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Meet our Fabulous Guest Artists at an Evening of Art & Music with MSTERIO (formerly HappyDoll)
Looking forward to seeing you!
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30TH
7:00 - 8:30 PM CONCERT AND COCKTAIL RECEPTION
TENRI CULTURAL INSTITUTE OF NEW YORK
43A WEST 13TH STREET NY NY 10011
RSVP Required. Seats are limited.
PLEASE VISIT OUR EVENT PAGE TO RESERVE YOUR SEAT TODAY!!!
MIORI INATA, Photographer
From 1991, Miori was an active photographer in New York. Since witnessing the 2001 terrorist attacks in his hometown of Manhattan, she has visited and photographed Holy Lands of Prayer like Israel, Palestine, Native Indian lands, Mexico, Greece, Ukraine, France, Angkor Wat, as well as the Yunnan and Tibetan temples. From 2005, she began shooting the Ise Grand Shrine and the transitions it underwent every 20 years, which has become her life work. She won Shinto Cultural Association Lifetime Achievement Award in 2015. The photos she has taken of the Holy Land have been on display in museums in Japan, New York, Monaco, Israel, and Europe. She has appeared in all forms of media around the world, and has participated in many lectures as well as published her work. Her first English book will be published in this spring.
https://ja-jp.facebook.com/MioriInata
JULIA MEYNERT, Violinist
Julia Meynert, born in Bochum, Germany, into a German-Japanese family, got her first lessons at the age of 5. Her studies eventually took her to the the Vienna Conservatory (Konservatorium Wien Privatuniversität), the Scuola di Musica di Fiesole (Italy), and at the Scuola di Musica di Mantova (Italy).
Julia won 1st prize at the national music competition in Germany, "Jugend Musiziert," in 1998 and in 2001, and 3rd prize at the Luigi Nono Competition in Italy in 2008. Julia has performed all over the world -- in Germany , Austria, France, Italy, Croatia, Serbia, Ukraine, Switzerland, Slovenia, and the United States in such renowned halls as the Brahms Hall of the Musikverein in Vienna, Steinway Hall, Carnegie Hall, and Merkin Hall. Julia Meynert has been invited to judge for the "Olympic Challenge Competition" at Steinway and Carnegie Halls in New York, and for the Crescendo International Competition, Carnegie Hall. Since Summer 2014, Julia has run her own festival in Italy near Venice. She is a violin instructor at the Palisades School of Music (NJ) and also at the Performing Arts Conservatory of NY.
ERI KANG, Pianist
Eri's tone beauty and compelling musicality has been hailed by audiences throughout the world. As a Japanese-born Korean American pianist, soloist, collaborative pianists and chamber musician, she has appeared frequently at the major concert halls in New York City, Europe, the Far East including Korea and Japan, and throughout the United States. She has received rave reviews from major newspaper, and music magazines such as the Los Angeles Times, Strad Magazine ,and String Magazine. Heard frequently on NPR, WQXR, WNCN, and at numerous music festivals including Aspen Music Festival, she has also performed highly acclaimed Piano Duo Recitals with Akira Eguchi. Eri has recorded for DC "Dear America" performing Gershwin's "Fantasy on Porgy and Bess for two pianos" and this CD has been selected as the best new-release CD by Japanese Recording Arts Magazine.
She received her bachelor's degree from Toho School of Music, and her Master's degree from the Juilliard School. Eri frequently serves as an official pianist for violin and other string instrumental competitions in the United States, Sion Valais International Competition (Switzerland), Buenos Aires International Violin Competition, and Johansen International Spring Competition among others. Eri is a faculty member of the City University of New York Brooklyn College.
MARIANNA ROSETT, Composer & Pianist
Born in Transylvania, began her piano and ballet studies at the age of 5 and made her radio and television debut in Bucharest at the age of 10 as the winner of the International Youth Festival. Marianna has studied at the Rubin Academy in Jerusalem, and New York's Juilliard, where she became the youngest faculty member in the school's history, teaching music, drama, and dance. She has devoted much of her life to teaching, specializing in classical improvisation, which she believes liberates the creative energies and imagination of the performer. Marianna is working on her first opera called Edwin, about the Shakespearean 19th century actor Edwin Booth.
YIMI KUROSAWA, 13 & 20-strings Koto player/Composer/Improviser/ Computer Sound
Yumi was born and raised in Japan, and began studying the 13-stringed-Koto at the age of three with her parents, Kazuo and Chikako Kurosawa. At the age of 15, she began studying the 20-stringed-Koto with Nanae Yoshimura.
Yumi won the first prize at the National Japanese Koto Competition for students in 1989 and 1992, and a scholarship from The Agency for Cultural Affairs of Japan in 1998. She began touring internationally when she was 10 years old making her Carnegie Hall debut in 2005. In 2011, she was principal soloist in Daron Hagen's Koto Concerto Genji and in The Memory Stone by Marty Legan at the Houston Grand Opera. She played Takashi Yoshimatsu's Koto Concerto FUGAKU with Tokyo Symphony Orchestra at their opening gala at Suntory Hall, Tokyo; collaborated with world renowned hip hop dancers, Les Twins, at world heritage temple Kiyomizudera; and performed at the World Economic Forum in China. She has also composed for Ballet, Tsuru commissioned by the Houston Ballet and Asia Society, TEXAS.
Yumi has been lauded by the NY Times for her graceful musicianship,"drawing on a timbral palette that [ranges] from warm and rounded to bright and metallic."
www.facebook.com/yumikurok
HIDEKO COLTON, NY Style Entertainment Cooking Teacher, Author. Owner of COLTONS NEWYORK
Born and raised in Japan, Hideko moved to New York in 1990 where she worked in the financial industry. After studying at the CIA (Culinary Institute of America) in Hyde Park, NY, Hideko changed her career from finance to food founding COLTONS NEWYORK, a cooking event and lifestyle company in 2009.
Since 2010 Hideko has been developing and teaching a NY-style entertainment class called NY Omotenashi (hospitality in Japanese) cooking class for Japanese women, with more than 1,500 members all over the world. Her class goes beyond cooking by celebrating the total experience of entertaining including cocktails, table top decorations, flower arrangements, pairing with wine, scent and music. Her class has been featured in numerous magazines and newspapers, and she has a regular TV segment called America's Kitchen for Fuji TV USA/Fujisankei.
On December 7th, 2015, Kodansha (the largest publishing company in Japan). published Hideko's first cookbook in Japan. The book "NY Omotenashi Recipe" (NY Style Entertainment Recipe) introduces her unique cooking style to the Japanese people.
http://ameblo.jp/coltonsnewyork/
http://www.facebook.com/hideko.colton
https://instagram.com/hidekocolton/
2016 Year of MONKEY!
As the New Year has arrived, we are reminded once again how appreciative we are for all our wonderful friends.
Last year was an extraordinary one for us and it couldn't have happened without the trust and support you've given us.
We are now very excited to start our 6th year especially we've announced the name change from HappyDoll, Inc. to MSTERIO Inc..
As we've given over 6,000 dolls to date, we will continue accomplishing our goal and continued connecting children around the world.
Our work would not be possible without your support, so on behalf of all the children we serve across the world, thank YOU for your support.
SAVE THE DATE for our Spring Gala in the evening of March 30th (Wed) night in NY
Please note that we've moved to our office recently to:
315 West 36th Street, NY NY 10018
Once again thank you for being an important part of MSTERIO.
Let us introduce one of our dedicated volunteers and special friends, BETTY! She's helping us stuffing dolls and making blank dolls. When she lost her husband in 2006, she invited her sister to go around the world with her and made so many new friends. Since then she's been keeping in touch with them still. Although she has no children, she has so many people who call her "MOM BETTY". She smiles all the time, and gives the BEST HUGS. Her philosophy of her life is "LIVE IN THE MOMENT", and "HELPING OTHERS".
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Please join for HappyDoll's 4th Annual Holiday Gala on December 13th (Sat) afternoon!
HappyDoll's 4th Annual Holiday Gala
With Two Amazing Special Guests
Jennifer 8. Lee
author of "The Fortune Cookie Chronicles"
Dan Pashman
AUTHOR OF "EAT MORE BETTER"
Their passion for food (and how it's eaten) is only outdone by their passion for people. Their work connects us all in so many ways. We're honored to have them with us to celebrate our 4th year connecting children in need through traveling dolls -- over 4,000 dolls since inception!
