The process of freelance copywriting at Westbrook Financial Freelance and Media starts with thoroughly researching the client's product or service being offered. This requires meeting or interviewing the key personnel involved; similar competitive offerings; testimonials and all the information the client has about past successful and failing packages.
The next step also requires extensive research, with the client, about the demographic and psychographic information to arrive at the best profile the client wants to talk to.
Next I get involved in some "Open-Air-Research". I pick a setting or settings that the "profile" might frequent. I listen, ask questions, test the general concepts of the product or service and get all the feedback I can.
At this point in the process, I develop the initial structure of the copywriting package. This pro forma template is discussed with the client for additional input, coments and affirmation to start the copywriting assignment.
Now, it is time to write, think about what I have written, mull it over and then rewrite and edit. This could go on for a number of writings. Quality of content is so critical. The client gets to review the material and make all the comments they want. All will be incorporated for the final draft.
Obviously the time to complete a project depends on each assignment. The target date will be discussed in the initial conversation. My goal is to get the job done as reasonably fast as necessary but also give the project enough time to do it right and to the client's satisfaction.
On the financial consulting side of Westbrook, I have to thoroughly understand the history, culture and business disciplines of the Investment Advisory firm, a profile of the clients, the advisor firm's strengths and weaknesses. Introduce how social media is such an important tool in the business world today and is part of the vital objectives in marketing and good client relations.


text:
ATASC
An Maglipayon USA
Pintados
Annual Fiesta
An Maglipayon
2017 Annual Fiesta
Vintage Tacloban
Super Typhoon Haiyan
Kaupay Man
Typhoon Yolanda Project
"Maraming Salamat for Showing us All How to Live," Cooper Thanks the Filipinos
Mass Held To Remember Typhoon Victims
Philippine Consul General Speaks In LA
Tacloban Association holds mass for Yolanda victims
CARSON, Calif. – At a special mass vigil Filipinos with ties to the Visayas had their loved ones in their thoughts, offering prayers for the deceased,missing, and those fighting to survive.
"My younger sister Celesty who is still unaccounted for and also my elder brother that died from drowning," Edwin Tiu of the Tacloban Association of Southern California sighed.
"One cousin is missing, we still don't have any word on him," Fleur Mendiola who hails from Leyte said. "But I was just told today the Mendiola clan in Tacloban, not one of them has been found yet and that really saddens me so much."
"We haven't heard from Perla Afable, and from Teresita Gonzales and their families," Susan Urbayan David said.
The Tacloban Association of Southern California held a prayer vigil in Carson California helping bring some ease to Filipinos worrying over victims of Typhoon Yolanda.
Many of the association's 200 members have friends and family members missing or dead. Making matters worse are reports of looting, and the slow relief efforts.
"I am sad to say that our government is there to help but the help is slow in coming," Tacloban native Edna Asuncion said. "I'm sure they are helping in everything that they can but it's very slow. We need them right now not tomorrow."
The highest ranking Filipino in the U.S. Catholic Church, Los Angeles Bishop Oscar Solis, had also released a statement and plea for help to the nation's largest Filipino Catholic community.
The statement, read aloud during the vigil, said: "I personally appeal to all our pastors and communities for compassion as well as immediate action in the spirit of Christian unity."
You can contact Steve Angeles at steve_angeles@abs-cbn.com for more information
-Steve Angeles
Typhoon Haiyan: Former Tacloban residents pray and hit the phones to organize disaster relief (photos)
The phone keeps ringing at Evelina Cui's house in Pasadena. It's another friend, asking for the latest on Tacloban, her childhood home and the city hardest-hit by Typhoon Haiyan.
"It is really catastrophic destruction," Cui, an administrative assistant at Cal Tech told her friend. "I cannot even watch the TV anymore, because it is so depressing."
-read more
Death and devastation after Typhoon Haiyan
For so many people in the Philippines right now, surviving the Typhoon Haiyan was just the beginning of a nightmare. Busy cities like Tacloban are now completely devastated. In hard hit areas across the Philippines, there is not enough water, food, or medical supplies to go around. Anderson takes a look at the situation that is now being described as "worse than hell."
-Anderson Cooper
Typhoon Haiyan: Filipino Americans on devastated home town
19 November 2013 Last updated at 01:26 GMT
More than 3.4 million Americans trace their ancestry to the Philippines, according to the 2010 US Census, making Filipinos the second-largest Asian-American group in the US.
And the biggest group of Filipinos outside of the Philippines can be found in California. The community there is behind a massive fundraising effort to get relief to family and friends back home devastated by Typhoon Haiyan.
The BBC met a group from the Tacloban Association of Southern California who are raising money to help rebuild their hometown.
Typhoon Haiyan: The emotional toll for those tasked with rebuilding a city
As the storm-ravaged city of Tacloban struggles to rebuild, the city's employees are starting to return to work.
One of them is city administrator Tecson Lim - tasked with co-ordinating much of Tacloban's rebuilding.
That job has brought long hours and an emotional toll.
The man who once kept the city running, now has to salvage what is left and start from scratch.
An Taclobanon partners with Bet On Your Baby Show, hosting a Christmas Party for Yolanda Evacuees in Manila
Jain Center holds a fundraiser for Typhoon Yolanda survivors
On behalf of the beneficiaries of its Typhoon Yolanda Relief Fund Drive, the An Taclobanon Association of Southern California expresses its deep gratitude to the Jain Center for its very generous donation.
UNICEF Philippine Typhoon Yolanda Relief
Grand View School Aid
ATASC UPDATE: As of Dec 1, 2013 typhoon Haiyan Disaster Relief Fund gathered will be sent to the following recipients:
1) $5,000 - Sto Nino Church
2) $5,000 - AGAPE Medical Mission, who are continuously seeing patients to date in Leyte and Samar through Dr Editha Miguel.
3) $5,000 - Kusog Tacloban, rebuilding of parochial schools (poorest) in Tacloban and neighboring towns.
4) $5,000 - Phil Assoc of Ex-Seminarians, continuously have logistics operation from Sto Nino Shrine in Commonwealth, QC to Palo for Leyte & Samar relief goods.
5) $5,000 - CEAP, aid rehabilitation for Catholic schools in Leyte through Doris Ferrer
6) $5,000 - ABS-CBN Bet on your Baby, Christmas special gift-giving to children-evacuees from Tacloban/neighboring towns who are now in Villamor Airbase. Show will be aired on Dec 7, 2013
Next recipients will be the various hospitals in Tacloban and other socio-civic organizations.
The ATASC Disaster Relief Fund is now converting to 501(c)3. Please help save and rebuild Tacloban

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


•	Manage systems infrastructure life-cycle, from vetting new systems, to maintaining patches and version levels, to retirement and decommissioning.
•	Manage and maintain all local domain services such as Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, Print Services, File Services, etc.
•	Bachelor's degree or two to four years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
•	Demonstrated competency in diversity, equity, and inclusion, including a proven ability to work with employees, students and others from a wide variety of backgrounds.
•	This position requires adaptability, analyzing, assessing, calculating, decision making, dependability, good judgment, reading, memorizing, social skills, speaking, multitasking, and writing.
•	Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with diverse populations, including students, parents, and faculty.
•	Flexibility to occasionally work long hours, including occasional weekends and evenings.
In a cover letter/email please explain how you have included diversity, equity, and inclusion in your work with students or colleagues.


Select your dining room style and theme. Having a concept is very important when choosing new laurent upholstered side chairs for you to accomplish your desired decor. You might also wish to consider adjusting the color of your interior to enhance your preferences.
Figure out the way the laurent upholstered side chairs will soon be applied. This will allow you to choose everything to get along with what color scheme to pick out. Establish the total number of people will undoubtedly be utilising the space on a regular basis to ensure that you should buy the perfect measured.
When you're out searching for laurent upholstered side chairs, even though it could be straightforward to be convince by a salesman to purchase anything aside of your typical style. Thus, go searching with a specific you want. You'll be able to quickly straighten out what suitable and what doesn't, and make thinning your choices rather easy.
Complete the room in with items parts as place permits to put a great deal to a big room, but too many of these items can fill up a smaller room. When you head to the laurent upholstered side chairs and begin getting large furniture, make note of a couple of crucial factors to consider. Purchasing new dining room is a fascinating prospect that may entirely transform the design of the interior.
Establish the model and style that you want. If you have an design style for your dining room, for instance modern or old-fashioned, stick to pieces that suit with your design. You can find several approaches to split up space to a few concepts, but the main one is usually include contemporary, modern, traditional and classic.
After finding what amount of space you can make room for laurent upholstered side chairs and the space you want possible parts to go, tag those places on the floor to get a easy visual. Coordinate your items of furniture and each dining room in your room should match the others. Usually, your space can look chaotic and thrown alongside one another.
Desires to know about color scheme and design you end up picking, you should have the important elements to enrich your laurent upholstered side chairs. After you have obtained the necessities, you should add smaller ornamental furniture. Find picture frames or plants for the empty space is nice suggestions. You can also require a number of lighting to provide gorgeous feel in your house.
Before paying for any laurent upholstered side chairs, you should determine size of the space. Determine the place you need to place every single item of dining room and the right dimensions for that interior. Reduce your furnishing and dining room if your interior is small, pick laurent upholstered side chairs that suits.


