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2008 Sep 06 Political News
Bestsellersbook.com has something to say about the presidential nominations Sarah Palin's nomination brings energy, charm, and hope to the political parties.
S. Orange, NJ 9/06/2008 12:21 AM GMT (TransWorldNews)
Bestsellersbook.com salutes the nomination of a woman on the presidential team.
First it was Hillary, famous for her tenacity obstination, clear policies to benefit Americans
with solutions for the economy, heath care, the war, the climate and environment. An incredible woman we loved as a mother figure, identified with and respected and admired, and never want to be without. Now there is the unknown Sarah Palin, a shocking surprise to many, a welcome note to most. Why is it so difficult for Americans to accept the vital role women can play in politics, when so many women statemen have demonstrated their valor and wisdom and especially when we take our history after the Great Elizabeth, Queen of England.
The nomination of Sarah Palin should be viewed as a refreshing note and a promise of renewal for our country.
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Rumor: Oprah Winfrey Refuses to Have Sarah Palin on Show
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Angola Holding Parliamentary Elections as Voters Take to Poll for First Time in 16 Years
The Waters Consulting Group launches follow up survey on succession planning for local governments
New Asbestos Lawsuits Filed in West Virginia
John McCain to Give Acceptance Speech at RNC on Thursday
Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick Resigns, Pleads Guilty to Obstruction of Justice
U.S. Condemns Russian Actions in Georgia, Questions Reliability as International Partner
Video, Full Transcript of Sarah Palin's RNC Acceptance Speech
2008 Sep 06 Political News
Bestsellersbook.com has something to say about the presidential nominations Sarah Palin's nomination brings energy, charm, and hope to the political parties.
S. Orange, NJ 9/06/2008 12:21 AM GMT (TransWorldNews)
Bestsellersbook.com salutes the nomination of a woman on the presidential team.
First it was Hillary, famous for her tenacity obstination, clear policies to benefit Americans
with solutions for the economy, heath care, the war, the climate and environment. An incredible woman we loved as a mother figure, identified with and respected and admired, and never want to be without. Now there is the unknown Sarah Palin, a shocking surprise to many, a welcome note to most. Why is it so difficult for Americans to accept the vital role women can play in politics, when so many women statemen have demonstrated their valor and wisdom and especially when we take our history after the Great Elizabeth, Queen of England.
The nomination of Sarah Palin should be viewed as a refreshing note and a promise of renewal for our country.
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more >>Additional Headlines John McCain, Sarah Palin to Hold "Road to Victory" Rally in Colorado Springs Saturday
Rumor: Oprah Winfrey Refuses to Have Sarah Palin on Show
Condoleezza Rice Travels to Libya to Meet with Muammar Gaddafi
Angola Holding Parliamentary Elections as Voters Take to Poll for First Time in 16 Years
The Waters Consulting Group launches follow up survey on succession planning for local governments
New Asbestos Lawsuits Filed in West Virginia
John McCain to Give Acceptance Speech at RNC on Thursday
Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick Resigns, Pleads Guilty to Obstruction of Justice
U.S. Condemns Russian Actions in Georgia, Questions Reliability as International Partner
Video, Full Transcript of Sarah Palin's RNC Acceptance Speech
2008 Sep 06 Entertainment News
In defense of Sarah Palin for Vice President Women have unfathomable energy reserves put to the test of a mother's love.
South Orange, NJ 9/05/2008 02:06 PM GMT (TransWorldNews)
In defense of Sarah Palin
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I'm not a republican, in fact I will vote as a democrat, in favor of Barack Obama, but when the capability of another woman, another mother, smart and beautiful and courageously steadfast and true to her beliefs is on the balance, I will speak up.
A woman nowadays can accomplish wondrous tasks when supported and empowered by motherly love and will face with greatness the responsibilities she has to shoulder. Yes Sarah Palin when put to the test will be able to juggle family and career and will be effective and creative in all personal and mondane matters.
Witness the newly published memoirs of a mother of a handicapped daughter, about her phenomenal accomplishments on her job as curator, while taking care of and advocating for her disabled daughter. See :"Sleeping Beauty Isn't a Fairy Tale" by Regine Dubono available at http://www.Stores.Lulu.com/reginedubonobook.
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2008 Sep 06 Bestsellersbook.com a storefront at 109 S. Orange Ave now sells POD books Sharing with others and communicating with other people's minds, touching their hearts and souls is the purpose of all creation. POD makes it possible to market the product of one;'s mind.
South Orange NJ 9/06/2008 12:51 AM GMT (TransWorldNews)
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Bestsellersbook.com a publisher and book store in the heart of South Orange NJ helps local authors publish their books through POD publisher Lulu.com, a POD publisher located in the Carolinas. In addition Bestsellersbook.com is now are displaying selected books by self published authors for sale. At the buyer's request the book will be authographed before or after purchase. The public may call 973-378-5808 for further information.
Autographed soft and hard cover books will be sold, but printed downloads will be available too for only $5.
The concept is that writing a book is making a gift to the world. It's the author trying to communicate things about life, he/she thinks might help others overcome certain situations, or simply share beauty and happiness of happier times. Getting one's creation (your book)(one's product, one's gift) to the public should not be left to chance, and the difficullt process of being selected for publication by one of the giants of publishing. Marketing requires countless resources, identifying the market, finding the publisher, marketing, targeting, negotiating.....THE POD (print on demand) publishers have allowed many writers today (Lulu has published 80,000) to get their books in print form without any expense at the onset. THat's a huge accomplishement. It's up to you reader: You decide whose books you wish to read. And downloaded copies
are always affordable.
What makes this different from other bookstores is the freedom
of the booksellers to sell the books of their choice and to
feature local writers who normally would only be found on the web and
an e-bookstores such as Amazon.com, B&N.com etc. But in the process they
not only open new vistas for self published authors, they create new resources for the
readers who no longer need miss a book with important information, or a book
delightful to read because of the author's innate writing talent, and give equal chance to writers and readers
to meet on common grounds.
Among the benefits for the readers are :
1. The books are autographed by their authors.
(and could become collectors items.)
2. The authors are available to read excerpts from their
books and answer the readers questions.
If you are a self published author and wish to have your books
showcased, plese mailto: bestsellersbook.com@optonline.net
or call 973-378-5808
Among books already featured are: Mama Bellissima, by Regine
Dubono, The Hearts and Souls of Women, by Regine Dubono,
SLeeping Beauty isn't a Fairy Tle by Regine Dubono, The City
of Gustave, by William Shakespeare I. Rubel, A German Diary
by Regine Dubono, After the Funeral by Regine Dubono.
Also the store makes available print copies of the ebooks for
only $5.
