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The Black Nile: One Man's Amazing Journey Through Peace And War On The World's Longest River
by: Dan Morrison
Every once in a while a book comes along that just looks like it would be perfect for your type of preferred reading. One of those "gotta have now" type books. A book that you are actually excited to read. I thought that Dan Morrison presented me one of these opportunities in the form of "The Black Nile". A book about one man's trip down the Nile from its source at Lake Victoria in Uganda, all the way to its terminus at the Mediterranean. A travel memoir I can relate too, having travelled the Nile from the Mediterranean to Lake Tana in Ethiopia. Unfortunately, I feel the book fell way short of my expectations and was quite a disappointment throughout.
To start, there really is no "Black Nile". A great title though, referring more to the current situation of the people living along the river today, presented in a nice twisting of words. Unfortunately, I feel a lot of the spunk and quick wit of the book stops right there.
For those not familiar, a little geography here: The Blue Nile actually comes out of Lake Victoria in Uganda. The White Nile comes out of Lake Tana in Ethiopia. Both of these converge in Khartoum, Sudan to form what is just called "The Nile" from Khartoum to Cairo and beyond. Dan travelled the length of the Blue Nile. The Nile also travels from south to north, confusing things a bit more, before terminating in the Mediterranean Sea.
Dan, an aspiring journalist, and a buddy from home, start out in Uganda planning the trip, gathering supplies and information, and start making their way down the Nile to Sudan. A decent beginning actually. A lot of day-to-day happenings and a good boat ride up the river. At about the halfway point through Uganda though, the trip becomes less of a river type journey and starts to feel more like a disastrous ride from point to point, mostly in taxis, and not river taxis. As Dan gets to Sudan and his buddy has to leave for home, the journey, and book itself, become less and less of a river trip and more like a bunch of interviews with locals with a short boat ride here, a long taxi ride there, and a few donkey cart rides in-between. The travel memoir turns into a try at journalism along the more dangerous parts of the Nile. Unfortunately it doesn't hit the mark. Dan starts focusing on minute interviews and really falls short here, in my opinion, with men who maybe used to have a lot to do with the shaping of Sudan, but don't really seem to have much to say and don't seem the men to be interviewing for a good interesting read on the situation in Sudan. He starts to focus on dams built on the river, or still in construction, and really begins to emphasize some modern social and economic issues with the river as of today, which isn't a bad thing, but not in the repertoire of what I like to read about really, and not what the book was advertised as, or at least from the advertising I saw, or thought I saw.
The book turns more into an economic look at the river today, with a bit of history mixed in, and goes on and on with the interviews of local people, which, honestly, made it really hard to even finish the book because, being brutally honest, the interviews were with a bunch of guys I never heard of talking about issues that, at most times, seem trifle compared to the bigger picture of the problems in the area. Not only that, but they were, at most times, just plain boring. I did finish the book though, and it picked up in the last twenty or thirty pages, when Dan reached Egypt, but all in all, I didn't like it.
For me, this was more of a book about Sudan, with Egypt and Uganda as "bookends", being around 75% the former and 5 and 20% the latter. I've travelled through Sudan, love Sudan, and visited many of the places Dan did in the book, but that said, it didn't really inspire my imagination or stir the memories I have from the country, river and this area of the world. I have to say that I came away thinking this book was just an afterthought from a poorly planned trip that was supposed to be a journalistic news story that was a decade too late. It doesn't really convince at either or much else really. Honestly, at the end, I even feel Dan lost the whole premise of the trip he started, and turned it into a drab, day-to-day life interview with people who live along the river type of book, with cab rides in-between as he travelled the river less and less as the book went on, opting for train and land based motor vehicle rides and routes even when river travel presented itself.
Bottom Line:
…as a travel type memoir: Not Recommended
…as a history of the Nile: Not Recommended
…as a journalistic view on the issues of Southern Sudan today: Not Recommended
…if you don't know much about the Nile or what has happened, and is still happening, along its length and are just looking for a general background read: ummm, maybe slightly recommended, but knowing that there is much better out there, just barely slightly.
Sorry Dan, bottom line is I didn't like it. Period. You lost the whole premise of the book from what you started it out to be, and it did seem that the book was an afterthought on a trip that was taken for other reasons, all gone bad. On that note though, it's all opinion, and the book has mostly good reviews on Amazon, with the book being called "nearly perfect" and "amazing" by some, just not by me.
…and an endnote: I hate writing bad reviews, but it is what it is, and I'm not going to lie. I want to review the books I read and don't want to hold back if I don't like one. I thought it was bad, but it is all opinion, and no matter what I think, The Black Nile was still well worth the effort, especially from this part of the world.
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Whenever I'm at my favourite pub (admittedly not often) or at my mother-in-law's (sadly more often than I would like) I find that I have considerable trouble making a phone call. It's so bad that I have to leave the house, and getting a data connection is considered alchemy within those four walls.
I've never quite been able to work out whether the problem is structural or environmental – it certainly isn't down to my mobile network as in the case of my mother-in-law's house, no one who sets foot through the door can use the phone.
