a "well known Bible scholar and prophecy teacher." In this book he wrote:
As we look at the world scene today, it would appear that the coming of the Lord is very, very, close. Yet, we do not know when it will be. It could be that the Lord will wait for a time longer. If I understand Scripture correctly, Jesus taught us that the generation which sees the 'budding of the fig tree', the birth of the nation Israel, will be the generation that sees the Lord's return; I believe that the generation of 1948 is the last generation. Since a generation of judgment is forty years and the tribulation lasts seven years, I believe the Lord could come back for his church anytime before the tribulation starts, which would mean anytime before 1981. (1948 + 40 − 7 = 1981) However, it is possible that Jesus is dating the beginning of the generation from 1967, when Jerusalem was again under Israeli control for the first time since 587 BC. We don't know for sure which year actually marks the beginning of the last generation.
The founder of the Lutheran Church was the reformer, Martin Luther (1483–1546 A.D.). According to one authority, Luther ventured to predict: "For my part, I am sure that the Day of Judgement is just around the corner. It doesn't matter that we don't know the precise day... perhaps someone else can figure it out. But it is certain that time is now at an end." Another author says: "In all of [Luther's] work there was a sense of urgency for the time was short... the world was heading for Armageddon in the war with the Turk."
Even after Luther's death in 1546, Lutheran leaders kept up the claim of the nearness of the end. About the year 1584, a zealous Lutheran named Adam Nachenmoser wrote the large volume '[Prognosticum Theologicum]' in which he predicted: "In 1590 the Gospel would be preached to all nations and a wonderful unity would be achieved. The last days would then be close at hand." Nachenmoser offered numerous conjectures about the date; 1635 seemed most likely.
The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod issued a study in 1989 refuting any end times claim, declaring that "repeatedly taught by Jesus and the apostles is the truth that the exact hour of Christ's coming remains hidden in the secret counsels of God (Matt. 24:36)."
Thomas Brightman, who lived from 1562 to 1607, has been called "one of the fathers of Presbyterianism in England." He predicted that "between 1650 and 1695 [we] would see the conversion of the many Jews and a revival of their nation in Palestine...the destruction of the Papacy...the marriage of the Lamb and his wife."
Christopher Love who lived from 1618–1651 was a bright graduate of Oxford and a strong Presbyterian. Love predicted that: (1) Babylon would fall in 1758 (2) God's anger against the wicked would be demonstrated in 1759 and (3) in 1763 there would occur a great earthquake all over the world.
Roman Catholic Church
When in 1525 Martin Luther, an ex-monk, married Katharina von Bora, an ex-nun, his enemies[who?] said that their offspring would fulfill an old tradition that the Antichrist would be the son of such a union. The Catholic scholar and theologian Erasmus remarked that the tradition could apply to thousands of such children.
In 1771 Bishop Charles Walmesley published, under the nom de plume of "Signor Pastorini", his "General History of the Christian Church from Her Birth to Her Final Triumphant State in Heaven Chiefly Deduced from the Apocalypse of St. John the Apostle and Evangelist". In it he attributed to what he called the fifth age of the Church a duration of 300 years, beginning with the Protestant Reformation in 1520 or 1525. This was widely interpreted as predicting the downfall of Protestantism by 1825. In fact, just four years later, the Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829brought to a culmination the process of Catholic Emancipation throughout the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
Predictions by other groups
The well known Scottish cleric, Edward Irving, was the forerunner of the Catholic Apostolic Church. In 1828 he wrote a work headed The Last Days: A Discourse on the Evil Character of These Our Times, Proving Them to be the 'Perilous Times' and the 'Last Days'. On pages 10–22 we find some telling information which includes the following:
I conclude, therefore, that the last days... will begin to run from the time of God's appearing for his ancient people, and gathering them together to the work of destroying all Antichristian nations, of evangelising the world, and of governing it during the Millennium... The times and fullness of the times, so often mentioned in the New Testament, I consider as referring to the great period numbered by times...Now if this reasoning be correct, as there can be little doubt that the one thousand two hundred and sixty days concluded in the year 1792, and the thirty additional days in the year 1823, we are already entered upon the last days, and the ordinary life of a man will carry many of us to the end of them. If this be so, it gives to the subject with which we have introduced this year's ministry a very great importance indeed.
Main article: Watch Tower Society unfulfilled predictions
Charles Taze Russell, the first president of the Watch Tower Society, calculated 1874 as the year of Christ's Second Coming, and taught that Christ was invisibly present and ruling from the heavens since that year. Russell proclaimed Christ's invisible return in 1874, the resurrection of the saints in 1875, and predicted the end of the "harvest" and the Rapture of the saints to heaven for 1878, and the final end of "the day of wrath" in 1914. 1874 was considered the end of 6,000 years of human history and the beginning of judgment by Christ. A 1917 Watch Tower Society publication predicted that in 1918, God would begin to destroy churches and millions of their members.
J.F. Rutherford, who succeeded Russell as president of the Watch Tower Society, predicted that the Millennium would begin in 1925, and that biblical figures such as Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and David would be resurrected as "princes". The Watch Tower Society bought property and built a house, Beth Sarim, in California for their return.
From 1966, statements in Jehovah's Witness publications raised strong expectations that Armageddon could arrive in 1975. In 1974 Witnesses were commended for selling their homes and property to "finish out the rest of their days in this old system" in full-time preaching. In 1976 The Watchtower advised those who had been "disappointed" by unfulfilled expectations for 1975 to adjust their viewpoint because that understanding was "based on wrong premises". Four years later, the Watch Tower Society admitted its responsibility in building up hope regarding 1975.
Montanus, who founded the Montanist movement in 156 AD, predicted that Jesus would return during the lifetime of the group's founding members.
Main article: List of prophecies of Joseph Smith
Joseph Smith, founder of the Mormon faith, made several dozen prophecies during his lifetime, many of which are recorded in the sacred texts of the Mormon faith. The prophecies included predictions of the Civil War, the coming of Jesus, and several less significant predictions. Churchapologists cite prophecies that they claim came true, and church critics cite prophecies that they claim did not come true.
- Jump up^ William to Joshua V. Himes, February 4, 1844.
- Jump up^ George R. Knight, Millennial Fever and the End of the World, Boise, ID: Pacific Press, 1993, 163-164.
- Jump up^ Samuel S. Snow, The Advent Herald, August 21, 1844, 20.
- Jump up^ When Prophecy Fails, Festinger, Riecken and Schaeter, page 7
- Jump up^ Soothsayers Of The Second Advent, William Alnor, page 57.
- Jump up^ The Prophetic Faith of our Fathers, pages 417, 419.
- Jump up^ April 10, 1917 edition, page 3
- Jump up^ May 13, 1916 pp 6–9 etc
- Jump up^ "End Times" by Chuck Smith. 1979. Pages 35, 36.
- Jump up^ see page 43
- Jump up^ Reformation Principles and Practice: Essays in Honor of Arthur Geoffrey Dickens, p 169
- Jump up^ Luther's View of Church History, John M. Headley, Yale University Press, 1963, pp 13,14
- Jump up^ The "End Times": A Study on Eschatology and Millennialism. A Report of the Commission on Theology and Church Relations of The Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod. September 1989
- Jump up^ A Great Expectation — Eschatological Thought in English Protestantism to 1660 by Bryan W. Ball and E.J. Brill, page 117
- Jump up^ The Logic of Millennial Thought by James West Davidson, page 200
- Jump up^ "Signior" is the spelling used in the book (see pages iii and following of the third edition).
- Jump up^ "The writer, among many others now interested, was sound asleep, in profound ignorance of the cry, etc., until 1876, when being awakened he trimmed his lamp (for it is still very early in the morning.) It showed him clearly that the Bridegroom had come and that he is living "in the days of the Son of Man." C.T. Russell (April 1880). "From and To The Wedding". Zion's Watch Tower: 2.
- Jump up^ The Three Worlds and The Harvest of This World by N.H. Barbour and C.T. Russell (1877). Text available online at:http://www.heraldmag.org/olb/contents/history/3worlds.pdf Scan of book in PDF format
- Jump up^ The Three Worlds, p. 175
- Jump up^ The Three Worlds, pp. 104–108
- Jump up^ See pages 68, 89–93, 124, 125–126, 143 of The Three Worlds.
- Jump up^ The year 1914 was seen as the final end of the "day of wrath": "...the 'times of the Gentiles,' reach from B.C. 606 to A.D. 1914, or forty years beyond 1874. And the time of trouble, conquest of the nations, and events connected with the day of wrath, have only ample time, during the balance of this forty years, for their fulfillment." The Three Worlds, p. 189.
- Jump up^ Studies in the Scriptures, Vol. 7, 1917, p. 485, "In the year 1918, when God destroys the churches wholesale and the church members by the millions, it shall be that any that escape shall come to the works of Pastor Russell."
- Jump up^ The Watchtower, May 15, 1922; Sep. 1, 1922; Apr. 1, 1923; Millions Now Living Will Never Die, 1925, p. 110
- Jump up^ Kingdom Ministry, Watch Tower Society, May 1974, page 3.
- Jump up^ "A Solid Basis for Confidence", Watchtower, July 15, 1976, page 441.
- Jump up^ The Watchtower, March 15, 1980, p.17 "With the appearance of the book Life Everlasting—in Freedom of the Sons of God, ... considerable expectation was aroused regarding the year 1975. ... there were other statements published that implied that such realization of hopes by that year was more of a probability than a mere possibility. It is to be regretted that these latter statements apparently overshadowed the cautionary ones and contributed to a buildup of the expectation already initiated. ...persons having to do with the publication of the information ... contributed to the buildup of hopes centered on that date."
- Jump up^ Boyett, Jason (2005). Pocket Guide to the Apocalypse: The Official Field Manual for the End of the World. Relevant Media Group. p. 30.ISBN 978-0-9760357-1-8. Retrieved September 22, 2011.


