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Felt Christmas Cookies
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These felt Christmas cookies make great Christmas gifts! Try this Christmas craft to make your own cookies out of felt with simple sewing techniques.
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Dec 03, 2011
Hi Irished, I made a whole bunch of these cookies and hung them in the kitchen window for the holidays. Look really cute there!
Nov 28, 2011
Hi, irishred. We thought these felt Christmas cookies would make a cute decorative display in a festive bowl or dish, similar to how some people like to put out fake fruit. They could probably also be made into cute ornaments! Hope this helps! - Editors of AllFreeSewing
Nov 25, 2011
Why would someone make these? I am honestly asking, because it does not state this in the description. What purpose do these felt cookies serve?
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In the summer of 2007, the Center for Amazon Community Ecology began its second summer of field work researching the ecology and sustainable harvest of copal resin at a research station on the outskirts of Jenaro Herrera – a town of 5,000 people reached by a 12-hour ferry ride up the Ucayali River from Iquitos. On one trip to town, I met Dora and her "family" of artisans and bought an assortment of their shicras (shoulder bags that were loosely woven with chambira palm fiber) and seed jewelry to bring back to the U.S. Their handicrafts were similar to ones made by many other artisans in the region so I asked them how they thought they might make their crafts more distinctive. Dora volunteered, "I could sew a satiny lining into a chambira bag – what about red?" Great, let's try it! My 17-year old daughter Marissa who was with me on that trip suggested the idea of making a chambira choker decorated with achira seeds. Dora's "aunt" Hilda said, "I could make that." We then walked out to their fields to watch them collect oblong-shaped pashaco seeds to accent some longer necklaces. Several weeks later we got some well-made examples of the standard crafts and some examples of the new ones.
Our sales of earrings made by other artisans from Jenaro Herrera did well, but the new woven crafts made by Dora and her relatives hadn't yet struck a chord. After some Christmas tree ornaments made by artisans from the Ampiyacu region began to sell well, I brought the challenge to Dora and her group. We brainstormed different ideas, and they decided to try making colorful miniature versions of the woven baskets and plates that were usually 8 to 12 inches across. Doilith who was a younger relative that had recently joined the group made chambira stars with black and red seeds in the five points and center.
It was encouraging to see that people liked many of these ornaments, but the spark of success came the following summer when Dora modestly told me, "My daughter Rosa has woven some critters that I think you will like." It was a wonderful understatement. Arriving at her house, I marveled at the first examples of a butterfly, bee and dragonfly that she had woven from chambira. The normally shy teenager beamed when I asked her if I could take her picture displaying her creative efforts.
Over the next few years, we experimented with different colors, models and sizes of these unique insect ornaments. It didn't take long to figure out that people buying one for their Christmas tree or a gift much preferred ones with bright colors like yellow and orange to dark ones and generally liked small to medium sized-ones more than giants. We gradually improved, but Dora and friends produced some batches that still mostly sit in boxes because I failed to understand that certain Spanish words for colors are different from their English equivalents and their meanings may vary from region to region.
I appreciated that in spite of these glitches in communication, the Association of Chambira Artisans as they now called themselves worked very diligently to comply with any craft order and were always ready to discuss and try new ideas. They in turn appreciated that while CACE was their only regular craft buyer once or twice a year, these sales were making a difference in their lives. When I got to Jenaro Herrera in the summer of 2014, I noticed that Dora's house was completely new. She said, "thanks to making these ornaments, Eliazar and I were able to buy enough wood and palm thatch to put up new walls and a roof."