It's this that baffles me – how can mobile phone networks claim such high coverage when the majority of people can easily recall occasions when making a connection has been a trial? We've all stood on chairs with our phones held aloft, trying to "hook" onto a stray signal, but surely there is a better way to improve smartphone reception?
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The Simple Fix: Lose the Case (and Your Hand)
We'll move onto some of the more unique and complex solutions below, but there are a couple of things that you can try to improve smartphone reception beyond standing next to a window.
I've found that since I started removing my phone from its rubber case that my signal is much stronger, particularly when driving and streaming Nokia Music into my car's sound system How to Connect Your Android Phone to Your Car Audio System How to Connect Your Android Phone to Your Car Audio System Want to listen to music from your Android phone in the car? Here are your best options from aux cables to Bluetooth. Read More .
The reason for this, of course, is because the case dampens the signal. It isn't only cases that cause such problems, either. Remember Antennagate, when issues with users upgrading from iPhone 3 to iPhone 4 caused users to complain to Apple in their droves, forcing a response from the company?
Depending on the model, how you hold your smartphone is paramount to getting a good signal. It is worth spending a few moments to find the optimum "holding stance" for you to use the device without a loss of signal; if this isn't possible, however, start relying more on your hands-free kit or headset.
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Don't blame your poor reception on your hand, however; where you're currently situated could be a cause of your bad signal.
Cell phone towers are situated based on their range, with the aim being to give users blanket coverage. This enables you to use your mobile phone wherever you are – within reason. The idea is that your phone automatically connects to the nearest tower, switching towers as you move around. Problems occur as you approach areas without a tower, and the strength of the signal degrades. When you can't maintain a stable connection, calls are dropped and data won't be received.
Distance isn't the only issue, however. Landscape can reduce your signal strength, so if you find that calls are dropping and data isn't transferring, consider changing your position. Naturally if the problem is your entire property or place of work, this might be difficult, but hills, mountains, valleys and even trees can be as detrimental to a strong connection as a large steel structure (such as a tower, skyscraper or pylon) thick wall or pillar.
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Another solution is to use a femtocell, which can be added to your home or work wireless router to improve cell reception. Essentially these are miniature cell phone towers, and if your phone is within 2500 feet you should experience a full-strength signal.
Meanwhile, there are also some DIY signal boosting tricks that you might try, but these can have the effect of voiding your phone's warranty as they involve opening the device. Insulated wire and even paper clips have been used, but neither is a great long-term solution.
Handling problems with your smartphone reception can mean doing something as simple as taking your phone out of its case, or as expensive as relying on a signal booster or a repeater.
One is obviously cheaper than the other, but unless you're experiencing issues while roaming, these are the only solutions available that don't involve opening up your smartphone and affecting a fix that may or may not work.
Have you used any of these tricks, or have any methods of your own to improve smartphone reception? Let us know in the comments.
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Where exactly would you put a paperclip? I'm so frustrated with my phone & lack of signal. My biggest problem now is that I just got this nice printer that works using wifi to connect with my phone. I really wanted a printer just to print coupons, the problem is the best coupon site has to send the coupons to my printer which needs a signal to do so but I have to turn wifi on to connect with my printer which completely destroys my signal, so without a signal the coupons can't be sent to the printer.
I would love to hear more info on the signal boosters & any other tips you may have, I don't have internet service only internet on phone using data. Wish there were a decent priced internet provider, just seems too expensive, need to look into those prepaid hotspot gadgets.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
You are a genius..My phone has been just about useless for 3 weeks...No moblie data ..I bought a new rubberized cover about the same time I started having issues..I have just removed it and Bingo..it's working properly again. Thankyou so much!
Basically because of where I live I'm screwed on better cell service? One would tend to think these phones now days would be better than the old flip phones, apparently not
I hate to add this but I bought a Galaxy S4 and had terrible reception at our house in the country, then I bought an iPhone 5--same problems. Our OLD clamshell phones both worked better than these new smartphones in our house. The broadband modem on the iPhone didn't work, either--at all.
1. Radio frequencies "pour" down the roof like rain, are caught by the gutter and actually fall through the down spout. (Seriously) Outdoors are anyone's best bet at bars, especially if your house has stucco walls, which contain chicken wire. (It acts like a semi-shield to signal.
Low-E glass windows (which improve over-all home insulation) deflect signal entirely, wireless network signals too! These are marked with a small insignia ("Low-E" I believe is the logo) in one of the bottom corners
Water, like that of a fish tank or a rain storm, diffuse signal effectively dulling it's edge.
This goes on and on so to learn more, do as I have and go to a library and check out a book on Home Networking.
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Well, interesting stuff here! I can see why, at home, I don't get full strength. First, huge trees pretty much everywhere plus I have a rubber case. Our house actually stands below the yard a bit (hard to explain) in the back. However, out in the car driving down the street, I get a great signal. Not much I can do about home but I am passing this info on to all my family and friends to see if it helps them.
Once you get a signal, put the phone down so it wont move and place it on Speaker! A no-brainer, but few peeps seem to think of this.
You seem to have hit on the easiest and best advice.Thanks!
what if you get a good reception outside your house ... would you place your phone on the road and let any vehicle crush it ???
Kinda difficult to do when you want privacy. Just sayin.