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Cameron Diaz Set to Marry Jennifer Aniston Former Love
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Adriana Lima to Guest Star on ‘Ugly Betty’
Big Brother 10 Spoiler: Dan to Nominate Keesha and Jerry
2008 Aug 01 Friday, August 1, 2008
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Barbara walters and Regine Dubono led parallel lives. Sleeping Beauty Isn't a Fairy Tale, 2007 Lulu.com is compard to Barbara Walters, "Audition."
South Orange, New Jersey 8/01/2008 01:43 PM GMT (TransWorldNews)
Post Comments Add to Favorites Barbara walters and author-curator Regine Dubono led parallel lives.
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Parallel lives.
Barbara Walters told Charlie Rose at her interview she could not separate her career life from her personal life
in her book "Audition." Similarly,"Sleeping Beauty isnt a fairy tale" Stores.Lulu.com/reginedubonobook
made a similar statement in her preface. Dubono's professional life as a curator while struggling with the care and
advocacy and search for services, as well as her effort to comprehend her daughter's illness and how she might be able
to help her is similar to Barbara Walters' struggle. Dubono's daughter had mental illness(emotional impairment or
immaturity) Barbara's sister mental impairment.. But for both women this part of their daily lives was inseparable from
the way they made their living, they were one, for they inabited the same organism at the same time. the same cological system which constituete the human being.
Barbara Wlters, Regine Dubono like Hillary Clinton and countless of unknown women are pioneers.
This review by Sister Monk's composer-lyricist Jody Rubel, written for Dubono sums up Barbara Walter's too:
"Sleeping Beauty is a post-feminist manifesto which leapfrogs heady theor with visceral, bone chilling directedness.
In the spirit of albert Camus, Regine Dubono's dlemmas are played out with fierce existential honesty and courage.
Regine and Desiree are revealed as "the other"in an unspoken hierarchical caste system, guinea pigs of an Apollonian, corporate, hegemonic, ureaucratic system.
Yet hre is represented a fight without rancor,a battle for self definition whose language creates new definitions and
models for co-existing.
How can it be that in reading the inner thoughts of two women (Regine and daughter Desiree in "Desiree, A Midsummer
Night Dream Medley" by Yael), entwined in the most desperate of human circumstances, who bleed so heavily into
their own pain that, like the cycles of the moon, we are transported directly in participation with the rhthmn of nature?
"Art gives meaning tolife, especially music." Dubono fierce sense of injustice is spoken in the language of Woman, artist, mother, chemist, immigrant, proletariate, and intelligentsia.
Dubono is able to mystically fuse with the external world where everyhting is art and sacred to cummunicate this inner
eternal knowledge. She faces destiny with dignity/compassion/trust.
"Sleeping Beauty Isn't a Fairy Tale" opens to the heart of feminism.
Sistermonkharem.com, Jody Rubel.
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2008 Aug 01 I just watched Charlie Rose interview Barbara Walters about her book AUDITIONS. It struck me how aggressive he was with her. When I discovered from Oprah that she had an affair with a black man some 59 years ago, I was amazed, but I was even more amazed today as she revealed the memoir was mostly motivated by her need to tell us about her intellectually impaired sister, about whom she felt so guilty and about her father who owned the Latin quarters and lost it all and how she was thrown into the job market because she had to take care of her family. And without real training she moved on to TV work and is especially famous for her interviews of politicians like Abba Eban and his Arab brother. Another thing that amazed me again was how her own daughter ran away from home and while she went to work and produced great interviews, she sevretly bled in her heart not knowing where her daughter on drugs, was. (She is now well and runs aprogram called "New Hrizons" helping others. It reminded me of myself juggling work with taking care of advocating for Desiree while accomplishing great feats as a curator, when I had absolutely no training in art or art history or in communication. THen as I joined Josh, how we both had to deal with our black daughter who was struggling for many years with her drug problem. THe subject of my other book still in progress, THE VIEW. Wish Charlie Rose would feel I am significant enough to interview me as he has Barbara Walters, for we have followed very similar paths.
2008 Aug 01 On myOn my way back homeOn my way back home, I have flashbacks. I remember that I ough to pick up the glamorous red and black dress I had the seamstess at the dry cleaner in Elmwood Park alter for me eight months ago. She was supposed to have it ready right after Xmas last year and fainally had it done by July 5th, But I never picked it up. Hope it is still there by the time we do pick it up and that it does not have the same fate as my white fur coat, a $30,000 beauty I had bought at a second hand store in West Orange when I had my office there as a reward for selling a house just before Xmas. And how they had told me the store had been robbed and my coat was gone. THat was the coat I wore when Dan introduced me to Leo Castelli adn we had a meeing in his gallery. That was the time when Dan made movies about the artists.
2008 Aug 01 It's 8pm. Just walked to my office a half hour ago. I put on white light summer pants and blouse, so I can be seen when I walk back home in the dark. And as I inhale the carbon dioxide and lead ladden evening air, regretting that it could not be the refreshing light breeze, rejuvenated airof early morn, I reflect that this seems the ideal time for me to get my exercise. Lately I have become hyper sensitive to the sun, but when I try to go out at 6am, Josh protests that I am abandonning him. At this time of day he is working, teaching ESl at BCCC, and I am free as a bird. I need the walk to clear up the cobwebs in my rain and hoprefully too as a side effect to lose some weight. I started gaining weight when we lved in a room in a rooming house and we ate at a diner. I stuffed myself with bread and mashed potatoes because I did not like the fish we ordered ( we had to share a meal), and I remember the blond old lady who served us shruging her shoulders in dissent everytime she served us. Then after we moved to an apartment, Josh would not allow me to buy fruit because it brought flies. I obeyed, saying to myself, we will become sick one day. Now because he has pains in his stomack he put himself on a strctly fruit diet. Well anyway, after Alex had left with Desiree on Sunday, to take her back to the group home, I noticed that my face was red. SO I did not go to the park as we usually did. Later that night I could not sleep because had a rash on my neck that tingled and burned. THat is perhaps similar to the rash I had around my waist two years ago.. SOme kind of hives. Josh said I should see a doctor but I reminded him that the antihistamine Dr. Who had given me had not worked. Besides found a long brown bug on my bed spread and suspect it did bit me, and caused the rash. Back to Eden said use no soap and bthe with boric acide. Josh went to Waldgreen on his way home but they had none. ANyway Tuesday morning I was back at work. Wed I was vsted withut warning by Howard the super who said he needed to check something because the tenant n the little house back of me had no hot water. It turned out Clarance had not been able to stop the pipe slow leak so he had installed shut off valves everywhere and stopped the hot water to the tenant. The management's plumber offered to fix it for $50 provided Sonny did not find out he did it, for if he dd he would charge me $175 right of the top. But soon enough Sonny came in too. THe pumber was almost finished and he told me I would have to be billed by him. I protested that IL had already paid my plumber and he had an obligation to fix it. To which he replied: "Next time you want some work done, let us know. We'll charge you a lot less than your plumber."