Burden of Disease Survey
Survey on the Burden of Disease
Akcea Therapeutics have commissioned a survey from Trinity Partners to capture the lived experience of LPLD and the related conditions (increasingly known in America as FCS).
Please take the time to do the survey.
It is a very important opportunity for us all as it is the first time such a study has been undertaken and will be of immense benefit to patients, researchers, clinicians, drug developers and drug regulators helping to shape future treatment options.
On completion the anonymised results of the study will be analysed and published in a journal with open access which will enable any interested reader or researcher to access the results at no cost. You will be able to link through to the results from these pages.
The study will fill a very prominent gap in existing medical literature and will help to advance medical understanding of the impact of the disease, but it is important that as many patients contribute their experience to make the findings robust.


Introduction: Transnational Italian Poetry
Alessandro Canzian, Simona Wright
Literature, and poetry in particular, has always been a tool to understand culture. Sometimes it has even gone beyond and helped cultures to expand and develop. Poets understand that language, essential to human survival, has its own limits, but they also see these limits as an incentive to produce new expressive forms, other languages that transcend the old one to understand and tell what is not yet immediately comprehensible or immediately utterable. This awareness, coupled with the desire to trespass the limits of one’s language, have produced what we today call literature.
Language, intended as an instrument that offers the word countless opportunities, requires nevertheless a corollary of skills. Using it in a poetic way requires a certain familiarity with literature, or rather with literatures, with the oral and written traditions that preceded it, formed it, and complicated it. Language is therefore bound by the vast experience of the past. Italian, a language with a time-honored literary tradition, offers an exceptionally interesting case. On the one side, it boasts the legacy of its noble past, and contemporary poets frequently return to the classics to draw inspiration and new meaning. On the other, that same legacy becomes a burden that crushes the emerging voice under the immense weight of its greatness. This contradiction has produced different reactions, driving poets to experimentations that were considered at times reactionary or decadent by later authors, but which nonetheless have impacted the literary movements of twentieth-century Italian letters.
In the second part of the twentieth century, after the tragic experiences of fascism and WWII, the economic boom, the years of terrorism, the hedonism of the eighties, and the economic and political crises Italians experienced in the new millennium have exacerbated what Pier Paolo Pasolini defined as Italy’s “anthropological mutation.” The value he found in cultural and linguistic authenticity had been rejected while consumerism had deprived the new generations of the utopian dynamism that usually characterizes them. The great dreams that animated political and social movements in the sixties and seventies was extinguished, yielding a widespread sense of disenchantment and frustration. From the nineties, the ethical drift caused the rejection of every sense of civic responsibility while politics was bent to serve exclusively individual interests and personal agendas. Italy’s cultural and social crisis was central to the poetry of the period and testified inexorable ruin often more effectively than narrative production ever could.
The editors of this volume are aware of the experimental and provisional critical approach utilized in this project, but wanted nevertheless to start a conversation on the possibilities offered by the complexities of our reality as they are witnessed, recorded, and experienced by Italian and Italophone poets today. We hope to have started a productive conversation that may help Italian and Italophone authors to develop their poetic expression further and we invite critics to articulate their own perspectives on this emerging phenomenon. Globalization informs our lives, often in a negative way. We hope that this exploratory volume inaugurates a debate on the expressive possibilities of the countless transnational encounters in which we dwell every day, at both the linguistic and the cultural level. Most of all, we hope that the rich complexity of these encounters can be translated in new and original poetic forms.
Introduction: Transnational Italian Poetry
ALESSANDRO CANZIAN AND SIMONA WRIGHT
Translingual Peripheries: Ilaria Boffa’s Practice of Everyday Poetry
A Strange Geometry
VICTOR XAVIER ZAROUR ZARZAR
The Depths of Love and Sorrow in Allison Grimaldi Donahue’s Poetry
ALLISON GRIMALDI DONAHUE
Visiting a Strangely Familiar Country: Writing in Another Language
Magarian’s Poetic Beasts
Innovation and Invention in “Kidhood”: When a Poet Writes in a Different Language
Brenda Porster: The Body as Home, the Home as World
The Immense Structure of Happiness: Rachel Slade and the Metamorphical Poetry of Apocryphal House


