Rene Denfeld is the author of the
acclaimed novels The Child Finder and The
Enchanted, as well as essays in publications such as the New York
Times. Rene’s literary thriller, The Child Finder, explores themes of
survival, resiliency and redemption
It has received much acclaim, including a starred Library
Journal review, major press, and an Indie Next pick. Landing as the #1 fiction bestseller at
Powell’s within its first week, the Child Finder became a top
#10 bestseller in Canada and a bestseller in the United States.
Rene’s lyrical, beautiful writing is inspired by her work with sex trafficking
victims and innocents in prison. Rene
was the Chief Investigator at a public defender’s office and has worked
hundreds of cases. In addition to
her advocacy work, Rene has been a foster adoptive parent for twenty
years. She was awarded the Break The
Silence Award at the 24th Annual Knock Out Abuse Gala in Washington, DC on
November 2, 2017, in recognition for her advocacy and social justice work, and
named one of 19 heroic stories of the year by the New York Times. The
child of a difficult history herself, Rene is an accomplished speaker who loves
connecting with others. Rene lives in Portland, Oregon, where she is the
happy mom of three kids adopted from foster care. http://renedenfeld.com/author/biography/
Winter Salad with Bulgur, Radicchio and Toasted
Almonds Reprinted with
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Hamburg has
the biggest and busiest harbor in Germany, most of Germany's major media, the
oldest stock exchange in Germany, more bridges than Venice--and even the
world's largest fitness studio.
Germany's
second-largest city has been a gateway to the world for centuries. It is located at the confluence of the Alster
and Elbe rivers, and has a direct link to the North Sea some 100 kilometers (62
miles) downstream. Located at the base
of the crescent-shaped New City (which is divided from the crescent-shaped Old
City by the Elbe River) the harbor covers more than 12 percent of Hamburg, and
78 million tons of goods pass through it every year. Even away from the
harbor, water is everywhere in Hamburg.
Foghorns can be heard downtown; shrieking sea gulls and an ever-present
sea breeze enhance the maritime feeling.
The rivers Elbe, Alster and Bille all traverse the city, creating 64
kilometers of canals requiring 2,500 bridges, giving the city its nickname
"Venice of the North." A reporter once asked John Lennon what it was
like growing up in Liverpool, and he replied, "I didn't grow up in
Liverpool, I grew up in Hamburg."
And of course, the city’s greatest international recognition comes as a
result of its being the place where the Beatles’ career took off.
"Compulsory unification of opinion
achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard.
It seem trite but necessary to say that the First Amendment to the
Constitution was designed to avoid these ends by avoiding these
beginnings. If there is any fixed start
in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can
prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other
matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith
therein." Robert H. Jackson,
Supreme Court Justice, 1942. West. Vir.
Board of Education v. Barnette See
quotes by Supreme Court Justices at http://www.scmidnightflyer.com/supreme.html
Dolly Parton
has been honored by the Emmys, Guinness World Records and the Recording Industry
Association of America. Apart from
her legend as a musician and actress, she'll be remembered for her Imagination Library, a program she
started in 1995, which has mailed free books to millions of children between
birth and the start of kindergarten. On
February 27, 2018, Parton will present the 100 millionth book donation
from Imagination Library to the Library of Congress's collection. Last year,
the nonprofit—which now sends out more than 1 million books a month and has
expanded into Canada, the United Kingdom and Australia—partnered with hospitals to sign newborns up for books immediately. Kristi L. Nelson https://www.knoxnews.com/story/news/2018/02/20/dolly-parton-donate-100-millionth-imagination-library-book-library-congress/354783002/
February 23, 2018
French
customs officers making a random check
on a bus at a motorway layby found a painting by 19th century Impressionist
master Edgar Degas that was stolen nine years ago from a museum in Marseille. The 1877 painting Les Choristes, or The
Chorus Singers and sometimes called The Extras, was found in a suitcase in
the vehicle’s luggage compartment during a stopover in Marne-la-Vallée to the
east of Paris. Its value is estimated at
€800,000 (£700,000). The colourful
pastel, measuring 13 inches by 10, was on loan to the Cantini museum in
Marseille from the Musée d'Orsay in Paris for an exhibition featuring some 20
works by Degas when it was stolen in 2009.
