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Interview with Scranton Scholar, Jovelie Reyno Rondon
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Rev. Hea Sun Kim (Director of Scranton Women's Leadership Center), Jovelie Reyno Rondon (Scranton Scholar), Rev. Hikari Kokai Chang (Director of Wesley Foundation)
Hello, everyone! I am Sienna Eunsoo Kang, an intern of Scranton Women's Leadership Center. I participated in 2017 Asian Young Women's Leadership Development held in Vietnam in February, where I met a friend who was a Scranton scholar! She has graduated from university, has grown into a powerful woman leader and has had a tremendous impact on where she is. I was so proud that she was a Scranton Scholar because the leadership she showed during the program was amazing! I wanted to listen more of her story with the thought that I would be impressed if I met other Scranton Scholars. So I had dinner with her before the end of the program and I traveled her life for a while. Can we go into that trip together?
1. Hello, Jovel! I'm Eunsoo Kang, intern of Scranton Women's Leadership Center. Thank you very much for granting the interview and I am so glad we can have this time! Could you please introduce yourself?
Hello! I am glad to introduce myself to other Scranton family. My name is Jovelie Reyno Rondon and I'm from Philippines. My university was Harris Memorial College and I was Scranton scholar in 2014. I have been very thankful to Scranton Women's Leadership Center because I was looking forward scholar when I applied in Harris Memorial College about this scholar. They who were in my college asked me apply to Scranton Scholarship and then Scranton Center gave me scholarship so I'm so thankful with them that they paid my senior year tuition fee.
2. What was your feel when you receive the Scranton Scholarship?
I felt so blessed because I was so hopeful the scholarship because I can graduate from my college this year. I am thankful that I found the Scranton Scholarship. I could maintain my grade at good and I am also having a special word and special mention. I am so glad that someone trust us like a Scranton so I realized we can do it. We are the best to payback as we were reward because we did it in best in study so I think that's a great things that we can do for Scranton just do are rest they can continue so far some soon that also so other student around the world.
3. Then, What is your change in your life after receive the Scranton Scholarship?
At that time I don't have any scholarship so I felt so sad and really concerned because my family couldn't support me anymore. But at that time, my teacher told me you can apply in here, Scranton. When I heard the Scranton scholarship that is the supporting women I felt so glad because my hope regained again, gave me hope more again to go to continue the things I started it in my patient. Therefore, it was change in my life and it reminded me that Scranton support me and I need to support someone as payback when they study they can continue and still have hope for education. It is one of the gracious things so I super thankful for Scranton because they are the one who trusted me and gave me the enough money so that it can help me to graduate on my university!
4. What is your these days life?
I graduated Harrison Memorial College. Now, I am in preschool teacher from Monday to Friday and I teach the preschoolers and then Saturday and Sunday I work in church staying a church teaching quire, playing the organ for the church service and also I'm holding the children ministry and youth ministry in my church. I am so grateful because I finished my study and now my life is used to by the church. I am so blessed to be in deaconess service in church service so I serve God and I need to share the one love of God to others.
5. It is very touching to hear the scholar's story like this. Especially, the energy of gratitude and joy you say is so good! So I am really looking forward to your future. What are your vision, goal and dream as a woman leader in the future?
After some now I take the master degree and I plan to continue if God support me to learns for doctorate because I want to get higher education for becoming more active so that if I can receive the education I can help part things of the education tool with others so that can share the knowledge, especially it will be able to more for the women. Mostly I want my future in my life will be at the power and for women. Also I continue the ministry in my church and give someone opportunity to experience this kind of leadership so we can help a lack of woman to become more effective and be blessed. We have this kind of things and we are in power that we can do!
6. Wow, thank you very much for giving the time and interview! I was happy to hear your story and it has been a lot of excitement to me. I think it would be enough for other Scranton scholars! Finally, if there is something you would like to say to other scholars to see this interview, would you please?
