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parents voicing their anger that nowerk school leaders showed lead in the drinking water. today the district will begin testing student's blood. >> the supreme court headed to capitol hill for a meet and greet with congress. >> as for the biggest celebration of irish pride will make its way through midtown today and for the very first time, mayor bill de blasio is putting an end to his own boycott. good morning, i'm lori stocks. >> i'm ken rosato. thank you for joining us. happy saint patrick's day. >> you're never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic with meteorologist bill evans. >> we have a nice start to the day and here is a look from the camera right here to the south of the tribureau you hads bridge. where emphasis wou
we're looking at nice weather to start the day. 47 degrees your 6:00 touchdown. 38 around brookhaven. west hampton at 30, always a chilly spot with a cool sky with sandy soil there and a calm wind. 47 around newark, we'll have sunshine today for the most part. most of the day will be sunny. 60 by noon time. parade weather starts off very comfortably. we get to 61 to 63 this afternoon with possibly a late day shower. maybe a rumble of thunder. heather o'rourke, it is your day. >> all my day. all mine. everybody is irish on saint patrick's day. >> that's right. >> let's talk about mass transit. new jersey buses, extra service. same situation long island railroad and metro north. new jersey transit trains are on or close to schedule. path trains on a regular schedule, on or closeded. mta buses, expect diversions because of the parade. route three east. bloomfield avenue. you have an accident there. subway services running on or close to schedule today. here is a look at the fdr drive
that is traffic moving right to left. you can see it is doing just fine. we had an earlier accident at 96th street. they're clearing away construction from the 70s into the 60s and alternate side of the street parking rule effect for today. testing begins today newark's youngest public school students over concerns of lead contamination. elevated levels of the poisonous level were found in drinking water at dozen ease of schools. darla is live for us. >>reporter: some 2,000 toddlers are being prioritized, the first students to be tested for lead to receive the free lead tests. some here at samuel berlin, an early childhood center at newark. some parents showed
they were outraged expressing no confidence in the school district. elevated levels were known since 2004 but parents were never notified. they are planning to be more transparent. >> i absolutely believe that this is a matter of urgency and it is a matter in which the public, the parents, and the community is entitled to know everything there is to know. >> every school has contamination and we're saying that we want every school flushed. every filter changed. all filtration systems checked and we want the best for our children. >> now, the state will do more testing starting this saturday. it will first retest all of those 30 schools that showed elevated levels of lead and then it will also test buildings that were not tested in the first round of lead tests. reporting live in newark, darla miles, channel 7, eyewitness news. >> thank you, darla. it is 6:03.
are the focus of a federal investigation. it is part of a probe by the manhattan u.s. attorneys office april according to court documents, prosecutors are checking complaints about unsafe and unsanitary conditions. investigators are seeking information about people with elevated lead levels in their blood. 6:04. president obama signed an executive order doubling down on u.s. sanctions to punish north korea for the nuclear weapons program as the white house called on the north to pardonon and release an american student sentenced to 15 years hard labor for trying to steel a propaganda poster. the obama administration says they're using otto warmbier as a pawn to pursue their political agenda. president obama's nominee to fill the supreme court seat of antonin scalia will visit
appeals court judge merrick garland will speak with senators. the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell says garland will not get a confirmation hearing and most are standing with him. >> guidance from past senate leaders council strongly in favor of pursuing the process until the presidential election season is over. that is clearly the best course for the s. >> as a result -- >> in 1992, when vice president joe biden was a senator, he stood on the senate floor to say that then president bush should not name a supreme court nominee until after the up coming election was settled. time is 6:05. out of the race for president, monday's republican debate in salt lake city has been cancelled. fox news announced a change after donald trump and governor john kasich said they wouldn't attend. now na that marco rubio is out
switching her support to ted cruz. a sheriff suspended five deputies for main taping to control -- mainta control at a trump rally. voters will go to the polls on tuesday and sanders expects he will do well. hillary clinton will be fund raising today in georgia and tennessee. two states where she scored overwhelming primary victories. today, hundreds of thousands of people will crowd 5th avenue for a saint patrick's day parade unlike any other before. for the first time, lgbt groups are being allowed to march in the parade under their own banners, also, organizers decisions to live the ban means the mayors de blasio is lifting his own ban and will march in the parade. time is 6:0 #. you're never more than seven -- 6:06.