When the customs officers opened the
suitcase on Friday of last week they were surprised to find a work of art
bearing the signature "Degas".
They handed it over to art
experts who said their preliminary examinations showed it was the Degas
painting that depicts a depicts a line of men singing in a scene from the opera
Don Juan. The
inquiry into how it came to be on the bus has been handed over to OCBC, the
French agency which investigates art thefts. There were no signs of a break-in, leading
police to believe it was an inside job or that a museum visitor had hidden and
waited till the venue was shut before unscrewing the work from the wall and
escaping. The confirmation of the find
comes as a major exhibition about Degas’ relationship with the dancers at the
Paris Opera closes at the Musée d'Orsay this weekend after attracting nearly
half a million visitors. "It is a
wonderful happy ending to the story," said a spokeswoman for the museum,
which holds the world's largest collection of Impressionist art. "It is the centenary of his death, and we
are organising a huge show about Degas and the opera for 2019. It would have been a terrible loss for us to
do it without this painting," she told AFP news agency. Rory
Mulholland http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/02/23/stolen-degas-painting-found-bus-near-paris/
Final Medal Count for Every Country at the 2018 Winter
Olympics
by
Jennifer Calfas Norway’s dominance was apparent
from the beginning of the Olympic Games, with 14 gold medal wins in sports like
cross-country skiing and more medals from other skiing events from jumping to
downhill. Germany came in second with 31
total medals and 14 gold medals, and Canada finished in third with 29 medals,
11 of which were gold. After a number of
historic wins for the United States late in the Games, Team USA finished fourth
with 23 total medals, including nine golds. Read the list of all medals at http://time.com/5169066/final-medal-count-2018-winter-olympics/
Pyeongchang Olympics: Closing Ceremony Ends Biggest
Winter Games Ever by
Bill Chapelle The Winter Olympics closes the door on the Pyeongchang
2018 Games, with a big party and a last farewell from the 2,920 athletes who
competed on ice and snow in South Korea. The number of athletes set a new record; so
did the number of nations— 92. The
two-hour ceremony started at 8 p.m. on February 25, 2018 in South Korea–6 a.m.
ET Sunday in the U.S. It began with a
segment called "Countdown: Dream
for Tomorrow," featuring performers paying tribute to the athletes. It all starts with a montage of the
achievements and notable moments of the Winter Games in Pyeongchang, in a
four-minute video piece. Then, the
Korean national flag and anthem are presented, followed by a six-minute
meditation and celebration of hallyu—the
"Korean Wave" that represents the country's progress on the
international economic and cultural scene in recent decades. In this section, guitarist Yang Taehwan, 13,
plays a variation on "Winter" from Vivaldi's The Four Seasons. From
the program: "On the sloped stage
reflecting the image of a guitar, loop dancers perform a mesmerizing dance that
defies gravity. Geomungo players perform
together with the band Jambinai. Korean
dancers present a modern interpretation of a traditional dance while a solo
dancer performs Spring Dance of Nightingale." Tokyo is slated to host the Summer Olympics
in 2020. In 2022, Beijing will become
the first city to host both the Summer and Winter Olympic Games.
http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com Issue
1848 February 26, 2018 On this date in 1832, the Polish pianist and
composer Frederic Chopin made his
concert debut in Paris at the Salle Pleyel. Among the enthusiastic audience members was
another composer-pianist by the name of Franz Liszt, who would rapidly become
Chopin’s close friend and advocate. Chopin
dedicated his recently completed Piano Etudes, Op. 10, to Liszt, and once wrote
to a friend these lines: “I am writing
without knowing what my pen is scribbling, because at this moment Liszt is
playing my etudes and putting honest thoughts out of my head. I should like to rob him of the way he plays
them!” When Chopin performed in public,
he liked to share the stage with a sympathetic singer like Pauline
Viardot-Garcia, or a fellow pianist like Liszt. Despite his fame, Chopin’s concert appearances
in Paris numbered less than a dozen.
Composers Datebook Word of the
Day evitable
adjective Possible to avoid; avertible. Wiktionary
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