Damask fabric is woven fabric with a reversible pattern and a two-tone sheen effect. Dating back to the middle ages Damask fabric takes its name from the city of Damascus a popular destination for the manufacturing and trading of luxury fabrics during this time. Originally Damask fabrics were woven with silk and exclusive to and highly sort after by royalty across Europe and Asia who would use this fabric to adorn the walls of royal palaces and upholster precious furniture pieces. Today modern damask fabric is most often produced by a computer run jacquard loom and is made from silk, cotton, linen, wool, satin or synthetic fibres. The fabrics origins and history make this a timeless design associated with luxury, opulence and traditional style interiors. Regal colours such as red, green, purple or blue damask fabrics are continually popular as they give a nod to the fabrics historical royal connections. We love damask fabric and feel it is the perfect choice for elegant upholstery and opulent curtains.


text:
Fans would like to See Hrithik Roshan & Tiger Shroff Together
Home Bollywood News Hot News Fans would like to See Hrithik Roshan & Tiger Shroff Together
Cheena Khannaon June 24, 2015
Tiger Shroff, who made an impact with his flawless performance in his debut film Heropanti. He is currently working hard for his film Baaghi and he has also won lots of appreciation for his recent released dance video.
Time and again Tiger Shroff have confessed that he is the biggest fan of Hrithik Roshan. He feels that Hrithik has a superb body and he is a great dancer of Bollywood.
They both have lot of respect for each other and have appreciated each other work. Their fans are waiting to see them work together.
Their fans feel it would be exciting to see them together as they both are great dancer and they both Share lot of common thing. So will, it happened will their fans get a chance to see them together onscreen.
The audience will also enjoy if they both come together for a project. If the makers are reading this then please keep this pair in mind.
Tiger Shroff is paired opposite Shraddha Kapoor in their upcoming film Baaghi. Baaghi is directed by Sabbir Khan and produced by Sajid nadiadwala.
Hrithik Roshan Tiger Shroff


Specialization in 3D, is an Animation course in Chennai. This is a 1 year Career program, that gives you basic to the advanced level of animation training in Chennai.
The course starts with Pencil Sketching, Digital Drawing, and 2D Animation, and from there on moves to creating Storyboard, Pre-visualization concepts, Animatics, 3D set modeling, props modeling, interior designing, 3D character modeling - Anatomy Study / Sculpting, Texturing, Rigging, Character animation, Lighting & rendering, Dynamics, Particle Effects, Match move & camera tracking, you will also be trained in audio video editing during this course so you can create your own animation short films.
This is the best animation course in Chennai as it gives a thorough knowledge in all the fundamentals and high-level techniques in Animation. The animation training is handled by trainers with years of animation experience and who are still working on international projects.
At the end of this course you will be able to do a 2D animation, and a complete 3D animation, with lighting and rendering all done by you. You will also be learning on how to add audio and music to your animation and make it a complete 3d animation video.
All these advantages come together in Creative Academy's - Specialization in 3D course only, and hence this is considered to be one of the best animation courses in Chennai.
This is the ULTIMATE course for you, if you are passionate about learning animation.
With extra features like Unlimited lab hours, industrial visits, seminars, workshops, events, specialized training, competitions, latest syllabus, campus interviews, jobs, etc. Creative Academy is considered to be the best animation training institute in Chennai.
Specialization in 3D, is a comprehensive program that trains students.Specialization in 3D, is a comprehensive program that trains students in every aspect of Animation. It gives a thorough knowledge in all the fundamentals and techniques of Animation- 2D & 3D, design visualization, audio & video editing, digital sculpting, etc.. All these technologies come together in Creative Academy's - Specialization in 3D course.


CGM Rewards is a free app for select readers of the Charleston Gazette newspaper. This app contains discounts and savings at local businesses in the newspaper distribution area and nationwide.
* Push notification - app notifies you when a deal is nearby.
* GPS search. Find deals nearby or wherever you are.
* Over 50 area locations with more to come.
Questions or concerns email helpdesk@saveheretoday.com.
Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramaticaly decrease battery life.
© Copyright 2016, RonDino Promotions, Inc.


text:
Gary G. Vercelli
Thursday, April 20, 2017 | Sacramento, CA
There are some impressive new releases in the jazz world this week.
Sound Advice, hosted by Jazz Music Director Gary Vercelli, previews songs from Chick Corea's new album "The Musician" and "Open Invitation" by the American River College Vocal Ensemble.
Chick Corea - "Overture" - The Musician
As a pianist and composer, Chick Corea has defined the sound of surprise in jazz for half a century.
In the fall of 2011, Corea celebrated his 70th birthday by performing 48 shows over the course of one month at the Blue Note in NYC with 10 different bands and 27 musicians, including Miles Davis alumni Herbie Hancock, Gary Bartz, Jack DeJohnette, and John McLaughlin.
He also reunited with Stanley Clarke and Lenny White, working in both electric and acoustic environments.
The 48 shows with 10 different bands resulted in a 20-song, three-CD box set issued on Concord along with a companion DVD documentary in the "Deluxe Edition."
Here we capture one of Chick's classically-inspired compositions, "Overture," featuring Gary Burton on vibes with the Harlem String Quartet.
The depth and versatility of Armando Antonio Chick Corea continue to astound all those who listen.
American River College Ensemble - "Early Autumn" - Open Invitation
This contemporary jazz vocal ensemble under the direction of Dr. Art Lapierre has won numerous awards from Down Beat magazine and music competitions throughout the country. They have upcoming performances at The Next Generation Monterey Jazz Festival on April 2 and a spring concert at A.R.C. on Wednesday, May 10.
"Early Autumn" was a hit for Woody Herman's band way back in 1948. It is handled here with finesse by Megan Ugarte. The group's sound is professional and features beautiful harmonies. Dr. Joe Gilman is featured on piano.
Charlie Watts/Danish Radio Big Band - "Satisfaction" - Recorded Live
Although known for his work with The Rolling Stones, Charlie Watts has always been an admirer of jazz artists. He holds legendary drummer Elvin Jones in high esteem and dedicates a composition to him on this collection.
This project is the brainchild of trumpeter Gerard Presencer. We'll enjoy his flugelhorn solo on a jazzed up version of "Satisfaction."
Matt Otto with Ensemble Iberica - "Elm" - Iberica
Tenor saxophonist Matt Otto shines as a composer of lush contemplative work. He is paired with a Kansas City-based chamber group dedicated to the music of Spain and Portugal.
This is a rich soundscape for the imagination that pairs Otto's probing saxophone with the guitars and world music
More about sound advice
Jazz Music Director
Jazz Music Director Gary Vercelli produces CapRadio's terrestrial and online jazz programming, including JazzStream.org. He also hosts Excellence In Jazz and Acid Jazz and writes reviews of new jazz releases. Read Full Bio
Email Gary G. Vercelli
Return to showInsight: Oroville Spillway Report / 'Swimmer Among The Stars' / 'The Donner Party' Musical / Sound Advice