Commerce was and is the exchange of goods or services and money between suppliers and customers. Modern information and communication technologies have revolutionized the commercial world.
The book gives a sound introduction to the fascinating world of E-Commerce. Readers with an economic background will learn which technologies help to change and improve business. Readers with a computer science background will learn, how business needs have to be incorporated into the development and operation of information systems. Thus the book not only examines technologies and the areas of B2C and B2B commerce, but also discusses legal issues and impacts of E-Commerce on the economic and societal area. Security management issues and payment challenges are investigated, too, and the course finishes with a focused view to performance management.
The message to the reader is: E-Commerce is commerce and all subdomains must be managed consequently and interestedly from a business point of view.


2020 has definitely been an interesting year for Sunday School & Bible Studies! Starting in October, some of our classes did begin meeting back in person, others are still choosing to meet online. If you’re interested in joining a class, please email email@example.com .
- Seekers (our longest meeting class: middle to senior adults) meet in the Seeker’s room doing the Cokesbury Seasonal Adult Study.
- Fellowship (adults all ages) meets in the Library, with a focus on short term studies and theological writings.
- Horizons (adults all ages) meets in the room across from the kitchen. They do book studies, some videos, and discussion.
Be Watching for New Studies Coming Soon!


CULTURAL WONDERS IN THE MIX
Music & Sound: I Make Audio
Artist: Naomi Kashiwagi/Huw Bunford
Client: Manchester University
I collaborated with Artist Naomi Kashiwagi and Huw Bunford of The Super Furry Animals to create a series of sound and music commissions for the University of Manchester.
I was commissioned to create three pieces using found sounds, ambient and location recordings taken by Huw and Naomi from three of the University of Manchester's cultural resources. I then turned the recordings into compositions, using various sampling techniques to turn oblique sounds into percussive and non-percussive instruments.
In the Mix’ is a series of music/sound/art commissions and events that will animate the University of Manchester’s cultural resources including Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester Museum, John Rylands Library, Jodrell Bank and Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama.
The commissioned soundscapes and bank of recorded found sounds are inspired and influenced by electronic music producer, Delia Derbyshire, whose archive has been recently acquired by the University of Manchester.


The Little Elephants' BIG Adventures series was developed by our lab group to provide parents and teachers with research-based educational picture books that are also fun and engaging for young children. These books are designed to support young children's mathematical language skills. Mathematical language skills (terms and concepts such as more, most, a lot, same, similar, different, few, fewest) are foundational for young children's numeracy development. To develop these books, we collaborated with a professional author and professional illustrator. We recently completed a randomized control trial study with parents reading these three books to their children (4x each) over a month. We found that reading these books had a significant benefit for children's mathematical language and numeracy skills. This study was published in the Journal of Educational Psychology. If you do not have access to the article, please send me an email and I will send it to you.
The books were also developed with built-in prompts for caregivers to use to enhance the reading experience with children. The books were written by Angela Isaacs and illustrated by Matt Dye. We are currently in the process of developing and evaluating six additional Little Elephants books.
Benjamin is worried he’ll forget something for their camping trip. He has so many things in his backpack that - CRASH - he falls down! They’ll have to work together to lighten both his pack and his worries in this picture book about everyday math and facing your fears. This book uses the concepts of more, many, most, and a lot.
Hooray! It’s Bear’s birthday. But Lucy’s cake falls flat and the party will be a flop unless they can bake a just-right cake in this book about everyday math and perseverance. This book uses the concepts of same, similar, different, and enough.
Uh-oh, where's Bear? In this new math adventure story, Benjamin and Lucy must solve the mystery to save their picnic and their pal in this picture book about everyday math and problem-solving. This book uses the concepts of a few, fewer, less, and a little bit.


One of my favourite parts of the day is snuggling the children and reading them a story. I still enjoy reading picture books like Harry and the Dinosaurs with the three year old, but I love, most of all, reading my own childhood favourites to the older two.
We finished Charlotte's Web last weekend, in a fog of disappointment. I remember it being moving; I remember crying. I remember loving it. Reading it to the children, it seemed a trifle slow, and I was tempted to skip parts. I didn't find the characters half so enchanting. I wonder how the children will remember it - perhaps it is only magical if you are the right age, and not some middle-aged woman attempting to fake it a seven year old's mindset.
We're reading Eric Knight's Lassie Come Home now. If your only experience of Lassie is TV, you're missing out. This children's book, although sentimental in places, is fantastic and powerful and moving, and has lost none of its beauty. I remember my mother reading this aloud to my sisters and I in front of the three-bar fire, struggling to read through her tears. I remember re-reading it (over and over again) as a child, and the way the hairs on my arms would lift when I got to the climax.
I'm enjoying it just as much this time, although I'm glad no-one is eavesdropping on my Yorkshire accent (which is quite good in comparison to the vague attempts I'm making at the Scottish accent). I clearly haven't missed a career on the stage. A couple of times I've had to swallow hard to collect myself enough to read on...I'm loving it, and will have the tissues ready for the pay off moment at the end. Some books can bear endless re-reading, and this is one. Classic.