traffic. meteorologist bill evans is here with the traffic. meteorologist bill evans is here with the traffic. this is the ed koch bridge. we can see all the way out long island. a little light easterly wind and temperatures around 47 degrees to start your day now, so the temperature up a degree. it will be a warm day today. 47 to start means we'll get well into the 60s later on this afternoon. a few clouds to the west. there is a spoke of energy. see the low right here around lake superior, make michigan. that moves slowly into canada but it fires the spoke in through the area and that, with a little cold air aloft will create a couple of showers later today. the parade steps off at 11:00 around 57 to 59 degrees. we get into the low 60s. great weather with sunshine. at end of the parade, actually i think the parade gets done before any of the showers get here. there will be a rumble of thunder and lightning. so you need your warm clothes, 62 and nice after school with sun and clouds. a late shower. you have a late game, you might get sprinkled on. we'll talk about what is happening in the beginning of spring. what is going on, heather. >> this is the new jersey turnpike. is this traffic moving left to right. the southbound side is doing okay here. we do have a problem as you try to get to the got yells bridge. we'll start -- gothel's bridge. we'll start here. coming off of the turnpike getting onto the bridge, you'll find a disabled vehicle slowing you down. not causing a lot of delays on the turnpike though. buses, new jersey transit buses extra service. same situation with long island railroad. trains are close. on a regular schedule. path trains are on time on a regular schedule. mta buses, because of the parade. you have this accident near bloomfield avenue.
side of the street parking rules are in effect for today. lori and ken, over to you. >> thank you. 6:09, coming up, new details on a murder at a subway station in harlem. what we're learning about the man who was stabbed to death. that is ahead at 6:30. >> also ahead, a woman vanishes in new jersey months after she is shot several times. authorities are asking for help to bring her. >> will today's commute be
ut . 6:12. the man accused of stealing a car and led police on a chase across southern california an into a mall. he drove the wrong way down several streets. he arrived ate mall and jumped out of the vehicle. officers chased him into the mall and took him out in handcuffs. police looked at surveillance video for clues that are offering a 10 thousand dollar reward in connection with a dace appearance of a woman from new jersey. an entire congregation joined her family last night praying for the safe return of tyrita julius. she was last seen on march 8th after a friend dropped her off
station. julius is recovering from being shot six times by a mystery gun whan who remains on the loose. people wonder if he is linked to the disappearance. >> it is difficult dealing with pain but god can help us even when there is a situation of heart ache and despair. >> tyrita had been fearful since last november's attack which police say appeared to be targeted. 6:13. new at 6:00. trains are running again on the metro system in washington after an unprecedented 29-hour safety shut down. service resumed about an hour ago. the nation's second busiest rail station to ours. they suffered a series of electrical fires. an inspection reveals 26 problems with third rail cables. the general manager says three of the cable problems were show stoppers which needed absolute immediate repairs. it is six:# 13. time to check the accuweather forecast. >> meteorologist bill evans live outside our studios on the upper west side. >> great morning out here.
just a little light wind, calm wind. the day gets under way with what will be warm temperatures for this hour of the day. normally we would be at 35, we're at 47. here we go. here is a look outside from our cameras and high definition. 80% and the winds light. the pressure below 30.00. unstable atmosphere. yesterday's high of 65, normally it is 50. we kicked off showers and thunderstorms with warm air. look at poughkeepsie, 48 to start the day. today. there could abe rumble of thunder and shower around. the wind dropped off temperatures on the cool side across long island where it is in the 30s. there are the showers in western pennsylvania from pittsburgh up to erie, that is a spoke that is coming through from the low up in the great lakes. that can fire up a shower. what time will that be? well, much of the parade gets
here comes a line of showers, maybe a pop up shower in that because the cold air aloft and then tomorrow, we have sunshine but late in the day on friday. mid-50's. another round of showers and colder behind that for saturday morning. look at. that we start aet off in the 20's and low 30s saturday morning. we're going to be looking at what will be 63 after school today. sunny breaks, kids, very mild but know that late in the day you have sports around 5 or 6, you might be running into a shower. watch out for lightning, too. on the playing field. for the parade it is great. much of the parade gets done before any of the showers get going. we're into the low 60s. 63 today. a mixture of sun and clouds. patchy clouds and breezy tonight. the rain goes away after sunset. 44 is the allow. tomorrow we have sunshine. a cooler day, a blustery windy day. temperatures are at 45 miles an hour. a look at a passing shower and
here is your accuweather seven-day forecast. we'll look at chilly weather sunday. 44 degrees. sunday, looking at cloudy skies, chilly, i would say cold fort half marathon. 39 late in the day. it will be rain and snow mifrp. that is how we start off spring. it will end like winter. winter going out kicking and screaming and we have a shot at maybe a snow shower. we'll warm up on tuesday. it is saint patrick's day and i have to introduce you to my name max mus who is here this -- maximus who is here this morning. he is dressed up for saint patrick's day. are you ready for saint patrick's day? he is your patron saint of the day give me love of saint patrick. there . [ speaking in foreign language ] . >> what does that mean? >> it means fierce wolf dog in italian. i've been working on my italian.