While the Dora group will continue using their imagination to make new crafts, we are now trying to develop some chambira ornaments based on actual species of Amazon insects. They have made good-looking models of the blue morpho butterfly, scarlet peacock butterfly, (day-time flying) uranid moth, and the Amazon darner dragonfly. Attempts to make a bright green orchid bee and yellow and red tailed "ronsapa" bee that are important pollinators and collectors of copal resin are still in progress. Since Rosa left town, Doilith has become the master weaver of these new critters. She said, "I love the challenge of trying to figure out how to make the details of these beautiful little animals that live in our forests. Before we started making insects ornaments, I wasn't really aware that they have six legs instead of four. My goal now is to bring them to life as best as I can so people can have a better understanding of our art, culture, and nature in the Peruvian Amazon. Making crafts is already helping my family meet its needs, and (placing her hand gently on her tummy) I've got another baby on the way." Dora added, "We also feel proud that part of the sales of our crafts have helped support our local school and health clinic. We now look forward to working with CACE to plant more chambira trees to support our craft making for the future."
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One of CACE's most successful programs working with artisans in the Ampiyacu River region has been to organize skill-sharing workshops where five or six veteran artisans show other artisans how to make a new special kind of handicraft. While these workshops have steadily increased the number of native artisans who know how to make CACE's best-selling models of hot pads, belts, guitar straps, and Christmas tree ornaments, we and our partners recognize that they also needed to become better organized to fully use this growing capacity to make and sell more high-quality crafts. We did done some leadership training workshops with the Field Museum in 2014, but progress in this area has been slow. I had told the Ampiyacu native artisans about several groups of campesino artisans along the Tahuayo River that had successfully formed associations and a community enterprise to improve their craft sales, and they seemed enthusiastic about meeting them to learn from their experiences.
While CACE has focused a lot of resources organizing workshops and other activities in the Ampiyacu, our relationship with the Tahuayo communities has been much simpler. I have visited the village of Chino once or twice a year since 2008 to buy the beautiful chambira baskets they make primarily to sell to visitors from a nearby tourist lodge operated by Amazonia Expeditions (AE). We have also worked with them to develop a colorful line of woven frog Christmas tree ornaments. As CACE has sold products made by the Chino artisans, we have regularly returned part of our profits to support local development needs. Unlike the Ampiyacu where discussions about the use of this social rebate have often been contentious, Chino village meetings have openly discussed all ideas presented, and quickly and amiably reached consensus about the best way to use the funds available. These projects have included buying new desks and building a new bathroom for the school, buying medicines for the village pharmacy, and providing food for work parties to care for chambira palms used to make woven crafts. When I asked Estelita, the president of the Chino artisan association whether I could bring along a few guests from the Ampiyacu on my next visit, she readily agreed.
Our two Ampiyacu artisans were Liz C., president of FECONA – the federation that represents the 15 native communities in the Ampiyacu watershed and Segundina, a savvy artisan chosen by 20 Bora artisans from Brillo Nuevo to represent them during this artisan exchange trip. We left Iquitos early on a Saturday morning on a speed boat belonging to the Rainforest Conservation Fund (RCF) – an NGO partner that has been working to improve forest and human health in the Tahuayo region for many years. Our drivers were RCF staffers Gerardo and Exiles who coordinate RCF community programs to reforest depleted populations of aguaje palm trees and train people to climb the trees with harnesses to collect their popular fruits rather than cut them down.
We bought some extra gas and water in the town of Tamshiyacu and passed the small lancha that takes 10 to 12 hours (instead of our four) to ferry local residents, bags of charcoal, sacks of aguaje and camu camu fruits and crates of fish from Tahuayo villages to market in Iquitos. We briefly stopped once more at the village of Buena Vista where fellow American Matt (a student working with RCF) and I checked in with the police manning the official entry point to the Tamshiyacu-Tahuayo Regional Conservation Area. We arrived in Chino in the early afternoon and were distressed to find that our host Estelita was laying sick in her hammock barely able to speak. The other artisans assured us, however, that we were welcome.
After getting settled in the guest house formerly operated by RCF two minutes upriver, we returned to Chino to inspect the group of baskets that the Chino artisans had made to fill the CACE order. In the past I had bought all of my baskets there at a "feria" – a fair where every artisan in the cooperative would place all of the crafts she had available for sale on a table in front of her. This is the way that they also sell their products to tourists visiting from the AE lodge. I had bought over 400 baskets with unique designs this way, but I had found that the styles and quality of baskets had changed a lot from visit to visit over the past eight years. Sometimes for better; sometimes for worse. In order to develop a reliable supply of consistent quality baskets, I had sent photos of 32 models of baskets that we have sold asking the artisans to make one to three more of these specific designs.