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13THfrom 1:00 – 3:00 PMEN Brasserie, 435 Hudson St, New York City
Light Hors d'Oeuvres, Soft Drinks, Auctions and More in a Casual Setting
RSVP BY CLICKING HERE
$50: Individual includes 1 ticket to the Gala, 1 raffle ticket 1 adopted doll
$100: Silver Sponsor includes 2 tickets to the Gala, 2 raffle tickets 2 adopted dolls
$500: Gold Sponsor includes 5 tickets to the Gala, 10 raffle tickets 10 adopted dolls
$1,000: Platinum Sponsor includes 10 tickets to the Gala, 20 raffle tickets 20 adopted dolls
The non-tax deductible portion of each ticket is $10.
Help lift the spirits of children in need by donating
11/19 (Wed) Artists Sneak Peak for an Evening of Thanks and Giving
It is a pleasure to announce the number of gifted and esteemed artists that will be performing on the Evening of Thanks and Giving on November 19th (Wed). For a sneak peak, please check out their bios below. RSVP Required. Seats are limited so please register and reserve your seat TODAY.
Buy ticket clicking HERE
Ticket Price: minimum $40
6:30pm Cocktails and hors d'oeuvres
(Guests will have the opportunity to meet and mingle with performers) 7:15pm - 8:15pm Performance
Location: The National Opera Center America
330 Seventh Avenue, NY NY 10001
Paulo Coelho, Composer, Vocalist, Instrumentalist
Born in Portugal, Paulo Coelho started his musical studies on the accordion, eventually branching out to the saxophone, cello, guitar, piano and percussion. At the age of 15 he was accepted into the New York High School of Performing Arts for singing and acting. Paulo attended the New Jersey City University as a vocal and music major and additionally has enjoyed studying Italian opera privately for years and while attending William Paterson University, performed as an operatic baritone and soloist. Paulo has traveled the world performing, writing and recording, he has even collaborated and performed with world-renowned artists and musicians.
Miki Hazui, Piano Miki Hazui has been widely recognized as a pianist, orchestral keyboardist, piano teacher, vocal coach and collaborative pianist. As a solo pianist, she has soared in many international competitions: winning first prize and A. Rubinstein Awards in the Mendelssohn Cup Piano, and second prize in Novyi International Music Concours. Miki has performed in many venues including the Opera Ball at the residence of the ambassador of Japan in Washington D.C., and a sold-out recital at Oji Hall, Tokyo, before Her Imperial Highness The Princess Akishino.
Pei-Wen Liao, Violin Pei-Wen Liao is a young artist becoming widely recognized for her highly compelling and deeply passionate performances. She has performed as a soloist with more than twenty orchestras in ten countries over three continents and has already played a recital at Carnegie Weill Hall with sold-out tickets. She has toured with the Grenada Symphony Orchestra of Spain, performed concerts in China, and was a soloist with the Jerusalem Conservatory Orchestra in a summer tour in Israel and Italy. She entered the Juilliard School Pre-College Division at the age of 10 where she is currently studying.
Eru Matsumoto, Cello Eru Matsumoto has been charming international audiences since age 6. Eru has performed in celebrated venues such as the Walt Disney Concert Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center, and Carnegie Hall. She has also dazzled audiences on television in Japan and the US on a variety of broadcasts, in addition to being featured in a highly regarded HBO project as a young prodigy at age 12. She has worked with British and Hollywood Academy-Award winners and collaborated with major pop recording artists in both Japan and the US. In Fall 2014, she made her PRC debut as guest soloist with the Shanghai Philharmonic.
Isaac Pettigrew, Dance Isaac Pettigrew is 16 years old, a dance major in his Junior Year at the Frank Sinatra School of the Arts. Isaac began dancing with the School of American Ballet at age 8, when he took a part as a toy soldier in the NYCB's "The Nutcracker." Last year, he performed at the City Center in British choreographer Matthew Bourne's project, "The Sleeping Beauty." Isaac has even had the opportunity to attend the New York State Summer School of the Arts in Saratoga Springs.
Marianna Rosett, Piano Marianna made her radio and television debut in Bucharest at the age of 10 as the winner of the International Youth Festival. Marianna has studied at the Rubin Academy in Jerusalem, and New York's Julliard, where she became the youngest faculty member in the school's history, teaching music, drama, and dance. Marianna has composed for television, theater, dance, and currently is working on her first opera called Edwin, about the Shakespearean 19th century actor Edwin Booth.
Nozomi Terao, Piano Nozomi is the Founder and Executive Director of HappyDoll.org. She began taking piano lessons at the age of 4. Though her lessons tapered off by the age of 20, meeting Marianna Rosett has reignited her passion, and Nozomi has again been taking lessons for some time now. She even had an opportunity to play piano at Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall.
11/19 (Wed) An Evening of Thanks and Giving with wonderful Music from Around the World!
An Evening of Thanks and Givingwith wonderful Music from Around the World!
Please Join Us Wednesday, November 19th
Come and Enjoy a Taste of music from around the world
Seats are very limited (max 65 seats theater)
Please reserve your seat TODAY at info@happydoll.org
Or buy ticket clicking HERE
Prior to the performances, which will be from 6:30 PM, cocktails and hors d'oeuvres will be served. Guests during this time will have the opportunity to meet and mingle with the performers. The performance will begin at 7:15 PM.
What's Mine is Yours!
Beautiful Saturday afternoon the Fall Cleaning Party was a great success. Thanks to all of you who supported us. We raised over $2,400. We could not have achieved this without you.
Your donation will bring us closer to our goal to expand the program and connect many more children around the world.
Stay tuned as we have TWO exciting events coming up; a music event on November 19th (Wed) night and Holiday Gala on December 13th (Sat) afternoon in NYC.
GET READY ---- It's time for Fall Cleaning Party in NYC!!!!
YEAH~~~~Autumn officially begins TODAY!!! As many of you cleaning party veterans know, this is an event you do NOT want to miss out on!
HappyDoll's Cleaning party in NY is a fun way to get rid of the old and make room for the new, all for a good cause!! We ask that you bring your CLEAN unwanted clothes, shoes, accessories, kitchenware, toys, books, etc. in GOOD CONDITION to exchange with other guests. All items remaining after the event will be donated to respective charities. We also ask that you make a minimum $25 tax-deductible donation (cash, check, or credit) at the door.
Date: October 18 (Sat), 2014
Time: 2:00-5:00 pm
Place: Grand Tier Plaza
1930 Broadway (bet 64th and 65th St.) 3rd Fl Party room, NY NY
$25 tax-deductible donation can be made via cash, credit card, or check
To RSVP click: I Will Attend or I Will Not Attend Walk-ins are welcome!
This time we will once again partner with our good friends at the amazing organization, Labdoo. Labdoo works to use decentralized social networking tools to efficiently bring excess laptops to children in developing communities, without wasting additional Earth resources.
A laptop is a door to education, providing children free access to open source educational tools and electronic books through the internet. Every year, more than a hundred million laptops are replaced by new ones. This number continues to increase, yet most of the children in developing regions of the world still lack access to education.
So please consider bringing an old/unused laptop to donate, we hope to give your laptops (and pack them with many happydolls) to another organization called CIYOTA (COBURWAS International Youth Organization to Transform Africa) in Uganda.
CIYOTA founded by Joseph Munyambanza. This school is serving about 350 kindergarten to 6th grade school-aged children, both poor local Ugandan children, orphans and refugees. He founded this school in 2006 when he was only 18 years old. He is a truly an amazing person who has been making a huge difference in the world.
AND more.....We are excited that KOTOMI Jewelry will be showcasing her jewelry. Kotomi Jewelry is a London, England, U.K. based jewellery, designed Kotomi Yamamura, specialized period historical influenced style jewellery, Byzantine, medieval, Russian, Gothic, with polymer clay and semi-precious stones.
ALSO there will be light food and beverages, catered by Yoshiko Sugimoto who catered last Spring Cleaning party as well as our Holiday party last year. She will be back AGAIN with some healthy and delicious foods for us to try! Read more about Yoshiko's catering on her blog.
You see! There are so much going on at our Fall Cleaning, so register TODAY as it is going to be a great party.
HappyDoll in Ecuador
By Kameeka Shirley Our first stop in Ecuador was the little town of Daule.
Daule is a town about an hour outside of Guayaquil, the beating commercial heart of Ecuador. After a couple of initial unsuccessful attempts to share the dolls, we headed to the town playground, where we saw a Mom with her son and daughter, interestedly staring at my friend and I clutching the dolls. We approached the woman and explained to her that these dolls were from an organization in the US where children decorate the dolls, which then travel to kids around the world. We explained that part of the mission of the organization was to teach generosity and the joy of sharing with other children. We encouraged them to give the doll to another child when they got older, so the dolls could continue to spread joy to others.
The two children stared intently at us holding the dolls, just waiting for acknowledgement from their mother that it would be ok.