>> we're all irish today. isn't that right? >> thank you, bill. >> let's go to heather o'rourke, the only one with an irish name on the set. >> let's talk about the f and g trains. we have track work. new jersey transit buses are running extra service. new jersey transit trains are on a regular schedule. on or close at this point. path trains on a regular schedule. on the buses, mta buses, you can expect diversions. if you're travelling on to route three eastbound side, bloomfield avenue. you have that accident cleared away and this problem, goethal's bridge. disabled vehicle on the new jersey side. it is not making any major delays. they just moved the camera around. it is a tractor trailer on the shoulder not causing problems. 96th street. we had that accident cleared away and the bqe near roosevelt avenue, another accident has been cleared away. but you can see that we do have delays as you get into that spot. here is the george washington bridge coming across the span.
is not doing too badly. i was telling you about the accident on route three and we have nefrps copter seven -- news copter seven up above. good morning to you, john del giorno. >> good morning to you heather o'rourke. this is the over turned vehicle you were talking about. eastbound on route 3 near bloomfield avenue. this is an suv that over turped on the right shoulder and wound up in the grass and trees you can see a tow truck pulled in now. they'll pull the vehicle out of the grass and get it loaded and out of the way. we have big traffic delays on route three. you can see only the left lane is open. the question here, we're near bloomfield avenue. the delays bumper to bumper. it is basically a standstill delay back to the garden state parkway. we're live in clifton, john del giorno, channel 7, eyewitness news. >> all right, thank you. also, we're seeing the mess left behind after windy weather hit wisconsin.
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prevented by the technology. this sounds familiar for fans from back of the future. nike is introducing a type of athletic foot wear that lace themselves. it is called hyper adapt 1.0. once the foot is in the shoe, it tightens around the foot with the push of a button. the shoes will need to be charged every couple of weeks. nike plans to roll out the sneakers just in time for the holidays. the price has not been announced. it will be steep. >> remember when sneakers cost 20 bucks? >> no. >> now i'm showing my age. here is bill with the accuweather forecast. >> here is what is going on this mo. >> we walked to school up hill both ways. we have a temperature of 47 around the five burroughs start your day. which is warmer than normal. 47 around newark. 45 around laguardia.
southwest now and that is a sign that it will be the wind a heads of the cold front approaching on the west. if you're taking the ferry, got the new ferry system coming in. you'll have a nice ride from brooklyn, queens, even the ferry system here, you'll have a nice ride for the day today. over the next seven hours we'll look at the temperatures will that will continue to rise up in the mid-60's. we have a nice view across the central park. what is going on on the roads with the commute? >> we have this big accident at route three. news copter seven is up above. john del giorno showing us the left lane is getting by. the tow truck pulling the car out of the woods. as a result, we have pumper to bumper delays back to the garden start parkway. check out that delay. it is an sea of headlights this morning here on route three and we'll go over to our maps and f
express, smith and 9th to church street and extra service if you're planning on taking mass transit into the city for the parade. our street cleaning rules are in effect. lori, over to you. thank you. frank sinatra junior, the son of the late entertainment legend has died. francis wayne sinatra was touring in florida when he went into cardiac arrest frank junior was born in jersey city and followed his father's music career as a teenager, eventually performing his songs on tour and in las vegas. he also is known for becoming the victim of a kidnapping from a casino in california when he was just 19. his father paid a quarter of a million dollar ransom for his return. frank sinatra junior was 72. 6:25. model and actor fabbo is no stranger to the -- fabio is no stranger to the american public and now he is part of it. he became a naturalized american citizen yesterday.
italy and was among 6,000 people who took the oath of allegiance all together. he called it one of the happiest days of his life. >> i believe in this country so much and i believe in the people of this country because, you know, this is the only place where you can express yourself and get rewarded for it. >> very cool. julian, by the way, the stage manager says he met him a punch of times. u.s. customs and immigration honored one of the newest american citizens chltd he even got a new -- citizens. he even got a new flag. >> that is great. >> congratulations. we're closing in on 6:30. still ahead on eyewitness news this morning, a thief swipes a box of money meant for sick kids and we learned he may have done it before. >> the nypd makes an arrest after a 5th grader packs a gun in his book bag. >> the special edition to odd's saint patrick's day parade from pope francis with his visit to new york last fall.