Yes, I'm very thankful to Scranton and you. It was a great time for me and thank again for allowing me this opportunity. One of the great chances to study and strive is when someone will help you and believe in you to pursue your dream. Scranton scholarship is one who helps me to attain that dream in finishing my College degree. So I can say that because they believe in the ability of their scholars they help us to dream dreams. Being a woman young leader is not that easy but I know that when you believe to someone, you uplift there life and you make their life. And that's so awesome for the glory of God.
Has her story been a strength and encourage for you? She was running for her dreams and a hopeful future even though she had a difficult situation. I believe that Jovel is not only in the Philippines but also in this time around the world. Scranton Scholars! You are so beautiful beings. We believe that you are the women leaders who will move the world in the future. For the day when this earth can be more peaceful and smile, let's go together!


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By Thais Bessa
I am a PhD candidate in my early-mid 30s. I started the PhD 8 years after finishing my masters and in this meantime, I worked great jobs in my field and had two kids, now 7 and almost 4. I do not fit with the statistically average PhD candidate (single, mid to late 20s, childless) and this brings additional challenges to the whole doctoral process. Needless to say, it is harder for candidates in my position to socialize and network (we can't always "just grab a pint at 5pm"), take teaching and research assistance assignments, attend multiple conferences and training events, jump into summer research opportunities in Australia… it is all much harder, if not impossible. I get it, I made my bed and I am lying on it. It was my decision to have children "young" (I guess in developed Western societies having a first child at 26 is young!) and follow an academic career in a non-linear manner, with a somewhat big break between postgraduate degrees. So although I understand this post feels like a big rant, I am not asking for people to feel sorry for me and offer privileges and exceptions to suit my life. Especially considering that, generally speaking, academic life is a very privileged one compared to thousands of women who have much bigger struggles in their lives and careers.
When I started thinking about the issues covered this rant/post, I read a bit about academic career and motherhood. There is quite a lot of interesting material out there, from books and papers to anecdotal articles and blog posts. Regarding post-PhD academic life (post-docs, tenure-track jobs, etc), there is ample quantitative and qualitative evidence that women with children are much less likely to advance in their careers than men with children. This is all well-known and reflects wider gender inequalities in the workplace. I heard once and it is true: the job market is bad for women but is actually cruel for mothers. As generations pass and men (hopefully) get more and more involved in taking care of their children (which you will never see me applauding because well, it's their responsibility), life/work balance becomes increasingly part of their concerns as well. Change might be happening slowly and painfully, but it is not an even playfield yet, not by a stretch. You will still struggle to see men being asked "do you have children? And if so who will take care of them?" in job interviews, be it in academia or any field. In an article full of advice on how to deal with having kids and pursuing an academic career, a male professor said in hindsight he was an absent father because he loved his job so much, but kids survive even if they are ignored. Setting aside the debatable parenting standard promoted, it never occurred to him that he was only able to ignore his kids because there was certainly a woman doing his fair share of parenting so he could excel in that job he loves so much. This type of discourse, even disguised as useful advice, continues to perpetuate gender inequality so that unfortunately reconciling parenting and career is an issue that still affects women immensely more. Hence why the title of this post is "Motherhood and PhD fieldwork", not "Parenting and PhD fieldwork".
When tackling the issue of motherhood and a career in academia or elsewhere, there is a strong discourse about women being empowered and able to have and do it all. However, I am increasingly cynical about that. Today I read an article that recommended educating new generations of women so they believe they can have it all. First, this type of discourse is directed at women, subtly reinforcing the idea that it is their problem only and taking care of children is their responsibility. But foremost, this emphasis on "educating", "informing" and "raising awareness" (I worked in the development sector, so I know how these buzzwords are thrown around willy-nilly), can actually make us feel more disempowered. I read this type of speech and one or two success stories of big executives and top academics who indeed seem to have it all and I feel not only inadequate but powerless. Knowing your "rights" and possibilities whilst everything around you and structural barriers remain the same is just frustrating. I call it "informed powerlessness".