Doux Reviews: Nashville: ... You'd better sit down.
Nashville: ... You'd better sit down.
Today I'll tell you the annotated story of the most frustrating television series ever filmed.
I'm here to explain to you why getting cancelled was the best thing ever to happen to Nashville and why you should definitely give the show a chance - or a second chance, if you've already tried and had enough of its special brand of madness - when it returns to its new home from the hiatus.
The concept of Nashville gave new meaning to the word 'synergy.' Here, we had a show about the Nashville music scene, filmed in Nashville, featuring music by residents of Nashville and original clubs and locations in Nashville, performed and released by its insanely talented young cast. This was a case of the town promoting the show and the music, the music promoting the town and the show, and the show promoting the music and the town. It's an idea so brilliant that for years I maintained that the viewing numbers of Nashville were the bare minimum they could ever be.
Years ago, there was this reviewer who really nailed it in saying how the most frustrating thing about Nashville wasn't how it was a bad show. It was that it was a bad show with a good show inside it, fighting tooth and nail to get out. This statement symbolizes everything wrong about the show and partially explains how, despite storylines which only deteriorated through its run, the series still kept a loyal, devoted fan following. These people were never in it for the insane, soapy hyperbole which reviewers loved to make fun of - and yes, it deserved to be made fun of - but for the music, the actors, the setting and the wonderful concept which nobody ever quite managed to destroy. No matter the bizarre dialog these people were served, they nearly always turned in stellar character interactions.
In a way, Nashville was every shipper's dream and nightmare. This was a show which - despite the writing, not because of it - managed to produce three absolutely iconic couples. Strong, likable Rayna and her sensitive, former-alcoholic old boyfriend Deacon. Shy, fragile but bighearted Scarlett, the niece of Deacon, and her love-at-first-sight deal with supportive, mild-mannered and vaguely self-mocking Gunnar - played by Clare Bowen and Sam Palladio, a musical match made in Heaven who were actually later invited to sing for Disney on Broadway.  Reformed bad-guy Avery, the boy with big dreams of fame, and half-crazed country-pop diva Juliette, not-so-subtly modeled after public misconceptions of Taylor Swift and the initial antagonist of Rayna.
And then the show dragged them all through the mud. Over and over and over again with no end in sight.
Significantly, T Bone Burnett - the creative genius behind season one's take on what country music ought to sound like, and series creator Callie Khouri's husband - chose to quit working on the show immediately after season one, and it was not hard to understand why.  Citing that he was "following doctor's orders not to work with people he doesn't like," he went on to describe the process of working for the Nashville creative team as an absolute ordeal. "Some people were making a drama about real musicians' lives, and some were making a soap opera, so there was that confusion. It was a knockdown, bloody, drag-out fight, every episode. You remember that show The Prisoner? If I were to tell you the truth, you'd think I was insane."
In a nutshell, that's all you have to know about Nashville seasons 2 through 4. Some of the writers, most of the actors and singers and all of the fans had this dream of a show a la Friday Night Lights about the reality of the music business and how it affects people. Those in charge apparently wanted car crashes as deus ex machinas, gross misrepresentations of actual real life illnesses and attitudes towards people, and faked miscarriages with pork blood.
Nashville painted a picture where everyone but a protagonist's closest friends were raging homophobes, contributing to a gay "siege mentality." Unforgivably, it called for first time mother Hayden Panettiere to act out an over-the-top version of a mental illness she herself was suffering from which entailed attacking her onscreen husband and newborn baby with a heavy object. Shortly thereafter, the actress had to check herself into a clinic.
In the middle of season three, I managed to write an accurate prediction down to detail - with no available spoilers - for an entire year's worth of storytelling between two main characters, simply by making the assumption that the show would recycle and abuse every soap meme known to man.
As the show gradually lost all focus and went creatively bankrupt, it also developed an addiction to guest stars. These guest stars would frequently stay on the show for various behind-the-scenes reasons far beyond where they'd outlived their usefulness and long after they'd run out of meaningful stories to tell for them. By season four, the show had become like a cheap crack whore begging for a fix and doing anything to get one. As long as they could get one more guest star, "just one more," they could use them to fill out the episodes with irrelevant side stories, which in turn saved them from the impossible intellectual feat of actually furthering their main plot lines.
So, what it came down to was bribing the guest stars to come there and offer them whatever they wanted. Of course, nearly all of them wanted to sing songs, despite normally being far less talented and interesting performers than the main cast, but "of course you'll get a song! Doesn't matter if you sound like a tone deaf chain smoking cow, we'll make it sound good! Oh, you want three songs? ... Okay, three songs it is!" The actual music, which had been the lifeblood of the show, was gradually diluted to a shadow of its former self and given to the most unlikable characters.
Whenever someone would ask me about Nashville, I'd give them the same advice: "watch season one episodes 1 through 14, because that's a really good show. After that, you can keep watching for the music and the cast, but be prepared to be tortured." This is where - not to spoil anything more for any masochist who wants to watch past that point - the show tells us it's no longer interested in realistic storytelling. This is where you start to notice artificially inserted elements and character assassinations designed to create synthetic drama rather than drama which evolves naturally out of the motivations of the players.
So... why am I so, so happy that this show was renewed?
Well, that's simple. Nashville on CMT won't even be the same show, and it will finally have a chance to fulfill its promise.
With news of cancellation burgeoning, Lionsgate decided to fire longtime executive producer Dee Johnson, one of the people evidently deemed the most responsible for this current trainwreck. There are more of those than I care to name. Then, they managed to get Ed Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz - most noted for their work on thirtysomething - to take over as new heads of the project. Immediately, they set up a new writers' room and got in touch with their favorite writers for scripts for the fifth season. Apparently, a rough outline for the new 22-episode installment is already done.
After that, word got out that Will Chase and Aubrey Peeples, portraying Luke Wheeler and Layla Grant, had been given the boot as series regulars and might only be back to round off their respective storylines. The former and especially the latter had been cancers on the show, characters overstaying their welcome for years and fed failed plot after failed plot, unexplained personality transformations and copious amounts of undeserved screentime to somehow make them relevant to the story.
Zwick and Herskovitz are people with actual integrity and character. Their trademark is introspective, serious drama, not over-the-top soaps.
No longer will we have to endure the guest star of the month for the quick fix of pointless side stories, because the people in charge aren't intellectually bankrupt and they do have a plan. The era of preferential treatment and of writing for shock value is over. From now on it will be "from each according to his and her abilities and to each according to what he or she is worth."
We'll see the best musical material given to the best singers. We'll see the juiciest and most complex acting material given to the best actors.
Mark my words, the will-they-or-won't-they of Scarlett and Gunnar is over. The multiple personalities of Layla Grant will be gone. The days of "Will Lexington, Token Gay" are at an end.
This is their main priority, bar none. They've even entered into discussions about producing an after-show special for the show, featuring live interviews and performances - stuff a show like this is made for. Unlike the lying sweet-talkers of FOX, CBS and ABC, I think we actually have reason to believe him.
As this is so I'm taking up the position to review Nashville season five when it hits our screens. I believe in putting my money where my mouth is. There's no show on television I've been more venomous about, and that's because I felt the concept - in which I was always invested over any particular character or storyline - deserved better. It always deserved better.
#Nashies, rejoice. We are entering the golden age of our series.
 'Scarlett' and 'Gunnar' perform "If I didn't know better"
Brilliant. Everything I ever thought about this show finally put into words. Looking forward to Season 5 under new "management". Bring back the music.
Thank you, anon, love you. Love and kisses to all the fans.
Hit the nail on the head. Great article, great points all around. However I am basis to 118 epi because we got some good DandR stuff but they did destroy them after that so I see your point.(writer awful PP) EXCITED for season 5 and the new show runners. Great article love your point of view.
I was getting very nostalgic after the final episode, but then I just saw the cast tour last month and it was just... kind of meh. They've now reached the point where Claire Bowen sings When The Right One Comes Along as a solo, which kind of seems to defeat the point when Sam Palladio is in the same set.
It has been a crazy ride over the years, and I've been so continually surprised we even made it through four series (it started in an odd year when practically nothing got cancelled and has somehow survived on music sales ever since?).
What intrigues me now is how CMT will deal with an expensive drama like this, when there are obviously going to have to be budget restrictions, as I don't think we have anything prior to base it on? Seeing as the songs from up and coming writers were so much of what made the first series, it's going to be interesting to see how they handle that. In terms of the Scarlett and Gunnar duets, Striking Matches and The Civil Wars were responsible for the iconic When The Right One Comes Along and If I Didn't Know Better. The Civil Wars ironically imploded soon afterwards, while Striking Matches have their own career now and don't necessarily need to be writing for hire.
And I don't think anyone could blame Hayden for leaving at this point (and having been given an obvious out with that cliffhanger), but it would be a huge loss to the show. That's what I want more of - her and Raina teaming up again. I'm not sure her storyline has been necessarily cruel this last year - she's certainly said in interviews that she wants to raise awareness of her illness, and she somehow always keeps Juliette sympathetic no matter how ridiculous the plot requires her to be.
The best news of all is: Zwick & Herskovitz at the reins. Nobody has ever made such realistic and heartfelt drama as they did on thirtysomething, and with CMT's commitment to the themes and the music (and no more need to feed the soap-opera crap of "network TV"), this has to work!
Indeed - Ed and Marshall at the wheel, combined with a network who's publicly stated they will not meddle with the creative process, is the true gold stamp. I believe we might see some of the old names associated with the show return as well.
While Striking Matches has their own career and don't explicitely need to "write for hire" they might not be totally opposed to it - they have even played sets with Sam on stage as third voice. And, I have to believe there is no shortage of talent in Nashville. They could hire up-and-comers and also have them on their after show special singing something else, assuming we get one. That's an added incentive.
As for the budget cuts it's hard to say. Less expensive outdoor shoots? A smaller cast and less guest stars and extras? I don't know how that would add up, I'm no accountant ;-) However, CMT clearly wouldn't have made the deal without having a solution.
In closing - seeing as this post gained a certain traction on social media (thanks, Ed! Thanks, Lyndsey! ;-) - Nashville was never a show I loved to hate, but it was sometimes a show I hated to love, because as that Yahoo review said, it often broke my heart, and not in a good way. As of now, I'm looking forward to love loving it.
What a great article! I loved this show for the first year, I continued to watch it for most of the second, just for the music which rarely faulted. Finally, couldn't stand it anymore. You list ail the reasons why.
"The Wrong Song' is one of my favorites. Great for singing along to when you've had a bad day!
A fair assessment. I am looking forward to a revitalized Nashville under the talents of the new showrunners and more of what they always did great - the music and of course Connie Britton's prodigious talent! I hope they will stop it with the guest stars that did nothing for the show - Steven Tyler with Hayden on Crazy was a terrible combo, for example. But having said that, would not mind seeing the reappearance of Sadie or Veda's characters.
If you want to convince people who have already left a show to return it's not enough to just say "it's such a great show and now it'll be even better!" They'll know you're either lying or you don't share their taste at all. You have to address the problems and explain just why the circumstances surrounding it have changed so as to make a brilliant show not only possible but likely.


Australia's Coral Expeditions is allowing adventurous travellers to take a trip up the Sepik River in Papua New Guinea.
The company has unveiled plans for a short series of four expeditions, departing from Madang on Papua's north coast on 6, 13, 20 and 27 February 2018.
The new seven-day itineraries will see the Coral Expeditions I cruise boat travel inland as far as the middle Sepik, "where," the company claims, "few have ventured before". Guests will visit local tribes, pass through rainforests and view local species including birds of paradise. Smaller vessels will also be used to allow passengers to explore the river's tributaries.
"Papua New Guinea is one of the world's most fascinating destinations with many areas isolated and difficult to access. Having explored the Lower Sepik River for many years, our interest to explore further has led to the introduction of our Sepik River Discovery Expedition. This provides a unique opportunity to explore rarely visited sites of the Middle Sepik," said Mark Fifield, Coral Expeditions' group general manager.
Coral Expeditions I can carry 44 passengers in a series of spacious cabins and staterooms, some of which have private balconies. It also features a sun deck and dining room.