2008 Jun 12 Eulogy for Maman Sunday June 15,2008 First of all I wish to thank Martine and all my sisters for the magnificent job they did with the inscription on Mama’s plaque It’s short and sweet and truly sums up what we all want to say about our love for Mama and how much we miss her. Then I want to say that #1 I am honored to be asked to perform the unveiling of that precious tomb. I feel ashamed that I was speechless that day, and all I managed to say was: Mama we miss you.” - 2. I am grateful for a second chance to properly eulogize Mama, and as the oldest and least capable of all her daughters will make a promise to try to take on Mama’s responsibilities and be there for them.
A mother is the most significant person in everyone’s life. She is the first relationship we have and if she gives us love, we will know how to receive and give love, and if she treats us with kindness and respect, we will know how to treat others the same way. And let us not forget that our mothers themselves had been programmed by their own mothers so if we per chance find any fault somewhere in her character and blame her for something she didn’t do, don’t blame your Mama, blame it on the earth mother who trained her. But because no two people think exactly the same way or are affected equally by our relationships, I will try to analyze my own relationship with Maman. One day at the Catholic school my sister Lise and I attended, our home work assignment Was to describe our love for our father and mother, tell which one we loved most and why. I was dumbfounded. I never looked at my affection for my parents as a competition. I never even thought of various variations of loving. Shamefully I told Mama what my homework was and she said: “That’s easy you love your father most because he is the one who puts bread and butter on your table.” I was going to say, “how come I never saw him do that. You are the one who feeds us always.” But Mama continued. “Papa goes to work everyday to earn money so we can have our own condo and we can all have something to eat.” Now that was another revelation: “Even you?” I asked. For I never saw my mother eat. She would feed us at regular times, three times a day, and Papa would eat his café au lait alone and come home for dinner about 9 or 10 in the evening. We ate all by ourselves and quarreled about who had the largest portion on her plate. Anyway Mama was the most significant person in my life. When she became ill, I was ten years old then, I was the one who walked to town to fetch a doctor. ( There was no phone, the,) Then my grandmother came over to stay at our house and all my sisters were distributed among relatives. I was the chosen one, the one who stayed there with Mama and Mama Zeiza to help her get well. My mission then was to make Mama well again so she would stop screaming her pain and she would take care of us again. Every night I prayed for her, and offered myself to die for her, for I loved her too much to lose her, and I cried for her any time my grandmother wasn’t looking. Mama was saying :”Please God, what will happen to my beautiful daughters if I die. Please God make me well again.” Many doctors came by and shook their heads. Mama was too anemic to make it and shehad a very high fever so she could not eat. But my grandmother shook her head too, see what a mother can do? She sent me to the Christian butcher every morning to buy ten pounds of horse meat, and with her kosher hands ( Grandma was very religious), she would squeeze that meat and make Mama drink that red juice. And since Mama had a mission in life, which was to take care of her chicken coop as she called us, her poulallier, she had no choice but try and swallow the horse’s blood. What happened to the meat itself? I can’t remember if Mama Zeza would lower herself to cook it for me, and I don’t remember what I ate those days and if I ate at all, or if I was ever hungry. I just stood at the door of Mama’s room, and watched her face constantly. Mama had typhoid fever. For the second time in her life. I had typhoid fever when I was two. Only Mama Zeiza would enter her room, and she did not catch the illness. I am telling you this story to establish the strong bonding that I had with Mama. After Mama went to the Hospital for the last time and wanted to go home quickly as though being at home would protect her from dying, I began to cough. I was sick from February, through March 14 when she died and for two additional months, I was coughing like she was coughing and for a while I thought I was dying. Then May came and my birthday and I was feeling stronger and went back to work. My mother, Our mother was probably the most loved human being I know. She was truly also a mother hen to us but to others too was gracious and generous and always Was “the feeding mother.” Mama would want to feed us the minute we cam to visit. And not just us. When I was a child I remember the pride and care she took in feeding my fahter’s guests. One guest n particular I remember well because he asn’t a rich client or a colleague or a stamp collector. That man was a mason, a bricklayer who worked and lived on a building site I had visited. And when I asked my mother how he could live on a site that had no building on it yet, she said that he had no home to go to. I thought the man was of no importance, so why did my mother give him the good morsles of food she ought to give us instead. And Mama said : “You do not know what form and shape an angel from Heaven will take when he chooses to visit your home. Treat every stranger as if he were a G-d.” So Mama liked to feed others and rightfully so for she was a gourmet cook. Secondly Mama was very resourceful When we had no clothes to wear to school she would cut up my father’s old shirts and make us beautiful dresses with them.. I heard now that there were other mothers who did that too. But Mama had never learned how to sew. She jus had a gift for the right cut. Her creations were worthy of the best designers in NYC. Because Mama taught herself, I was able to hold jobs that I was not qualified to hold But following her example, I performed them with excellence. That is to her credit for giving us a great example. When I got married and got a good job, I was able to keep working because Mama wook over the mothering of my first son, Erick. When Mama grew old and Papa was gone and she was all alone during the day she urged us to call, not to come if too difficult, but to call. I regret not having called her enough, and I am very sorry I did not lend her a dedicated ear when she told me stories of peole she knew, and of our family tree. I was too preoccupied with my own voices in my head to hear what she had to say.. And for that I am very much in pain now. At the thought that she tried so hard to rase my san of attention and I failed to respond., I failed her. I’d like to conclude that Mama was extraordinary in her dedication to her daughters. She was incredibly intelligent and resourceful. She was very powerful as a leader in theis family structure. She was self taugth in many ways. Had she lived in a different age and place she might have been a very successful clothing designer or perhaps an ambassador or a judge. She told beautiful stories. She could dance and sing skillfully. She tried to let us inherit all her talents. She tried hard. Now that she is gone we must challenge ourselves to be more like her.. We must strive to achieve and cultivate in ourselves her elegance, her kindness, her beauty, her intgelligence. She was our resource, and our friend. She was one of us and now that she had to leave us I pray that each one of her daughters can summon her own strength to replace hers.I know that her soul is still here with us and within our hearts.