Because although this type of discourse sounds amazing in theory, when it is time to implement, it is utter bulshit. Take the example of fieldwork, a crucial part of most PhD projects in almost every single field. When I first wrote my PhD proposal and shared it with a few professors from my masters, they were very receptive and gave me great feedback. But one thing I heard from one (male, single, childless) professor stuck to my mind. He said the project was great, but my methods were not the best and he said my research would be much stronger and "non-extractive" if instead of interviewing people I did an ethnographic fieldwork, living, observing, and interacting with research subjects in a more natural manner for several months. That hit me hard and I almost gave up on pursuing a PhD as it would be impossible for me as a mother to go live somewhere else alone for several months. But after a lot of reflection and comforting words from awesome colleagues, I realized that 1) I am not an anthropologist, 2) I am not convinced that long ethnographic fieldwork renders "more accurate" data (I find it extremely presumptuous to think that after living with "research subjects" for 6 or 12 months one becomes "one of them" and is given truer information). However, there is another issue there and one that involves important issues of gender, class, and physical ability. For that professor, doing extended ethnographic fieldwork is not only his methodological choice, but also a possibility. But it is not a possibility for people in different circumstances: people who lack the financial resources (grants don't normally pay the bills back home whilst one lives somewhere else), who have small children, who need to care for older relatives, who have disabilities etc etc etc.
Even when extended ethnographic fieldwork is out of the picture, fieldwork still takes time, not just the preparation of logistics, but the actual fieldwork (be it consulting archives, doing interviews and surveys, collecting samples, etc.) For mothers, being away from home for extended periods of time is hard or impossible for many reasons. This brings great anxiety about whether our research is going to be valuable or scientifically sound. Most advice for mothers to reconcile fieldwork and children call for the importance of having support from your partner and family. Of course this is important but when one does not have extended family nearby and have a partner who is not a fellow academic or who does not have a flexible job, it is hard. Although my partner is supportive and does his fair share of parenting as he should, he also works in a gruesome private sector field where 70 hours workweeks are a rule, working from home impossible and 10 days of annual leave are considered a luxury. So even with the best intentions and efforts, it is virtually impossible that I go away for weeks or months and dump my own fair share of parenting on him.
Some interesting articles about motherhood and fieldwork present a seemly great solution to this dilemma: take the children to fieldwork! Cue beautiful and wholesome stories about adaptability, overcoming struggles and the kids actually having fun and learning so much in the process! However, this is not always possible. These stories make the caveat that the presence of kids make fieldwork slower and longer, but the issue of costs is mysteriously ignored. Which funder pays for the children's costs? Will funding be available for this longer fieldwork? What about childcare costs, sometimes in a foreign country? I also imagine the ethical issues that having children present in fieldwork must raise. My process to obtain ethical approval was excruciating in itself and I cannot imagine the response I would have received if I had mentioned in the Risks Section "by the way, my small children will accompany me to conflict zones and refugee camps". I can practically hear the members of the ethical committee having a stroke.
Taking kids to fieldwork also depends on the location of fieldwork, the field of research and the age of the children. Taking kids to Geneva (or even remote villages in developing countries if one is more adventurous) is feasible with the adequate planning and if support is available. But it is unnecessary to explain why taking children to a conflict zone is not feasible at all. Most examples I have seen of mothers successfully bringing their children to fieldwork were in the field of natural sciences. Fieldwork is always difficult and demanding, but I imagine it is easier to have children around when one is observing ecosystems or collecting geological samples, instead of interviewing women about sexual violence. Kids can fit around some type of fieldwork, but in some cases the only option is to hire out childcare, which once again raises issues of cost and might be difficult in certain settings. Finally, these same success stories often include small children in pre-school age who have much more flexible schedules. Once children hit school age it becomes harder to remove them from their habitual life (unless one decides to homeschool on the road, which I am not capable of doing whilst also pursuing a PhD).