"Would you like for them to choose a doll?" we asked the mother.
She glanced down at her children eagerly awaiting permission and then asked us, "How much?"
When we told her it was free she gladly approved and each of her children joyously selected a doll.
Before we left Daule to continue on our Ecuadorian adventure, we decided to give one last doll to our little host. Christian is my friend's 8-year-old cousin. He was the perfect gentleman and host during our stay and we thought it was only right that he also receive a gift for his hospitality. He accepted his new friend with open arms and the both of them stood at the corner to say good bye before we continued on our journey.
The HappyDolls continued on their journey to the famous Otavalo market, about an hour outside the nation's capital of Quito. Otavalo is one of the most lively traditional markets in all the Americas where natives would come from the surrounding villages to sell gorgeously colored hand-woven fabrics, ornate wooden carvings and original Panama hats worn ubiquitously by the indigenous people of the region.
Our first HappyDoll in Otavalo went to a young school girl who sat outside eating her lunch while her mother chat with a friend. She shyly accepted her new friend and sat him on her lap as she continued with her meal.
As her mother chat with a friend, a little boy walked up to the friend's side and saw the young girl with a HappyDoll. We explained to his mother the mission of HappyDoll as we handed the little boy his new friend. Before the mother and son and continued on their way, the mother pointed across the street to a woman selling strawberries on the corner with her baby strapped to her back in local tradition. She told us that the woman and her baby would really appreciate a doll as well.
The woman across the street watched as we approached. We greet her while explaining the mission of HappyDoll and offering one for her son. She nodded in approval and turned slightly so the baby on her back could see us and the dolls. The mother selected a doll for the child and passed it back to him as the baby excitedly grasped the doll from his mother's hands and held it close.
By this time, we were becoming pretty popular. As we walked through the market clutching the dolls, the kids weaving in and out of the stalls waiting for their parents to close up shop would give us a quick glance as they darted back away playing little games amongst themselves. We saw a little girl sitting peacefully next to her mother, watching the tourists pass by the various stalls. We stopped and again explained the mission of HappyDoll while handing the little girl the last HappyDoll I had in my purse. She looked at her mother, looked at us, and then back at her mother as her mother nodded in approval. The little girl grabbed the doll with excitement, looking down and beaming. The little girl wouldn't stop looking at the doll and smiling until her Mom had to remind her about the picture part of the deal.
We had noticed, giving the last doll, that there were two little boys playing in the stall behind the last little girl. We saw them watch us as we handed out the last doll I had carried with me. We were about to leave the market, having handed out all our dolls, when we were approached by another woman with the same two little boys peering out from behind her. The woman kindly asked if we had another doll for the two boys. I had given out all the dolls I brought with me, but I knew I had three more in the car parked 10 blocks away. We told them that if they could wait for me to come back from the car, we could bring two more dolls for them. I rushed to the car and brought the remaining dolls in my bag and raced back to the market. As I approached, I saw the two boys sitting patiently, cross-legged on the floor where I had left them. When they saw me, they jumped up and waited as I pulled two dolls from my bag. They quickly snatched the dolls and stood ready for their picture before they eagerly ran off to play with their new friends.
Our very last doll was a US soldier. This doll was particularly special to our group (not only because I had personally stuffed that doll ;) but also because we had a US Army soldier in our group who got special leave to join us on the trip. After Otavalo market, we headed to the small town of Banos, which is most famously known for its local geothermal springs. As we were headed to the springs, we stopped to look at some of the artesanias in one of the stalls. There was a little girl standing at the stall with her Mom, playing with the bracelets and other goods her Mom had for sale. The Army soldier with us suggested we give this last doll to the girl so she could have something to play with as she sat with her Mom throughout the day. After explaining the HappyDoll mission to her mother, the little girl coyly accepted the doll and gave him a kiss on his head.
The Goings-On at HappyDoll
Summer is here, yay!
We're halfway through the year and I'm happy to report we've been very busy connecting children:
Dolls that have traveled: 600
Countries they visited: 9
States they visited: 25
Blank dolls created by our volunteers: 800
Number of volunteers who have stuffed and sewn: 400
Number of volunteer doll stuffing sessions: 17
New Doll Design
HappyDoll collaborated with the Soft Toy and Doll Design Class of the Toy Department at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) to enhance the doll for more effective interaction with children. Each doll now has longer arms for better hugs, hands with "thumbs up" for spreading positivity and love, and rounded feet for more playful activity.
HappyDoll Birthday Kits
Our launch of the HappyDoll Birthday Kits proved to be a big success thanks to our feature in the March issue of Parent's Magazine. We were ranked as one of the best Charity Birthday Party ideas for children today. To date, there have been close to 30 birthday parties and about 150 dolls decorated from this venture! Read More>>
School Exchange Program
We held our first-ever School Exchange Program with the Dominican Academy here in New York City (private girls school), as well as Jan's Senior Academy in Kisumu County, Kenya. 100 students from each school decorated dolls, which they then exchanged with each other to foster a relationship between the two schools. Read More>>
Take Your Children To Work Day
We were fortunate enough to continue participating in The Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi UFJ in NY & NJ annual Take Your Child to Work Day as well as Cowen Group in their NY office. Over 70 children were integrated into the our program.
Major Fundraising events:
This past March, HappyDoll teamed up with InViolet Theater company in NYC, to help promote their wonderful production "Branched: A Comedy with Consequences". $10 from every ticket (regularly priced at $18) was donated directly to us.
In April, we again partnered with Miki House and Bloomingdales in Orlando, Florida to host a doll decorating event.
We raised $1,700 from our Spring Cleaning Party, and partnered with Labdoo to collect several used laptops to be sent with the dolls to undeveloped countries.
We look forward to an exciting second half of 2014. We have many volunteer sessions coming as well as many new places for our traveling dolls, and let's not forget our exciting annual fundraiser.
Please help continue our work and donate. It will bring a smile to a child in need for sure. Enjoy the summer!


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Aroet Lucius Hale Journal Transcriptions
Identifier: 2017-51
Overview Aroet Lucius Hale, born on May 18, 1828, was an extremely active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and an early emigrant to Utah Territory. Hale died on December 13, 1911 in Grantsville, Utah. Collection contains two journals by Aroet Lucius Hale transcribed by Kathlyn Cranney Mayes Stubblefield in 1990 describing the life of Hale and his emigration from Dover, New Hampshire to Grantsville, Utah.
Jack Dieringer Papers
Overview Andrew "Jack" Dieringer (1925-2020) graduated from the University of Nevada, Reno in 1948 with a degree in biology. He began working for the Nevada Fish and Game Commission directly out of college and continued there until his retirement in 1983. Collection includes daily diaries kept by Dieringer from February 1951 to his retirement in 1983 and record his daily work activities, meetings, and trips to the field.
Josephine Freeman Diaries
Scope and Contents Manuscript diaries of life in California and at the Sierra Nevada Mountain's summer home.
Dates: 1888-1994; Majority of material found within 1900 - 1932
C. C. Goodwin Historical Writings Journal
Overview C. C. Goodwin was a writer, politician, and journalist. He lived in Nevada from 1860-1880, and was associated with the Virginia City newspaper, theTerritorial Enterprise. Collection contains one journal of unpublished writings on historical events and people in which Goodwin was interested.
Dates: late 19th century
Diary of Mabel Lockett
Abstract Mabel Lockett traveled by wagon in 1902 with her parents and brother Tommy from Chadron, Nebraska, through Wyoming, Idaho, and Utah to Flagstaff and Phoenix, Arizona. Contains typescript daily diary of Mabel Lockett's family's trip. Mabel recounts activities in Nebraska before starting the trip, events along the trail, and life in Flagstaff and Phoenix. Unlike earlier journeys the family was able to travel from one town to another. Dates range from May 11 - December 31, 1902
Dates: May 11-December 31, 1902
Robert C. Miller Diaries
Overview Robert C. Miller (1915-2004) was an American journalist who attended the University of Nevada, Reno from 1935-1938. The collection includes copies of Miller's handwritten diaries and transcriptions detailing his years at the University of Nevada, January 1935 through graduation in May 1938.
Dates: 1935-1996; Majority of material found within 1936-1938
Found in: University of Nevada, Reno. University Archives
Alphratta Blanche Preston Papers
Identifier: NC1198
Overview Alphratta Blanche Preston (1886-1977) was a French teacher and operated boarding houses in Reno, Nevada. The collection, dating from 1901-1973, consists of Preston's diaries, correspondence with family members, personal papers, financial documents and ephemera.
Reservation Eyes
Overview John Gilbertson was a teacher for Washoe County School District in Nevada from 1977-2009, retiring from Reno High School. He taught at Nixon High School (Nixon, Nevada) for one year from 1979-1980. This collection contains Gilbertson's transcribed teaching journal from the year spent at Nixon.