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South Orange, NJ, June 10, 2008 French American author Regine Dubono finally decided To be the writer she always wanted to be when she reached Age 60. Although she was about to publish her first book in 1972, her family discouraged her from it, and she followed their advice to follow a career in Chemistry instead. Dubono worked at Hoffmann La Roche, Schreing Pharmaceuticals and Apollo Chemicals. But in 2004, she reflected that at that point in her life, she would not even try to reach a publisher, instead she went on line and was lucky enough to find Lulu.com, the online marketplace for digital content. She used her sense of humor in choosing for her first book cover a Photograph of herself in her bikini, when she was in her twenty. As a result people who knew her then recognized her picture and bought her book. Some of these friends she hadn’t seen since College days, and she was amazed that they had fnally found her because of that photograph of her younger days.
Dubono’s first enterprise was to start a website where she would write almost daily, and which served as a building block for her dventure at Lulu.com. Dubono was completely computer illiterate and she struggled at first with the technicality of formatting her manuscripts in order to upload them onto Lulu’s server. But after a year of trying, and with the help of one book designer by the name of Gregory Banks, her book was finally published. She ordered an ISBN and suddenly, in 2006 her book was on Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble. Encouraged by her success, Dubono decided to get her son’s manuscript published also. Her son William Shakespeare Rubel was in India at that time and communication was difficult. Because William had autographed the copy he gave Dubono: To my mother”,she decided that she had the right to get it published for him. By the time William came back from India where he successfully fetched a wife, himself being a Buddhist, Dubono was able to present him with the first draft of his book.
Regine Dubono’s first book was entitled: A German Diary, because it was word for word the diary she had written about a 1961 performing tour of Germany by the Pegasus Players Led by the New York Playwright Nomi RUbel a resident of the Lncoln Towers and a frequent producers of her plays at the Lincoln Center Plaza as well as in Off Off Broadway theatres.
The play provides an in depth analysis of the motivation for this particular trip (which led to many others by the playwright), and a first hand account of the psychological Trauma of travel for the slightly Obsessive compulsive character of the narrator.
You can read free excerpts at www.stores.lulu.com/reginedubonobook Don’t forget to click on the preview button.
Title of the book: Youth’s Hostels” subtitled how to travel in a Group on a shoestring budget” (Because the trip was not Financed, only the airplace tickets were provided by Dr. Peter Sammartino, then President and Founder of Fairleigh Dickinson University. Genre: Memoir Format: 6x9 paperback. Color cover ISBN: Available @www.stores.lulu.com/reginedubonobook Questions for the author cheerfully answered: Dubonoregine@lulu.com Or Bestsellersbook@optonline.net
Thank you Lulu.com About the Author: Regine Dubono lives in Newark, and works In South Orange, NJ with her husband, an 83 years old Adjunct-professor at Bergen County Community College, Cianci Center, in Hackensack, NJ. Their children and grandchildren are their greatest source of joy and pride.
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2008 Sep 06 Political News
Bestsellersbook.com has something to say about the presidential nominations Sarah Palin's nomination brings energy, charm, and hope to the political parties.
S. Orange, NJ 9/06/2008 12:21 AM GMT (TransWorldNews)
Bestsellersbook.com salutes the nomination of a woman on the presidential team.
First it was Hillary, famous for her tenacity obstination, clear policies to benefit Americans
with solutions for the economy, heath care, the war, the climate and environment. An incredible woman we loved as a mother figure, identified with and respected and admired, and never want to be without. Now there is the unknown Sarah Palin, a shocking surprise to many, a welcome note to most. Why is it so difficult for Americans to accept the vital role women can play in politics, when so many women statemen have demonstrated their valor and wisdom and especially when we take our history after the Great Elizabeth, Queen of England.
The nomination of Sarah Palin should be viewed as a refreshing note and a promise of renewal for our country.
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2008 Sep 06 Political News
Bestsellersbook.com has something to say about the presidential nominations Sarah Palin's nomination brings energy, charm, and hope to the political parties.
S. Orange, NJ 9/06/2008 12:21 AM GMT (TransWorldNews)
Bestsellersbook.com salutes the nomination of a woman on the presidential team.
First it was Hillary, famous for her tenacity obstination, clear policies to benefit Americans
with solutions for the economy, heath care, the war, the climate and environment. An incredible woman we loved as a mother figure, identified with and respected and admired, and never want to be without. Now there is the unknown Sarah Palin, a shocking surprise to many, a welcome note to most. Why is it so difficult for Americans to accept the vital role women can play in politics, when so many women statemen have demonstrated their valor and wisdom and especially when we take our history after the Great Elizabeth, Queen of England.
The nomination of Sarah Palin should be viewed as a refreshing note and a promise of renewal for our country.
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Condoleezza Rice Travels to Libya to Meet with Muammar Gaddafi
Angola Holding Parliamentary Elections as Voters Take to Poll for First Time in 16 Years
The Waters Consulting Group launches follow up survey on succession planning for local governments
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2008 Sep 06 Entertainment News
In defense of Sarah Palin for Vice President Women have unfathomable energy reserves put to the test of a mother's love.
South Orange, NJ 9/05/2008 02:06 PM GMT (TransWorldNews)
In defense of Sarah Palin
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I'm not a republican, in fact I will vote as a democrat, in favor of Barack Obama, but when the capability of another woman, another mother, smart and beautiful and courageously steadfast and true to her beliefs is on the balance, I will speak up.
A woman nowadays can accomplish wondrous tasks when supported and empowered by motherly love and will face with greatness the responsibilities she has to shoulder. Yes Sarah Palin when put to the test will be able to juggle family and career and will be effective and creative in all personal and mondane matters.
Witness the newly published memoirs of a mother of a handicapped daughter, about her phenomenal accomplishments on her job as curator, while taking care of and advocating for her disabled daughter. See :"Sleeping Beauty Isn't a Fairy Tale" by Regine Dubono available at http://www.Stores.Lulu.com/reginedubonobook.
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2008 Sep 06 Bestsellersbook.com a storefront at 109 S. Orange Ave now sells POD books Sharing with others and communicating with other people's minds, touching their hearts and souls is the purpose of all creation. POD makes it possible to market the product of one;'s mind.
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Bestsellersbook.com a publisher and book store in the heart of South Orange NJ helps local authors publish their books through POD publisher Lulu.com, a POD publisher located in the Carolinas. In addition Bestsellersbook.com is now are displaying selected books by self published authors for sale. At the buyer's request the book will be authographed before or after purchase. The public may call 973-378-5808 for further information.
Autographed soft and hard cover books will be sold, but printed downloads will be available too for only $5.