The artisans had readily complied with our request to make more medium and small baskets since our customers had continued to admire but had been buying fewer of the more expensive large ones. I had also asked the artisans to make the baskets using the same colors as the models showed in the photos without using the seeds they used in the past to use to adorn the baskets since they might harbor insect pests. The seeds of "ojo de vaca" (cow's eye) had a large deep brown center with a black rim. Huayruru seeds were naturally orange with a black patch in one corner of their oblong shape. Rosario seeds were a medium-sized grey pearl, and achira seeds were small black spheres. These seeds were readily available, cheap, and had distinct shapes, sizes and colors that provided beautiful accents to the woven chambira baskets. As I began to inspect the new baskets, I immediately spotted a big problem. Finding good substitutes for the seeds had proven more challenging than I thought.
Some artisans in the Tahuayo have gotten used to using wooden and other types of beads to finish their baskets for a separate export channel, so I didn't think it would be a problem to do the same for our order. The Chino artisans, however, had just made due with whatever beads they had on hand to complete the CACE order in three weeks. I learned that these beads were not cheap and were difficult or impossible to buy in Iquitos. Some of the beads the artisans used were beautiful matches; others led to horrible clashes of colors and poor fits in open spaces.
I was still feeling weak and sick from my second trip to the Ampiyacu so I welcomed Segundina's help to figure out how to handle this challenge. In this situation, some buyers simply say "this order is rejected because these products don't meet our specifications." We have worked hard, however, to establish trust in our relationships with our artisan partners. We acknowledge that while their job is to make quality crafts; CACE needs to recognize their reality which sometimes means admitting that we have asked them to do something that just wasn't possible. We all need to be flexible and figure out the best solution available. In this case, I was fortunately able to offer some useful resources because I had stopped in Lima on my first day in Peru. After an exhaustive search of a market area focused on craft-related products, I had found one shop that sold a wide variety of painted wooden beads and huassai seeds (not a kind that hosts any insects). They were out of several colors that I had wanted, but I had at least been able to bring a good assortment of medium-sized colored beads to Chino.
Segundina and I inspected all 70 baskets and placed them into one of three piles: acceptable, acceptable if the beads were changed, and not acceptable if the chambira weaving or color was too poor to fix. Segundina asked Romelia, "Do you have any more of these large tagua beads? They would nicely accent the orange ring in this basket." She asked Rosa, "Could you replace these pink beads with purple ones in these middle rows – they would go really well with the violet center of the basket." She patiently explained to Pilar, "Your weaving is good, but the intensity of the color needs to be a lot stronger." What amazed me and Segundina was that while she had come to Chino as an outsider to observe and learn, the Chino artisans readily recognized her as a fellow artisan with a keen eye and welcomed her suggestions for ways they could improve their work.
The Ampiyacu artisans soon got to see and hear how the Chino artisans have persisted through many tough times, particularly the ebb and flow of visiting tourists and river levels. The flux in tourism produces alternating seasons with good income and almost no income from craft sales. Extreme floods in these villages have sometimes killed most of their chambira palm trees. Some artisans have left the village so their families could seek more income or better education for their children in the city. The Chino artisans have survived simply because they have learned to trust each other, work together, and have the support of their whole community.
Estelita rallied from her hammock to share the history of the Chino artisans with their new friends from the Ampiyacu. "Long ago we had a few women who had learned how to weave chambira in other places, but Dolly (co-owner of the AE lodge) inspired us to learn how to make baskets the tourists would like and to get organized. We worked with the name "Huacamayo (macaw) Association" for a long-time, but when we decided to formally register our group, this name was taken, so we are now officially called, "Manos Amazonicos" (Amazon Hands). In the beginning, some of our husbands seemed threatened by the idea of women working together and potentially making more money than them. Fortunately, this has now completely changed. The men in Chino recognize that selling crafts generates a very important source of income for the whole village. Everyone also appreciates that selling crafts to CACE has helped our school and other things in our community."