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. new details on a deadly attack in harlem. the victim managed to stumble on to the subway after being stabbed in the back. >> danger in the water, thousands of new jersey's largest school district will be started today for possible lead poisoning. >> a live picture from 5th avenue where hundreds of thousands of people will line
for the annual saint patrick's day parade. good morning, i'm ken rosato. >> i'm lori stokes. thanks for starting your morning with us on this thursday, march 17th. saint patrick's day celebratis are under way around the world. here is a live look from dublin, ireland, wherehe is plenty of green to go around. >> i would love to be there for saint patrick's day. isn't that biefl? >> i love looking -- isn't that beautiful? >> i love looking at. that. >> we're never more than seven minutes away from the accuweather forecast. >> where did the first saint trick dos day begin? right here in new york city. 1736. >> wow when the irish soldiers marched on 5th avenue. >> nice. >> we look outside. we have temperatures. west winds at #, we're look aelth 45 around ridge wood. white stone 46, 43 around bridge port. 63 will be our temperature later
there will be a pop up shower, maybe a rumble of thunder or thunderstorm like yesterday but this will be widely scattered, probably misses the parade and that is a good thing. much of it gets done. it is wealther and then heather o'rourke -- it is weather and then heather o'rourke on this saint patrick's day. >> we'll talk about the f and g trains, the only thing green right now. now we also have issues on the roads. we've had them for awhile now. we have news copter seven up above. john del giorno is here to give you the update. >> we have an eye on this problem. this is eastbound route three before the exit for broomfield avenue in clifton. that was an suv that over turped off the right side of the roadway into the woods. firefighters and police over there are looking for debris from the accident. we can tell you that the police have left the scene so this looks like it is mostly a clean up operation at this point.
lane is open as you travel eetsz on route three -- east on route three. these go past the garden state parkway back to the route 46 split. heather? >> what a mess. let's get over to the mass transit chart and talk about how you get into the city today if you're planning to attend the parade. new jersey buses will be giving extra service. new jersey transit trains are on or close to schedule. they have regular service today. same situation with path trains and mta buses, expect diversions because of the parade route. we have the street cleaning rules in effect for today. >> tnkha you very much. history made in manhattan at the world's oldest and largest saint patrick's day parade. >> in the 254-year history raefrjs the parade is fully lifting the ban -- history, the parade is fully lifting the ban
>> they're marching on 5th avenue past saint patrick's day cathedral. >> preps are under way. barricades are set-up on this side of the road on 5th avenue and this time, bill de blasio will march in the parade. the mayor is ending his two-year boycott. he will take part now that a long standing ban on lesbian, gay, transgender and bi- sexual groups have been lifted. an irish lgbt group that worked for 25 years to end the ban. >> i have tremendous, tremendous respect for people who fought for years and years in the community for inclusion and felt a great deal of pain they were excluded and kept coming back and fighting for change. it is a powerful moment.
11 and end at 4:30 early evening. last year, 2 milli people took part in the festivities. live along 5th avenue. mallory hoff, channel 7, eyewitness news. penn station and grand central terminal are going dry. the mta banning alcohol on metro north and it isn't just during the parade. it remains in effect until 5:00 a.m. tomorrow. you can learn more on the web and your smart phone. we have a complete list of transit changes. send stuff in, your pictures to bc ae7ny. 6:35. new details on a deadly attack in harm yell. police say the victim was illegally selling metro card swipes when he was stabbed. the 53-year-old man collapsed at the two train station at 110th street after taking the train to 116th street.