The concept is that writing a book is making a gift to the world. It's the author trying to communicate things about life, he/she thinks might help others overcome certain situations, or simply share beauty and happiness of happier times. Getting one's creation (your book)(one's product, one's gift) to the public should not be left to chance, and the difficullt process of being selected for publication by one of the giants of publishing. Marketing requires countless resources, identifying the market, finding the publisher, marketing, targeting, negotiating.....THE POD (print on demand) publishers have allowed many writers today (Lulu has published 80,000) to get their books in print form without any expense at the onset. THat's a huge accomplishement. It's up to you reader: You decide whose books you wish to read. And downloaded copies
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2008 Aug 01 Friday, August 1, 2008
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Barbara walters and Regine Dubono led parallel lives. Sleeping Beauty Isn't a Fairy Tale, 2007 Lulu.com is compard to Barbara Walters, "Audition."
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Parallel lives.
Barbara Walters told Charlie Rose at her interview she could not separate her career life from her personal life
in her book "Audition." Similarly,"Sleeping Beauty isnt a fairy tale" Stores.Lulu.com/reginedubonobook
made a similar statement in her preface. Dubono's professional life as a curator while struggling with the care and
advocacy and search for services, as well as her effort to comprehend her daughter's illness and how she might be able
to help her is similar to Barbara Walters' struggle. Dubono's daughter had mental illness(emotional impairment or
immaturity) Barbara's sister mental impairment.. But for both women this part of their daily lives was inseparable from
the way they made their living, they were one, for they inabited the same organism at the same time. the same cological system which constituete the human being.
Barbara Wlters, Regine Dubono like Hillary Clinton and countless of unknown women are pioneers.
This review by Sister Monk's composer-lyricist Jody Rubel, written for Dubono sums up Barbara Walter's too:
"Sleeping Beauty is a post-feminist manifesto which leapfrogs heady theor with visceral, bone chilling directedness.
In the spirit of albert Camus, Regine Dubono's dlemmas are played out with fierce existential honesty and courage.
Regine and Desiree are revealed as "the other"in an unspoken hierarchical caste system, guinea pigs of an Apollonian, corporate, hegemonic, ureaucratic system.
Yet hre is represented a fight without rancor,a battle for self definition whose language creates new definitions and
models for co-existing.
How can it be that in reading the inner thoughts of two women (Regine and daughter Desiree in "Desiree, A Midsummer
Night Dream Medley" by Yael), entwined in the most desperate of human circumstances, who bleed so heavily into
their own pain that, like the cycles of the moon, we are transported directly in participation with the rhthmn of nature?
"Art gives meaning tolife, especially music." Dubono fierce sense of injustice is spoken in the language of Woman, artist, mother, chemist, immigrant, proletariate, and intelligentsia.
Dubono is able to mystically fuse with the external world where everyhting is art and sacred to cummunicate this inner
eternal knowledge. She faces destiny with dignity/compassion/trust.
"Sleeping Beauty Isn't a Fairy Tale" opens to the heart of feminism.
Sistermonkharem.com, Jody Rubel.
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2008 Aug 01 I just watched Charlie Rose interview Barbara Walters about her book AUDITIONS. It struck me how aggressive he was with her. When I discovered from Oprah that she had an affair with a black man some 59 years ago, I was amazed, but I was even more amazed today as she revealed the memoir was mostly motivated by her need to tell us about her intellectually impaired sister, about whom she felt so guilty and about her father who owned the Latin quarters and lost it all and how she was thrown into the job market because she had to take care of her family. And without real training she moved on to TV work and is especially famous for her interviews of politicians like Abba Eban and his Arab brother. Another thing that amazed me again was how her own daughter ran away from home and while she went to work and produced great interviews, she sevretly bled in her heart not knowing where her daughter on drugs, was. (She is now well and runs aprogram called "New Hrizons" helping others. It reminded me of myself juggling work with taking care of advocating for Desiree while accomplishing great feats as a curator, when I had absolutely no training in art or art history or in communication. THen as I joined Josh, how we both had to deal with our black daughter who was struggling for many years with her drug problem. THe subject of my other book still in progress, THE VIEW. Wish Charlie Rose would feel I am significant enough to interview me as he has Barbara Walters, for we have followed very similar paths.
2008 Aug 01 On myOn my way back homeOn my way back home, I have flashbacks. I remember that I ough to pick up the glamorous red and black dress I had the seamstess at the dry cleaner in Elmwood Park alter for me eight months ago. She was supposed to have it ready right after Xmas last year and fainally had it done by July 5th, But I never picked it up. Hope it is still there by the time we do pick it up and that it does not have the same fate as my white fur coat, a $30,000 beauty I had bought at a second hand store in West Orange when I had my office there as a reward for selling a house just before Xmas. And how they had told me the store had been robbed and my coat was gone. THat was the coat I wore when Dan introduced me to Leo Castelli adn we had a meeing in his gallery. That was the time when Dan made movies about the artists.
2008 Aug 01 It's 8pm. Just walked to my office a half hour ago. I put on white light summer pants and blouse, so I can be seen when I walk back home in the dark. And as I inhale the carbon dioxide and lead ladden evening air, regretting that it could not be the refreshing light breeze, rejuvenated airof early morn, I reflect that this seems the ideal time for me to get my exercise. Lately I have become hyper sensitive to the sun, but when I try to go out at 6am, Josh protests that I am abandonning him. At this time of day he is working, teaching ESl at BCCC, and I am free as a bird. I need the walk to clear up the cobwebs in my rain and hoprefully too as a side effect to lose some weight. I started gaining weight when we lved in a room in a rooming house and we ate at a diner. I stuffed myself with bread and mashed potatoes because I did not like the fish we ordered ( we had to share a meal), and I remember the blond old lady who served us shruging her shoulders in dissent everytime she served us. Then after we moved to an apartment, Josh would not allow me to buy fruit because it brought flies. I obeyed, saying to myself, we will become sick one day. Now because he has pains in his stomack he put himself on a strctly fruit diet. Well anyway, after Alex had left with Desiree on Sunday, to take her back to the group home, I noticed that my face was red. SO I did not go to the park as we usually did. Later that night I could not sleep because had a rash on my neck that tingled and burned. THat is perhaps similar to the rash I had around my waist two years ago.. SOme kind of hives. Josh said I should see a doctor but I reminded him that the antihistamine Dr. Who had given me had not worked. Besides found a long brown bug on my bed spread and suspect it did bit me, and caused the rash. Back to Eden said use no soap and bthe with boric acide. Josh went to Waldgreen on his way home but they had none. ANyway Tuesday morning I was back at work. Wed I was vsted withut warning by Howard the super who said he needed to check something because the tenant n the little house back of me had no hot water. It turned out Clarance had not been able to stop the pipe slow leak so he had installed shut off valves everywhere and stopped the hot water to the tenant. The management's plumber offered to fix it for $50 provided Sonny did not find out he did it, for if he dd he would charge me $175 right of the top. But soon enough Sonny came in too. THe pumber was almost finished and he told me I would have to be billed by him. I protested that IL had already paid my plumber and he had an obligation to fix it. To which he replied: "Next time you want some work done, let us know. We'll charge you a lot less than your plumber."