Later in the evening, I showed the Chino artisans pictures of the diverse crafts that the Ampiyacu artisans have been making with us. Norma remarked, "Wow, those placemats are beautiful! I bet making a belt so straight is not easy." Liz and Segundina nodded in agreement. Madita said, "I've made a few bottle carriers before, but they haven't sold so well. Now I think I know how to make them better. I'm sure the tourists who visit here will love them!" After closely watching the Chino artisans make baskets all day, Segundina said, "When I go back to Brillo Nuevo, I'm going to try making a basket adapting the base of a hot pad. I don't need to copy the patterns here – I've got my own ideas."
I had been reluctant to share images of one community's unique crafts with artisans from another region for a long time because I had thought it was important to respect each community's creativity. I learned during this trip that while my desire to respect each group's intellectual output was well-intentioned, trying to keep these groups a part was restricting their collective creative potential.
This visit not only sparked ideas for ways that each group of artisans might improve their respective crafts but generated a proposal for a collaborative handicraft project. In the past, a few Chino artisans have etched wildlife figures onto calabash pods that have been woven into the center of baskets. They were great when done well, but many baskets which were beautifully woven seemed spoiled when their centers were adorned with mediocre carvings. While committed weavers could improve their carving, they are unlikely to get as much practice refining this craft as the handful of Ampiyacu artisans who are now producing hundreds of gorgeous carved calabash pod ornaments with a range of Amazon birds, mammals, frogs and fish for CACE. We will now ask these carvers to see if they would like to produce four to five inch wide carved pieces that Chino artisans can sew into some of their chambira baskets.
The next day, the Chino artisans stacked up their finished baskets on a table where Estelita measured each one to make sure its size and price were correctly recorded on the tag and in her ledger. She told one artisan, "this basket is half a centimeter less than its proper length; you can't get full price for it. Please pay better attention to the standard sizes." Liz and Segundina were stunned to see how the Chino artisans had direct responsibility for quality control and agreed to consistent pricing among their members. Segundina said, "My fellow artisans often criticize each other, but they find it hard to ask for and accept suggestions for ways to make their crafts better. We have to figure out how to encourage and trust each other to improve our quality and hold each other accountable; this will help all of us." Liz added, "When tourists come to my village, they often shop from house to house because some artisans try to undercut their prices to make a sale. We have to get on the same page so everyone gets a fair price for making the best crafts."
One highlight of the visit was visiting the new "Escuela de artesanas" – the artisan school under construction in Chino. After major floods destroyed the last simple building the artisans used to sell their crafts to tourists, the artisans decided they needed a larger and stronger building where they could gather to dye their chambira with roots, fruits, leaves and bark and weave their crafts under one roof. They could then demonstrate these traditional techniques to visiting tourists – giving them a more personal experience and incentive to buy the crafts offered for sale. The ability to work together will also help them improve the consistency of their work by using the same batch of colored chambira to make multiple baskets with the same design. The structure built with sturdy wooden beams, cement and rebar was progressing, but costs had surpassed donated funds available from Amazonia Expeditions. I was glad that CACE was able to contribute the most recent batch of our social rebate funds from our sale of baskets and frog ornaments to help complete this worthy effort. I was sorry that we were going to miss helping out in the big village work party set to happen the next day to get the walls and roof up.
As we headed back to Iquitos at dawn on Monday, Segundina told me, "I can't wait to get home to share everything that I've learned on this trip with my fellow artisans. I didn't believe you when you kept saying that the artisans at Chino cared so much about each other and cooperated so well. Now, I know you were telling the truth. These women are really inspiring, and we need to learn from them."
Perhaps my best reward of this trip was seeing Segundina and Estelita hug and exchange phone numbers when they parted. That instant confirmed that bringing these dynamic artisans together was the right thing to do. CACE is now thinking about launching a region-wide school for artisan leadership to promote more of this kind of exchange. We also just need to know when to get out of the way.