"... removing my phone from its rubber case ... the case dampens the signal"
If I remember my science correctly, insulators such as rubber should have no effect on radio signals, so perhaps the case is not pure rubber?
Certainly anything conductive (such as your hand or any metal) that shields the signal will have an effect on signal strength. I find that holding my phone from the top helps in weak signal areas, because the antenna is in the bottom of my phone.
man.... rubber or any other non metal only blocks the signal...
I had Sprint send name a fem cell. I have had some Improvement in signal but because my Internet access is in the far corner of the house I cannot get a strong signal in much of the house. The fem cell would work better if I could more centrally locate the unit.
My biggest problem is that the signal strength is constantly changing. I remain in one place, make a call, put the phone on speaker, set the phone down and watch the signal meter jump from 5 bars to 0 and back. This same thing happens when I am not on the phone. It sits there and the signal strength continues to shift.
Nice article but an amplifier does not, amplify "frequency", the phone would stop working if you "shift" or mess with the frequency. You have to amplify the signal strength aka the signal "amplitude".
As for the tumbler, if it's lead glass (fine crystal) it will actually dampen the signal. Superman can't see thru lead, neither can RF (radio [frequency] waves)
Aluminum can alter-block-modify your signals, but not as much as ferrous metals, (steel-iron etc) and lead.
As an engineer the 2nd best way is a passive repeater (like cars have) (buy for 5-10$ @ amazon etc and put on your "cell tower side," home window) or best is those cell 2way signal boosters, but they cost several hundred bucks. They do work but they need configuration, not for the average person. Although once done you're good to go.
I have an android app called "open signal" it seems to work, well for finding "your" cell tower! GOLDRUSH
My Samsung G3 can't pick up a signal in the house next to a large window. Won't work on the 3rd floor near a window. Calls constantly drop while driving. POS! My last 4 phones worked in my basement at home!!! It's not the protective case. It's not signal strength since other phones worked fine. It's the darn phone. I've reset it twice and nothing changes!! Likely getting rid of it for a Motorola.
I had to ditch my HTC for a Motorola, which works great; went from 0 bars to 2-3 at home. The agent told me it was a matter of the strength and placement of the antenna. Motorola did it right.
I use a signal booster in the car as my work involves a lot of time on the road. One thing to mention is dont skimp out and buy the cheapest one you can find. Do your homework and find out what frequency your carrier uses, and even then.dont go for the cheapest. You can get boosters on eBay for as little as £20, I opted for one [LINK REMOVED] that set me back £80 (which is still fairly cheap) but it has paid for itself Time and time again with the extra business I have got from not missing so many calls. Also, always follow the installationstructions included with it, in my case they were in Chinese but luckily I had a Chinese colleague who could accurately translate it for me. From experience, if you dont set it up right it can severely impact how well it works, my particular model stated that the roof mount antenna should be placed as far away as roof space would allow from my car radio antemma, it made a lot of difference.
ats my experiences anyway, I hope they prove useful to.someone.
I have a smartphone, sony ericson xperia, with camera. My reception of signals is very poor though a tower is right in the neihbourhood. What can I possibly do to boost my reception without hardware and software? I also get this no service message. People have suggested aluminium foil which is cheapest for me. So maybe you have an idea how to utilise this for a better reception on my phone?
The tower you see in your neighborhood probably belongs to a different carrier, all carriers do not transmit from the same towers. Unless they make arrangements to share, a tower is usually only for one company (and it might not be yours).
I've found the best way to improve signal strength is to buy the right cellphone (and choose the right carrier) in the first place. Here in northern NY, cell reception is horribly spotty on ANY carrier, but I've yet to see my Samsung Galaxy S Showcase (S950C) on Straight Talk (Verizon towers) drop below 2 bars anywhere I've wanted to use it (home or elsewhere). There are probably places between towns where it drops out, but I don't use my phone in the car - ever.
I have never had a good signal at home. It is "marginal" according to the Three (UK) website. I put up with it for years but after a recent phone upgrade I contacted Three to complain and they sent me a Home Signal unit (a femtocell AFAIK) and everything is now excellent. These things do work and I'd recommend anyone with a poor home signal to chase their provider. Otherwise, the only thing that I can suggest is to turn off wifi temporarily when trying to get a mobile signal - it sometimes worked for me!
I also observerd the the phone signal also gets cut off when I'm inside of a building then the guard decides to roll down the aluminun gate thingy that hangs before you enter the door. The aluminum probably blocked the signal that supposedly should be entering to my phone.
Solution? Go to the next floor above.
I don't know how or why it works, but placing your phone in a glass tumbler increases the signal strength. I dismissed it as a fluke - but it works consistently on O2 with my iPhone
Maybe the glass funnels the signals to your phone. I can't imagine how you would use your phone in a tumbler though. Someone might even accidentally pour water in it too.
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Perhaps she hadn't realized that colleges keep track of their social media mentions.
"It was incredibly unusual and foolish of her to do that," Scott A. Meiklejohn, Bowdoin's dean of admissions and financial aid, told me last week. The college ultimately denied the student admission, he said, because her academic record wasn't competitive. But had her credentials been better, those indiscreet posts could have scuttled her chances.