started when the victim grabbed a dollar from a woman he was trying to sell a metro card swipe to. the man with the woman chased him out of the station and stabbed him the back. a bloody night in newark. two people were killed in consecutive shootings at opposite ends of the city. one at the terrell homes in the east ward where two other people were also wounded. the second killing occurred an hour later with a woman shot to death on sunset avenue in the city's westward. our time is 6:36 #. free blood tests will be administered to students starting two hours from now. for parents worried about lead exposure. a school board meeting got heated with parents demanding answers about the district's water quality. eyewitness news reporter darla miles live in newark with that . >>reporter: the school here in newark is one of two early
the free lead tests will be available today. that is from 8:30 this morning until 4:00 this afternoon and parents must bring their id in order to receive those free tests. some 2,000 students are the first students to be prioritized as the first toddlers to receive these free blood testing because they're the most vulnerable. as you can see, lots of parents showed up at last night's school board advisory meeting angry, outraged saying the district failed them. the superintendent admits that these elevated lead levels date back to 2004. they say the district worked to fix the problem but never notified parents because it had no legal obligation to do so. >> we know prior superintendents and facility staff directed that activity be taken, we see changed. evidence of flushing protocols being implemented. contaminated. you mean to tell me now we're
we want a comprehensive study by a third party source. >> in an effort to be more transparent, the district will release more water test results today. this morning they're expecting to release the results from the 2012/2013 school year. reportlive in newark, darla miles, channel 7, eyewitness news. >> thank you. you're never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic and meteorologist bill evans. >> the sun is coming up. it will be a pretty nice day today. there is the look from the george washington brimg. it is racked, stacked and packed. we'll look at a nice sunrise with a mufrn picture of sun and clouds and we'll have a nice day. temperatures are mild for this hour of the day. 47 degrees. we should be at 35. and we have a west wind going southwest ahead of the showers with this little spoke here that will go by and as that goes by, we can have a sprinkle or a shower today. mostly later on this afternoon after lunch time with the parade time temperature about 59, we
showers or a sprinkle. not a wash out by any means, these are isolated showers and where there are pockets of cold air aloft, there might abe thunderstorm. the kids are all dressed warmly, the huckleberries, the o'rourke girl appropriately dressed in her happy saint patrick's day to you. >> happy saint patrick's day to you as well. goethel's bridge coming in, a tractor trailer has been cleared away. john del giorno, news copter seven just texted me to tell me that this accident on route three has been cleared away. eastbound near bloomfield avenue. the accident is cleared but delay begin before the garden state parkway.
on 78 east, exit 29, that is another accident. you have the f and g trains, smith, 9th up to church street. i heard about an accident on the brukner -- bruckner. i'll tweet that out to you. lori and ken, over to you. >> thank you. still ahead, a dangerous sight high above a refinery. what sparked this huge tower of flames. >> and the hometown honor for i do everything on the internet. but it's kind of slow. my friends said i should get fios because it's the fastest... i just downloaded 600 photos in 60 seconds. that's seriously better. (man) we're out of 2%. i wonder what else could be better around here? (man) i heard that. now get our best offer ever.
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. hazmat crews spopded when flame responded when flames shot out of an exxon mobile refinery. the massive flairing was caused by an electrical disturbance after an mylar balloon hit a power line. it caud a voltage dip in the retienry and that is when -- refinery and that is when people, several people miles away started to see the flames in the sky. crews monitod rethe air levels as the flame burped a queen's grandfather after an 11-year-old grandson brought the man's loaded gun to school.
the 5th grader at ps 40 in south jamaica tuesday. officers resnded to a firearm. they found the millimer inside the back pack. >> any one of these kids could have beenl hombrae la escuela. killed. mchlt 4-year-old could pull -- 4my-year-old could pull the trigger. >> the 11-year-old had beenn a fight inchool on nd and showed up at the school the next day with the gun. 54-year-old kenneth miley faces multiple chaes including dangering the welfare of a child. a man caught on surveillance video stealing a donation box is wanted for three sis over the past -- similar incidents over the past month. this is surveillanceideo of the suspect who stole a charity jar. he is wearing the same red hoodie of a suspect who stole a donation box in burrough park on sunday. two other thefts at different restaurants were reported last month. 6:45. good morning america coming up
combreen live in times square. >> i think we have all shades of green covered for the three of us. >> we do. we have the race for the white house. donald trump warning of riots if his party tries to stop him as hillary clinton sets her sights on trump as her main rival. we'll have all of the latest on that. we have new details had in hulk hogan's legal battle with combauker. the woman seen in his sex tape tearing up t during her taped deposition. dan abrams and nancy grace will weigh in on that and we have the exclusive video with prince hairiy. the important -- prince harry. the important issue he is taking on and the rare side we don't usually get to see. >> that is fascinating. >> have a good day. >> we'll be watchg.