Three years ago we began an exciting joint project with our partner Camino Verde by planting almost 1000 seedlings of rosewood trees in the Bora native community of Brillo Nuevo (see GlobalGiving Report #8). Our aim was to help families create a long-term sustainable source of income by carefully harvesting leaves and branches of these aromatic trees and distilling them into a valuable essential oil. Our other goal was to promote the recovery of this endangered species brought to the verge of extinction by unlimited harvesting of whole trees for the perfume industry.
Our project reached an important milestone this month when our friend Robin van Loon from Camino Verde joined us again to lead the first harvest of material from healthy young rosewood trees planted in the forest fields of five families. We began by recording the size and condition of every tree. While the seedlings had been planted in the same way, they had fared differently according to the characteristics of the site and management style of the owner. A few men had regularly cleared weedy vegetation that could compete with the juvenile rosewoods; one fellow pretty much allowed nature to take its course. While half of the trees had died since 2013, Robin complimented the owners that their overall efforts to care for these trees had produced a much higher survival rate than other attempts to reforest rosewood in Peru and Brazil. One of the plot owners Brito said, "I'm very content that most of my trees are still alive. It's important to realize that these trees grow more slowly than many others and don't mind some shade.
We did our first round of monitoring on a cloudless day under an intense tropical sun. As we shifted to collecting rosewood material on the second day, we surrendered ourselves to working in the rain. Robin showed the team how to cut small branches with pruning shears and how to use a pruning saw to harvest larger branches with a series of three cuts. Plot owner and talented carver David observed, "It was amazing to see how much better my rosewood trees looked after removing some dead wood and a few lower branches with leaves we can distill. I suppose this is science, but it feels more like a kind of art I can practice to shape and care for my trees for a long time. Some of them will eventually produce seeds we use to plant more of these beautiful trees all around our community."
Our prime adventure of the day was wading up to our armpits to cross an engorged stream en route to Dolores' field. I was deeply relieved when she steadied our videographer Tulio's arm just as he slipped off a submerged log and was about to plunge his camera in the water. Navigating around wasp nests on the underside of leaves on the trail and rosewood trees was a challenge that usually succeeded but sometimes resulted in painful stings. This site was the most distinct since it was on a slope, and most of the rosewood seedlings had been lost to unchecked regrowth of forest tree pioneers. After Dolores took on the task of caring for this field, however, the survivors had become the most robust and tallest rosewood trees we found. While we collected five to eight kilograms of leaves and branches from other fields with many small trees, the few four to five meter tall trees in this distant plot easily yielded 12 kilograms of material. Dolores said, "It was great to receive my first payment from these trees. As they keep growing, it's easy to see how we'll be able to collect more material each time we prune them and provide some more money for my family."
We invited two members of the rosewood team to go to Iquitos with us this time to distill the rosewood material. It was fortunate that Oscar and David drew the lucky numbers since they and Robin figured out how to clean out the stalled motor of the grinder that had not been used for a while. Oscar immediately appreciated the efficiency of this machine since the last time we distilled material in Brillo Nuevo, he and two other men had spent hours chopping branches into bits with their machetes. Once the shredder got working, we quickly fed leaves into the top hopper and straight branches through a cone to the larger knives. We poured five gallons of water into the outer tank of the distiller and then packed the inner tank with about 20 kg of finely chopped green aromatic material. An hour after setting the tank to boil, the first drops of golden oil began to flow into the collecting glass along with fragrant hydrosol – the water used in distilling plants that absorbs some its aroma. While the oil is the most valuable product of the process, we also hope to market the hydrosol as an ingredient in natural cosmetics.
Our yield from distilling the rosewood material from Brillo Nuevo was modest, but it was a good start. Leaves tend to have less oil than branches, and this first batch collected from young trees had a relatively high proportion of leaves. The amount of oil we will be to extract should increase over time as the trees continue to grow and produce larger branches that can be carefully removed without damaging the tree. This principle seemed to be confirmed a few days later when we collected material from 11 year old rosewood trees from a campesino family's field near the town of Tamshiyacu. The yield of oil from these older trees was 30% higher.