"We would have wondered about the judgment of someone who spends their time on their mobile phone and makes such awful remarks," Mr. Meiklejohn said.
As certain high school seniors work meticulously this month to finish their early applications to colleges, some may not realize that comments they casually make online could negatively affect their prospects. In fact, new research from Kaplan Test Prep, the service owned by the
Of 381 college admissions officers who answered a Kaplan telephone questionnaire this year, 31 percent said they had visited an applicant's
"Students' social media and digital footprint can sometimes play a role in the admissions process," says Christine Brown, the executive director of K-12 and college prep programs at Kaplan Test Prep. "It's something that is becoming more ubiquitous and less looked down upon."
In the business realm, employers now vet the online reputations of job candidates as a matter of course. Given the impulsiveness of typical teenagers, however — not to mention the already fraught nature of college acceptances and rejections — the idea that admissions officers would covertly nose around the social media posts of prospective students seems more chilling.
There is some reason for concern. Ms. Brown says that most colleges don't have formal policies about admissions officers supplementing students' files with their own online research. If colleges find seemingly troubling material online, they may not necessarily notify the applicants involved.
"To me, it's a huge problem," said Bradley S. Shear, a lawyer specializing in social media law. For one thing, Mr. Shear told me, colleges might erroneously identify the account of a person with the same name as a prospective student — or even mistake an impostor's account — as belonging to the applicant, potentially leading to unfair treatment. "Often," he added, "false and misleading content online is taken as fact."
These kinds of concerns prompted me last week to email 20 colleges and universities — small and large, private and public, East Coast and West Coast — to ask about their practices. Then I called admissions officials at 10 schools who agreed to interviews.
Each official told me that it was not routine practice at his or her institution for admissions officers to use
"As students' use of social media is growing, there's a whole variety of ways that college admissions officers can use it," Beth A. Wiser, the director of admissions at the
Other admissions officials said they did not formally prohibit the practice. In fact, they said, admissions officers did look at online material about applicants on an ad hoc basis. Sometimes prospective students themselves ask an admissions office to look at blogs or videos they have posted; on other occasions, an admissions official might look up an obscure award or event mentioned by an applicant, for purposes of elucidation.
"Last year, we watched some animation videos and we followed media stories about an applicant who was involved in a political cause," says Will Hummel, an admissions officer at Pomona College in Claremont, Calif. But those were rare instances, he says, and the supplemental material didn't significantly affect the students' admissions prospects.
Admissions officials also said they had occasionally rejected applicants, or revoked their acceptances, because of online materials. Often, these officials said, a college may learn about a potential problem from an outside source, such as a high school counselor or a graduate, prompting it to look into the matter.
Last year, an undergraduate at Pitzer College in Claremont, Calif., who had befriended a prospective student on Facebook, notified the admissions office because he noticed that the applicant had posted offensive comments about one of his high school teachers.
"We thought, this is not the kind of person we want in our community," Angel B. Perez, Pitzer's dean of admission and financial aid, told me. With about 4,200 applications annually for a first-year class of 250 students, the school can afford to be selective. "We didn't admit the student," Mr. Perez said.
But colleges vary in their transparency. While Pitzer doesn't contact students if their social media activities precluded admission to the school,
"We should be transparent with applicants," says Gary L. Ross, Colgate's dean of admission. He once called a student, to whom Colgate had already offered acceptance, to check whether an alcohol-related incident that was reported online was indeed true. (It was, and Colgate rescinded the offer of admission.)
"We will always ask if there is something we didn't understand," Mr. Ross said.
In an effort to help high school students avoid self-sabotage online, guidance counselors are tutoring them in scrubbing their digital identities. At Brookline High School in
"They imagine admissions officers are old professors," he said. "But we tell them a lot of admissions officers are very young and technology-savvy."
Likewise, high school students seem to be growing more shrewd, changing their searchable names on Facebook or untagging themselves in pictures to obscure their digital footprints during the college admission process.
"We know that some students maintain two Facebook accounts," says Wes K. Waggoner, the dean of undergraduate admission at
For their part, high school seniors say that sanitizing social media accounts doesn't seem qualitatively different than the efforts they already make to present the most appealing versions of themselves to colleges. While Megan Heck, 17, a senior at East Lansing High School in
"If you've got stuff online you don't want colleges to see," Ms. Heck said, "deleting it is kind of like joining two more clubs senior year to list on your application to try to make you seem more like the person they want at their schools."Continue reading the main story


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The Latinx Center at Northeastern University is more than a resource center for our students; it is a home away from home. The LSCC empowers Latinx leaders of tomorrow in an increasingly global environment through their academic, personal and professional development. The Center promotes interactions between NU students from diverse backgrounds to enhance their academic, cultural, and social experience.
The Center offers programming that focuses on leadership development, socio-cultural experience, alumni involvement, community outreach through civic engagement and academic support. From cooking classes, to salsa dancing, to academic and financial support, the LSCC offers programs and opportunities that add great value to the Northeastern experience. We invite all students to join us and be part of our growing diverse community of students. The consciousness building and fantastic friendships that are found here is a truly magnificent component of the NU experience. I hope you will take advantage of our center; its resources and its people.