to get a check on the accuweather forecast. >> meteorologist el evan -- bill evans outside our studios. >> you can call it comfy. normally it would bero aund 35 degrees. we're starting out at 47. very nice here in the upper west side. very busy. folks coming off of the b stop. they're making the commute. it is a morning where we start off with a light wind to calm wind going southwest that will warm us up very nice today. here is the sunrise over the reservoir in central park as we look out towards flushing bay. the west wind, we'll shut that down for a little bit. temperature, 47, yesterday's high is six #245shgs with cold air aloft set off the thunderstorms yesterday in parts of the area we could have that again late today toward 5, 6:00, 7:00 just like last evening. so we'll be looking at one more pleasantly mild day today, it becomes chilly as we go into friday and saturday. we have the first day of spring
and rain sunday evening into sunday night. it will be chilly for the half marathon and cloudy on sunday. 38 to 30 out toward islip. always a chilly spot with the sandy soil. 47, 48 to the north aead west. the wintdz are light. most -- the winds are light. mostly calm. there is a wave of showers around pittsburgh there. that is a spoke around that big low that will push through. what time will that be? by 3:00, the showers are off to the west. parade starts 11. the parade winds down just in the city. you can see unfortunate and west, and -- you can see north and west. we're in the low 50s. mid-50's. a shower or two tomorrow afternoon and then it gets down right cold on saturday.
after school kids, nice day for sports. 63 degrees at the bus stop after school. your parade weather, 59 at the start. low 60s during. right at the end or just after, there could be a passing little shower. 44 and breezy tonight. tomorrow, a little cooler, but still our high of 56 is warmer that normal. we have a passing shower around the area. now, for saturday, it is down right chilly. we'll be looking at 44 degrees. sunday, clouds, maybe, as we kickoff spring, wet snow or rain sunday night into early on monday. then it is chilly monday and tuesday, warm to the mid-50's on wednesday. happy saint patrick's day. >> happy saint patrick's day. >> where are the green bagels. >> they're gone. >> no green bagels. >> green tea does not count. happy saint patrick's day, everybody.
>> over to heather with another check of the commute. >> right behind me, you can see mcdeegan. no major problems to report but let's go over to our maps. we have a problem on the eastbound side of route three clear near broomfield avenue. that accident is gone. you have delays beginning before the garden start route 46 split taking you past the parkway into bloomfield avenue with the accident cleared away. we're looking at an accident on the bruckner south. and this problem in new jersey near exit 29, that is another accident that is being cleared. the f and g trains, track work, trains are moving express. 5th, 9th. getting into church and you have extra service on the new jersey transit buses, metro north and then on or close new jersey path. on or close to schedule. expect mta bus diversion. street cleaning rules are in effect. over to you. >> thank you. 6:49 and a school in new
of two hometown heros. astronauts mark and scott kelly. pleasant dale elementary school in west orange will officially be renamed on may 19th. the twin brothers attend pleasant dale elementary school. teachersia and students will work together -- teachers and students will work together to create the names. stoney brook's men's basketball team are hoping to spend a long weekend in iowa. they're preparing for the ncaa game. they received a big on campus send off. the champs of the american e-cigarette congress take on 8th time national champion kentucky, the loser goes home. new this morning, big announcement from sea world
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pope francis last december will be part of the saint patrick's day parade. monsignour robert richie will drive it to the parade. following the parade, the fial will be sold through an online auction and the money will support catholic schools. 6:54. your top stories and a complete check of your weather and commute.
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. today, thousands of newark school children will begin to be tested for blood poisoning. >> darla miles is in newark with the story. darla? >>reporter: ken, lori, the school here in newark will have free blood tests available for pares from 8:30 this morning until 4:00 this morning. some 2,000 students are the first of 17,000 students who n exposed to elevated levels of lead 30 different schools here in newark. there were angry rents who showed up at the school advisory council meeting saying the district failed superintendent admitting that elevated levels lead 2004. but today, they will respect announce those ld levels from 2012 to 2013 and beginning on
test in the schools will begin. darla miles, channel 7, eyewitness news. >> thank you. today, hundreds of thousands of people will crowd 5th avenue for a saint patrick's day parade unlike any other before us. for the first time, lgbt groups are being allowed to march in the parade under their own banners an the organizers decision to fully lift the ban means mayor de blasio will lift his boycott and he will march in the parade. the festivities will kickoff at 11:00 this morning. >> it is 6:58. let's go back to heather. >> we've been really busy. let's go over to our maps. as you travel onto the bruckner, an accident and north east at 138th street you have an accident. you have two problems on the bruckner this morning. we have this problem on the bqe near queen's boulevard. that is an accident and going over here to route three. we have relief here near bloomfield avenue. the accident has been cleared but the delays remain before the
takes a little bit of time for route three t recover. 78 eastbound side. we have that accident right near route 287. >> thank you, heather. >> this morning is very nice. we're starting off with clouds and sun. this will break up as we look at our camera here toward midtown, lower manhattan. 48 degrees, already another degree warr this hour. white plane plains. to the north. 48 at poughkeepsie. it will be a warm day today. parade time temperature around 59. low 60s this afternoon, look at the computer monitor, holding off a shower until 6:00. the parade looks to northbound great shape as far as the weather goes. we'll have a cooler day tomorrow with late showers, a chilly day saturday, spring kicks off with wet snow, we warm up next week.