Oscar described his experience with the rosewood project this way – "I fondly remember the aroma of a few rosewood trees that my father had brought from the Putumayo to plant in our front yard. I really appreciate the chance to plant rosewood trees in my field in Brillo Nuevo now and learn how to use this distillation equipment to make oil from it." He concluded, "Our goal isn't to create big plantations of rosewood trees. The Bora have an old tradition of planting many kinds of trees to produce fruits, fibers and medicines (a well-documented process called agroforestry). It's great that we can now include valuable rosewood trees in this mix."
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The lure of the sea is reflected in our never-ending fascination with the lives of sailors, and there is no more authentic "voice from the forecastle" than Richard H. Dana's in Two Years Before the Mast. While attending Harvard in the early 1800's, he became ill, and upon recuperating he decided to sail a bit before continuing his education. He joined the Pilgrim as a common sailor and his book provides a detailed description of the Pilgrim's 1834 journey from Boston around Cape Horn and along the western coast of North America. Dana brings alive for us the daily existence of life at sea in the golden age of sail:
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"After this repast, we had a fine run, scouring the whole country on our fleet horses, and came into town soon after sundown. Here we found our companions who had refused to go to ride with us, thinking that a sailor has no more business with a horse than a fish has with a balloon. They were moored, stem and stern, in a grog-shop, making a great noise, with a crowd of Indians and hungry half-breeds about them, and with a fair prospect of being stripped and dirked, or left to pass the night in the calabozo. With a great deal of trouble, we managed to get them down to the boats, though not without many angry looks and interferences from the Spaniards, who had marked them out for their prey...Our forecastle, as usual after a liberty-day, was a scene of tumult all night long from the drunken ones. They had just got to sleep toward morning, when they were turned up with the rest, and kept at work all day in the water, carrying hides, their heads aching so that they could hardly stand. This is sailor's pleasure."
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This classic is rich with relationships between officers and crew, maintenance of discipline including horrific floggings, types of work, excursions onto land, contact with other ships, sailor's life stories, and encounters with people on shore. And really, we all have a bit of the old salt in us, and reading Dana one can re-live all those childhood shipwreck games. But this book is irresistible for the lingo alone. Haul to!


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The treatment I have received has been first class. Ceri has explained why and how the problem and treatment are happening at every step of my treatment. Ceri's advice is realistic and her manner is friendly and welcoming, as is everyone I have encountered at the clinic. Obviously, everyone would like it to be cheaper but I feel the cost is value for money, especially with the difference Ceri has made to my quality of life. Now I'm practically pain free, as long as I follow her advice!
I would like to thank all the staff at The Lansdown Clinic for the excellent care and treatment I have had recently. Also included in these appreciative thanks are the helpful and positive attitudes of the front line reception staff. Particular thanks go to Tara and Charlotte for their kindly, personal and professional treatment which I have received. Quite clearly they have a great depth of knowledge and expertise in their chosen subject! Once again, many thanks to you all.
I have been receiving treatment at the Lansdown Clinic since 2009 seeing Richard Brown and then, on his retirement, seeing Ceri. Both Richard and Ceri have been brilliant and I could recommend the clinic to anyone. I also see Emma, the podiatrist, every six weeks. The Lansdown Clinic is such a happy place and the receptionists are so friendly. I will continue seeing Ceri as I find such an improvement after treatment.
Tara has 'sorted me out' on many occasions. She is relaxed and chatty…..just what I like. She is very professional at all times and knows which questions to ask prior to a treatment. She puts you at your ease immediately. Somehow we always manage to talk about food!
Following a multi-vehicle road traffic accident, we have been coming to The Lansdown Clinic regularly for the last 25 years and the treatment we have definitely keeps us mobile. As the years go by, our arthritis gets more painful but we find relief in regular monthly treatment at the clinic. We find all the staff are very friendly, helpful and efficient and we have the utmost confidence in our chiropractor Tara. We often recommend to our friends with similar problems that they should consider chiropractic care.