The Latinx Student Cultural Center at NU…
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In 1994, the Latinx Committee, a group of NU faculty, administrators, staff, and students proposed a unique plan: a Center that they could call home. Their vision was to create a Center in which people could come together and share their academic struggles and achievements, as well as their culture.
This Center would also find a way to give back to their community. The vision of a Latinx Center was a way to take a theory and to put it into practice. This theory centered around the idea of transforming the classroom experience into community related activities and services. The work of this group culminated in the creation of the Latinx Student Cultural Center and its opening on October 2, 1997.
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Apple Canada is offering Canadian college students the chance to "Win What You Want," a contest that will allow the winner to select up to CN$5,000 in Apple merchandise as their prize. The contest is open "only to legal residents of Canada, who will be enrolled in a Canadian post-secondary institution in fall 2005 or are currently enrolled in a Canadian post-secondary institution," according to the official Rules and Regulations posted at the Win What You Want Web site.
Apple is cleverly using some viral marketing as part of the contest, by starting each entrantis prize pool at $2,500, and adding another $250 to that pool for each friend the entrant refers to the contest for a maximum of a $5,000 prize pool.
The company is also whetting appetites for Apple merchandise by allowing entrants to piece together their prize pool from the moment they enter. As your prize pool grows, or as your whim changes, you can adjust your prize pool as you see fit, thus keeping entrants focused on Apple products throughout the contest.
Apple is also offering 10 iPod shuffle units as secondary prize. The company will be giving away them away two per week.
Entries can be made at the contest Web site, where you can also find more information about the contest. Entries must be made by August 28th, 2005, and is open now.
Thanks to The Unofficial Apple Weblog for the heads up on the contest.
[Update: As of July 28th, 2005, the Win What You Want Web site is redirecting to Apple Canadais education site without explanation. When we get additional information, we will publish a follow up story.]


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Mmmmm...Perhaps he is a slave trainer that is employed by Dr. Wilder to help him out with all the various slaves in the house while Dr. Wilder is at work or something along those lines. I say this because the other two daughter character players seem to fluctuate between being on and off the site.
There's also the possibility (although this is a more complicated plot), that a recent ex of Elisa comes in. She broke up with her boyfriend (who she hadn't had sex with yet) right before coming here because she assumed he wouldn't approve. She did care for him, but she had wanted to be anally trained for so long that she reluctantly dumped him.Since it didn't make any sense to him, perhaps he convinced her mother to tell him where she went, and he shows up to confront her. And then perhaps he decides that if she wants to be trained so badly, that maybe he can show her that he can provide that...so he works with the clinic to train her. I figure he'll be pissed off at first, but maybe forgive her later on. And he can use that anger to dominate her. That's just a crazy possibility, but it's there if you want it.
Don't know how Dr. Wilder will react to having an angry ex boyfriend show up to his house and have a domestic disturbance happen in his living room, he would probably just force him out of the house and have him arrested for trespassing.But its up to you Sheng
Perhaps a mix of the two?He comes to visit, wondering a better explanation, and is offered a job?
How old is the daughter he was dating?And 21 - 22 sound good?
Maybe once he realizes what is going on, he convinces William to take him on. Or he could dominate her sexually, and impress William. *shrugs* I don't know. I just thought it was worth a try. :)EDIT: Cool. Yeah. He shows potential.She's not a daughter. She's a new trainee that's not related, but this was something she'd been wanting to do for a long time. And she was a virgin when she came, so he'd probably want an explanation. She's 20 I believe.
It might help if they started in on it while William was busy upstairs. By the time he comes down the situation is somewhat resolved, with James having no clue what is going on.
Cool, I would go ahead and ask that you make a full character sheet. There is a code for it on the first post of this thread.I would say to impress Dr. Wilder he would have to force her to go down on him, showing Dr. Wilder that he can both be dominant and make her like it at the same time.Agreed Kc
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The Ruth E. Aten World Doll Collection: Europe
This list, with accompanying photos, contains dolls from various areas of Europe.
Eastern Europe
EEur1. Hungary. Hungarian Doll. 7 ½" Detailed dressed with ornate hat, gold pleated skirt with white pleated apron, red boots, red crossed shawl with fringe. Given by Linda Degh (faculty) from one of her many trips to Hungary.
EEur2. Slovakia. Mother and Child Corn Husk Dolls. 6" Beautifully crafted mother and child corn husk doll carrying bale of straw. Given by Zsuzanna Cseleny (student). 2002
EEur3. Poland. Wooden Doll. 7" Cloth dress, red shoes, jointed with blonde fiber pigtails. Mark: "made in Poland."Given by Ruth Aten. 1973
EEur4. Doll Spinning Wool. 6" Cloth doll dressed in elaborate and detail traditional costume of a yellow scarf and a black pleated skirt with colorful trim. The doll is hand spinning wool.