Samuel Doten Fishing Journals
Overview Samuel Bradford Doten (1875-1955) was born in Gold Hill, Nevada to Alfred and Mary Stoddard Doten. Doten taught at the University of Nevada, Reno from 1900 until his retirement in 1946 and served as the director of the Nevada Agricultural Experiment Station. He was an avid fisherman and kept a fishing journal from 1906-1951. Collection contains his journal and a small amount of additional materials, including correspondence and photographs, found in the journals.
Summer School Diary
Overview The University of Nevada conducted its first Summer School in 1912. The students, all teachers, began a diary describing their experiences, including extracurricular activities in Reno, Virginia City, and at Lake Tahoe. The diary was continued by the Summer School students of 1913 and 1914.
Subject: Diaries X
University of Nevada, Reno. Special Collections Department 10
University of Nevada, Reno. University Archives 2
Brunswick Mining Company 1
Chrisman family 1
Dieringer, Andrew Jack 1
Doten, Samuel B. (Samuel Bradford), 1875-1955 1
Freeman, Josephine 1
Gilbertson, John 1
Goodwin, C. C. (Charles Carroll) 1
Hale, Aroet Lucious 1
Lockett family 1
Lockett, Mabel 1
Miller, Robert C. 1
Nevada. Department of Fish and Game 1
Nixon High School (Nixon, Nev.) 1
Order of Eastern Star (Nev.) 1
Preston, Albert W. 1
Preston, Alphratta Blanche, 1886-1977 1
Preston, Clovis, 1911-1925 1
Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe of the Pyramid Lake Reservation, Nevada 1
Stubblefield, Kathlyn 1
Trimmer, Bonnie 1
University of Nevada. College of Education. Summer Session 1
Van Etten, Watson 1

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Fantasy Q&A: Christopher G. Nuttall
February 4, 2020 February 4, 2020 JayStonesmith
Christopher G. Nuttall, author of The Schooled in Magic series, The Empire's Corps series and The Royal Sorceress books, to name just a few of the dozens of titles he's published, was kind enough to answer some questions about his books and his writing life.
What do you like most about the writing process and which parts do you like the least?
What do I like? I like creating worlds and stories and watching them slowly come into existence. It's fun to shape a world, then outline how it changes as the world changes too; it's fun, too, to craft a character and watch him/her grow up.
What don't I like? The editing. Oh God, the editing. Editing is vitally important – a writer who edits himself has a fool for an editor – but it can also be painful. And yet, it just has to be done.
Which books have had the greatest impact on your writing?
It's hard to say. I read a lot of history and military books, ranging from stories of kings and queens – and military campaigns – to the nuts and bolts that give the universe its realism (insofar as a universe that has magic is realistic.)
There have been quite a few books that outline limitations faced by historical figures, including something as simple as the time delay between something happening and the guys in charge hearing about it. It's odd to realise that the distance between London and Oxford would have been quite long, to our ancestors. Britain was big in those days. Now, it's barely a matter of hours and Britain is a tiny island.
And I've read a lot of fiction books that taught me what I liked – and what I wanted to see – and what I didn't like. Books that indulge in too much technobabble annoy me, books that focus too much on one particular subset of the reading community only appeal to me when I'm the target. I try to spread a wider net than just one particular group.
Which of your characters is the easiest for you to write, and which is the most challenging? Why?
That's a tough question to answer. Emily of Schooled in Magic draws a lot from my own experience, which makes her both easy and complicated to write. Cat of The Zero Blessing also draws a little from my experiences, but she's younger and she had a very different upbringing from myself. This is true of Emily too, but at least Emily grew up in a society I understood.
I've had people tell me that I write great female characters and others tell me that I've clearly never met a woman. My wife laughed her head off when that review was posted, as we'd been married for about a year at that time.
Cat is perhaps the most complicated because she's twelve. On one hand, she has to be a little immature, even though she does come from a society that doesn't really have a 'teenage' phase. On the other hand, she cannot be too immature or she'll alienate older readers, who'll see her as an idiot child. I did think about making her older, but if her story had started four years later she would probably have been a lot sourer, a lot more set in her ways. Besides, I did someone like that years ago.
I also had some problems with writing John Naiser, as he's the first viewpoint character I wrote who happened to be gay. It wasn't the be-all and end-all of his character – and I was careful not to make it too explicit at first, just to see if anyone picked up on the subtext (they did) – but it was tricky. A book written too strongly in the homosexual gaze (or the female gaze) will be off-putting to many readers, just as a book written too strongly in the male gaze would be off-putting to others. I wasn't writing erotica, after all! I've been told I did well and I did badly, so … .
It's the social attitudes that can be a problem. I'm currently planning a novella focused on Alassa, something that would fill in the gap between Schooled in Magic 14 and Schooled in Magic 15. Alassa is a very different person to Emily, one with social attitudes that Emily dislikes; Alassa is a princess, she sees herself as occupying the top of the food chain, she thinks of (most) commoners as somewhat less than human … and she doesn't see anything wrong with any of this. It's hard to keep her what she is – a person who grew up in a different world – without making her dreadfully unsympathetic.
And clashes between Emily's view of decent behaviour and everyone else's have always been part of the series.
Do you plot your books in detail, or develop the story as you are writing it?
A little of both, I think.
I generally write out a two-three page outline of the story, depending on how complex the story actually is, then change it as I go along if something else seems a better idea. There are quite a few scenes in various books that bear little resemblance to the original plot. Having at least some idea of how the book is meant to go is important, particularly if you need to leave clues scattered throughout the text. You can't just decide that the butler did it when you reach the last page.
There are times when I have plotted out two or three novels in advance, just to ensure everything fits into place. And times when I have discarded those plots because I had a better idea midway through.
What do readers most enjoy about your Schooled in Magic series?
I've had a lot of different answers, really. Some people enjoy the stories themselves, some people comment on how Emily is changing her new world, some people like seeing a female character who isn't a Mary Sue or a man in a woman's body … I've had the series called a worthy successor to Harry Potter and The Worst Witch, as well as Lest Darkness Fall and other time travel books.
Which fantasy books written in the last few years would you recommend to fantasy readers?
Pretty much anything by Brandon Sanderson, although some are harder going than others. I would advise starting with his stand-alone books (although they are all part of a greater universe) and then moving on to the longer sets.
Where do you do most of your writing?
I have an office in my house, where I work. That's pretty much a must for any serious writer – when we stay in Malaysia (my wife's Malay) I work hard to find a place with an office – or at least a private room – where I can work. I've been told that there are people who can write on trains or the plane, but I can't do that.
If you could have written any book in history, which would it be and why?
One of the books that have been really influential, perhaps. Starship Troopers, Harry Potter, Jonathon Strange and Mr. Norrell. Or the books that impressed me, when I read them: Mistborn, The Night's Dawn Trilogy, The Commonwealth and Void books …
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The loss of theological language in sacred art
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LOSING THE LANGUAGE OF ART SACRED THEOLOGY
When the Church in the nineteenth century began to lose its influence on the arts, the artist was inevitably forced to devote himself to art forms more restricted nature ephemeral, appearing to ignore everything that for centuries had been an expression of the heritage of faith.
Licia Oddo *
For too many years we have had to suffer the vagaries and follies of many national and foreign nullity; for too many decades we have transformed the real art in an ephemeral fashion and empty of all meaning, everything just to run after certain fashions of overseas, only to appear to date, Modern Vanguard.
Quirino De Ieso [Benevento 1926 – Known 2006]
Quirino De Ieso, the mystery of the Incarnation of the Word of God and of his passion and death, 2005
Artistic events of the twentieth century inevitably contrite concept art often helping to infuse a sense of irreverent representation, because devoid of all credibility in those human and Christian values that once decreed the success through the patronage of the Catholic Church and the sense of faith that animated the artists.
When the Church began to lose in the nineteenth century its influence on the arts, the artist was inevitably forced to devote himself to art forms more restricted nature ephemeral, appearing to ignore everything that for centuries had been an expression of the heritage of faith. The artistic style of the twentieth century, although profoundly revolutionary it is nevertheless holder of those cornerstones that have marked the history of art over the centuries, I resented. The rest l'art [1] He has always shown the same evolutionary process. The new one is soon old [2], innovation becomes tradition and the present becomes the past but the latter is also necessary that, which follows in time to a future perspective: mutated form, behind every story, as every aesthetic.