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Stern (Toyland: The High-Stakes Game of the Toy Industry, LJ 3/15/97) has attempted a readable portrait of a complex contemporary whose story is not nearly concluded. She obviously likes and admires Steinem but is not blind to inconsistencies in her subject's recollection or interpretation of events and personalities. Though the tone is personal, the work is apparently thoroughly documented (the bibliography, index, and illustrations were not seen). Stern corrects a few points in Carolyn Heilbrun's landmark biography, Education of a Woman (LJ 10/1/95), although Heilbrun's is the more literary work. Avoiding esoteric psychological or feminist theorizing, Stern still provides a clear context for Steinem's development both as a public figure and as an exemplar of the movement that seeks to have women define themselves as autonomous individuals. An appropriate commemoration of Ms. magazine's 25th anniversary. For all collections.?Barbara Hutcheson, Greater Victoria P.L., B.C.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Feminist icon, goddess, social climber, bunny--who is Gloria Steinem? All of the above, according to a serious new biography that examines Steinem's life from early childhood to ``this-is- what-63-is-like.'' To many, if not most, who came of age around 1972, Steinem is synonymous with the second feminist revolution. That year marked the launch of Ms. magazine, the popular journal of women's revolt against the patriarchy. According to Stern (coauthor, Toyland: The High-Stakes Game of the Toy Industry, 1990), Steinem was late to the revolution. Her famous article, ``A Bunny's Tale,'' about her debilitating experiences as a Playboy Bunny, was published in the same year as Betty Friedan's seminal The Feminine Mystique, but Steinem's ``click'' did not come until 1969, when she attended a speakout on abortion. From then on, her liberal ideology and her writings began to focus on women. What's new here is a real look at Steinem off the public platform, at the ambitious woman who barred marriage and children from her agenda but used men as access to the next rung of the social ladder. A long list of lovers here runs from the well-connected scion of a musical family to publishing and real-estate mogul Mort Zuckerman. Over the years, Steinem managed to keep most of the lovers as friends. That was tangential to developing herself, with the help of eloquent podium partners, as spokeswoman for the movement. Stern points up that in spite of--or perhaps because of--Steinem's short skirts, iconic hairstyle, possible face-lift, and questionable protestations that good looks have been a hindrance, she is kind, caring, generous, and genuinely dedicated to women's interests. Some of the more touching stories of the formative years have been revealed in Steinem's own books but are told here with a perspective that glorifies a heroine for the '90s, kohl eyeliner and all. (16 pages photos, not seen) -- Copyright ©1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.


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Looking for an alternative to painkillers? Rebecca Adlington shares why you should be more aware of this traditional therapy
Needles aren't items that conjure the image of deep relaxation and healing the soul. They provoke more of a hospital-and-antiseptic vibe for me, which is probably why I've always opted to remedy back pain and practiced self-care with massage. That, however, may well change. I was given the opportunity to try my first ever acupuncture session in aid of Acupuncture Week 2016, and as my lovely acupuncturist Emma Perris told me, acupuncture is really rather addictive.
You've probably heard of this alternative medicine, but how much do you know about it? Find out how acupuncture could help - and heal - you.
Physiotherapists. Osteopaths. Chiropractors. Anyone who has had a sports injury will probably have seen one of these experts. But how many of us would consider having needles stuck into our sides, even by an expert?
Olympic swimmer Rebecca Adlington reveals how she's overcoming the pain from her dramatic crash on The Jump.
Rebecca Newbold has electro acupuncture for an old car accident induced back injury.
The Olympic swimming legend suffered a dislocated shoulder during Channel 4's winter sports show but is returning for Sunday's final following surgery and acupuncture
We're famously a nation who don't like to make a fuss, but the 'grin and bear it' attitude of many Brits could be harmful for their health, according to a new report released to mark Acupuncture Awareness Week.
Anxiety UK and the British Acupuncture Council (BAcC) have launched a joint pilot project which will see members of Anxiety UK being able to access traditional acupuncture through this new partnership.