EEur5. Russia. Hand Painted Nesting/Stack Doll. 6" – 1 ¼" Set of 5 nesting dolls. Mark: "To Ruth From Russia with love, Lily." Given by Stephanie Knox (student). She wrote, "The doll I gave you is directly from Russia. Dr. Lily Golden, she signed the bottom of it for you. (I had asked her last year to bring you back a Matrushka doll the next time she went to Russia). She's a very special person and her daughter is the equivalent to Oprah Winfrey in Russia (she has her own television show which broadcasts throughout Russia and Europe). You'd love Lily. Anyway, enjoy the doll." 2001
Russian Nesting/Stack Dolls: Description taken from World Community Market.Net. "In Russia making wooden objects, which fit inside each other, have been a tradition that has carried on for centuries. Over the years the objects evolved from figurines to dolls. These dolls were made and painted by Russian and Ukrainian craftsman.
EEur6. Russia. Hand Painted Nesting/Stack Doll. 5" Painted red scarf, green striped dress. Set of 5 dolls.
EEur7. Russia. Hand Painted Nesting/Stack Doll. 3" Red scarf with flowers on dress; set of 3 dolls. Given by Ruth Aten.
EEur8. Russia. Hand Painted Nesting/Stack Doll. 4" Painted black with strawberries; set of 4 dolls.
EEur9. Bucovina, Romania. Wooden Doll. 6" Hand painted wooden doll with red scarf carrying pitcher with Dutch shoes. Mark: "Romania/Bucovina." Given by Mary Ellen Brown (faculty). 2000
EEur10. Russia. Russian Doll with Fur Hat. 4 ½" Small souvenir doll with fur hat and red shirt with gold trim.
EEur11. Southern Russia. Russian Woman. 8" Vinyl doll in traditional dress with long black braided fiber hair. Head cover over gold dress with brown vest.
EEur12. Prague. Czech Rod-Marionette. 8" (doll). Carved wood marionette on a metal rod with white robe and black and gold trim. Given by Kurt Hartwig and Lisa Gildehaus (students). Kurt describes doll: "Traditional style Czech rod-marionette The figure of Death is very common in Czech puppetry, and usually articulated as female – the Czech language uses masculine, feminine, and neuter (like Spanish, for example), and SMRT, "death" happens to be feminine. – It's kind of a variable character, sometimes malevolent, sometimes more like a force of nature, so reactions to it/her tend to be trickster-like in the first instance, and resigned in the second. Depends on the plays." 2001
EEur13. Warsaw. Wooden Angel. 8" Carved and painted wooden angel holding flowers. Bottom: "E. Skidinska, Kutno 94" Given by Mary Ellen Brown (faculty). 1994
EEur14. Leningrad, Soviet Union. Hemp Doll. 9 ½" Doll's hair and dress made probably of a fiber like hemp and decorated with brocade trim and colorful rick-rack. Doll has a wood painted head, stuffed upper body with dowel and stand. Given by Mary Beth Stein (student). Mary Beth did her dissertation research in the Soviet Union and actually witnessed the fall of the Berlin Wall. 1988
EEur15. Poland. Polish Doll. 12" Polish doll dressed in traditional clothes. Doll has stuffed cloth body and composition head with blond fiber braided hair. Doll is very old. Given by Ruth Aten
EEur16. Russia. Russian Dancer. 8" A popular Russian souvenir doll. Cloth stuffed body, plastic head, fur hat with loose booted legs. Box included.
EEur17. Poland or Romanian. European Woman. 6" Small plastic souvenir doll. Doll is dressed in traditional outfit with brocade trim on pleated skirt and apron over a white laced top. Head is covered with an embroidered scarf. Given by John Johnson (faculty). John purchased this doll at a garage sale. 1998
EEur18. Poland. Polish Girl. 13 ½" Old stuffed doll with detailed traditional dress with head scarf and print skirt. Doll has blonde fiber hair, plastic face and white cloth shoes. Given by Ruth Aten.
Northern Europe
NEur1. Simple Handmade Doll. 8" Hand-sewn stuffed fabric doll. Given by Mary Ellen Brown (faculty). 1990s
NEur2. Denmark. Danish Doll. 7" Plastic detailed dressed doll. Black silk dress with brocade trim and red pleated apron, Black hat with brocade and lace trim. Written inside skirt: "Danish Handmade, Amager Brudedragt." Given by Ruth Aten. 1978
NEur3. Latvia. Wooden Doll. 3 ¼" Hand painted lath carved dowel doll with detailed painted plaid skirt and blonde fiber pigtail. Given by Inta Carpenter (faculty). 1990s
NEur4. Latvia. Wooden Doll. 8" Hand painted wooden ball head with blonde braided fiber hair. Dress is red woven striped skirt with white shawl. Doll has a head band and a necklace made of embroidered cord. Given by Inta Carpenter (faculty). Inta's parents emigrated from Latvia and she would make many trips there to visit family and do research. 1990s
NEur5. Norway. Moose. 9 ½" Stuffed moose with knitted sweater and socks. Given by Sandra Dolby (faculty) from a trip to Norway. 2001
NEur6. Girl Dolls. 4 ½" Set of two small girl dolls in traditional dress. Both dolls have white tops with brocade trim shirts. Dolls were purchased at a flea market. Given by Ruth Aten.