These difficulties unfortunately might mean yet another glass ceiling: in practice, the type of topics, research questions, methods and case studies a PhD candidate can pursue becomes constrained not by their hypotheses and intellectual ambitions, but by what they can actually do given their current situation. Fieldwork is an integral part of the PhD process in a way or another in most fields. However, the special circumstances of people are rarely considered and addressed by Universities. In this post, I raised issues related to motherhood, but I am sure there are many other special circumstances that make preparing and conducting fieldwork a difficult balance between the best option scientifically and what is feasible given people's multiple roles in life.

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Entering my third year as an indie, it is my responsibility to impart sage wisdom to the world. (Don't blink, or you might miss it.) See the series introduction post for more on my saga. But for now, lesson #8 for 2012:
Plan on having no success until one year after the release of your third novel.
As always it is critical to know thyself. If you are more of an entrepreneur than a writer, you may be able to shake your money maker and find commercial success with one or two novels. I've seen a few people do it.
On the other hand, if you are like me (an incompetent boob living in a fantasy bubble high off his own fart gas) it will take you even longer. (I'm not even going to go into doomsday scenarios due to the Department of Justice decision in regards to agency.)
If you are primarily a writer focus first on creating more and better content.
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Jaime Hunter is the Branch Administrator for IBS, working from the Cincinnati office. She has been with the company for 23 years.
Have you always had the role you're currently in here at IBS or have you moved around?
Jaime Hunter: I started off doing data entry in 1993 when I was still in high school! I was hired because there were stacks of resumes that needed to get in the systems. I categorized them. I was scared of the phones back then; I hated answering them. After a few years, we got more technical and started scanning resumes. I went to Chicago for training and then I started working with the consultants more. I was promoted to branch administrator in 1998.
In what way has your job changed the most since you started?
I have definitely come out of my shell doing this job. I went from staring at a PC and now I interact with people- that's my daily thing now. I'm involved with everyone…it's not just me, myself and I!
In what way has IBS changed the most since you started?
I think the evolution of technology has a lot to do with it. When I first started out, we used a fax machine that had a roll of paper. You have no idea how nice it was to be able to use loose leaf paper in the fax machine! When I started, the database was DOS-based. There was no Windows. We printed everything, which was not fun because filing is not my forte at all!
How have the consultants/clients changed the most since you started?
I feel like the consultants really care about IBS more now than they did in years past. They are happy to work for us. We have monthly lunches the consultants and I feel like they're so important. As for the clients, they know who IBS is now. We only had three clients before Jeff [Jorgensen] started here in Cincinnati and now we have a presence in the community. We may be small, but people know we're here.
What do you think IBS has improved on the most over the years?
I think it's probably that IBS invests in the people that want to work for us. Everyone likes their job and wants to be here. There is an open line of communication and I think that's something that IBS strives to have.
How have you changed the most professionally since you started?
I definitely give my opinion more freely now and feel like I'm part of the entire staffing process.
Over the years, what has been the most frustrating part of the job?
For me, it's when I can't help someone. I'm a helper by nature and sometimes I just can't help. For example, a consultant calls because their contract is ending and they want to stay, but the client doesn't have the budget and can't renew. I hate not being able to solve their problem.
How about the most rewarding?
A few things, really. I work on past due invoices. There's nothing better than hearing that a bill has been paid and it's been 180 days since it was issued. Another rewarding experience is when someone has been on billing for a year and then they get hired- they write a letter thanking IBS. I love the positive communications. I try to be as positive as I can.
What wisdom would you like to share that you've gained over the years?
Make sure you love your job and just be happy! Life is too short!


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Books for Children, Knowledge for All / "Children's books as mediator between children, cultural knowledge, and socialization by adults"
"Because literature is a valued cultural commodity, traditions evolve around its definitions, functions and value... Children's literature serves the important role of mediator between children, cultural knowledge, and socialization by adults. Moreover, because children's literature has long maintained this traditional role in society, it possesses both symbolic and real power."
-Violet J. Harris, "African American Children's Literature: The First One Hundred Years", Freedom's Plow (1993)
I want to share some wonderful books for children, with lessons for all. Most are available in your local library, please do explore them. Many of these books are included in the Philadelphia Freedom School's curriculum, and many more exist. Every child should have exposure to these books.