Throughout the pilot project, data will be collected to determine the effectiveness of traditional acupuncture for treating those living with anxiety and anxiety based depression. This will enable both parties to continue to build a body of evidence to measure the success rate of this type of treatment.
Of those Anxiety UK members who have received traditional acupuncture from BAcC members, 74% reported anxiety was the primary reason for seeking treatment while 62% said it was a secondary reason.
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Kerber closes door on all-Williams final
Angelique Kerber overcame Venus Williams 6-4 6-4 as the American veteran fell painfully short of claiming a ninth Wimbledon final appearance.
Angelique Kerber overcame Venus Williams 6-4 6-4 as the American veteran fell painfully short of claiming a ninth Wimbledon final appearance.
Serena Williams inflicted the fastest ever demolition in a Wimbledon semi-final as the American took just 48 minutes to thrash Russia's Elena Vesnina 6-2 6-0.
Roger Federer and Andy Murray both needed five sets to advance to the semi-finals at Wimbledon, while Milos Raonic and Tomas Berdych enjoyed smoother passages to the last four.
Serena and Venus Williams are closing in on another family final at Wimbledon after the sisters cruised through to the last four on Tuesday.
Tomas Berdych held his nerve to beat fellow Czech Jiri Vesely in the deciding set of a Wimbledon fourth-round clash he wanted to finish under the Centre Court lights on Monday.
World number two Andy Murray withstood the challenge of Nick Kyrgios on Monday, sweeping aside the mercurial Australian 7-5 6-1 6-4 on Centre Court to reach his ninth straight Wimbledon quarter-final.
Serena Williams overpowered Russian 13th seed Svetlana Kuznetsova to reach the last eight at Wimbledon, keeping her bid to equal Steffi Graf's professional-era record of grand slam titles on track.
Australian Nick Kyrgios turned on the style to book a Wimbledon fourth-round clash with favourite Andy Murray as he outplayed Spanish veteran Feliciano Lopez on People's Sunday.
World number one Serena Williams kept her Wimbledon title defence on track, downing Germany's Annika Beck 6-3 6-0 with a crushing display of power and booming serves.
Novak Djokovic is out of Wimbledon before the second week after Sam Querrey defied the odds and an overnight rain delay to cause a huge shock.
Simona Halep strung together three successive victories at the All England Club for only the second time in her career as she eased into the Wimbledon fourth round with a 6-4 6-3 win over Dutch danger woman Kiki Bertens on Saturday.
Defending champion Novak Djokovic stands on the brink of a shock Wimbledon exit, but a forgotten grand slam winner is making the most of his second coming at Wimbledon.
Serena Williams declared "mentally no one can break me" after clawing a 6-7 (7/9) 6-2 6-4 victory against Christina McHale at Wimbledon.
Wimbledon will have play on its middle Sunday for the first time since 2004 as tournament organisers battle to deal with a backlog of matches.
British second seed Andy Murray has beaten Lu Yen-hsun of Chinese Taipei, while Croatian Marin Cilic unleashed 22 aces in his second-round win at Wimbledon today.
Madison Keys, the woman tipped as the most likely American successor to the Williams sisters, powered to a 6-4 4-6 6-3 victory against Kirsten Flipkens in the second round of Wimbledon today.
Novak Djokovic brushed past France's Adrian Mannarino 6-4 6-3 7-6(5) to book his place in the third round of Wimbledon.
Agnieszka Radwanska enjoyed the shelter under the Centre Court roof as the former Wimbledon runner-up eased through her opening test.
Wimbledon was facing a major matches backlog as rain meant only 18 of the billed 74 matches were completed during Wednesday's action.
Heavy rainfall hit Wimbledon on the second day of the championships, with play on all but Centre Court called off at 6.20pm.


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We talked about strengthening abs for back pain before.
Now here's the question. Which core should we focus on to relieve the back pain and strength erector spinae muscles which extends the vertebral column?
In general, we have to work on whole abs, however, right and left lower quadrant is the one actually help erector(extensor) spinae to hold the back.
Strong abs comes along with proper exercise and breathing technic that we talked about before.
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