2008 Jun 12 Eulogy for Maman Sunday June 15,2008 First of all I wish to thank Martine and all my sisters for the magnificent job they did with the inscription on Mama’s plaque It’s short and sweet and truly sums up what we all want to say about our love for Mama and how much we miss her. Then I want to say that #1 I am honored to be asked to perform the unveiling of that precious tomb. I feel ashamed that I was speechless that day, and all I managed to say was: Mama we miss you.” - 2. I am grateful for a second chance to properly eulogize Mama, and as the oldest and least capable of all her daughters will make a promise to try to take on Mama’s responsibilities and be there for them.
A mother is the most significant person in everyone’s life. She is the first relationship we have and if she gives us love, we will know how to receive and give love, and if she treats us with kindness and respect, we will know how to treat others the same way. And let us not forget that our mothers themselves had been programmed by their own mothers so if we per chance find any fault somewhere in her character and blame her for something she didn’t do, don’t blame your Mama, blame it on the earth mother who trained her. But because no two people think exactly the same way or are affected equally by our relationships, I will try to analyze my own relationship with Maman. One day at the Catholic school my sister Lise and I attended, our home work assignment Was to describe our love for our father and mother, tell which one we loved most and why. I was dumbfounded. I never looked at my affection for my parents as a competition. I never even thought of various variations of loving. Shamefully I told Mama what my homework was and she said: “That’s easy you love your father most because he is the one who puts bread and butter on your table.” I was going to say, “how come I never saw him do that. You are the one who feeds us always.” But Mama continued. “Papa goes to work everyday to earn money so we can have our own condo and we can all have something to eat.” Now that was another revelation: “Even you?” I asked. For I never saw my mother eat. She would feed us at regular times, three times a day, and Papa would eat his café au lait alone and come home for dinner about 9 or 10 in the evening. We ate all by ourselves and quarreled about who had the largest portion on her plate. Anyway Mama was the most significant person in my life. When she became ill, I was ten years old then, I was the one who walked to town to fetch a doctor. ( There was no phone, the,) Then my grandmother came over to stay at our house and all my sisters were distributed among relatives. I was the chosen one, the one who stayed there with Mama and Mama Zeiza to help her get well. My mission then was to make Mama well again so she would stop screaming her pain and she would take care of us again. Every night I prayed for her, and offered myself to die for her, for I loved her too much to lose her, and I cried for her any time my grandmother wasn’t looking. Mama was saying :”Please God, what will happen to my beautiful daughters if I die. Please God make me well again.” Many doctors came by and shook their heads. Mama was too anemic to make it and shehad a very high fever so she could not eat. But my grandmother shook her head too, see what a mother can do? She sent me to the Christian butcher every morning to buy ten pounds of horse meat, and with her kosher hands ( Grandma was very religious), she would squeeze that meat and make Mama drink that red juice. And since Mama had a mission in life, which was to take care of her chicken coop as she called us, her poulallier, she had no choice but try and swallow the horse’s blood. What happened to the meat itself? I can’t remember if Mama Zeza would lower herself to cook it for me, and I don’t remember what I ate those days and if I ate at all, or if I was ever hungry. I just stood at the door of Mama’s room, and watched her face constantly. Mama had typhoid fever. For the second time in her life. I had typhoid fever when I was two. Only Mama Zeiza would enter her room, and she did not catch the illness. I am telling you this story to establish the strong bonding that I had with Mama. After Mama went to the Hospital for the last time and wanted to go home quickly as though being at home would protect her from dying, I began to cough. I was sick from February, through March 14 when she died and for two additional months, I was coughing like she was coughing and for a while I thought I was dying. Then May came and my birthday and I was feeling stronger and went back to work. My mother, Our mother was probably the most loved human being I know. She was truly also a mother hen to us but to others too was gracious and generous and always Was “the feeding mother.” Mama would want to feed us the minute we cam to visit. And not just us. When I was a child I remember the pride and care she took in feeding my fahter’s guests. One guest n particular I remember well because he asn’t a rich client or a colleague or a stamp collector. That man was a mason, a bricklayer who worked and lived on a building site I had visited. And when I asked my mother how he could live on a site that had no building on it yet, she said that he had no home to go to. I thought the man was of no importance, so why did my mother give him the good morsles of food she ought to give us instead. And Mama said : “You do not know what form and shape an angel from Heaven will take when he chooses to visit your home. Treat every stranger as if he were a G-d.” So Mama liked to feed others and rightfully so for she was a gourmet cook. Secondly Mama was very resourceful When we had no clothes to wear to school she would cut up my father’s old shirts and make us beautiful dresses with them.. I heard now that there were other mothers who did that too. But Mama had never learned how to sew. She jus had a gift for the right cut. Her creations were worthy of the best designers in NYC. Because Mama taught herself, I was able to hold jobs that I was not qualified to hold But following her example, I performed them with excellence. That is to her credit for giving us a great example. When I got married and got a good job, I was able to keep working because Mama wook over the mothering of my first son, Erick. When Mama grew old and Papa was gone and she was all alone during the day she urged us to call, not to come if too difficult, but to call. I regret not having called her enough, and I am very sorry I did not lend her a dedicated ear when she told me stories of peole she knew, and of our family tree. I was too preoccupied with my own voices in my head to hear what she had to say.. And for that I am very much in pain now. At the thought that she tried so hard to rase my san of attention and I failed to respond., I failed her. I’d like to conclude that Mama was extraordinary in her dedication to her daughters. She was incredibly intelligent and resourceful. She was very powerful as a leader in theis family structure. She was self taugth in many ways. Had she lived in a different age and place she might have been a very successful clothing designer or perhaps an ambassador or a judge. She told beautiful stories. She could dance and sing skillfully. She tried to let us inherit all her talents. She tried hard. Now that she is gone we must challenge ourselves to be more like her.. We must strive to achieve and cultivate in ourselves her elegance, her kindness, her beauty, her intgelligence. She was our resource, and our friend. She was one of us and now that she had to leave us I pray that each one of her daughters can summon her own strength to replace hers.I know that her soul is still here with us and within our hearts.