NEur7. County Fermanagh, Ireland. The Lady Grey Mumming Doll. 16" This doll is the character from the mumming play, The Grey Lady that is part of the Irish Christmas Mumming. The Grey Lady is a man dressed in lady's clothes, grey jacket and dotted grey skirt. A hat covered with pink netting hides the male face. The doll was made for and presented to Henry Glassie in a ceremony in Fermanagh honoring his book, "All Silver and no Brass". A small book describing the mumming event is attached to the doll. Given by Henry Glassie (faculty). 2000
NEur8. Finland. Burlap Girl. 9" Hand made stuffed burlap doll, embroidered face, woven blue pattern burlap dress, twine hair and knotted arms. Tag: "Handmade in Finland, Ella Maija Laitasala. Given by Mary Koske (student). 1986
NEur9. Latvia. Wooden Girl. 5" Painted wooden doll in traditional dress with long blond fiber braids. Dress has white fringed shawl and red skirt. Given by Inta Carpenter (faculty).
NEur10. Newport, Gwent, Wales. Girl Holding Basket. 8" Plastic Souvenir doll with black fiber hair, black hat, white lace scarf, white lace apron over plaid woven skirt. Given by Jane Kennedy (friend). 1996
NEur11. United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Ullapool Scotland. The Regimental Scottish Piper. 12 ½" Porcelain doll in traditional uniform of the Royal Bagpipe Guard. Fur hat, black jacket with gold trim, plaid bottom, carrying bagpipes. Doll in original case: "The Regimental Scottish Piper; Royal Porcelain Collection". Given by Julie Heath (student). Julie writes, "For Ruth, From Julie, Bought in Ullapool Scotland, the ferry port for the Western .., Ullapool is a little town on Scotland's northwest coast". 1990s
NEur12. Sweden. Swedish Doll. 10 ½" Small Swedish souvenir doll in Swedish national costume. White blouse, yellow skirt with blue flowered trim. Given by Tom Walker (student). 1991
Southern Europe
SEur1. Abruzzo Region, Italy. Female Italian Doll. 7" Italian Doll from Central Italy. White felt scarf, lace top, red skirt, blue apron. Given by Giovanna Del-Negro (student). 1994
SEur2. Florence, Italy. Wooden Pinocchio Doll. 4" Markings: "Master Geppetto." Given by Carol Rice (IU Mailperson). 2003
SEur3. Italy. Male Playing Bagpipe. 7" Painted figurine, green jacket, brown hat with orange sash, orange pants. Given by Guy Hardy (student). 1990s
SEur4. Greece. Male Greece Doll. 7" Plastic male doll in traditional costume. White pleated shirt, red top and hat with black tassel.
SEur5. Porto Cervo, Sardina, Italy. Sardina Woman. 12 ½" Straw braided body, walnut head. Traditional dress made of burlap that has been decorated in crayon or colored pencil design. Given by Sabina Magliocco (student). Sabina wrote, "Bought in: Porto Cervo, Sardina (Italy)—woman in costume from Nvoro area—." 1986
SEur6. Crete, Greece. Male Souvenir Doll. 7" Cloth male doll in traditional dress: blue suit, gold trim vest and black boots. In package with tag: "Souvenir From Crete." Given by Maria Hnarki (student). 1999
SEur7. Athens, Greece. Greek Herdsman. 14" Handmade molded male, machine embroidered black vest over cotton plaid shirt, green sash with chain, white twill pants, traditional black shoes with pom-poms. Doll has painted face, mohair hair and wearing a hat, carrying herding stick and plaid pouch. Purchased by Ruth Aten on a trip to Greece. 1978
SEur8. Seville, Spain. Bull. 4" Black bull with spears in back. Tag: "Made in Spain." Bull was given by Judith Neulander (student). 1998
SEur9. European Doll. 9" Plastic souvenir doll in traditional dress, black hat, red dress with lace and brocade trim. Given by Margaret Neal (Ruth's Aunt). 1998
Western Europe
WEur1. Belgium. Belgium Girl. 4 ½" Plastic souvenir doll in traditional dress with apron that says "Belgium." Given by Hande Birkalan (student). 1997
WEur2. Switzerland. Blonde Swedish Doll. 5 ¼" Plastic souvenir doll with green hat; felt skirt and yarn pigtails. Our dog chewed on the doll a little. Purchased by Bob Aten on a business trip to Switzerland. 1978
WEur3. Holland, Netherlands. Holland Girl. 17" Plastic doll in traditional dress. Fiber blonde braided hair with white lace bonnet, blue open and shut eyes, moveable arms and legs. Black felt top and apron over striped flannel skirt. My Aunt Margaret found this doll at a garage sale. Given by Ruth Aten (probably made in the 1970s).
WEur4. Switzerland. Boy and Girl. 4 ½" Boy and girl doll with wooden heads and bodies and yarn hair in traditional dress.
WEur5. Christmas Angel. 1 ½" Very small angel carrying basket of fruit and Christmas tree. This was the very first doll given to me from a student. Given by Phil Nausbam (student). 1982


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BOTH Vladimir Ivanoff, a young Soviet circus musician, who defects to the United States at the end of an American tour, and Robin Williams, the actor who plays Vladimir with fine comic intensity, are most engaging characters - spirited, skeptical, but still capable of wonderment. Yet Paul Mazursky's ''Moscow on the Hudson'' doesn't seem to know what to do with them. They are men without a movie.