text:
Springer Nature Pleiades Press Release
Journal Catalogue
How to Publish an Article?
Permission Request Form
Journal-Specific Guidelines
Guidelines for Manuscript Preparation
Composing Technical Information
Electronic Proofs
Why Open Access?
Open Access Licenses
Permissions to Reproduce Materials
How to Receive Royalties
Royalty policy
COMMERCIAL SERVICES:
see skills required
Journal Catalogue:
ONLINE VERSIONS OF JOURNALS:
HOW TO PUBLISH AN ARTICLE:
Royalties:
Publisher: Pleiades Publishing, Ltd.
Viktor A. Sadovnichii
Submit manuscript Read online version
About this journal:
Author's instructions
Ethics and disclosures
Сontents & Abstracts
Last Issue Browse Volumes & Issues
ALERTS FOR THIS JOURNAL Register your interests and receive email alerts.
Advance copy was received by 26.11.21 (volume 57 issue 9 year 2021 )
Editor-in-Chief: Viktor A. Sadovnichii
19422Downloads 2020
Springer measures the usage on the SpringerLink platform according to the COUNTER (Counting Online Usage of NeTworked Electronic Resources) standards.
26 Usage Factor 2019/2020
The Springer Journal Usage Factor 2019/2020 was calculated as suggested by the COUNTER Code of Practice for Usage Factors. It is the median value of the number of downloads in 2019/2020 for all articles published online in that particular journal during the same time period. The Usage Factor calculation is based on COUNTER-compliant usage data on the SpringerLink platform. (Counting Online Usage of NeTworked Electronic Resources) standards.
0.837 Impact Factor 2020
Journal Impact Factors are published each summer by Thomson Reuters via Journal Citation Reports ®. Impact Factors and ranking data are presented for the preceding calendar year.
0.98Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP) 2020
Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP) measures contextual citation impact by weighting citations based on the total number of citations in a subject field. The impact of a single citation is given higher value in subject areas where citations are less likely, and vice versa.
Q2Quartile: Mathematics (miscellaneous) 2020
The set of journals have been ranked according to their SJR and divided into four equal groups, four quartiles. Q1 (green) comprises the quarter of the journals with the highest values, Q2 (yellow) the second highest values, Q3 (orange) the third highest values and Q4 (red) the lowest values.
0.54 SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) 2020
SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) is a measure of scientific influence of scholarly journals that accounts for both the number of citations received by a journal and the importance or prestige of the journals where such citations come from.
30H-Index 2020
A journal has an H index of h if it published h papers each of which has been cited in other journals at least h times. Calculations are based on Scopus.
Differential Equations is a journal devoted to differential equations and the associated integral equations. The journal publishes original articles by authors from all countries and accepts manuscripts in English and Russian. The topics of the journal cover ordinary differential equations, partial differential equations, spectral theory of differential operators, integral and integral–differential equations, difference equations and their applications in control theory, mathematical modeling, shell theory, informatics, and oscillation theory. The journal is published in collaboration with the Department of Mathematics and the Division of Nanotechnologies and Information Technologies of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Mathematics of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus.
BFI List, CLOCKSS, CNKI, CNPIEC, Dimensions, EBSCO Academic Search, EBSCO Advanced Placement Source, EBSCO Discovery Service, EBSCO STM Source, Google Scholar, Japanese Science and Technology Agency (JST), Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition, Mathematical Reviews, Naver, OCLC WorldCat Discovery Service, Portico, ProQuest ABI/INFORM, ProQuest Advanced Technologies & Aerospace Database, ProQuest-ExLibris Primo, ProQuest-ExLibris Summon, SCImago, SCOPUS, Science Citation Index Expanded (SciSearch), TD Net Discovery Service, UGC-CARE List (India), zbMATH
Differentsial'nye Uravneniya
Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics, Moscow State University, str. 2, komn. 733b, Moscow, 119992 Russia
Phone/Fax: +7 (495) 932-88-53
E-mail: Iline@cs.msu.su
Web site: http://nasb.gov.by/eng/publications/difur/index.php
» Submit manuscript
» Read online version (for subscribers )
» Last Issue
» Browse Volumes & Issues
Contact Publishers
Contact Editorial Board
Contact Publishers Contact Editorial Board
FAQ Feedback Form


MHC is striving for a goal to raise $2500!
The "Cups of Hope" Annual Membership starts at just $25… Yes, that is only 100 committed supporters to hit our GOAL, to become annual "members" of My Hope Chest and help us "count on" annual support for programs and services.
Members at $25 will receive The Butterfly Report newsletter and be entered into periodic "raffles" for MHC prizes. Support at larger levels will receive "MHC" T-Shirts, jewelry and more!
Thank you for supporting and sharing our "Cups of Hope campaign. Together we will bring HOPE to life and make women whole again.
"Ribbons walks and research matter when breast cancer is your battle. What happens when you've almost won? A growing wait list of survivors live MINUS one or both breasts because they lack the means for reconstruction. Feeling disfigured, depressed, less than whole… they long for closure from their disease.
Breastless in America ~Still Waiting will release as a Trailer/short at Gasperialla International Film Festival (GIFF ) showing on Saturday, March 28th at 11am.
Alisa Savoretti, Founder of My Hope Chest, has envisioned this documentary to expose the problem thousands (if not millions) of mastectomy survivors are facing…living minus one or both breasts, unable to find closure from the disease because they lack insurance or high Co-Pays to achieve the expensive and complex, one year surgery.
Thanks to the partnership with MHC's longtime video Angel, Kenny Strawn of Sunstream Productions, the project is being launched at the festival, starting as a trailer as we work to raise funds for the full documentary.
A kickstarter campaign is coming soon to raise $10,000 for the next round of production… stay tuned. Donations are excepted to be restricted to this project, contact info@myhopechest.org for more details.
ButterFly GloWPaRty Takes Flight Saturday November 1st!
Donning Wings, glow and bling, excitement is building for My Hope Chest's "Butterfly gloWPaRty!" on Saturday Sept 20th at Hurley Park in Pass-A-Grille Beach, supporting breast reconstruction surgery, bringing hope to Life for breast cancer survivors.
The Butterfly GloWPaRty is a fundraiser for My Hope Chest. Gates open for the Glow Party at 4 pm in conjunction with the charity's 1st Annual Butterfly gloWalk, 5K FUN Run & PaRty. The GloWPaRty aims to "Kick-off" the race excitement and attendees can watch participants get their "wings fitted" and faces painted in preparation for the fun beach race. Party goers can UP their bling at the "GloWStation" in the center of the action where butterfly wings, and glow items will be for sale as a donation to the charity.
Food and alcohol will be available for purchase and also benefit the charity. Come HUNGRY! Enjoy the delicious treats from the GloWPaRty's exclusive Vendors: the Taco Bus, Engine 53 Pizza and Chick Fil A!
Party goers can bring blankets to sit under the stars… coolers and alcohol are not permitted.
WHAT: My Hope Chest's "Butterfly GlowPaRty!
PRICE-$15 General Admission in Advance(Sept 3ost) $20 After and At gate ** Some Group On deals running.
VIP- $ 65 in Advance. $ 75 After Aug 31st.
VIP GloTent includes Open bar, Lots of FUN glow accessories, Lite appetizers from 5:30-7:30, and VIP view of the party in the park!
Charity event is Rain or Shine… sorry no refunds on donations/tickets.


After a long flu-fueled delay, the girls are back with Home, Part I. This is a solid episode, penned by Executive Producer David Eick, with strong, central action from female characters, moving the plot forward. Spoiler Section will be covered in the Part II of, Home. Stay tuned after the jump!


Real Food for Real Kids (RFRK), founded in 2004, caters fresh, nutritious meals and snacks to child care centers, elementary schools and camps throughout the greater Toronto area. Over the last 12 years, the company has grown to a team of over a 100 who plan, prepare, deliver and serve nutritious food to 15,000 kids daily.
For several years, the RFRK team stayed organized using email communication, but as the company grew, Lulu Cohen-Farnell, RFRK's founder, recognized that they needed a more efficient system for collaborating and managing tasks. In 2014, she discovered GQueues and fell in love with it right away.
Lulu and her team quickly realized the benefits of using shared queues to assign tasks and reminders to ensure that projects were moving forward. Lulu explained that it's felt great to check things off when they're done and know that she's getting people what they need to do their jobs.
"If you have a lot going on, GQueues is a helpful tool that brings down your level of stress. You don't worry if something's being forgotten and you feel on top of things," Lulu noted.
To learn more about how Real Food For Real Kids uses GQueues, read the full case study.


We also present product or service sourcing and flight consolidation companies. We've our own manufacturing unit and sourcing office. We can easily provide you with nearly every form of merchandise similar to our product variety for Rubber Pencil Eraser , Cute Rubber Pencil Eraser , Rubber Animal Erasers , and create a better tomorrow.
We also offer you product sourcing and flight consolidation expert services. We've our personal manufacturing unit and sourcing business. We can offer you virtually every variety of merchandise associated to our item range for Rubber Pencil Eraser , Cute Rubber Pencil Eraser , Rubber Animal Erasers , We accomplish this by exporting our wigs directly from our own factory to you. The goal of our company is to get customers who enjoy coming back to their business. We sincerely hope to cooperate with you in the near future. If there's any opportunity welcome to visit our factory!!!


Editor's note: Thank you all for your tweets and shares! ICYMI actor Chris Evans is working to create a bipartisan news site aimed at reducing partisanship and promoting civic engagement, and we're doing everything we can to get on his radar. A few dozen tweets could make all the difference. We've drafted something below, but please feel free to make it your own - every mention counts!
The left worries about a slippery slope toward encroaching on the freedom of the press.
The right condemns Assange and supports his prompt extradition.
Love the dragons in 'Game Of Thrones'? The sound they're making is based on mating calls of giant tortoises.