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South Orange, NJ, June 10, 2008 French American author Regine Dubono finally decided To be the writer she always wanted to be when she reached Age 60. Although she was about to publish her first book in 1972, her family discouraged her from it, and she followed their advice to follow a career in Chemistry instead. Dubono worked at Hoffmann La Roche, Schreing Pharmaceuticals and Apollo Chemicals. But in 2004, she reflected that at that point in her life, she would not even try to reach a publisher, instead she went on line and was lucky enough to find Lulu.com, the online marketplace for digital content. She used her sense of humor in choosing for her first book cover a Photograph of herself in her bikini, when she was in her twenty. As a result people who knew her then recognized her picture and bought her book. Some of these friends she hadn’t seen since College days, and she was amazed that they had fnally found her because of that photograph of her younger days.
Dubono’s first enterprise was to start a website where she would write almost daily, and which served as a building block for her dventure at Lulu.com. Dubono was completely computer illiterate and she struggled at first with the technicality of formatting her manuscripts in order to upload them onto Lulu’s server. But after a year of trying, and with the help of one book designer by the name of Gregory Banks, her book was finally published. She ordered an ISBN and suddenly, in 2006 her book was on Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble. Encouraged by her success, Dubono decided to get her son’s manuscript published also. Her son William Shakespeare Rubel was in India at that time and communication was difficult. Because William had autographed the copy he gave Dubono: To my mother”,she decided that she had the right to get it published for him. By the time William came back from India where he successfully fetched a wife, himself being a Buddhist, Dubono was able to present him with the first draft of his book.
Regine Dubono’s first book was entitled: A German Diary, because it was word for word the diary she had written about a 1961 performing tour of Germany by the Pegasus Players Led by the New York Playwright Nomi RUbel a resident of the Lncoln Towers and a frequent producers of her plays at the Lincoln Center Plaza as well as in Off Off Broadway theatres.
The play provides an in depth analysis of the motivation for this particular trip (which led to many others by the playwright), and a first hand account of the psychological Trauma of travel for the slightly Obsessive compulsive character of the narrator.
You can read free excerpts at www.stores.lulu.com/reginedubonobook Don’t forget to click on the preview button.
Title of the book: Youth’s Hostels” subtitled how to travel in a Group on a shoestring budget” (Because the trip was not Financed, only the airplace tickets were provided by Dr. Peter Sammartino, then President and Founder of Fairleigh Dickinson University. Genre: Memoir Format: 6x9 paperback. Color cover ISBN: Available @www.stores.lulu.com/reginedubonobook Questions for the author cheerfully answered: Dubonoregine@lulu.com Or Bestsellersbook@optonline.net
Thank you Lulu.com About the Author: Regine Dubono lives in Newark, and works In South Orange, NJ with her husband, an 83 years old Adjunct-professor at Bergen County Community College, Cianci Center, in Hackensack, NJ. Their children and grandchildren are their greatest source of joy and pride.
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Hardcover Print: $32.94 These are snapshots of the end of life of Mama who has Alzheimer disease. It is also a chronicle of child-parent and parent-child love. Very beneficial to those who have lost a relative, and those who bear the burden and pain of having a relative with Alzheimer disease.
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Print: $18.95 When your mother has alzheimer disease. A presentation of Mama from young mother to old age,and at that time, a child again. Important for families with a member suffering from Alzheimer disease. Mama's miraculous recovery is a wonderful account of familial love.
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Print: $17.72 Download: $6.25 Julius Song is an allegory about a musician creating visions of animal kingdom through songs.
Way of Heaven is a short play
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Print: $21.47 Download: $5.00 This book includes several short stories centering around love and romance for young brides, entitled "The Hearts and Souls of Women" and additional short stories including "StepDad".
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Print: $19.96 Download: $4.00 A collection of short stories centered around "MAMA" who has Alzheimer disease, and cancer.
The book takes its title from the main story and character,to describe the role reversal that occurs in families where parents age and are taken care of by their children.
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Print: $22.94 Download: $6.19 Twelve short stories for young ladies and women by Regine Dubono. The stories explore various relationships at home and at work, from the point of view of women characters. Should help young women solve their own emotional problems.
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Print: $15.95 This is a memoir about the Pegasus Players 1961 performing tour of 16 German Universities. The troupe slept in various youths hostels, (as cheap accommodations, )while traveling on a shoe string budget. The narrator, Queen, newly married to the playwright's son, comes along on what she thought would be her honeymoon with Alex. Within the romance are many intricate plots, and the setting at that time of history makes it fascinating reading, as well as a documentary. The narrator it may be noted seems to be suffering from a mild case of obsessive-compulsive disorder.
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Print: $14.38 Download: $5.00 In addition to being a romance story, this is a documentary of the PEGASUS PLAYERS theatrical tour of 16 German University in 1961, which demonstrates how a group travelled on a shoe string budget to Europe and managed to make it and have a great time. If you are with a group and can promote some school or business
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Print: $21.96 Download: $3.75 This is the black and white version of photographs taken in Paris and Jerusalem Nov & Dec, 2006
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Print: $26.91 Download: $6.25 Short stories about women and for Women. This book explores the existentialist angst that besets young women from birth till old age. Of particular interest the essay entitled "Life Surge" sets the tone for the whole book.
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Download: $7.50 Hardcover Print: $38.48 Stories for and about women and for women of all ages.
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Print: $17.51 Download: $6.25 Why had Suz seized and salvaged the manuscripts, then on an impulse entrusted them to Dorothy instead? And above all why had Mama kept these papers, if she had not believed there was some value in them? AFTER Mama passed away(See Mama Bellissima,)her daughters sort through her things and are surprised to discover that instead of jewels on top of Mama's armoire laid several bags filled with Pap's manuscripts. The daughters are astonished to discover their father's true nature in these novels, plays and letters. The puzzle of why Mama had kept the manuscripts a secret will also be resolved by the end of this story. That was Mama’s special gift and tour de force to offer Papa's writings as the girls's genuine, inherited jewels.
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Print: $17.90 Download: $6.25 A collection of short stories relating to young women, and their relationships at play and at work. These stories demonstrate the theory enacted by Echart Tolle in his new book A NEW EARTH, about pain-bodies and how people seek each other to perpetuate earlier experiences.
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Print: $18.52 Download: $8.75 A collection of memories about Maman who had alzheimer disease and cancer. Her character is painted and the painful changes brought about by the disease have not yet undermined her giving and charming personality
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Print: $20.65 Download: $12.50 BOLD SOLDIER, about the meaning of WAR, I.E.man against man and life itself. "Not A Nickel" , also called "Bikini" is a screenplay about the 1961 Pegasus Players performing tour of 16 German universities with two American plays by Nomi Rubel,based on the novel: Youth's hostels by Regine Dubono, The Eighth House, is an existentialist play.