Quirino De Ieso, Jesus' baptism in the Jordan River, 1995
To all of us it is obvious that our society, for several years already, It is evolving towards amorality, not least through the destruction of their own Christian roots, which they are also the heritage of art. What is desirable, therefore, to reverse the situation and halt the decline in human values, snatching the danger of superficiality that the artistic representation of the sacred is the most faithful interpreter? To answer this question, in which the painting becomes an expression of faith and art a manifestation of the transcendent metaphysical, It is by far interesting study, fruit of the contemplation of the work of contemporary painter posthumously Quirino De Ieso, in whose canvases he translates the mystery of the universal, and theological pictorial [3]. In the opinion of De Ieso, it is also evident that art has many faces, from the sacred to the profane, but it is true that the "concept of art" that has a purely spiritual derivation, Divina, It is one of the most devoted human manifestations of love of man towards his Creator. He interprets the Truth in appearance spiritual and sacred, but investigated within our soul, because, as stated by the teacher: "The mystery of Art is the same Universe, in one and the other are the truth and love of Christians ". When the artist reaches the awareness of this Truth, only then his work can rise to the dignity of a work of art, creating the masterpiece.
Quirino De Ieso, Jesus tells his disciples, "Follow me, I will make you fishers of men " [MC 1, 14-20], Detail of a funerary chapel of Noto, 1995-1996
De Ieso claims that only an inner search is able to produce such a miracle. Such research is right in the world of Art, music, poetry, painting, sculpture. So art as soul searching. Consider in this regard to the way Dante Alighieri translates into poetic rhyme and images, Canto XXXIII in Paradise, the mysteries of faith exhibited by St. Thomas Aquinas in his QUESTION; images that are later, Sandro Botticelli, It will depict through his famous drawings illustrative of the Divine Comedy [cf. WHO]. But it is also true that many important values for our society have been emptied of their actual content, contaminated with ephemeral sizes, trampled by a progressive decline ethics. And if the art is reduced to blank canvases, singed, shredded, ply simply smeared with color, in polished stones only by rivers, in twisted metal and rusty, then Art is dead? Of course not. Luckily, with each fall always follows a rise; therefore, sooner or later, Art authentic, imbued with passionate feeling, morals, social, cultuale, that is not dead, will return in triumph and, once again will lead us on the path of beauty, Purity, of joy and love.
In the works of this artist is felt that survey spiritual he translates into real mystical representations, both abstract, sia retinate (Technical latter of its mere invention) fruit of his meditations and that lead to a real philosophical dissertation of the meaning of Art, uttering even a direct attack against the contemporary art.
In recent years the interest of the individual and the greed of economic targets they did forget to civilization to show its real objectives worthy of being called that. The confidence in unprejudiced, the solidarity of the group depends on the achievement of common targets, the ethical conduct free of any contamination selfish were replaced by pure superficiality of mere appearance, as a substitute to replace the reality and lead to the result of mass destruction, addivenendo so a polluted earth that it can not ensure the survival of its inhabitants and deny the hope of tomorrow for posterity. Says the teacher:
"For too many years we have tried the new at all costs, as if that were the main purpose of art; and did not realize that the novelty, originality are not achievements that come from outside but from our inner, from our hearts and our minds; they are achievements that can be obtained only through a serious work, continuous, suffered, meditated. Just so you can get to win a personal language and effective, always fruit, as well as talented, Also of long years of hard work, during which the artist digs into his soul, compared with the outside world and with the problems of the society in which he lives ".
Quirino De Ieso, The mystery of the crucifixion, 2001
To highlight such concepts one can not ignore the technical means that the iconographic representation are the most effective expression, such as painting or sculpture. In fact, according to the authoritative opinion of this great master of the contemporary age, the concept of art you should distinguish between two senses or perceptions: one generic or common, and a pure or spiritual.
To date, no author He has made a clear distinction between the two perceptions separately attributing to the necessary specific meanings, but he showed the art as the result of this combination, without reflecting in what there is really behind. It is recognized that all the authors agree in stating that "Art" means generically: human labor resulting from the study, from practice and ingenuity to achieve a certain effect; the complex of rules or precepts necessary to that: astuteness; fineness; ability to know how to adjust to get a purpose, and everything is so synonymous with the profession, craft, office running out in this definition. From these first interpretations can be seen that while for the first direction (generico) it's pretty obvious to all meaning, it is not so for the second (spiritual), or rather the latter does not seem to be as comprehensible to all, but only a few, to those who belong to that group of elected able to read and read in. "Art" understood in a pure and spiritual means:
"Elevation of the soul to God, contemplation of the greatness and power of God clearly visible in the beautiful nature that surrounds us; Search of Divine beauty in its different aspects transfused in all creation; search for harmony of the perfection of God in his work; Search Order of "Truth" universal; point of contact between matter and spirit, link that connects people to the Father and the Heavenly Mother ".
Quirino De Ieso The mystery of the crucifixion, The Virgin Mary Magdalene and John the Apostle under the cross, 2003
Art is born with the mystery of man's creation, created in the image and likeness of God [cf. There 1,26]. In man the Creator instills the natural creative spirit that gradually become expressive art in its various forms. Since then the art in its various manifestations has always been the most intimate companion of man for himself but also for his relationship with God, and it will certainly be up to'eskaton, when God will create new heavens and new earth.
The man was not content to seek the spiritual and contact with it only through the figurative expression that is the iconographic representation of his thought, He tried to get to it also with a more rapid: verbally, that is, with prayer as a tool and means of communion with God, and also art, in its various forms of expression of poetry and music. Certain, prayer of early man was not still one conceived by us, because their way of seeing and thinking of ancient men was very different from our, but why should we think that their prayer and their concept of the supernatural were felt with warmth and sincerity of minors as we hear them today, because the spirit and desire of elevation and mystical momentum towards a metaphysical dimension that dwells in the human soul is always alive, but it certainly changed the way we express it through the ages, sometimes risking getting lost along the way.
It is known to most, the long way that art has come with his parables ascending and descending. For each period of greatest glory it is always followed a period of decline. One wonders: because there were these ups and downs in the arts? It should not be think of a more or less low intelligence of man as is often the most critical of all the times we wanted to prove with their more or less profound observations. The real reason that according to De IESO has always caused ups and downs is of an entirely different nature, It is introspective. It is recognized that in all ages, artists have always sought a means or a very effective way to abstract the reality of things and of nature, to make it clear to the audience the content of their works, or better to put in quick contact with the spirit of contemplative mood content in their works [4].
Quirino De Ieso, Christ crucified between the two thieves, early work, 1954
Only when artists could find this an effective means of abstraction, art was heading for the road that would lead her to the highest peaks, namely the most sublime artistic achievements. Only the inner dialogue through a clear insight of the artist himself raising his spirit to God, this could happen. When this way of abstracting was exploited to the maximum, later artists not to repeat the same route as their predecessors were forced to change their way. To do this, They had to find a new way of "abstract" and that at the same time was as effective as the one already universally accepted. Unfortunately,, looking outside of their being, the artists are able to capture what the sad reality of these last remnants of technological progress offers them, remaining poor and paralyzed in the representation, that is not triggered by the spirit of man which is spokesman, ie the awareness of the existence of the divine, but rather the empty externality that first of all is often vile without substance.
Art is first of all life experience and as such it is developed together with the emotions, the social path, cultural and above all spiritual man-artist accomplishes in his life. It is undoubtedly a social phenomenon and expression of life itself, changes with the changing of society and human experiences. But in this continuous "becoming" art has to maintain the essential spirit of the essence, through the series of existential questions that the individual stands, and that is not the sign language that changes depending on the various eras, at least it is not just that, but rather it is a universal language, catechetico. There are numerous paintings - especially the frescoes engraved in many churches between the thirteenth and sixteenth centuries - that are real picture boards of the Catechism for the People of God; basti citation, among numerous, those of the Cathedral of San Gimignano [see WHO].
Quirino De Ieso, The mystery of the Resurrection of Christ, 1996
The "Truth" pure universe, in its dual aspect, material and spiritual, but also catechetical, It is expressed through art, handmaiden of universal communication and for centuries placed at the service of the divine, the sacred, through a difficult process to achieve a catharsis of interiority by vice, by moral disorder to get to the recovery of ethical values, set goals and lost because of externals with which today's artists will approach it without looking inside, according to the Gospel warning: "The kingdom of God is within you" [cf. LC 17,21]. This inner harbors the seeds of grace of Truth, then the spirit essence of true art, one capable of perceiving the Divine and manifest it through their posts expressive arts.
Quirino De Ieso, The descent of the Holy Spirit on the Apostles at the Last Supper and the Virgin Mary at Pentecost. Central fresco, Church of the Sacred Heart in Noto, 1999.