Wikipedia may not be the most reliable source for information, but it is certainly one of the most up to date when it comes to encyclopedia based content. Lots of people use it, I certainly do every now and then, and that includes Wikileaks too. Unfortunately, such sites require internet access in order to browse them. Kiwix is a Windows application that allows you to download content from various platforms like Wikipedia and Wikileaks specifically for offline viewing.
Kiwix is an application that allows you to download content from various online resource platforms like Wikipedia or Wikileaks. It's available in a portable package and a traditional install one. You cannot pick and choose the content you download, instead you download large bundles of content all at once. Sure, there are different bundles available for some of the platforms, but really it's all or none when it comes to Kiwix.
Take note Kiwix works on Windows, Mac OS X, Android, and Linux. For the purposes of this review, we took a look at the Windows version.
When the portable version was scanned, VirusTotal returned 1/44 potential flags with Jiangmin recognizing "Suspect.Package.RLO". This is likely a false positive, but proceed with caution.
Kiwix is available in a portable version which requires an archive tool like WinZIP, WinRAR, or 7ZIP to extract the contents. Once extracted, the application can be run from any directory including that of an external drive. That being said, if you do not store the downloaded resources in the same directory then you'll have to do it every time you move the app to a new computer. The largest Wikipedia bundle requires just under 10GB of storage space, so ensure that you have a big enough flash drive.
The first time you launch the application it will ask you if you want to download books or catalogs. Make sure you select "yes," and if you do decide to dismiss that window then deselect the "never show this" again option. If you select no, you will have to redownload the application to download the catalog of directories. Adversely, you would have to download the directories one at a time.
The UI is quite simple. There are two tabs, one for personally downloaded content, and the other for acquiring new content. If you choose to download the entire catalog of books and data, you will see content from many different languages. Luckily, on the "get new files" tab you can filter results by language. You can download bundles like the entire Wikipedia catalog (9.68GB), the Wikileaks Afghan War Diary, and Wikivoyage travel content and more.
It's worth noting that the most recent Wikipedia library was last updated on March 23, 2012. Any content created after that will have been left out. Sadly, that means a lot if you're looking for information on modern tech like smartphones, game consoles and stuff of that nature.
Once a database has been downloaded, the content is displayed in a simple list form. You can click on any of the related articles to be brought to a clone of the online Wikipedia page. All links remain intact, which means if you have an active internet connection you click browse other Wikipedia pages online through your browser by interacting with inline links. Otherwise, you navigate through a catalog with the back button and list interface.
You can save and print individual pages as PDF files if you wish, and there's a button to jump to a random article stored in your library. You can even change the app skin, but there are only two available and it requires a restart of the program to apply them.
Kiwix uses about 63MB of RAM while running, so it's definitely not as light as one would hope. Still, it's not too ridiculous either.
Kiwix is a capable offline reader for Wikipedia and similar platforms. It does what it claims to do — allow you to read Wikipedia offline. However, it only allows you to download "books" or data bundles in large packages, so if you're looking to store just individual pages you'll have to look elsewhere. Also, the largest downloadable Wikipedia bundle hasn't been updated since March, 2012. That means any information added to the platform after that date will not be found in the package.
Overall, it's not the best software around, but it's certainly not the worst. If you're looking for offline Wikipedia access, you should check this one out at the least.


Thank you to the Volunteer Vision Network members for generously donating their time and services, ensuring everyone in our community has access to vision care. This network is comprised of more than 90 volunteer Eye Care Professionals who provide vision care to those children and adults who are in financial need and qualify for the program.
William J. Knauer, III, M.D.
Fred H. Lambrou, Jr., M.D.
Kurt J. Moody, O.D., F.A.A.O.


Maria Åkerberg Cover Stick Neutralizer.
Corrective pencil with two shades, specifically designed to neutralise red and blue facial tones. Cover Stick Neutralizer is perfect on dark circles under the eyes, acne scars, superficial blood vessels, spots and blemishes.
Mascara Volume Black suits individuals who look good in cool colours.
Hair Style Rough is a salt-water spray that provides stability, texture and body to the hair.


appear within your Fresh Thyme mobile app! Download the Fresh Thyme mobile app. It's never been easier to shop, … We'll generate a digital loyalty ID for you.
Fresh Thyme Farmers Markets are part of the new marketing appeal to sell Great Southern Shopping Center in Bridgeville and the Southland Four Seasons Shopping Center in Pleasant Hills, two long-established community shopping centers in the region.


text:
Western Isles introduces 'Welcome to the Ward' lap trays
Published: 11:37 Updated: 12:22 Tuesday 08 November 2016
NHS Western Isles has become the first Health Board in Scotland to develop and introduce new lap tray mats to its hospitals, welcoming patients to the ward, and providing an array of important patient information by the bedside.
Providing information on visiting; protected mealtimes; nurse/ward rounds; steps to stay safe in hospital; WiFi; smokefree grounds; a staff/uniform 'who's who'; discharge from hospital; and how to provide feedback, the mats, which are A3 size, are bright and informative, and have already attracted national attention, with other Health Boards interested in developing something similar.
The mats were launched earlier this year, and have received positive feedback from both patients and staff.
NHS Western Isles Nurse Director, Chris Anne Campbell, stated: "The lap tray mats were launched as part of our 'What Matters To You' day earlier this year, when staff were asked to focus specifically on considering 'what are the things that matter most to your patients?'
"One of the things we know really matters to patients is having the right information at their fingertips when they are in hospital – hence the reason we introduced these lap tray mats.
"I am delighted with the feedback received, which has been very positive.
"The reason these lap tray mats work so well is that they are bright and easy to read – patients can refer back to them as they need to, as they are kept by the bedside.
"They also contain such a wide range of information in one place: from how to provide feedback and information about confidentiality, to infection prevention information and how to avoid falls.
"There has already been interest in our new lap tray mats from the Scottish Government and from other Health Boards, which is a reflection of how innovative and effective they are."
The lap trays are part of a package of person-centred materials recently developed and launched by NHS Western Isles.
'Welcome to the Ward' and 'Welcome to the Hospital' Information leaflets have also been developed.
Corporate information display boards are now on display at the entrances of hospitals, and new ward information boards (with ward-specific information to be updated daily by each ward) are now outside ward areas throughout Western Isles hospitals.
New, extended hospital visiting times have also been introduced from 11am to 8pm, seven days a week (there is also flexibility if relatives/friends wish to visit outwith this time).
Opt-out: It's time for Scots to talk about organ donation
Mrs Campbell added: "We were keen to develop a full package of new materials and initiatives to make every patient's stay in hospital as comfortable as possible.
"Ensuring patients have the information and support they require when they are inpatients is vital and improves the overall patient experience."


text:
The work of the research group finds its expression in various publication formats. In addition to monographs, edited volumes and articles by individual members of the research group, we also make (preliminary) research results available for academic discourse in the form of working papers.
Furthermore, with the Companion to the Study of Secularity, the research group is pursuing a long-term, collaborative publication project that aims to make research on phenomena of the conceptual distinction and structural differentiation of "religion" accessible to a larger academic audience and thus to contribute to opening up a new field of research and facilitating interdisciplinary exchange.
Working papers as well as entries for the Companion to the Study of Secularity are reviewed by at least two peers from the research group prior to publication.
André Laliberté
Multiple Secularities in Culturally Chinese Societies
Despite extensive academic discussion about de-centring the concept of secularity, very few academics have looked at contemporary China. This should not be surprising as the concept of 'secularity', and its cognates 'secular', 'secularisation', and 'secularism' rarely translate well into Chinese. This article explores whether and how Wohlrab-Sahr and Burchardt's conceptual framework for understanding secularity beyond the West and beyond modernity can be applied to China. This article looks into the lessons we can derive from China's own recent history of relations between religious and non-religious social spheres to enrich our understanding of secularity beyond the West, and, at the same time, contribute to the de-othering of China and the critique of positive orientalism. A major argument made in this essay is that the particular features of secularity in China are not the inevitable result of a cultural configuration determining institutional arrangements between religion and the spheres of the secular. Although the language and terminology of these arrangements may be culturally specific and intelligible only within the sinosphere, i.e. to people who can understand written Chinese, this does not pre-ordain the creation of a specific form of secular state such as the current mode of regulation of religion enforced by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The case of Taiwan, another important centre within the sinosphere where secularity differs from that seen in China, illustrates the vast repertoire of institutional arrangements possible in Chinese societies, and highlights the importance of agency in shaping institutions.
more Companion entries
Christoph Kleine and Monika Wohlrab-Sahr
#22: Preliminary Findings and Outlook of the CASHSS "Multiple Secularities – Beyond the West, Beyond Modernities"
In its initial research project description, the Centre for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences (CASHSS) took a position on the longstanding academic and public debates on secularism, secularisation, and secularity. In doing so, The CASHSS took up the concept of Multiple Secularities and developed it further. Based on the hypothesis that distinguishing and differentiating practices are not an exclusive sign of Western modernity, we decided to systematically explore regions beyond the 'Western world', and in doing so expand our research remit beyond that on which Taylor had focused. We focused on regions that have been culturally shaped by Islam (the MENA region, Indonesia, India), as well as on Asia, which necessarily involved some overlap. These regional contexts differed historically and still do so today in terms of their propensity for conflict over boundary demarcation and the way in which relationships are established between the religious and the non-religious. What they have in common is that the application of the term 'religion' to the respective socio-cultural traditions is highly controversial. Exploring these regions brought different religious traditions as well as experiences of the confrontation with the Western world into focus, suggesting the prospect of instructive comparisons.
more Working Papers
Hans-Georg Ebert
Islamisches Familien- und Erbrecht der arabischen Länder
Herausforderungen und Reformen
Hans-Georg Ebert introduces the origin and development of Islamic family and inheritance law in the Arab countries. He refers to the manifold sources and norms of Islamic law and its European influences since the end of the 19th century. In a typology of the legal systems of the Arab nation states, he emphasises not only the differences in content and degree of codification, which are based on social, religious and political circumstances, but also the mutual references and fundamental commonalities. Using marriage, divorce, parenthood and inheritance law as examples, Ebert shows the methods and reforms that can be used to overcome current challenges while respecting cultural-religious values.
Ebert, Hans-Georg. Islamisches Familien- Und Erbrecht Der Arabischen Länder: Herausforderungen Und Reformen. Berlin: Frank & Timme, 2020.
Markus Dressler
Physical and Epistemic Violence against Alevis in Modern Turkey
Turkey has gone through significant transformations over the last century—from the Ottoman Empire and Young Turk era to the Republic of today—but throughout it has demonstrated troubling continuities in its encouragement and deployment of mass violence. In particular, the construction of a Muslim-Turkish identity has been achieved in part by designating "internal enemies" at whom public hatred can be directed. This volume provides a wide range of case studies and historiographical reflections on the alarming recurrence of such violence in Turkish history, as atrocities against varied ethnic-religious groups from the nineteenth century to today have propelled the nation's very sense of itself.
Markus Dressler, "Physical and Epistemic Violence against Alevis in Modern Turkey". R. Kevorkian, St. Astourian (eds.), Collective and State Violence in Turkey. The Construction of a National Identity from Empire to Nation-State. New York: Berghahn, 2021, 347-71.