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The course is confirmed 3 weeks before the course start date, depending on the number of confirmed enrolments. We'll send your Welcome Pack so you can book flights and accommodation. (If the course is cancelled and you have already paid, the amount is refunded in full and you'll receive a 15% discount on future bookings.)
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Difference between shortening and butter
Shortening vs butter:
Shortening and butter are two popular substances that are used both as an essential ingredient in making cakes, pastries, various desserts and etc. Shortening and butter do resemble each other in some aspects whereas they cannot be so compared with regards to certain facts. This article thus seeks to emphasize upon the many differences, advantages and disadvantages that these two substances have over one another.
What is shortening?
Originally, the term shortening was synonymous with lard and yet since the early 20th century, shortening became synonymous with hydrogenated vegetable oil. Shortening can be named as sort of a fat that is used to make crumbly pastry as it prevents cross-linkage between gluten molecules which gives the dough elasticity. However, the Trans fat contained in shortening has raised many concerns regarding the adverse health effects that it may have upon the consumers.
What is butter?
Butter is a dairy product which contains butterfat, milk proteins and water and is used widely as a spread or as an ingredient for cooking. It is produced by churning fresh or fermented cream or milk. Butter is known to be solid when refrigerated and yet, it turns liquid at room temperature which is at about 32–35 °C. Butter is typically pale yellow and yet, this color varies from white to darker yellow shades. Butter exists in many forms such as whipped, clarified, unsalted, salted butter and etc. It is rich in vitamins A,D,E and K and as a result of the milk fat used in butter, there is a significant amount of saturated fat and cholesterol in butter that are considered to be unhealthy and a major cause for heart problems when taken in large amounts.
What is the difference between butter and shortening?
Butter and shortening are two ingredients that are indispensable when it comes to baking and cooking. However, both these substances are given the generic term "fat" when it comes to the art of baking. Both shortening and butter are used in cakes to give them the moisture that they need while letting it extract rich flavors from other ingredients as well as aiding the cake to rise and obtain the appropriate texture. However, butter and shortening are two different ingredients of which the differences must be recognized separately in order to incorporate them in to cooking effectively.
Butter is a dairy product with a high content of fat whereas shortening is hydrogenated vegetable oil which of course is 100% fat. However, the way in which these two products melt in heat is absolutely crucial when incorporating them to food. Butter tends to melt faster in heat whereas shortening tends to remain solid and yet become flexible under heat. This is due to the fact that butter contains milk solids as well as water which gives way under heat whereas the 100% fat content of shortening is not so easy to melt.
It is best to concentrate on the impact that these two substances have on the flavor as well. Butter must be given a priority when taking the flavor in to consideration as it gives the food product a rich, buttery flavor whereas shortening does not add any additional flavors to the product. On the other hand, shortening makes the food much softer and gives more rise to cakes and pastries as the air bubbles trapped within the shortening provides an excellent media for the dough to fluff up. Shortening is also an excellent alternative for preparing food for people with dairy allergies as shortening does not have any amount of dairy in it.
Recipes that require shortening can be substituted with butter whereas recipes that call for butter cannot be replaced with shortening. Also, unlike shortening, butter is used for a wider range of products such as cookies, cakes, pastries, desserts and etc whereas shortening is deemed as being ideal for pastries and breads.
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As part of its mandate to issue consumer product safety standards for durable infant or toddler products under The Danny Keysar Child Product Safety Notification Act, section 104 of the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission ("CPSC") recently approved a new federal standard to improve the safety of infant bath tubs and prevent drownings.
The federal standard incorporates the most recent voluntary standard developed by ASTM International (ASTM F2670-17 Standard Consumer Safety Specification for Infant Bath Tubs). The ASTM specification addresses performance requirements, test methods, and labeling requirements, including a restraint system, static loading, suction cups, locking mechanisms, protective components, and label and warning permanence. The warnings address, among other things, drowning and fall hazards.