Particularly close to Pauline theology, Quirino De Ieso used to say that without the victory of man over himself (due to non-introspective analysis) It will defeat Universal, with the unhappy prospect of becoming man "dinosaur" of two thousand, ie species doomed to extinction. But man, the only speck of the universe thinking, which roads can go to find himself? Only the personal soul searching can spring the new force able to put it back at the top of the ladder of living things. Who prevails? The beast or l'angelo, complacency or regret, the reality or the fantasy, the dόxa or the logos, faith or science, reality or illusion, victory or defeat? Where we place our self: in a whirlwind endless, or a serene romantic glimpse of our land? Who dominates our thinking: nightmares born of ancient torments, or hopes for happy horizons? And that's how the interweaving of a network interwoven with arduous undertaking SWT man peering anxiously awaiting the response to the search and discovery of Truth.
Whether we find ourselves prosecutors of primordial instincts, whether we evaluate children of a heavenly creature sank in a world dominated by questionable passions after the expulsion of man from Paradise [cf. There 3, 23-24], We discover, however, that the soul searching that gives life to the world of art takes us on a fascinating adventure in the nature that surrounds us, and of which we are an integral part of how the wind, the rivers, the stars, the sun, wonderful works of God, despite the refusal of man corrupt in its primordial essence of original sin and often abandoned to the narrowness of his passions prevaricating, He has never ceased to come to us and love us throughout the history of our human experience, until the incarnation of the Word of God made man [cf. GV. 1,1].
The double question that De Ieso sets and enforces through his works to his interlocutors about man and nature which work of Creation, It is therefore not a cold philosophical interrogation, But the nagging question alive and to those who want to point out the great problems of today, and collaborate in remedies for the salvation of humanity and its natural environment, using the most refined expression of human production that is the art, witness material and immaterial having historical value of civilization as identity card of a people, proceeding to the recovery of breath that identity lost and perhaps lost forever, after the man came from the ancient Garden of Eden, to which he was again brought back from the Christ the Redeemer, who became the new Adam, because "as in Adam all die, so all will receive life in Christ " [cf. The Cor 15,22].
* historian
To read the review taken from the magazine The Sicilies click below
Licia Oddo – Jorge A Facio Lince: "Quirino DE IESO THROUGH Arte E Koine"
[1] C.Vicari, As the 800 was the introduction to contemporary art, in Italian art in the second half of the twentieth century.: Tradition and Vanguard, Piacenza, 1980, p.5
[2] Ossani Silipo, General Character of Art between the new and the old, in Italian art in the second half of the twentieth century.: Tradition and Vanguard, Piacenza, 1980, p. 21
[3] Ariel S. Levi Gualdo, The Sicilies, the. 96 [cf. WHO]
[4] This interpretation is the understanding of the art of Panofsky,It corresponds to a third and final phase which provides the intrinsic meaning of the work itself: analysis iconologic. Captures beyond reason and beyond the stories symbolic values, evaluating political tendencies, Religious, philosophical and social personality of the artist who is in the age in which he lives.
one of the last images of the painter Quirino De Ieso, 2006
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antondon. 12 says:
Dear Mrs, two comments from a priest who follows the Isle of Patmos since she was born, ie since our dear fathers have landed on this island Johannine.
1. I not even remember when was the last time I read an article by a historian to speak of art in relation to faith and art as an expression of faith. I remember though that there is no longer the Venice Biennale, exhibition in Paris or New York which are not presented in the "artwork" desecrate that symbol and the main elements of Christian faith.
2. In my youth I was pastor of a small church of the '600, then rebuilt in the mid '700 soberly, a jewel of art. Then I was sent to a large parish, classical building modern 70s, and I can assure you that we as priests, often, we are committed (even for a kind of self-defense, survival!) the bad do not get used ever! I had to struggle a lot to be able to remove a crucifix hugging obscenity and an indescribable Madonna with child, and in the end they succeeded because the faithful have threatened our curia that they were going to disappear "that crap", as they told to the head of religious buildings. The first (the crucifix in question) produced by an avowed atheist, as well as communist militant, who had given the face of Jesus the expression of Che Guevara, the second "opera" it was a Madonna, Cast bronze, made by a sculptor and feminist militant abortion.
Read his article, written in what I see from his photo from a young woman, He has really heartened.
I did not know the painter of whom she writes, but the pictures that accompany this article I really liked, and if works of this kind had been placed in my church, I'll tell you that I would not have lived through years of hardship, avoiding looking at the top, to the right or to the left, during the Eucharistic celebrations.
The "artistic wares" put in our modern churches, it is often embarrassing and an embarrassment for priests and faithful. It is not true that modern art is ugly, but it is true ch'esistono contemporary artists who make bad art works, no one knows how or why, often they end up in our churches.
Don Roberto G. says:
Don Antonio, reminding you that I will console, a few kilometers away from you, I remove a picture of a chapel "Nativity" that my parishioners had nicknamed the framework of "Madonna vampira", that with the teeth tearing the umbilical cord to a baby Jesus dirt of organic substances.
And this always about contemporary artists, contemporary art, but, above all, about who puts certain things in our churches, often even pay good money.
Alberto Molina says:
Nice article, enlightening about the relationship between art and faith.
I hit the painting "I will make you fishers of men", I can not explain why, but I found it really very special. Very beautiful also other works.
Don Angelo Rossit says:
Read these lines …
"So art as soul searching. Consider in this regard to the way Dante Alighieri translates into poetic rhyme and images, Canto XXXIII in Paradise, the mysteries of faith exhibited by St. Thomas Aquinas in his Summa Theologica; images that are later, Sandro Botticelli, It will depict through his famous drawings illustrative of the Divine Comedy. But it is also true that many important values for our society have been emptied of their actual content, contaminated with ephemeral sizes, trampled by a progressive decline ethics"
… I said: of, ragionassero in this way at the Pontifical Commission of Sacred Art!
I worked very little art, despite having previously turned museums worldwide. On invitation topazia alliata Dooley, just died in 102 year old, I met Gillo Dorfles, now years 105. In a lecture he said that art today has no soul and is just decoration. I understand that in the new church of San Giovanni Rotondo, where is found the body of Padre Pio with the silicone face mask, should read Mischitielli, lacking the crucifix, and that it introduced for a visit of Benedict XVI it has led to a lawsuit by architect Renzo Piano atheist and freemason against Vatican… and if I am not mistaken the crucifix was missing in the Expo Hall of the Vatican, not to offend Muslim sensibilities… Now in the Arab Koran by Othman fixed like that of Aisha Jesus did not die on the cross, but he died and rose again according to the most authentic Quran Senegal, He not sent to Baghdad, where Othman wanted all Korans, reason then the fact that the African Islam is considered heretical by the Arabs… see a recent book on' African father Gheddo PIME.
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Vice President Constantino Chiwenga is currently in China for treatment
Parirenyatwa Hospital's presidential suite continues to lie idle
8th October 2019 Top Story
By Costa Nkomo
THE presidential suite at Parirenyatwa Hospital has turned into a white elephant with senior government officials including President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his deputies all choosing to get treatment outside the country, NewZimbabwe.com has learnt.
With a rolling doctors strike entering its second month last week, the spotlight has remained focused of the country's biggest referral health institution where the medical practitioners routinely congregate and picket demanding a review of their working conditions.
A junior doctor who identified himself as Simon Madubeko said it is sad that top government officials from President Mnangagwa, Vice President Constantino Chiwenga and his counterpart Kembo Mohadi have abandoned local facilities after running them aground.
Mnangagwa's predecessor Robert Mugabe died in Singapore last month where he was being treated for cancer. Mugabe had become legendary for travelling to the Far East for medical attention. His sister, Bridget spent four years on life support at Parirenyatwa before she died two years ago.
Said Madubeko: "Unfortunately our government officials don't use the systems that they are running. When they get sick they go outside the country.
"They go to South Africa, Singapore, Egypt and China where systems are working. It is the reason they don't put money into making sure local institutions are running properly and that as doctors we are well looked after. They get comfort elsewhere."
Madubeko drew parallels between Zimbabwe's leaders and South African anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela whom he said was treated in his country up to the time of his death in 2013.
"Parirenyatwa has a presidential suite that is not being used because our executives go outside the country where they are looked after. So they don't care about what is going on at Parirenyatwa because when they get sick they will just fly off for foreign treatment. They get a running stomach, they fly off to South Africa for diarrhoea treatment as if we can't look after that," he said.
Health minister Obadiah Moyo said he was unavailable for comment claiming he was in a meeting.
"I am in a meeting; may you call me after 20 minutes," he said.
Moyo's mobile went unanswered thereafter.
Parirenyatwa Hospital public relations officer Linos Dhire dismissed the existence of the presidential suite.