>> same to good morning, america. donald trump takes aim at hillary clinton. >> and the last person hillary clinton i mean i know that for a fact. >> as he backs out of the next debate his chief rival says he's ducking him and the president prepares for an epic showdown over his supreme court nominee. breaking news, seaworld's stunning announcement, the end of the orca shows. the park now partnering with the humane society. the tides now shifting. is this the end of shamu? family first. a major league star drops a baseball bombshell walking away from his team and $13 million after management stopped him from taking his son to work. did the team go too far? a royal exclusive. prince harry one-on-one revealing the mission that's changing his life. >> i'm new lucky enough to watch someone who should be dead run
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chapo crashing on a futon at sean penn's house? speaking of boisterous dogs, this is from fox 13 in memphis, tennessee. we had a good clip from memphis last night. they're in the spotlight for providing us this. a new edition of "excellence in reporting." >> a crazy weekend here. we got a dog, we're in frazier right now. go on. i got a dog that's apparently taken a liking to me. down boy, get out of here. it's a stray dog. i'm really kind of -- i tell you what, we're going to come back to you because i can't get this thing to leave me alone. we'll be back. >> jimmy: all right. [ cheers and applause ] that's why they say not to fill your jacket pockets with snausages. it's journalism 101. tonight in detroit there's another republican debate. which reunited donald trump with megyn kelly for the first time since their feud began back in august. because of megyn kelly trump skipped the last fox debate so this was what they called the big rematch and i think it says a lot about this campaign in general that it's its front-runner's arch rival is the moderator instead of one of the other c
chapo crashing on a futon at sean penn's house? speaking of boisterous dogs, this is from fox 13 in memphis, tennessee. we had a good clip from memphis last night. they're in the spotlight for providing us this. a new edition of "excellence in reporting." >> a crazy weekend here. we got a dog, we're in frazier right now. go on. i got a dog that's apparently taken a liking to me. down boy, get out of here. it's a stray dog. i'm really kind of -- i tell you what, we're going to...
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The Yearling
The Yearling Summary
The Yearling is nothing more than your classic "Boy Meets Deer, Deer Eats Boy's Family's Corn, Boy Shoots Deer" story. What more is there to say?
Well, a lot, really. Let's back up.
Jody Baxter is growing up on a little family farm in the woods of Florida, right after the Civil War. (Spoiler Alert: The North won!) His Ma and Pa, Penny and Ora Baxter, do their best to scratch a living from the wilderness, but something's always going wrong—like when Old Slewfoot, a huge, freakishly intelligent bear, kills the pig they were counting on for meat in the winter.
Logical reaction? "We're going on a bear hunt! (We're going on a bear hunt!) We're not scared! (We're not scared!)"
They don't catch him (duh, he's freakishly intelligent), but they do come back with a pretty awesome story to tell their closest neighbors, the Forresters. Jody spends the night at their place with his friend Fodder-wing, and thinks it's just great fun when they all end up partying naked in the living room together in the middle of the night. (What? Don't you do that when you have friends over?)
When he gets home and puts his clothes back on, his Pa takes him on a deer hunt, and from there into town to do some trading and visit Grandma Hutto, a family friend. While they're there, her son Oliver gets into a fight with Lem Forrester over—what else?—a girl, named Twink Weatherby. (Awesome names, guys.) Penny and Jody try to break it up, but just end up getting hurt, too.
You've probably noticed: no fawn yet.
They head home, but now Lem is mad at Penny for taking Oliver's side. So he does what anyone would do in a similar situation—steals Penny's remaining pigs. (C'mon, you know you've done it too.) Jody and Penny head out to get them back, but on the way, Penny gets bitten by a rattlesnake. He kills a doe (A deer. A female deer.), uses her organs to draw some of the poison out—totally awesome party trick—and then sends Jody to see if the Forresters will come help him. As he's leaving, Jody notices the doe had a fawn.