text:
The Silver Lining Behind The Coming CCollapse: 10 Reasons For Legitimate Optimism In The Face Of Impending Financial Crisis
in: Bilderberg, Bill Gates, Civil Disobedience, Civil Rights, codex alimentarius, Collapse, Consciousness, DARPA, DHS, Economy, Economy & Business, Environment, Eugenics & Depopulation, False Flags, FEMA Camps, General Health, Globalism, Government, Government Control, Government Corruption, Human Rights, Know Your Rights, Losing Rights, Martial Law, Medical & Health, Military, Military Weapons, National Security Agency, NATO, NDAA, New World Order, News Articles, Obama Exposed, Politics, Preparedness\Survival, Propaganda, Protestors & Activists, RFID Chips, Rothschild, Science & Technology, Sleuth Journal, Society, Surveillance, Templars Of The Crown, Trilateral Commission, Tyranny & Police State, United Nations, US Congress, US Constitution & Bill Of Rights, US News, US Supreme Court, War Propaganda, World Health Organization
There is good reason for legitimate optimism right now, even in the face of an approaching financial collapse and the rise of the new American police state. It sounds contradictory, but there is a silver lining to all this. There's a catch, however: The silver lining only applies to those who learn how to get out of the way of the "social tsunami" that will be unleashed. I'll explain that in more detail later in this article.
To explain that, we first have to address the issue of FEMA camps. Publicly described as "refugee camps," FEMA camps have a reputation among the "awakened" community as being concentration camps. There is evidence that FEMA camps are stockpiling huge numbers of cadaver incineration containers (http://tv.naturalnews.com/v.asp?v=C67234C7049D2AB2F3D897B805FEFEC2). The recent purchase of 1.4 billion rounds of ammunition by the DHS also indicates a massive amount of firepower is about to be directed at the American population. (http://www.naturalnews.com/036847_ammo_purchases_government_stockpili…)
But let's analyze this rationally, and let's look at both "best case" and "worst case" scenarios for these FEMA camps.
BEST CASE scenario: FEMA camps are merely "refugee camps" set up to help the masses of refugees who will flee the cities in the midst of a global economic collapse. The FEMA camps will provide basic supplies such as food, water, shelter, electricity, basic medical care and so on. The camps will also offer security to the people during the crisis, and then after the crisis people will be free to leave. FEMA saves a bunch of lives and the government is the hero.
WORST CASE scenario: The FEMA camps are actually concentration camps set up with human incinerators (large, walk-in ovens) to process tens of millions of inner-city dwellers who the globalists see as having no value whatsoever and therefore need to be eliminated at the first opportunity. The camps will be use to stage citizens who are rounded up under the pretext of being "saved" but are actually sent either to slave labor camps or incinerators after being tagged as "infected" with a fictional infectious disease propagandized by the CDC. The "American holocaust" will take place under the name of FEMA.
Keep in mind as you read all this that the United States of America already has a long and well-documented history of running internment camps and rounding up innocent people, kidnapping them, stuffing them into these camp prisons, and not letting them out for years. This is the factual story of exactly what happened in World War II with the Japanese Internment Camps located all across the country. I recently wrote about it in this article:
http://www.naturalnews.com/036922_Census_Bureau_racial_profiling_inte…
Analyzing the scenarios
Remember, by the way, that FEMA camps could also potentially function somewhere in between the best case and worst case scenarios. They don't have to be wholly one or the other.
In the best case scenario (or anything close to it), there's little to worry about. Nobody's going to be harmed if FEMA merely serves its official function of helping refugees deal with disaster. So let's look more in the direction of the worst case scenario: What is the worst that FEMA can do?
To answer this question, we have to ask some basic questions:
1) How many FEMA centers exist across the country?
2) How many people can they hold and / or house at any one time?
3) How many people can they "process" through incinerators if that were indeed their goal? (Worst case scenario, remember?)
The answer to the first question is relatively straightforward. Based on maps available online, there appear to be roughly somewhere between 175 and 200 FEMA camps across the USA. Let's take the 200 as our working number as we explore these questions.
How many people can each camp hold? While every camp obviously has different facilities and capacities, what we're looking for here is the average capacity.
This is a bit of a wild guess, but I'm going to propose that the average capacity of a FEMA camp is about 25,000 people. This number is probably ridiculously high, as housing that many people would require a huge structure approaching the size of a sports stadium. My honest guess is that most camps can handle fewer than 5,000 people while only a few larger camps are built for anything approaching 100,000 people. But we'll go with 25,000 each for illustration purposes.
If accurate, this means FEMA camps can hold, at maximum, 200 x 25,000 people, which is 5 million people. That's a nationwide total.
But New York City, all by itself, has 8 million people. Los Angeles has another 3.8 million, and Chicago has 2.7 million (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_by_populati…).
When you start adding up the populations of the largest cities, it becomes very clear that FEMA camps can't hold anywhere near the numbers they would need to hold in order to handle the mass of refugees fleeing the cities. Remember, the U.S. population is roughly 300 million people. If FEMA camps can hold 5 million people in total, that's only 1.7% of the total population.
Of course, that calculation is only based on how many people FEMA camps can hold. A darker question is: How many people can FEMA camps process? (Incinerate.)
Aren't the incinerators just some wild conspiracy theory?
FEMA camp incinerators, you say? Sounds like some wild conspiracy theory.
That's what I thought, too, until I saw this patent from the U.S. patent office. It's patent number 5425163. And here's the description of the patent:
A multi-functional cremation container for a cadaver is provided. A rectangular container is enclosed on five sides by four container side panels and a bottom panel. The sixth side is an upwardly facing open top for providing access to the internal volume within the container. The side panels terminate at the open top in a first annular horizontal peripheral groove and a downturned external flange having a downfacing annular edge. Each side is sloped so as to allow multiple cremation containers to be nestled for compact storage and easy transportation. A rectangular cover has a horizontal top panel with four peripheral, downwardly extending cover side panels. The cover side panels fit over the container flange for closing the container, and include formed therein a plurality of reliefs for carrying the casket…
The image of this "cremation container" patent is shown here:
http://www.google.com/patents?id=R-kkAAAAEBAJ&pg=PA2&source=gbs_selec…
These exact "cremation containers" aren't just real, they're stacked inside FEMA camps in massive quantities. The following picture is taken from the 2:30 mark of this Jesse Ventura video:
http://tv.naturalnews.com/v.asp?v=C67234C7049D2AB2F3D897B805FEFEC2
As you can see from the video, these human cadaver incineration containers are being produced and stored in massive quantities, then held at FEMA camps. There can be only one purpose for such containers: The incineration of a massive numbers of Americans.
The CDC, of course, would explain all this as merely a "precautionary measure" to deal with the casualties of a runaway infection with a high fatality rate. Most of the sheeple don't believe mass incineration containers really exist… until you tell them the CDC supports the plan as a way to dispose of infected bodies in a large pandemic outbreak. And then, suddenly, a typical sheeple person will say, "Oh, then, it must be okay."
But back to the point at hand, it is absolutely clear that the U.S. government is preparing to incinerate huge numbers of human bodies at FEMA camps. For what reason? Believe what you wish.
Hold on a second, you say. This is nuts. The American people wouldn't stand by idly and allow the government to incinerate citizens by the millions.
Oh really? And on what evidence do you base such a conclusion? The German citizens tolerated it in World War II, when Jews were being rounded up and incinerated by the millions, right in the German citizens' own back yard. Today, in the USA, the sheeple have become so "sissified", apathetic and mentally malleable that no one would stop the government's mass incineration operations, even if such activities became widely known. "Anything to stop terrorism!" the sheeple would scream as they bow down and lick the boots of tyrants.
If there's anything that's perfectly clear about American culture over the last couple of decades, it's that people will go along with anything — even crazy things — as long as the White House explains it away. Hey, let's bail out the rich banksters with trillions of dollars in taxpayer money while nobody goes to jail! Or, let's spend billions of dollars to move U.S. auto industry jobs to China! Or how about this one: Let's just start arresting veterans and throwing them in psychiatric hospitals by the hundreds, claiming they have "mental disorders" if they speak out against the status quo (http://www.naturalnews.com/036923_Brandon_Raub_thought_crimes_psychia…).
So where's the good news in all this, you ask? There is a limit to how many human beings they can process. So even if you believe the FEMA camp infrastructure is engineered and intended to "process" large numbers of American citizens, the limited resources controlled by the federal government means that, by definition, most of the population will escape such evil aims.
Only the clueless and unprepared will be caught in the FEMA web
That's the good news in all this. Even if FEMA camps are invoked in their worst case scenario status, and even if the government becomes overrun with such evil that it pursues a new human holocaust and starts incinerating citizens by the millions, there is a practical limit to how many people they can round up and process.
All such operations — if they even take place at all — will be focused entirely on high population density cities where the minimum number of troops can effectively round up the maximum number of citizens with the least amount of resistance.
Keep in mind, by the way, that even the troops won't be told the full story here. They'll be told a big lie such as "a terrible infectious disease has been released by a terrorist and we have to round people up for their own protection." So the troops won't resist the orders, as they'll be operating under the belief that they are saving people. Only a very small inner circle of commanders and loyal troops will know the rest of the story of where those people are headed (and why so many magically disappear).
Even then, there simply aren't enough troops to conduct these "sweep up" operations everywhere. The largest five cities will, all by themselves, use up most of the national resources of troops, humvees, armored personnel carriers, and so on. No one has ever attempted to militarily control the city of Los Angeles, but the task will be enormously complex and extremely messy (if not impossible). Once the roadblocks are put in place around the city, the region will almost certainly become a free-for-all of runaway gang violence, accented with the occasional arrival of guns-blazing national guard troops who shoot anything that doesn't immediately surrender.
Where's the good news in all this again?
95% of America is rural open space
According to U.S. Census Bureau data, roughly 95% of the USA is rural open space. This is even true in California, where 94% of the population lives in just 5% of the land space of the state. (http://news.heartland.org/newspaper-article/2003/07/01/census-bureau-…)
Think about this for a minute. Ninety-four percent of the population lives in just 5% of the space!
So where do you think the FEMA round-up operations are going to be focused? They're going to be focused on the 5% of the geographic space where the population is concentrated. The cities, namely.
That means 95% of the American landscape will remain a FREEDOM ZONE where there simply aren't enough troops to cover the geography. Yes, troops can and will cover all the highways, bridges, interstates and major roadways. But there are endless back roads, pathways, farms and ranches off the beaten path that will simply be ignored.
Even more, National Guard troops aren't going to want to mess with heavily armed rural populations to begin with. Do you think a bunch of troops want to roll through the mountains of Idaho in the middle of a civil war, with armed rebels hiding behind every tree and rock? Not a chance. They're going to focus their efforts on the disarmed cities where civilians are completely helpless to defend themselves. Turn off the water supply to Los Angeles, and the entire city surrenders in 72 hours.
Chicago also comes to mind as a likely target for rounding people up. Think about it: 2.7 million people, mostly disarmed, ready for the taking. It's "easy pickins" for a holocaust if, indeed, holocaust is the goal.