"What we have are private wards with some executive rooms which are not specified or reserved for anyone in particular. These have been used and continue to be booked by those who can," said Dhire.
He however could not confirm whether the rooms were booked as of Monday, instead challenging NewZimbabwe.com to visit for a guided tour..
Two years ago Mnangagwa was airlifted to South Africa after a poisoning scare at a Zanu PF rally in Gwanda. Mohadi and Defence Minister Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri were also treated in the neighbouring country after suffering injuries in a bomb blast ahead of last year's elections in Bulawayo.
Currently, Vice President Chiwenga is in China where he has been receiving treatment having been referred from South Africa.


Ok so going into new territory, just a few years ago I had the opportunity to travel to the old Eastern Europe countries, and finally got to Poland. It was a nice experience that took me in two trips and possible another by next May'19. So let me tell you about something different.
The Wawel castle in Krakow is a must to see, but after going around so excited seeing the different venues and night spots, I ran out of time!! Walked right by it and no time to go inside. This will definitively have to change next May'19. Promise. For the time being will put a post to remind myself of the visit to be.
The historic city is located at the foot of the Wawel Hill. Krakow was, before Warsaw, the capital of the Poland and is often considered the true center of the country with its traditions and over 1 000 years old history. It is the cultural and scientific center of the country Karol Wojtyła was Bishop and then Archbishop of Krakow, before becoming Pope John Paul II in 1978, the first non-Italian pope for 455 years.
The main thing is not to missed the Wawel castle, which I did not go in as the tour would have taken too long for my time and on a first visit wanted to touch as many places as possible to better understand the city and hopefully be back for in depth look later on with the family. The castle is wonderful bordering the Vistula river or wisla. Again, plan to see it, the major place to see here.
Wawel Castle, located in Krakow, was built at the behest of Casimiro III the great, who reigned between 1333 and 1370, and consists of several structures located around a central courtyard. In the 14C it was rebuilt by Jogaila and Eduviges I. During his reign the tower called Hen's Paw (Kurza Stopka) and the Danish tower were added. The Chamber of Eduviges and Jogaila, in which is the Szczerbiec sword, which was used in coronation ceremonies, is exhibited today and is another remainder of this period. On the hill were built other structures that served as barracks for the numerous clerics, royal employees and craftsmen. In this period, defensive walls and towers were erected such as Jordanka, Lubranka, Sandomierska, Tęczyńska, Szlachecka, Złodziejska and Panieńska.
Wawel Castle and Wawel Hill are the most important historical and cultural place in Poland. For centuries it was the residence of the kings of Poland and a symbol of the Polish state. It is currently one of the best art museum in the country. Founded in 1930, the museum comprises ten departments responsible for collections of paintings (including an important collection of Italian Renaissance paintings), engravings, sculptures, textiles (including the collection of tapestries by Sigismund II Augustus), Goldsmiths, weapons, armor, ceramics, Meissen porcelain and furniture. The museum's Oriental Art collections include the largest collection of Ottoman tents in Europe. With seven specialized conservation studies, the museum is also an important center for the preservation of works of art.
The current building comprises Romanesque fragments and important gothic elements. Its current aspect mainly dates from the period (1504-1535), from the reign of Alexander Jagiellon (1501-1506) and from Sigismund I the Elder (1506-1548). The Treasure of the Crown, located in the historical Gothic rooms that were used since the 15C for the storage of the insignia of the crown and the jewels of the crown, exhibits objects of incalculable value of the ancient treasure that survived the looting, among them the memories of the kings of Poland, like the hat and the sword that the Pope gave to John III Sobieski after the Battle of Vienna or the crowning sword Szczerbiec.
A fragment of a column of Wawel Castle has been incorporated into the skyscraper Tribune Tower of Chicago , IL USA. Located in a niche on the upper left corner of the main entrance, it is a visual tribute to the large Polish population in Chicago, the largest outside of Poland. And I used to live in a major second concentration in NJ with the ZBA or Polish Congress of America!
Something that must and is in my to do list once get there again. In the meantime you can search for Krakow in my blog and see my previous posts.
The other Churches of Segovia!
Ok so I am back in this wonderful Castilian town of my love. I heard about since birth, but finally came to see it in 1990 and has been an everlasting love affairs since. Hard to visit my beloved Spain without passing stopping here; I need to see its silhouettes! Of course, I am talking about Segovia ,in the Province of Segovia, and the autonomous region of Castilla y Léon!
So much to see in such a reduce space ,worth coming back over and over again. However, some minor monuments don't get the recognition they deserve even in my previous posts touch only by word. It is time I tell you a bit more on the other Churches of Segovia!
The Church or Iglesia de San Andrés is located in the city of Segovia, in the Plaza of La Merced. The Convent of Our Lady of Merced, founded in 1367, existed in this same square. The Church is located on the west side of the square and, although subjected to alterations, still preserves its primitive Romanesque style two apses, with half-point windows, columns, capitals, corbels and Byzantine moldings. It has a three-body tower, plastered and with spire, sharp and slated. The north cover is the primitive. The south cover has a statue of the holy titular, San Andrews. The interior has three naves. The main altarpiece consists of two bodies, occupying the center statues and the side paintings. It would also contain the altar of the demolished convent adjoining. Sculptures of Our Lady of the Mercedes, San Ramón and San Pedro Nolasco.
The Church or Iglesia de San Martin, erected in the 12C, it already existed in 1117, because in the testament of Domingo Petit the abbot that appears as a witness. It is located in the current Plaza de Juan Bravo, midway between the Cathedral of Santa Maria and the Roman aqueduct. It is a temple of Mozarabic origin with Romanesque style. The Church differs in part from the original, as some parts have been reconstructed or eliminated, as is the case of the central apse, which was replaced. It has three naves, transept with brick dome and tripartite headboard. Of the Church are notable the belfry, which is Romanesque-mudejar style, and has arches of brick on stone columns. It is also noteworthy its arcaded gallery, which surrounds the whole Church except the front. This portico has half-point arches resting on columns with Romanesque capitals. The cover of the western façade is one of the largest doors of Spanish Romanesque. It is a cover of five arch vaults, decorated with vegetal motifs. It is sheltered by a portico, as a narthex, whose opening is a large set of arch vaults supported by human statues representing characters from the Old Testament.
The Church or Iglesia de San Millán is located next to Avenida Fernández Ladreda, in the neighborhood of San Millán. The Romanesque tower forms the oldest remains of the Church, since it corresponds to the 11C being Mudejar style, the rest of the Church is the product of the reform made between 1111 and 1126 by king Alfonso I the Battler (Batallador) during his government in Castile for his marriage with Doña Urraca, so it is one of the oldest Churches in the city. Its construction reflects the influence of Aragonese architecture, reproducing the plant of the Cathedral of Jaca on a smaller scale. It is composed of four apses, of which three correspond to the naves and the fourth, a later addition, to the sacristy. It has three covers, one on each side, and two galleries of porticoes arches, so common in the Romanesque Segoviano. Inside we can find three large naves with a simple roof, replacing the initial Mudéjar roof. The columns and capitals are large in comparison to the size of the Church. Among the most notable capitals we find one that is thematic the magicians path of Bethlehem and another that has as a theme the flight of Egypt. Among the ornaments destined to the cult stands out its main altar of Romanesque style, composed of a crucified surrounded by ten blinded arcades, as well as several pieces of the processional imagery that participates in the Holy Week of Segovia, as are the carvings of Nuestra Señora de la Soledad or Our Lady of Solitude at the foot of the Cross and the Blessed Christ in his last Word, which were donated by the Segoviano sculptor Aniceto Marinas and correspond to his homonymous brotherhood, which has its canonical headquarters in the Church.
The Church or Iglesia de San Clemente, the Church, which stands between the Calle del Marquis de Mondéjar, Calle Gobernador Fernandez Jiméneza and Calle Doctor Sancho, is characterized by a semicircular apse with three paired arches, with columns that would have inside windows of half point, pedestals and capitals. It would preserve from its primitive Romanesque construction the portico, and two covers: the one that corresponds to the main nave, and the lateral one, which gives entrance to the Church. The tower is of low elevation and was eliminated in the 18C. Altars would be baroque and Churrigueresque in style. At the beginning of the 20C, the congregation was added to the parent parish of San Millán.
The Church or Iglesia San Sebastiàn, is located in the Plaza de San Sebastiàn at the end of the aqueduct, in the upper part of the city, next to the Plazuela de Avendaño. It was told in history that in 1906 it was closed to the cult, by threatening ruin the vaults of plaster and brick, which served only to hide the primitives. It became an independent parish. Its exterior is Romanesque-Byzantine and has apses, doorways and windows with the typical character of the Segovia's Churches of the 13C or earlier. The tower is reduced and lost its primitive style after several renovations. The interior has three naves.