Notes from our Readers
The energy and love placed into this book is a wonderful testament to a loving and great man. As is the eternal truth, love and energy are never wasted - in this book a piece of that love and energy is given as a gift to the reader to learn and understand frontotemporal dementia (FTD).
To the potential buyer I might suggest this book is important for at least 2 categories of individuals - immediate family caregivers and those healthcare providers -- such as a therapist, nurse and doctor - who may diagnosis and provide primary and secondary care to dementia patients. It's especially useful if dealing with a pre-senile dementia -- such one as perplexing as Bob's diagnosis of frontotemporal dementia.
If you are a healthcare professional you can learn about a disease state by reading a condensed and emotionally sterile book such as the Merck Manual (and I doubt that you'll remember anything substantial by reading the Merck Manual cover to cover) or you can read a story to really place a face on the disease. The choice is yours but the latter, in my opinion is the superior way to learn. After reading An Evolution of Love the healthcare provider has not only increased their knowledge but they have also increased their compassion toward the patient and the family of those affected.
As a caregiver, if your loved one is afflicted with FTD then might I suggest you buy a copy for your library and buy an extra copy to pass along to family -- this book fully documents the stresses on the family of the disease's seemingly inevitable latent diagnosis. It also explains FTD unusual changes to loved-one's personality - changes which make you wonder `is it something I did' -- you realize are cause by this insidious disease. You will also learn that care demands patience and a mastery of redirection to manage the day-to-day issues. Lastly you learn that you are not all alone when you have to make the most difficult decisions such as when to transition from home-care to assisted living.
Finally thank you Bob for making the world a brighter place to live -- your care and love of your family during your lifetime does not go unnoticed in this book and in those who survived you.
I hope they have Skittles and great music in heaven.
PS. It is worthy to note that by purchasing An Evolution of Love Georgetown Publishing will make a donation to the Association for FTD.
I just completed reading your book. Thank you for sharing your journey with Bob. My wife Sandy developed FTD in 2007 age 58 (first symptoms we noticed). Along with FTD Sandy also developed ALS which I understand can happen rarely. Sandy died July 14, 2010.
Your descriptions of the events, feelings and coping were so much like the road we traveled with Sandy. My daughter and I became each other's rock then and now as we grieve our loss of such a wonderful wife and mother at so young an age.
I appreciated your concept of the "Old Bob" and the "New Bob" and the fact that this terrible disease effects are behavioral as opposed to memory loss etc that so many associate with dementia. Also your comments on even the medical community not fully grasping the disease at first as they have difficulty understanding dementia in a younger person.
Sandy did not have to be placed in a care facility but that was definitely on the horizon. The ALS developed and Sandy died at home under hospice care. I am thankful I did not have to go through what you did in having to move Bob away from home. Reading that was heart wrenching.
I also experienced Sandy not dying until I left her bedside.Just like Bob, Sandy would not go until my daughter, Beth, said "Dad you have to leave and go to another room so Mom will go" I did and Sandy left us 10 minutes later.
Thank you for writing this book that expresses so clearly what FTD is and the journey that must be traveled if it enters our lives.
Hello Marie, Unfortunately my 60 year old husband has finally been diagnosed. I have had your book for several months and want you to know that your Bob and my husband (and our families) have followed the exact same path to this terrible disease.
I want to thank you for writing this very informative book. I have several books on FTD but none have helped me to understand what was happening to my husband like your book.
I pray everyday that my husband will not suffer the many terrible indignities that this disease could bring. As much as I already miss him, I do not want him to suffer.
Again, thank you.
I loved the book and was so grateful that I found it on Amazon. I bought it yesterday and read it last night.
Thank you so much for writing to me. I truly appreciate it and sometimes I feel so alone in this journey.
I just found your book online and will be purchasing it. My husband is 45 and is being “watched” for bvFTD. This is by far the most isolating and difficult thing that I have ever experienced. Our family doesn’t understand, we don’t have kids and he has pushed everyone away, this leaves his care to me. I am desperately seeking ways to network and stay sane. Any suggestions would be hugely appreciated…Thanks so much for your time and I have so much respect for you.
I read (An ) Evolution of Love. I wanted to say what a wonderful story. My father also has FTD and it is very hard. I don't know how you guys dealt with such a tragic thing.


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This is a library and toolkit which implements Off-the-Record (OTR) Messaging.
OTR allows you to have private conversations over IM by providing Encryption,
Authentication, Deniability and Perfect forward secrecy.
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Merupuri is a fairytale shoujo series created by Hino Matsuri. It was serialized in the monthly Lala magazine from 2002-04, with 22 chapters divided into 4 volumes.
The story begins with a mysterious man putting a magical spell on a boy. The little boy, Aram, manages to escape through a portal and ends up in Airi's world. Airi finds him, and thinking he is lost, takes him home with her. Although he acts strange, she finds him adorable, and they fall asleep in each other's arms.
But the next morning, Airi is shocked to find herself in the arms of a grown man, who is actually Aram in his older form! And the only way to break the curse and return him to normal is to receive the legendary maiden's kiss. And Aram chooses Airi to be the one!