''Moscow on the Hudson,'' which opens today at Loews Astor Plaza and other theaters, isn't ill conceived. Rather, it seems unfinished, not yet thought through. Even the title doesn't quite fit, since the New York City that Vladimir discovers is far more densely populated by Southern blacks, Latin Americans, Western Europeans, Orientals and Indians from India than by Russians. It sounds as if it were one of those titles around which a screenplay was eventually composed.
No film by Mr. Mazursky (director of ''An Unmarried Woman'') is ever totally unrewarding, though ''Tempest'' came close. ''Moscow on the Hudson'' contains one extremely funny sequence, when, after what has been an extended prologue set in the Moscow that's on the Moscow River, Vladimir decides to chuck everything and to remain in New York just as his circus colleagues are boarding the bus that will take them to the plane.
If you're going to defect, Bloomingdale's, that great repository of Western civilization, would seem the perfect place in which to come to such a decision, and Mr. Mazursky and Leon Capetanos, with whom the director wrote the screenplay, succeed in making something quite wonderful of this idea.
Chaos in a department store is almost always funny, and it is in this tumultuous sequence, in which prissy floorwalkers, members of the Soviet secret police, the store's public-relations personnel, New York City policemen and Federal Bureau of Investigation agents all are working at cross purposes.Continue reading the main story
It also contains the movie's only genuinely moving moments. In the course of the diplomatic hurricane, Vladimir, who is the calm eye at its center and who doesn't yet comprehend the immensity of his act, is befriended by Lucia Lombardo (Maria Conchita Alonso), a beautiful, romantic, Italian-born cosmetics clerk, and Lionel Witherspoon (Cleavant Derricks), a supercool Bloomingdale's security guard, who offers Vladimir temporary living quarters in his family's Harlem apartment.
Thereafter, with somewhat more self-assurance than the screenplay warrants, ''Moscow on the Hudson'' settles down to recount Vladimir's mostly lighthearted adventures in Manhattan. He quickly finds his own apartment in the East Village, falls in love with Lucia and secures a best friend, Lionel, as well as a series of jobs - dishwasher, street vendor, chauffeur and, finally, saxophonist, his true vocation.
Defection and exile are large subjects, but ''Moscow on the Hudson'' realizes little of the profound drama and comedy that are so poignantly defined in even a small movie like ''Musical Passage,'' Jim Brown's documentary about the members of the Soviet Emigre Orchestra.
Mr. Mazursky's fictional conceits do not do justice to Vladimir or to his situation, either in the Soviet Union or this country. In spite of Mr. Williams's extraordinarily complex performance - his Russian sounds amazingly, comically authentic - the introductory scenes in Moscow recall the kind of consumer-oriented jokes that Hollywood was cranking out in the post-''Ninotchka'' 1940's in a movie like ''Comrade X.'' Even the film's Manhattan, with the exception of Bloomingdale's, is not explored with much sense of surprise or humor.
Vladimir's ease at finding jobs must also strike some members of the audience as miraculous, especially when he suddenly turns up as the uniformed driver of a rental limousine. How did he get his license? Have Mr. Mazursky and Mr. Capetanos spent any time recently at the Motor Vehicles Bureau in Lower Manhattan? If they had, they might have realized that when it comes to bureaucracy and long lines, cities of the West do not have to take lessons from those of the East.
Toward the end of the film, when ''Moscow on the Hudson'' is running low on plot, Vladimir's eyes are opened when he is mugged in his own hallway. At this point, the film makers try to make some kind of solemn point, which, as I understand it, is that the democratic freedoms include not only those of speech, religion and assembly, but also of physical assault by strangers.
The performances are first-rate, starting with Mr. Williams, Mr. Derricks and Miss Alonso. Especially good in supporting roles are Tiger Haynes, as Lionel's grandfather; Elya Baskin, as Vladimir's Soviet colleague, a circus clown whose talk of defection leads directly to Vladimir's act, and Alejandro Rey, as Vladimir's Cuban-born lawyer. One of the best things in the film is David McHugh's soundtrack score, which is jazzy and sweet in the derivative, slightly old-fashioned manner of contemporary Soviet popular music.
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Thursday, March 6, 2014
The iceberg of textbooks
Date: March 6, 2014
Language: Spanish
Link: http://www.quepasa.cl/articulo/opinion---posteos/2014/03/20-13933-9-el-iceberg-de-los-textos-escolares.shtml
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The Chilean State spent $ 40 million dollars in 2012 for textbooks serve three million students. Each text with a final value of about $ 3. In the private sector, which represents 10% of the total market, texts are 10 to 20 times more expensive. What to do?
The first step to reconfigure these markets to competition and guide for the quality of the texts is, in the case of private institutions require banning books "of the year", expanding the range to the last 5 years. This diversifies the options and avoid the bad practice of reprinting the same contents as if they were different editions: publishers will have to convince parents to choose the text "of the year" improving quality. In the case of the national market, it is necessary, as pointed out by Eugenio Severin, separate the bidding of the contents of the bidding for the printing, allowing for increased competition and new players join it.
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