Jody Meir Rubel holds the right to the Musical scores and lyrics. Contact him @ sistermonkharem@yahoo.com or Jody_rubel@yahoo.com.to receive musical scores and lyrics.
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Print: $24.55 Download: $7.50 A collection of short stories about women for women. This book combines volumes 1&2 of Hearts and Souls.
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Print: $39.45 photographs of contemporary artists and their works documenting the art scene in the 1980's as exhibited at a Passaic County Community College Art Gallery under the dept of Community affairs.
Chaim Gross, Esther Rosen,Ben Jones, Leo Castelli Gallery, Colette, Olga Sheir, Lee Schlossberg, Vincent La Gambina, Zoltan Hecht, Linda Nochimson, Nancy Egol Nikal, FrankMason, Howard Berelson, Lucy Janjigian, George Cladis and many others, alexander Rutsch
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Print: $22.20 Photographs of Paris in December taken by SistermonkHarem band leader, Jody Rubel in 2006
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Print: $22.45 photos of SistermonkHarem.com band principals vocalist Cathy and composer-lyricist Jody Rubel on their visit to family in Paris December, 2006
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Print: $26.50 Download: $15.00 Poems set to music by young American composer-lyricist, Brandeis Unversity Graduate, JODY MEIR RUBEL. THese songs have been performed in Seattle and NYC between 2000 and present (2008)
They were written by Jody Meir Rubel on various love topics as well as reflection on the environment and the current state of society.
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Print: $18.30 Download: $6.25 The memoir of a curator juggling her work on the contemporary local art scene of the 1990's while taking care of a teenage daughter with mental illness.
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Print: $25.77 Download: $6.25 The story recounts the life of a curator trying to juggle her career with home life when one child has a severe emotional illness.
It is a documentary of the art life at a small college in Passaic County and has a lot to say about how art can revitalize a city, and help overcome illness as well.
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Print: $35.96 Download: $6.25 This is the diary of an adolescent girl diagnosed with mental illness. She seems obsessed with celebrities such as Melissa Manchester, Styx, Madonna, Barbra Streisand, and affected by the book Carrie White by Stephen King. Her writing is based on sound associations, leading to rhymes, but sometimes incongruous, and in line with a perceptual disorder. So that a statement at the beginning of a sentence may be totally contradicted by its end. Her thoughtprocessing at times is like a train that switches tracks in the midst of a trajectory. Many times however it does make sense.
It is hoped that this book may forge the way to innovative approaches to the treatment of thought disorders, which is a the basis of paranoid disorders, enlisting the strength of the affected individuall to "put the train back on the correct track", and use more education and less drugs.
Yael describes herself as a flying swan, therefore the cover.
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Print: $25.62 Download: $10.00 "The City" is about this imaginary city which the protagonist, Gustave, rediscovers after twenty years of exile or isolation in his dark, damp and musty-dusty one room studio, in a location not identified, but which could be anywhere in the world .... Other than the fact that many French words are used, to name the chateau, ("Toursenreve- tour sand reves, castle without dreams ... )Cafe du Sucre ( Sugar cafe) or streets, which might be interpreted as a setting in France.
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Print: $17.80 Download: $5.00 This is a collection of romance short stories about women.
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Print: $18.95 Download: $10.00 a Hilarious Romantic screen play based about the book "A GERMAN DIARY." based on the novel "A GERMAN DIARY" by REGINE DUBONO. MUSICAL SCORES AND LYRICS BY JODY MEIR RUBEL, band leader SisterMonk.com
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Download: $5.00 This is the diary of the bride of one of the actors of the theatrical troupe the PEGASUS PLAYERS,Inc., as they toured 16 German Universities with two plays by Nomi Rubel (THE WHIP AND THE LOST VOICE) in 1961.
This documentary theatrical event was co-sponsored by the Students International clubs of the Universities in the various German towns and in the USA by FAIRLEIGH DICKINSON UNIVERSITY, Rutherford Campus, NJ. We get a true picture of what it was like to sleep in a youthshostel, have to pay for sheets, soap and water (which was mostly too cold for a shower). The author was ill most of the trip, and did not know that she was pregnant, her ingenuity adds special charm to this fascinating documentary.
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Print: $39.95 more gorgeous photgraphs of Paris and Israel by Jody Rubel, 2006
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Print: $73.95 book 3 of phtographs taken by Jody Rubel of SisterMonkHarem.com during a 2006 trip to Europe.
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Print: $28.45 Photographs of Paris taken by SisterMonkHarem.com composer and band leader-guitarist Jody M Rubel in 2006.
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Print: $6.79 Download: $1.25 Way of Heaven is a comedy by William Shakespeare Ilan Rubel
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Print: $26.95 travel photographs by Jody Rubel
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Print: $15.95 Some of the drawings of outsider artist TOM RUMANA of Paterson, NJ is presented here to be admired and as a reminder that inside the mind of persons with mental illness, thre is a constant engagement an internal dialogue abiut what preoccupies them and which is often times best expressed through art. This book dedicated to the great artist Tom Rumana, is a project of Artists fr Mental Health, a non profit corp since 1987 in NJ, dedicated to advocate for and bring to the public attention the talent of some individuals with mental illness.
While it may not bring recovery per se, and thre is still no cure for this illness, art involvement does provide an outlet for expression, often times adds a priceless and valuable contribution to the national arts.
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Print: $13.50 Download: FREE Tom Rumana a gifted artist and painter never left his home. Friends came to visit often to bring him acid free paper, pen and ink, as well as canvasses and paint, including housepaint. Danielle Rubel, curator of teh Broadway Galleries was priviledged to be introduced to him. Her she reproduces for posterity some of his drawings.
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Download: $1.25 2006 Photographs of Paris, France's LANDMARKS BY JODY RUBEL
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Download: $6.25 artist who exhibited at The Newark Museum exhibit coordinated by Artists for Mental Health in May, 1992, entitled: THE ARTIST AS OUTSIDER.
and photographs and texts of speeches given by illustrious scholars and doctors, for the Seminar entitled: ART, HISTORY AND MEDICINE
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Print: $17.50 Download: $5.00 This is Volume 2 of City of Gustave, a surrealstic novel
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Print: $17.23 Download: $3.75 book 3 of the City of Gustave.
Written concurrently with City of Gustave, quite an amazing testament to the struggle for feeling that one is alive in a society that tries to obliterate the importance of true friendsip and love, as the embrace that helps us grow into happy and productive adults. What is incredible and outstanding is the avalanche of words to prove it.
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Print: $17.50 Download: $6.25 Listentomymusic.us is the original website built in 2004 and continued over the years until by some accident it was lost. This is an attempt to reproduce that website which wa | |