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The Deep Roots Gun violence prevention Toolkit is a guide for creating positive change in Toronto’s marginalized communities through the use of community action projects. This Toolkit also explores and highlights the importance of action projects that reduce the risk of becoming involved in unsafe activities.
It offers helpful insights into how you can have an impact on the way your community is shaped and built. It is filled with activities aimed at engaging young people to explore the social factors in the community. As a toolkit for action, this guide will help you and your group develop solutions and action.
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Why This Is My Life's Work
(go to libertyforrest.com for more about liberty)
Once upon a time, there was a sad little girl. She tried to speak but she was told to be quiet. She did her best to be very, very good, hoping that this might make someone hear her. But instead, she was told she didn’t matter. She was told no one cared. No one wanted to listen.
So the little girl stopped speaking. She had no voice. She disappeared into a world of books, dreaming that maybe someday she would write her own.
She had a lot of unhappy experiences, many of them scary or painful. She didn’t think anyone else lived like that and she felt all alone in the world.
She didn’t think anyone could be as awful a person as she’d always been told she was. She had secrets. She couldn’t tell anyone what was really going on in her life and family because it was too terrible, too painful, and too embarrassing.
Her secrets sent her down a dark and lonely road for a very long time until it got so dark, she couldn’t see the road any more. It was as dark as it could possibly be. There was no light at all, not even a tiny bit.
One day, a sliver of Light crept into her world. The little girl looked around. How did it get there? She could see there were no windows. And there were no doors. How could this be?
The little girl looked down and saw that the Light was coming from inside her very own tiny body. Something had changed in the little girl. She knew that she did matter after all, and that she had something to say.
She would not be silenced any more. She deserved to be heard. She began speaking and then writing. She wrote lots of books and soon, she was finding others who had also lost their voices, people who thought they didn’t matter, or who were aching to be heard.
As soon as the little girl realised this, the Light grew brighter. It didn’t happen all at once but bit by bit, the more the little girl told her story, the more the Light grew brighter and radiated further and further into the world.
The brighter the Light, the more the little girl knew she had to share her story with others who were trapped in their own darkness.
In the Light, she had found her voice. Many people needed to hear what she had to say. They needed to know that they were not alone. And they needed to know that they mattered, and that their stories could turn on the Light for others, too.
The little girl knows how it feels not to be heard, and not to have a voice. She knows how it feels to be silenced, and how dark it can be when you have a story to share but you cannot share it.
Now she can help you tell your story, and in doing so, your Light will grow brighter so that you, too, can turn on the Light for those who are still trapped in darkness.
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Award-Winning author and Huffington Post contributor, Liberty Forrest, is represented by Knight Features Literary Agency in London, England. She has written several inspirational and motivational books covering a range of self-development, healing and empowering topics.
Her compelling book, The Power and Simplicity of Self-Healing, has been changing lives and helping people find hope and healing in several countries around the world.
In 2015 her book, Meditation Essentials: How to Quiet the Mind to Achieve More Personal and Professional Success, won the Beverly Hills International Book Award in the Well Being category.
She has also created a beautiful colouring book called Creative Healing: A 30-Day Workbook and Colouring Journey. There is at least one full page of text for each of the 30 colouring images, which follow a step-by-step process to assist in healing, personal development, and self-awareness.
Her articles have appeared in numerous publications in many parts of the globe, including Canada, USA, London, South Africa, India, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, and more. For two years, she had a weekly column in the Dubai branch of "Hello!" Magazine. Currently, she has regular columns in both print and online magazines and newspapers.
She adores anything to do with words, whether writing, editing. In particular, having seen the impact that sharing her story has had on many people who have read her writing or attended her classes or workshops, she loves helping others tell their stories, too. And she loves using fiction to share messages of hope, healing and inspiration. (Visit booksbyliberty.com)
Liberty loves doing stand-up comedy and enjoys incorporating humour into her work wherever possible, believing that when we can finally get to the point of laughing at our foibles, we have truly found healing. And in the meantime, it can sure make the hard times a little softer around the edges.


|About Eritrea - In Eritrea's calendar|
21 September 1952 witnessed the first issue of a newspaper “Dehai Eritrea”. The period of during the British protectorate of Eritrea and at a time in which different political parties were being established. Hence the newspaper was a forum for political debates and exposing the ill intentions of the British administration of its intentions to divide and rule the Eritrean people. The veteran Woldeab Woldemariam was one of the main actors contributing powerful articles and editorials.
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This memorandum summarizes existing scholarly research on police stops; pretrial detention; charging, plea bargaining, and sentencing; and alternatives to incarceration. For each topic, the memo surveys the extent to which each of these contributes to racial disparities as well as inaccuracies in criminal justice; identifies reforms that have worked elsewhere to ameliorate these problems; and considers the extent to which these reforms are compatible with preserving and improving public safety. The memorandum concludes with a brief discussion of recent scholarship that both highlights larger social factors that contribute to disparity and identifies programs and initiatives outside of the criminal justice system that might reduce racial disparities within the system.
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- Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice at the University of Pennsylvania Law School
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- Copyright 2015 by Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. All rights reserved.