New York is an easy target for the holocaust, too, with 8.2 million people who are mostly disarmed. Los Angeles provides 3.8 million people to fill the incinerators, although battles with the inner city gangs will be hard-fought.
Houston is another story altogether. With a population of 2.1 million people, there are probably at least half a million armed citizens in Houston. Houstonites are not going to just quietly get stuffed into transport trucks and hauled off to the incinerators. There are a lot of African-American brothers in Houston who know their history — and they know not to trust the government when someone says, "Just hop onto this transport boat and everything will be fine." The last time that line was offered to black folks, it didn't turn out to be honest advertising.
A hard upbringing makes a stronger survivor
In fact, I have to say for the record that black folks are far sharper about not trusting the government than white folks. A typical middle-class suburban white family is totally clueless about reality, having never seen real hardship. Their kids are hooked on Ritalin, their neighborhood has no real violent crime, and they easily find decent-paying jobs because they look clean-cut and trustworthy. White folks are often in favor of gun restrictions because they live under the delusion that the government will always show up and save them if they need to dial 911 for any reason.
The inner cities, on the other hand, are places where reality hits the pavement night after night. The people who live there are street-wise and not so gullible. Whether they are black, Latino, Chinese or Korean, they're survivors who know to watch their backs and avoid predators. That's a skill relatively few well-to-do white folks have mastered. I'm not trying to be racist against whites here, by the way; I'm just laying out the facts of cultural reality: A hard life makes you a survivor. An easy, cushy life in a protected, artificial suburban upbringing makes you soft, regardless of your race. When a typical rich suburban kid has a problem in life, he's sent to counseling to "talk it out." When a typical inner city kid (of any race) has a problem, he might have to literally dodge bullets. Which one of these two do you think has a better chance of surviving a societal collapse?
For the record, by the way, I was brought up "soft" in a cushy suburban neighborhood, complete with Cub Scouts, my own bicycle newspaper route and four years on the high school track team. I never knew that my protected world wasn't the real world. The only clue I really had was at the divisional track meets where the inner city "brothers" tore up the track, easily beating all us "white boyz" in virtually every running event, seemingly without even trying.
We had several black athletes on our own team, some of whom I got to know quite well, and they were almost universally the strongest runners. Our coach was a smart and fair man, and he always handed the events to the most deserving, regardless of their skin color. That's the only thing that kept our team in the running, as it was often our fastest "brother" who took on the final leg of the 1600-meter relay, making up all the ground lost by us white guys and somehow pulling out a narrow victory by clocking a 47.5-second quarter mile — an amazing feat for a high school runner.
The point in all this is that when it comes to surviving during hard times, it seems obvious to me that those who were brought up under "hard" circumstances have a survival advantage during a collapse.
Of course, survival skills can be learned and mastered by anybody. With a few hundred hours of training, almost anyone can learn to watch their back, size up potential threats to their safety, become competent in basic skills of evasion and personal defense, and even master what is called "the great American martial art" — pistol fighting.
The number of people who actually pursue these skills, however, is tiny. Less than one percent of the population. Most people place a far higher priority on television and shopping than on self defense and survival. Needless to say, proudly owning a fancy new pair of designer jeans doesn't count for much in a collapse.
Get your butt into the 95% "freedom zone" areas
The upshot of all this — and yes, the silver lining — is that roughly 95% of America's land space will remain virtually untouched by destructive forces even in a worst-case scenario. It only makes sense that getting yourself into this zone well ahead of time is a key strategy for avoiding whatever malicious agenda might be pursued by a government gone bad.
The cities are the death traps of modern society. Whether you're talking about a pandemic, a nuclear strike by an enemy nation, a FEMA-led extermination effort or a "grid down" power collapse, cities are quite obviously death traps. Getting you and your family out of the city is your ticket to freedom and safety.
How do you do that? First, take a look at this list of U.S. cities with populations greater than 100,000:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_by_populati…
If you live in any of those cities, you're probably living in danger.
There are nine U.S. cities with populations greater than one million: New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Philadelphia, Phoenix, San Antonio, San Diego and Dallas.
All nine of those U.S. cities are death traps just waiting to be triggered. But even on that list, some are far more dangerous than others. Cities like San Antonio and Dallas, for example, have multiple escape routes in all directions. But cities like Chicago, Los Angeles and New York are strictly limited by geography and are therefore far deadlier in a crisis. New York City, in particular, resides within Manhattan Island which is connected to the rest of the area by just 16 bridges. This means the military can simply throw down 16 armed, barricaded checkpoints and essentially quarantine the entire city. Patrolling the rivers and harbors is a simple task, so don't think you can escape by boat, either.
This is why I put New York City at the top of my list of the most dangerous places to live. In fact, the entire East Coast is rife with high-density population areas. To really get some open space, you have to head westward, into the Midwest or even go west of the Rockies. There's a lot of rugged open space, for example, in Colorado, Utah, New Mexico and Arizona. Idaho, Wyoming, Montana and even Eastern Washington / Oregon have lots of opportunities to get away from the cities. Texas is a huge rural area dotted by a few high-density cities that take up a very small percentage of the actual geographic area of the state.
So the strategy — and the good news — is simple and straightforward: Get your butt out of the high-density cities and into the "freedom zones" of the rural areas.
Get this book: Strategic Relocation by Joel Skousen
The best book on this subject is also one that's been around for more than a decade: Strategic Relocation by Joel Skousen.
I recommend you buy this through the InfoWars.com store:
http://www.infowarsshop.com/Strategic-Relocation-North-American-Guide…
On that page, you'll also find a video interview with the author. I first read this book over ten years ago, and it has guided my relocation decisions ever since.
Why I chose Austin, Texas
According to Skousen, Austin Texas is not necessarily the best place in the country. It's too near high-population cities such as San Antonio, Houston and Dallas. There are some nuclear plants in Texas that might also be troublesome.
But I don't actually live in the city of Austin, of course. I live in an outlying area many miles from the city. Most importantly, I chose Texas because of the Texas culture, which turns out to be a perfect fit for my own beliefs of rugged individualism, personal responsibility and Constitutional liberties.
Texas is also the only state with its own independent power grid. Texas produces an excess of energy, food and technology. Of all the states in the nation, Texas is probably the most well-suited to be self-sufficient.
On top of that, Texas is a culture that strongly encourages private firearms ownership, which I believe to be crucial for survival. I simply will not live in a city or state that places ridiculous restrictions on firearms ownership. In Texas, much of the population is armed, and guns are ubiquitous. It's not a problem, by the way. Violent crime is relatively rare in Texas (compared to disarmed death zones like Chicago) because all the potential "bad guys" still have enough brain cells functioning to know that the Texas population is armed to the teeth and willing to shoot back.
Just as importantly, Texas is also an agricultural hub for the nation, so engaging in activities like buying large drums of chicken feed or fertilizer is a common practice. If you want to store 500 gallons of diesel fuel on your farm, that won't raise any eyebrows, either. In rural Texas, you can raise backyard chickens, goats and even rabbits. Land is relatively affordable, and rich soils are available in the right areas.
Texas is famous for producing blueberries, pecans and other superfoods!
Plus, Texas folks are by and large polite people. They still have that Southern hospitality attitude, and they are genuinely helpful folks who band together in any emergency and work to protect their local communities.
Texas is full of Sheriffs and deputies who still believe in the Bill of Rights. Many are quite outspoken about the coming collapse, and they are intent upon protecting their communities from FEMA and the United Nations. (http://www.infowars.com/texas-judge-warns-obama-re-election-could-lea…)
Texas isn't perfect, of course. The cities will be hell holes in a collapse, but the people of Texas are resilient, rugged, innovative and determined. And those are the kind of people I want to be living among when the fit hits the shan, so to speak.
Choose your priorities now
What you decide to do depends on your perspective of what's important. If you're into fashion, shopping malls and living in a concrete jungle with zero sustainability, a city is a great choice. But if you're into living off the land, away from the urban death traps and practicing permaculture or self-reliance, simply shift your priorities so that you get out of the city and into the country.
Remember: 95% of America's land space is wide open, rural space. These spaces are very likely to be left alone in almost any crisis. So pick your spot, buy some land, drill a well and start your garden. Learn the skills you need to survive — self-defense, plant propagation, raising chickens, and so on — and you'll be relatively well off when the collapse comes.
That's the good news I promised in all this: If you get out of the city and get prepared, your odds of surviving even a worst-case collapse and FEMA-style round-up attempt are very, very high. It is primarily the clueless, defenseless masses who will find themselves victims of whatever agenda or circumstance unfolds.
The 10 reasons summarized
So, as promised, here are the 10 reasons for legitimate optimism in the face of impending financial collapse:
#1) 95% of America's land space is rural, "wide open" space.
#2) Government forces are limited and can only cover high-density population areas — the cities.
#3) Right now, you still have time and opportunity to leave the city and move to the countryside.
#4) In many areas of the country, it is perfectly legal for you to raise chickens, raise crops and own firearms for your protection.
#5) Rural culture teaches a survival mindset. Farmers are very resourceful and innovative.
#6) You are not limited to how you were raised. You can teach yourself the skills you need to live in a rural setting. (I did!)
#7) Getting out of the city also gives you buffer space against a pandemic outbreak or biological attack.
#8) FEMA round-up attempts — if they even occur — will be very unlikely to ensnare prepared "country folks" who are willing to defend their lives, communities and property.
#9) FEMA camps do not have the capacity or resources to "process" everyone. They are limited in their scope, even if they pursue a holocaust type of agenda.
#10) Most of all: Survivors can help REBUILD a better society after the collapse — a society that respects liberty, justice, personal responsibility and the order of law. The "next society" which emerges after the collapse will be an opportunity to imprison the banksters, take back the money supply, throw the bums out of office in Washington, shatter the government's devastating monopoly over (failed) public education, end the FDA / pharma monopoly over fascist medicine, and unleash the true entrepreneurial leadership of America once again.
And isn't that good news, after all? Think of the "collapse" as a detox. A cleansing. A reboot to a better operating system. While the current system of runaway debt spending will, without question, come to an end, isn't that actually a good thing if we can create something better on the other side and restore freedom and liberty for America?
Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/036951_financial_collapse_optimism_silver_lining.html#ixzz28mKjtqLw
Previous : New Congressional Amendment Prepares For Mass Casualties in America
Next : American Undergraduates Recruited For Population Control Agenda As UN Raises The Stakes
Reality Check: Is Kratom Actually Safer Than Most Prescription Drugs? (VIDEO)
Total Planetary Collapse: The World's Vertebrate Population Has Fallen By An Average Of 60 Percent Since 1970
FDA Approves Painkiller 1,000X More Powerful Than Morphine Despite Epidemic of Drug Overdoses and Natural Alternatives
The Everything Bubble: When Will It Finally Crash?