The Convent or Convento de San José at Calle Tomasa de la Iglesia,4 It's a cloistered convent of the Barefoot Carmelite nuns. Convent founded by Saint Teresa of Jesus in 1574. Initially it was located in a building a few meters higher than its posterior and definitive location to which they moved in 1579, for having a greater need for space. On the outside we find a wall of masonry revoked with two doors, one that gives to the convent, with two jambs decorated with remains of what was undoubtedly the house of Diego de Porres ( another Saint) and another larger that gives way to the Church. The Church is a single nave with three sections and a chorus at the feet. Originally had a wooden roof that was replaced between the 17C and 18C by vault of plasterwork.
Of course the above are my favorites, there are more! and will put some general webpages to help you enjoy fully Segovia and its monuments.
The quest continues for more, as Spain is everything under the sun! Never amazes me to find wonderful places to see ,no wonder is the no 2 spot on Earth for visitors behind my belle France. And numbers are from WTO-UN or United Nations World Tourism Organisation ,keeping numbers on travelers since 1949! Enjoy Segovia for it's treasures!
Citadela de Jaca or Castillo San Pedro in Jaca!
So let me stay on the north of my beloved Spain, in the beautiful kingdom of Aragon, oops it is an autonomous region of Spain, and the province of Huesca, and the city of Jaca. On the road to the pyrénées and my belle France. This is a monumental construction and because of staying in bigger more popular cities seldom overlook by the visitor. I like to tell you a bit of the off the beaten path into my Spain!
Let me tell you a bit more on the Citadel of Jaca aka Saint Peter's castle. This is in my stop over city of Jaca for many years, familiar territory!
The Ciudadela de Jaca or Castle of Saint Peter in Jaca, province of Huesca, autonomous region of Aragon.
It is protected upstream by the forts of the Coll de Ladrones or thieves and the turret of the Riflemen. It testifies to the diffusion of the military art to defend the place à la Vauban. The Spanish citadel of Jaca is a pentagonal construction, with a defensive rampart in every corner communicated by paths of round, which king Felipe II, in the 17C, ordered to erect in a suburb of Jaca because he feared an Invasion of the French heretics. Its construction is framed in the defense strategy adopted by king Felipe II after the invasion of the Tena Valley by troops from the south of France in January 1592, and also as a soothing element of possible internal revolts. It was conceived as the central axis of a thick network of Pyrenean defenses in which were integrated the towers of Ansó, Hecho, La Espelunga (Canfranc) and Santa Elena (Biescas-Valley of Tena), in addition to the small castles of Berdún and Canfranc.
Its construction began in 1595, and ended in the 18C. It was under king Felipe III, in 1613, that the access façade was completed. However, the digging of ditches and other collateral projects were longer, and still continued towards the end of the 17C. The interior is accessed by a Mannerist air door on which the Austrian shield appears. United with that of Liège, in Belgium, it is the only citadel of this pentagonal shape that is preserved completely. Its external protection system is built around a pit. The arms court consists of a double arch, broken bows and a basket handle alternate and rely on the pillars of stones in its lower and upper brick. Around the immense central courtyard, the buildings to house the troops, offices, warehouses and ammunition, organized in five blocks parallel to the walls, are aligned. Inside is also the military Chapel of San Pedro, you will find a large square of arms also pentagonal, around which are articulated the barracks quarters and the chapel of the Citadel that is the Church of San Pedro that was built in the 18C (St Peter) a baroque building with a stone façade built in the second half of the 17C. The citadel was only used defensively during the War of Independence. But paradoxically, it was the French troops who took possession of it after having conquered the place. They occupied the fortress for four years.
The fortress has a five-pointed star plant and is preserved practically intact since its construction. It observes the characteristics of a fortress of Italian trace, maintaining all its elements; Moat, bastions, escarpments and buttresses, barracks for the lodging of the troop, powders, tunnels.The access is made crossing the moat through a bridge of three arches plus a drawbridge to access the door of the enclosure, Herrerian style of great artistic interest.
Do not forget to see the military miniature museum inside a jewel for the aficionado and collector and just plain history buff like me:love it!! More than 32000 figurines in 23 showcases retracing the military history of our days in figurines that goes down to 20 mm or about 0,8 inch! All in order from the first great armies of the world,from the crusades to the 18C, towards WWI, Spanish Civil War, towards WWII, and towards Peace. A must to see while there , perhaps the main thing to see there!
Again, come up north and continue on the beautiful Spain, the second most visited country in the world in 2018 85M by WTO-UN. And see this jewel of our times, the Citadela de Jaca!
And remember, happy travels, good health ,and many cheers to all!!!


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Happy 55th, President Obama! Here's Some Unsolicited Retirement Advice
President Barack Obama speaks during the third day of the Democratic National Convention, July 27, 2016, in Philadelphia.
John Locher—AP
Happy birthday, President Obama! We hope you have a fun celebration, because after all the candles are blown out you've got some hard facts to confront: You're 55 today, August 4, 2016, and you'll be losing your job soon.
As we generally tell readers who are in your situation, your next phase will bring new freedoms, but it may also involve some anxiety. After all, the job market can be an unforgiving place for midlife job seekers. The average duration of unemployment for those 55 and over is 37.4 weeks, compared to 23.7 weeks for those under 55, according to an analysis by Sara Rix, formerly of the AARP Public Policy Institute. "Age discrimination is real," says Chris Farrell, author of Unretirement and senior economics contributor to Marketplace.
Sure, you've got some advantages over your peers. Most people looking for work don't have a global network of world leaders who will pick up the phone whenever they call. And most lack a fat savings cushion. With resources include your presidential pension and your book profits, you have the luxury of time as you plot your encore career.
We consulted experts for some advice about what to do in your position. Before you take action, do nothing, says Nancy Collamer, author of Second-Act Careers and founder of MyLifestyleCareer.com. "Take time off and get away," Collamer says. "Give yourself time to decompress, to recharge your batteries and to give yourself some distance from your old routines."
While this advice applies to everyone embarking on an encore career, you might need more decompressing than most, given the nature of the job you're leaving: Think months, not weeks, Collamer says. Then get down to business.
Tap your network, with a twist
You can skip setting up a LinkedIn profile, a critical step for most job seekers. People know your credentials. (For everyone else who does have to consider their social media footprint during the job search, here are some tips.)
Before you reach out to your current network, Mr. President, spend some time with people who knew you before your White House years, Farrell suggests. Like most busy professionals, you've likely had little time for introspection. You may need to do some soul searching to figure out what you'll do next, and the people who can really help you are the ones who knew you before you became Commander in Chief.
College friends, as well as those from your community organizing days, can remind you of who you used to be. They might remember goals that you once held but have long forgotten.
This is an opportunity to look at the big picture, Collamer says. Consider your next paid job, yes, but also your legacy, your relationships, and your own personal growth and development.
Communicate with your spouse
You and Michelle will be making a big transition at the same time. More often, one spouse will change jobs or retire while the other continues for a while as before. The same rules of communication apply in either circumstance, says Ken Moraif, a certified financial planner with Money Matters in Plano, Texas. "It's important for the couple to sit down and discuss what this means to them," Moraif says. He practices what he preaches, holding monthly "state of the union" talks with his wife of 31 years.
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Moraif has seen clients split when their children leave the house, or when they retire. Transitions are a natural inflection point for couples, and to avoid growing apart spouses must make an extra effort to understand each other's expectations, Moraif says. Emotional devastation aside, divorce in later life can wreak havoc on your retirement.
Perhaps Michelle wants to hit the accelerator on her career after eight years as First Lady. Perhaps you want to focus exclusively on your golf game for your first six months out of office. You'll want to make sure you understand and support one another's goals.
Pace yourself
Keep in mind that it's much easier to add activities than to subtract ones already begun, Farrell says. Often, people who leave their careers for retirement or an encore career fill up their schedules out of enthusiasm and perhaps a fear of too much free time.
High-powered professionals who leave their posts are often approached to join corporate or nonprofit boards, and you will likely field such invitations. If you're not careful, you'll be running around just as much as you did when you worked full time. (Well maybe not in your case, because no schedule can be quite as grueling as the one you're leaving.)
Take a slow and deliberate approach, realizing that it's hard to cut back once you've made commitments. "Treat this transition as a sabbatical and don't accept much until you've decided what you want to do," Farrell says.
While you'll be leaving the comforts of the White House—no more chef on call, or private indoor basketball court—you've got a lot to look forward to, Collamer says: "This can be a rich period in a person's life."