NEW, USEFUL AND NONOBVIOUS (personal essay-creative nonfiction)
Finalist, Gabriele Rico Challenge for Nonfiction
To be published by Reed Magazine in May/June 2020
ROAD OUT OF DAMASCUS (short story-fiction)
Finalist, Jack Dyer Fiction Prize
Honorable Mention, Glimmer Train Short Story Award for new writers
Published by Crab Orchard Review (Vol. 22) (2018)
Re-published by fresh.ink (2019)
Published by Venture Beat (2018)
Re-published by High Shelf Press (Vol. IX) (2019)
THE PERFECT HUSBAND (personal essay-satire)
Honorable Mention, 47th New Millennium Writing Awards
Published by High Shelf Press (Issue VIII) (2019)
CRUMBS ON THE FLOOR (short story-fiction)
An earlier version of this story earned Honorable Mention in the Glimmer Train Short Story Award for new writers. Although it is a standalone story, it is also the first chapter of an as-yet-unpublished novel about friendship. The novel was a Semifinalist in the ScreenCraft Cinematic Book Contest.
Published by The Midnight Oil (Vol. 2) (2019)
HOOKED AND HANGING (short story-fiction)
Although it is a standalone story, it is also a late chapter in the same as-yet-unpublished novel as above.
Published by The Write Launch (Jan. issue) (2019)
GREECE THROUGH A LENS (essay)
Introduction to ZOI, a book of photography by Stella Johnson (2018)
THE WAY OUT (personal essay-creative nonfiction)
Published by Antioch Review (Vol. 76, No.3) (2018)
PARISIAN KISSES (personal essay-creative nonfiction)
Published by HCE Review (Vol. II, Issue II) (2018)
RESTIVE AND UPRISING (personal essay-creative nonfiction)
Published by Dreamers Creative Writing (Year 1 Anthology) (2018)
An earlier version of the essay, called Rejection, was published in Poetry and Business (2016) and was the basis for the short story, Road out of Damascus
SEEING IN THE DARK (personal essay-creative nonfiction)
Published by Bellevue Literary (Fall issue) (2017)
SHISHA (short story-fiction)
Winner, Tethered by Letters’ Short Story Contest
Finalist in PNWA Literary Contest
Published in F(r)iction #7 (2017)
FINGERPRINT (short story-fiction)
Runner-up, Prole Books' Prolitzer Prose Competition
Published in Prole21 (2016)
GREECE'S FLEDGLING TECH SCENE (article)
Published in Huffington Post Blog (2016)
COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS at American College of Thessaloniki (2016)
IRON DOME (short story-fiction)
Top 25 (of over a thousand entries), Glimmer Train Short Story Award for new writers
Editor's Pick, 2015 Northern Colorado Writers Contest
Published in Pooled Ink: 2015 NCW Contest Winners (2015)
Marina Hatsopoulos was Founding CEO of Z Corporation, an early market leader in 3D printing. The Company was the winner of the "New England Technology Fast 50" for 2001, a ranking of the 50 fastest-growing technology companies in the region, and was listed in the Inc 500 ranking of the nation’s 500 fastest-growing private companies by Inc Magazine.
She is currently Chair of the Board of Levitronix Technologies, the worldwide leader in magnetically-levitated bearingless motor technology and Founding Advisor of Inkbit, an MIT startup. She was recently appointed by the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Cyprus to the newly-formed National Board of Research & Innovation. She is on the Advisory Board of the Nantucket Conference, MIT Enterprise Forum Greece, Eurobank's EGG accelerator, OK!Thess accelerator, Mindspace entrepreneurial program and Cyprus Seeds research commercialization program. She is an investor in ENDO Medical, Advantis, Codebender and RTsafe, based in Greece, and C2Sense, based in Cambridge, MA.
She was a Director and investor in Cynosure, a $400 million leader in the laser aesthetics market which was sold to Hologic for $1.65 billion in 2017. She was a Director and investor in Dear Kate, which makes performance apparel, and Tea Forte, a luxury tea brand which was sold to Sara Lee. She served as Director of the GSI Group, a $300 million supplier of laser-based advanced manufacturing systems for the global semiconductor and industrial markets. She was a Director of Contex Holding, a $100 million leading manufacturer of large-format scanners and software. As Chair of the Committee on Finance and Investment of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), she oversaw the budgets and investments of this 120,000-member organization.
She serves on the Board of The Bridge Boston Charter School and has served on the Board of The Buckingham Browne & Nichols School. Ms. Hatsopoulos graduated with a B.A. in Pure Mathematics and a B.A. in Music from Brown University in 1987 (Phi Beta Kappa, Magna Cum Laude, Mathematics Prize, and Faculty Fellowship). She received her M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from MIT in 1993 (Sigma Xi).
Ms. Hatsopoulos was honored with Mass. High Tech’s 2001 All-Star Award for Hardware. She and Z Corp. have been profiled in Fortune, Forbes, Fast Company, Boston Business Journal, The Boston Globe, Boston Magazine , a Boston Museum of Science podcast, and MIT Technology Review. She has published articles in Design News and Time Compression Technologies, and contributed a chapter, titled “Product Differentiation from Technology,” to Jumpstart: Launching Your Business Venture, Profitably and Successfully (Aspatore, 2003).
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The Centre for the Study of British Politics and Public Life welcomed author and journalist Polly Toynbee to the Keynes Library yesterday, where she appeared in conversation with Birkbeck Professorial Fellow in Politics Tony Wright.
The wide-ranging talk, which was followed by a Q&A with the audience,
mixed biographical detail with political insight, covering Toynbee’s education, early work experiences and the effort behind writing two columns a week. It also addressed the challenges facing the Labour party in upcoming votes in London and Scotland, and the pitfalls for the Yes campaign in the EU referendum.
You can listen to the talk below.
(Please note: the first minute of the talk is missing due to a technical issue)
Polly Toynbee is a major figure in contemporary British political journalism. A sharp observer of politics, she is a columnist for the Guardian, has been BBC social affairs editor, columnist and associate editor of the Independent, co-editor of the Washington Monthly and a reporter and feature writer for the Observer.
Her most recent books are Better or Worse?: Has Labour Delivered? (2005); Unjust Rewards: Exposing Greed and Inequality in Britain Today (with David Walker, 2008); Cameron’s Coup (with David Walker, 2015)
Professor Tony Wright is Professorial Fellow in Politics at Birkbeck College and Professor of Politics at UCL. MP for Cannock Chase from 1992 to 2010, he chaired the Reform of the House of Commons Committee (publishing the report ‘Rebuilding the House’ in 2009). He chaired the Public Administration Committee of the House of Commons from 1999 to 2010. He has been co-editor of Political Quarterly since 1995.
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Tea & Daoism
The Chinese character for Tea, 茶 Chá , is made up of three components: 艹 (grass), 人 (human), 木(wood).人 (human) is between 艹 (grass) and 木 (wood). Humans are one with the natural essence of sky and earth. This embodies the essence of Daoism: ultimately being the unity of man and nature.
道 Dào is the philosophy and religion that originally rooted from ancient China. In Chinese, Dao literally means path or way, and it can extent its meanings as of principle and moral. Daoism means the essence of the universe, and the united one of human beings and the natural world - thus declaring Dao as the combination of truth, kindness, and beauty of the universe. The material and human spirit cannot be separated; as material is in the spirit - and the spirit is in the material.


California Cultures: A Monograph Series (CCMS) is an online monograph series for research, essays, and other creative works about the peoples and cultures of the California region.
We welcome the presentation of solid research and writing in standard monograph form, as well as the publication of formats that would be difficult or expensive in the print format.
CCMS publishes monographs on an irregular schedule, as they become available, however our goal is to publish approximately three volumes per year.
California Cultures: A Monograph Series (CCMS) is an online monograph series which began publication in 2012. CCMS arose out of the collaboration of a scholarly Writers Group that had been meeting at Dr. Lee Davis' house for many years in Oakland, California.
Our group realized that it would be difficult to publish monographs that were too long to have published in journals or too short to publish as books, or that contained more scholarly notes than were acceptable by many presses, or whose format did not financially suit the usual print medium. This was also an historic time when print publishing was fast disappearing to be replaced by online magazines and journals.
For the better part of a year, we discussed creating an online publishing format, and arrived at the format you see here, California Cultures: A Monograph Series.
Today, the CCMS Editorial Board is comprised of Dr. Lee Davis (Founding Editor), Brian Gleeson (Editor in Chief), and Timothy Jordan (Associate Editor), with contributions on specific works and projects from other outside section editors. Dr. Lee Davis and Brian Gleeson are also co-owners of the Land of Oaks Institute; a general partnership for the purpose of research and publication about California topics, including the publication of CCMS.
Lee Davis, PhD.
Dr. Lee Davis is an anthropologist (San Francisco State University, Emerita. University of Nebraska. CSU Hayward) who has worked with the people of Native California, most closely with the Hupa people, for over thirty years. She is also a museologist (previously the Asst. Director of the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, Hearst Museum of Anthropology at UC Berkeley). She founded several large scale projects including the California Indian Library Collections (CILC) program, the California Indian Project (CIP), and the Pacific West Center for Regional Humanities. For many years, she was the Coordinator of the California Indian Conference.
"Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine."
- Ludwig van Beethoven
Editor In Chief
Brian Gleeson is an Anthropologist and Ethnohistorian who earned both his Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees in Anthropology at San Francisco State University. He has been studying Indigenous Peoples and related topics for over 20 years, with a focus on Native California, and has collaborated with Dr. Lee Davis on numerous projects. Since 2015, Brian has taught Cultural Anthropology courses at CSU East Bay with an emphasis on the Indigenous Peoples of North America and California. Brian has served two years as President of the East Bay Council, of the California Council of Parent Participation Nursery Schools, and currently serves on the Board of Directors of Aurora School. Brian works professionally as a regulatory affairs practice leader in the health care industry, and works creatively as a musician and graphic designer.
“Perfection is a lot of little things done well.”
- Fernand Point
Timothy Jordan attended San Francisco State University where he earned a Master’s Degree in Cultural Anthropology and a double Bachelor's Degree in Anthropology and Cinema. With more than 18 years of mentorship under Lee Davis, he has studied the cultural relationships between Native Californians and the animals & plants of the landscapes they inhabit. He has worked as a research assistant, manuscript and film editor with the National Sexuality Resource Center in San Francisco, and as a filmmaker with the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, chronicling salmonid habitat restoration efforts. He was an interpretive park ranger and education specialist with the National Park Service. He has lived all his life in California and is interested in celebrating the diversity of cultures the state fosters.
“As long as I live, I'll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing. I'll interpret the rocks, learn the language of flood, storm, and the avalanche. I'll acquaint myself with the glaciers and wild gardens, and get as near the heart of the world as I can"
- John Muir