The CPSC's announcement notes that, between January 2004 and December 2015, the agency received a total of 247 reports of incidents involving infant tubs—31 of which were fatal. The most frequent hazards involved drowning/near-drowning because the child was left alone in the tub; protrusions/sharp edges or points/lacerations; product failures; entrapment issues; slippery tub surfaces; and mold/allergy issues.
The new mandatory infant bath tub standard becomes effective on October 2, 2017 (six months after the final rule was published in the Federal Register). "Infant bath tub" is broadly defined and applies to any ''tub, enclosure, or other similar product intended to hold water and be placed into an adult bath tub, sink, or on top of other surfaces to provide support or containment, or both, for an infant in a reclining, sitting, or standing position during bathing by a caregiver.'' This covers a wide variety of products, including bucket-style tubs, inflatable tubs, foldable tubs, and bath tubs with spa features, such as "whirlpool" settings, "separate whirlpool" settings, and separate handheld showers.
The new standard will reach a significant number of product manufacturers and apply to millions of bathtubs. According to the final rule, at least 25 manufacturers and importers supply infant bath tubs to the U.S. market, including 22 domestic firms. And, according to CPSC data, households with children under 6 years old own approximately 8.9 million infant bath tubs.
In addition to bath tubs, the CPSC notes that in the last 7 years alone, it has approved new federal safety standards for cribs, play yards, baby walkers, baby bath seats, children's portable bed rails, strollers, toddler beds, infant swings, handheld infant carriers, soft infant carriers, framed infant carriers, bassinets, cradles, portable hook-on chairs and infant sling carriers.


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New Fall Fiction
House of All Nations
The Sunlight Dialogues
F. W. Dupee once wrote of a character in Henry James as falling out of the world and into the universe. Something of this kind has happened to narrative literature: it has fallen out of the novel and into fiction, out of detailed circumstance and into escalating hypotheses. We no longer have a purchase on the social world which is the ground of the novel, and we respond to this by creating vast, simplifying theories of conspiracy, which put us in touch with a rich universe of speculative myths but will not give us Julien Sorel or Anna Karenina or Balzac's young men.
The patient and multifarious resistance of reality to our wishes no longer seems a major theme: we are more worried about reality's designs on us, or about its sheer unintelligibility. It is not a question of regretting our losses, of course, but of understanding our condition—the universe of myth may yet give us an Oedipus or an Odysseus of our own anyway. The three books under review, different as they are, come together well enough to tell us what it feels like to fall, or to have fallen, out of the world.
Christina Stead's House of All Nations, first published in 1938 and a best seller then, is definitely a novel, and a remarkable one. But it is a novel about a disappearing place, curiously lightweight for all its 800-odd pages, a record of the chatter of Europe as it went under, as the pound sterling went off the gold standard, as the Japanese invaded Manchuria, as Hitler began his menacing, unbelievable ascent. It is a novel suspended in air, the earth pulled out from beneath it, caught by the writer the moment before the crash, both of the old genre and of its home and origin, became complete.
Randall Jarrell, writing about Christina Stead's next book, The Man Who Loved Children, published, to a poor reception, in 1940 and reprinted, belatedly, as a minor classic in 1965, said that an occasional fault in Miss Stead's writing was "a kind of vivacious, mechanical over-abundance":
…the observation and invention and rhetoric, set into autonomous operation, bring into existence a queer picaresque universe of indiscriminate, slightly disreputable incidents. Reading about them is like listening to two disillusioned old automata gossiping over a cup of tea in the kitchen.
This is even truer of House of All Nations than it is of The Man Who Loved Children, but the pejorative note is out of place here. The book is too long, flounders a bit in its profusion somewhere just before the middle, but generally it is just this sense of a world rattling on without any kind of control or supervision that makes the novel work the way it does. If its characters don't move us and haunt us as those of The Man Who Loved Children do, it crackles with epigrams which evoke a whole civilization awash in its wisecracks: "Life is only sordid if you're…
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