This guide is designed to assist students enrolled in Dance courses with locating Library resources for their research assignments. The guide is organized into steps that cover the basic research process for locating and citing relevant sources used in writing a paper or other projects. For general research assistance other than Dance, view the links listed under Research Tools.
In six volumes, with nearly 2,000 articles written by scholars from over fifty countries, the International Encyclopedia of Dance offers authoritative coverage of the full spectrum of dance, including theatrical dance, ritual dance-drama, folk, traditional, ethnic, and social dance. Extensive historical and cultural overviews of many nations appear along with articles on specific dance forms, music and costumes, dance performances, biographies of dancers and choreographers, and much more.
The premiere volume of the Garland Encyclopedia of World Music series offers a comprehensive view of African music as a vital part of the social and cultural life of it peoples. The 34 expert contributors have all conducted fieldwork in Africa and their firsthand experience is reflected in the immediacy of their observations. In 39 articles, this encyclopedia explores key themes in African music that have emerged in recent years - a subject usually neglected in country-by-country coverage; emphasizes the contexts of musical performance-unlike studies that offer static interpretations isolated from other performing traditions; and presents the fresh insights and analyses of musicologists and anthropologists of diverse national origins-African, Asian, European and American. Also includes nine maps and 96 music examples.
Books, eBooks, and other Library materials can be searched using the Online Catalog. Books for Dance are located in sections GV 1587- GV 1799 in the Library's collection. There are two main categories of books: general and reference. General books (located in the "Stacks" on the lower floor) can be checked out and are often used for more in-depth research. Reference books (located on the upper floor) do not circulate but can be useful for acquiring an overview on a topic.
"A lavishly illustrated history of American dance; covers more than four centuries, from Native American ceremonial dances to the early 21st century; written by journalist and dancer Margaret Fuhrer"-- Provided by publisher.
This text helps dancers learn anatomical and biomechanical principles as they apply to dance performance. It focuses on optimal dance movement and the related principles for understanding the function of body joints. And by applying those principles, dancers can help reduce their risk of injury and enhance their performance longevity.Dance Anatomy and Kinesiology offers valuable scientific knowledge and understanding for dancers, helping them to blend anatomical and kinesiological principles with artistic expression. Such a blend of science and art will empower dancers to realize their potential and expand their artistic vision.
This completely revised and enlarged edition is a virtual one-volume international reference library of the art and science of the dance. Its 1,008 pages, which include close to 5,000 entries, are illuminated with 274 photographs.
Renowned master teacher Eric Franklin has thoroughly updated his classic text, Dance Imagery for Technique and Performance, providing dancers and dance educators with a deep understanding of how they can use imagery to improve their dancing and artistic expression in class and in performance. This expanded edition of Dance Imagery for Technique and Performance supplies imagery tools for enhancing or preparing for performance, and it introduces the importance of imagery in dancing and teaching dance. Franklin's method of using imagery in dance is displayed throughout this lavishly illustrated book, and the research from scientific and dance literature that supports Franklin's method is detailed.
In this provocative study of dancing, Sam Gill examines the interpretive styles of a variety of cultural dance traditions in discourse with the philosophic traditions of Schiller, Merleau-Ponty, Barbaras, Derrida, Leroi-Gourhan, and Baudrillard. As a scholar of religion, Gill provides special consideration to the importance of this emerging appreciation of dancing as a perspective inclusive of body and experience. Each chapter delves into the many factions of dancing: moving, gesturing, self-othering, playing, seducing, and masking. Gill also draws on the analysis of contemporary dance films and musicals, his experience as a dancer and dance teacher, his extensive research on dance traditions, and his interest in neurobiology and phenomenology to develop the core of this rich exploration of "dancing," the structurality of all dances.
A reference book of about 650 articles describing the achievements of dancing on the stage in the course of the last 50 years,the first half of the 20th century.Very well illustrated in color and black and white.
In The Encyclopedia of World Ballet, Mary Ellen Snodgrass surveys the emergence of ballet from ancient Asian models to the present, providing overviews of rhythmic movement as a subject of art, photography, and cinema. Entries in this volume reveal the nature and purpose of ballet, detailing specifics about leaders in classic design and style, influential costumers and companies, and trends in technique, partnering, variation, and liturgical execution.
The various cultures in Latin America and the Caribbean have produced their own unique forms of dance. Latin and Caribbean Dance highlights dances indigenous to Cuba (mambo and cha-cha-cha), the Dominican Republic (merengue and bachata), Haiti (compas and Vodou ritual dances), Argentina (tango), and Brazil (samba and capoeira). Explore how each dance has developed and been adapted through European and African influences, as well as how they continue to develop in the modern world.
The rich, diverse cultures of the Middle East have long inspired fascination among outsiders. That interest, coupled with misunderstanding, has sometimes led to mythical and exaggerated interpretations of regional dances that are far from authentic. This new edition of Middle Eastern Dance clearly and colorfully showcases the many dances of the region that have been performed for thousands of years, such as the spiritual spinning dances of the Whirling Dervishes and the dabkeh line dance of the Lebanese, Palestinian, Jordanian, Syrian, and Iraqi people.
With over 2,600 entries, the second edition of The Oxford Dictionary of Dance is a unique single volume reference on all aspects of dance performance written by two leading dance writers, Debra Craine and Judith Mackrell.
This two-volume set relates the history of the most popular social dances, where they began, which dances survived the test of time and why, and what attracted American men and women to social dancing in these periods.
It includes photos from the top performances, and a great deal of explanations about them. A beautiful hardcover book with over 250 pages.
Trial Database available for Kin 103. Ancient World History. User/Password is required and provided during instruction.
eBook provided through Project Gutenberg. This book is a collection of images of people engaged in dance. It was originally authored by "An Antiquary" in 1911. The pictures provide a sampling of dancing figures from ancient times until the early 20th Century. Several cultures are represented. Many of the images are derived from woodcuts, while others are drawings.
The Library maintains a collection of instructor reserve materials. These consist of textbooks, videos, and supplemental course materials that instructors have put in the Library for student use. To find what materials are available for Dance, search Course Reserves in the Online Catalog. It is best to search by "Course Number" (ex. KIN 103) in that an instructor other than yours may have placed an item on reserve. Materials can be requested at the Periodicals counter and generally must be used in the Library on a two-hour loan period. Photocopy machines are available for 10¢ a copy.