Where to Purchase Pre-Loved Books in the Philippines
By: Chesca Rama
An exciting new adventure for a bookworm could be buying a new book. The whole experience of going to the bookstore to look through aisles of different book categories to finally finding the perfect book for you could be exciting.
However, you have probably experienced the unfortunate event of buying a book that you ended up not liking. Or perhaps reading a book but only using it for a little while.
Instead of risking wasting your money on a new book that would not be put into good use, a good alternative to this would be purchasing pre-loved books. Pre-loved books are more affordable, so if ever you buy a book you end up not liking, at least you did not have to pay the full price for it. In addition to this, if it’s something that you will only be needing for a short time, you probably don’t need a book that is in pristine condition. A book that is slightly pre-loved could probably be decent enough for you to enjoy.
Want to know where you can purchase pre-loved books? Here are some online bookstores to choose from:
1. Books for Less
Books for Less is an online bookstore that offers pre-loved books at good quality. In addition to this, they also have book sales that can go up to 50%. The type of book categories that they offer are business, children’s books, classics, fiction, inspirational, religion & spirituality, vintage, young adult.
Other Special offers that they have include:
- Books by the box (bulk books at 50% off, box is labelled by type of books)
- Free book bundle (2 books for the price of 1)
You can check out Books for Less through their website here.
2. Porch Reader Philippines
Porch Reader Philippines is a local online bookstore that sells both old and new books. Their mission is to promote literacy and love of reading in the country by building free little libraries that can be accessible for all. The types of book categories that they offer include children, classics, fiction, comics, self-published, and non-Fiction.
You can check out Porch Reader Philippines through their website here.
3. Book Duke
Book Duke is an online bookstore based in Davao that sells both new and used books at deducted prices. They post release dates on when and which books they will release. To get a book, you must comment “mine” on the post of the book that you would want to have reserved for you.
You can check out Book Duke through their Facebook Page here.
Avalon is an online shop that has been in business since 1999. They have a wide variety of books that include fiction, non-fiction, Philippine publications, comics, fashion and even signed and rare books. Other than books, they also offer moleskin notebooks and other gift items. They’re prices range from 200 and below to over 1,000 pesos.
You can check out Avalon through their website here.
5. Book Fellas
Book Fellas is an independent secondhand book store that is located in Diliman, Quezon City. They are open evrey Saturday from 2-6 PM. On their Facebook, page they post the book cover along with a description and other important information of the book of the book on their posts. They also have some book promos such as Get 3 for 500 pesos from specific book bundles.
You can check out Book Fellas through their Facebook Page here.
6. iRent Mo
iRent mo now have book sellers who sell their pre-loved books. It could be anything from fiction to non-fiction, academic, manga, novels, textbooks, and etc. These books are also available for rent. Get the books delivered right to your doorstep.
Check out our Facebook page here
If you are a bookworm, buying a new book could be an exciting moment for you. However, it could be worth considering purchasing a pre-loved book instead. It allows books to be circulated around the economy plus you get to own books that you want at a more affordable price. There is also something remarkable about owning a book that someone else has owned. Sometimes, previous book owners highlight their favorite lines or write notes in their books that could be interesting to you.
In addition to this, it is worth considering donating your books after use, especially the ones that you do not have an emotional attachment to. Books can be of great help to someone else. It is better to put them to good use again through donating.
In general, buying things could be exciting, but we should remember that there are better and more affordable ways to do so such as through purchasing pre-loved.


The CETABC Library of Resources is a central repository of a vast collection of files - documents, templates, tools, spreadsheets, PDFs, powerpoint presentations - CETABC members have agreed to share. Categorized by content, they have been uploaded for retrieval by any CETABC member.
We welcome any resources CETABC members are willing to share and will upload these as we receive them - continually expanding our Library as we do so.
For technical reasons, CETABC members are asked to e-mail their Library submissions to Marcus for uploading. (That way, we can ensure file names are clear, that resources are uploaded to the most appropriate content category, and that extra large or graphically-complex files can be condensed or reformatted as need be.) We'll ensure they're posted right away!
As well, we are always interested to know of any ideas you have for improving our Library of Resources! So post a comment or make a suggestion!


Writings and Publications
Arabic Learning Resources
Mohamed. A (2017). Exposure Frequency in L2 reading: An eye tracking perspective of incidental vocabulary learning.
Studies in Second Language Acquisition
, 1-25. doi:10.1017/S0272263117000092
Gass, S., & Mohamed, A. (2017). Approaches to second language acquisition in relation to Arabic. In K. Wahba, L. England, & Z. Taha (Eds.). Handbook for Arabic Language Teaching Professionals in the 21st Century. New York: Routledge.
Mohamed. A (2016).
Task-based incidental vocabulary learning in L2 Arabic: The role of proficiency and task performance.
, 18, 121-157.
Mohamed. A (2012). Investigating incidental vocabulary acquisition in conversation classes: A qualitative and quantitative analysis.
MSU Working Papers in SLS, 3
Mohamed. A. (2012). Task based language learning(Ed.). Book review. Linguist list.
Mohamed. A. (2013). Arabic Second Language Acquisition of Morphosyntax. Book review.
MSU Working Papers in SLS, 4
Mohamed. A. (2013). Interview with Norbert Schmitt. MSU Working Papers in SLS, 4(1), 21-23.
First Prize in MSU International Essay Contest, November 2010.
Papers under review
Mohamed. A(under review). Looking at words: An eye tracking investigation of Arabic vocabulary learning,Routledge.
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Why do adults who are married to each other stop liking each other? What happens to children when their parents separate?
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Three R's at Home
Three R's At Home by Howard & Susan Richman, $7.95, 228 pp (ISBN: 0920446003). This book tells how the Richmans homeschooled from a young age and helps you see how you can homeschool younger children in a way that grows right out of reading to your children. These methods work! Two of the Richmans' always-homeschooled children got complete academic scholarships to college (Jesse and Molly), a third (Jacob) graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in computer science is now programming for Microsoft, and the fourth (Hannah) is still in high school at home.The entire book can now be read online:
- Click here to see the Table of Contents in a new window
- Click here to read Chapter 1. Introduction.
- Click here to read Chapter 2. Reading to Children.
- Click here to read Chapter 3. First Steps Toward Reading
- Click here to read Chapter 4. Learning Phonics
- Click here to read Chapter 5. Helping Children Learn to Read
- Click here to read Chapter 6. First Steps Toward Writing
- Click here to read Chapter 7. Becoming a Writer
- Click here to read Chapter 8. Math
- Click here to read Chapter 9. Tests and Records
- Click here to read Chapter 10. Writing Our Own Curriculum
- Click here to read Chapter 11. Getting Organized
- Click here to read Chapter 12. What We Have Learned
And here is how our family looked 15 years later:
Here's what others have written about The Three R's at Home
I would recommend it to anybody who likes humanity and likes growth. I got wonderful practical ideas from it which I put into use right away. It reads very nicely and it's difficult to put down, but I'm forcing myself to put it down because I want it to last longer!--Megan Tash
I feel this book is well worth the money. It is warmly written, as if the Richmans are sitting across the kitchen table from you... I guess it's the next best thing to being able to do just that! Sit down with your highlighter and enjoy.--Nancy Goodson in The Voice of the Alabama Home Educators.
This book provides an honest, detailed look into the life of one homeschooling family and provides enough generalization about learning to enable another family to use the ideas in the book to create their own "best way" to learn at home.--Colorado Homeschooling Network Newsletter.
I liked finding out how the Richmans solved the common questions of getting organized, finding time for Dad and the kids, giving Mom time off, etc., for themselves, often through trial and error, just as we all must. The book leaves you with a positive feeling that each of us can succeed in educating our children well through homeschooling.--Wendy Wartes in Washington State's Teaching Parents Association Newsletter.
There is so much warm support and refreshing good sense to be gained from this book. It is a must for every homeschooling family. Chapter headings include: reading to children, first steps toward reading, learning phonics, helping children learn to read, first steps toward writing, becoming a writer, math, tests and records, writing your own curriculum, getting organized, and finally, what we have learned (which is reading aloud is the foundation, first steps must not be rushed, finding a regular rhythm, keep sessions enjoyable, use real life situations, recognize accomplishments, establish a partners in learning relationship).--from the Winter 1989 Learning at Home Catalog.
I just finished your book, The Three R's at Home, and wanted to let you know how much I appreciated it. Partly it gives a very detailed real picture of day by day homeschooling that so many people first starting out or considering homeschooling need to know about. Also it made me feel so good to read about someone who's homeschooling so much like we are. We live in Alabama surrounded by families homeschooling for very different reasons and using very "schoolish" methods of teaching, while I've discovered all homeschooling families have experiences and goals in common to some extent, their approaches can be so different as to make real sharing awkward. We are one who use no "canned curriculum," and find ourselves constantly on the defensive at homeschooling get togethers about this, or at least the objects of good natured curiosity.--Barbara Smith
Veteran home schoolers Susan and Howard Richman share their earthy educational philosophy along with tons of stories about how they and their friends 'did it.' ... A really fun book to read.--Mary Pride
The Three R's at Home by Howard and Susan Richman is packed full of anecdotes and practical advice gleaned from these two educators' experience homeschooling their four children.--Gifted Children Monthly
I have been reading and re-reading and using your Three R's at Home as my main inspiration and resource for this entire first year (first "official" year) of homeschooling. There have been some difficult and frustrating days that were actually turned around totally after I read a few choice pages from your book. I have given this book as a gift to homeschooling friends and it is a treasure to them, too. Thanks for so much!--Cindy Truman
Your book The Three R's at Home was pressed into my hands by a friend from New Jersey who found out about it when she lived in Pennsylvania. We were on vacation at the time, and I read the book in the car constantly, risking serious carsickness! And even got up early to read a few more pages before "the troops" woke up. I kept it as long as I dared after we returned home, and it hurt to wrap it in brown paper and mail it back to my friend in Jersey! We're homeschooling our two children who are Tim (almost 5) and Debby (almost 3). Reading The Three R's at Home is almost like watching your home school in action, only better, because we not only hear about what you've done, but also why you've done it, and how it worked. I really need my own copy of the book, so my order and check are enclosed. Thanks for writing it--your experience is valuable, so valuable, to us novices.--from Elizabeth Messick
Thank you for your wonderful book, The Three R's at Home. It revitalized our homeschooling! I mean I've subscribed to GWS [Growing Without Schooling Magazine] for almost 9 years, read about every other book on homeschooling, known ever since my first born was a baby (almost nine years ago) that I was never going to send my children to school, but your book is the first one to give me practical workable ideas and has renewed my faith that homeschooling will work.--from Elaine Williamson


The Young Stroke Survivors Symposium welcomed stroke survivors, caregivers, and healthcare professionals from different regions across Ontario to the Living Arts Centre in Mississauga on November 27, 2018.
The event was well attended and featured speakers who discussed different topics related to stroke recovery. Attendees were also able to visit exhibitor booths and learn more about services available to them and had the opportunity to connect with other young stroke survivors.
For your reading pleasure, below you will find a selection of the presentations:
March of Dimes Canada: Employment Services (PDF)