No time for cuddling, though: the Forresters agree to help, and even get Doc Wilson to come over, too. Phew. Now Penny is on the mend, the Forresters promise to give the pigs back, and everyone is happy—except Jody. He's worried about the fawn, and his Pa agrees that he can go get it, and raise it as a pet. He can't think of a name for it (Bambi? No. Rudolph? Nah.), so he goes to visit Fodder-wing to see what he can come up with. But it turns out poor Fodder-wing has died! Jody is devastated. Ma Forrester tells him that Fodder-wing had already thought of a name for the fawn, though—Flag.
Back at home, a crazy storm hits the forest and it pours for seven days straight. The crops are ruined, some farm animals are drowned, and the Baxters and the Forresters team up to inspect the damage to the forest. Not so bad—only moderately large numbers of wild game have drowned, and oh yeah, the forest is horribly flooded. And then, after a couple of days, the wild animals that did survive the storm start dying of a strange plague. Other than that, NBD. Well, except that the few wolves left after all this get desperate and start attacking the farm animals.
Okay, fine, it was pretty bad.
They all form a big hunting party, and end up killing the wolves - and capturing some bear cubs. Awww! Apparently, baby bear cubs are this year's Tickle Me Elmo, so they sell them in town and get all kinds of money. Since things are finally looking up for the Baxters, they decide they'll go to the town's Christmas service and festivities. Ma bakes a fruitcake, and sews some new clothes for the family. Everything seems all set—until Old Slewfoot shows up again, and kills their calf. There goes the nice peaceful Christmas.
Penny and Jody head off on another bear hunt and this time actually manage to kill him. The Forresters show up just in time—and drunk as skunks—to help carry the carcass home. Then they all head out to the party in town. When Lem finds out that Twink has married Oliver, he, again, does what any man would do—burns Grandma Hutto's house down, on Christmas Day. Like you do.
Home again, things settle down until Penny hurts himself badly doing the planting. Plus, Flag is growing and getting into more and more trouble, trampling crops and knocking over food containers. Man, fawns these days! When he eats his way through the family's entire corn crop—twice—Pa has had enough, and tells Jody to shoot him. Wait, seriously? Yep. And when Jody just can't do it, his Ma tries her hand, only to end up badly wounding poor Flag. Finally, Jody puts him out of his misery and runs away from home.
For days he wanders through the forest, and then down the river, starving and practically delirious. Finally, some sailors find him, feed him, and send him on his way home. When he gets there, he and his Pa have a chat about how cruel life is, and Jody tells him that now that he's proven himself by slaughtering a helpless animal, he's ready to take on the role of provider. As his Pa tells him, "You ain't a yearlin' no longer, Jody" (33.135). Sniff, sniff.
Jody Baxter don't wanna hoe no mo'. (Sorry for the bad grammar, but you'd better get used to it—The Yearling is chock full of it!)
Anyway, like we said, Jody's sick of doing his farm chores, and decides to run off to see if he can find a bee tree, instead. What is this, Winnie the Pooh?
He takes off through the forest until he finds a hidden spring.
He plays around in it for a while before he remembers that he's been wanting to build a flutter-mill. A family friend, Oliver, had made them for him before.
Okay, what in the world is a flutter-mill? Check this out.
As he watches it turn, he falls asleep on the bank.
He wakes up as a light drizzle begins, but when it clears, it's so beautiful that he can't contain himself, and spins around in circles till he falls over. Oh, c'mon, you know you did it too, when you were little.
Jody heads back home, and finds his Pa, Penny Baxter, doing his chores for him. Uh-oh…
He feels bad, but his Pa understands what it's like to be young, and doesn't tell his Ma he was goofing off. Phew!
They eat dinner, and Jody lets it slip that he built a flutter-mill…but luckily, his Ma's not mad.
It's been such a perfect day that Jody remembers it his whole life long. Dude, flutter-mills rock.
Penny Baxter is lying in bed, thinking. He can't sleep because of the full moon. Hmmm, werewolves, maybe?
Nope, he's just wondering if he should have punished Jody.
But then he starts remembering his own childhood.
His dad was kind of a jerk. He was a farmer and a preacher, and a super-strict dad. There was never enough food for all the kids in the family, and he worked them to the bone.
That's why Penny grew up to be so scrawny.
It's also the reason he's called Penny. His real name is Ezra Ezekiel Baxter, but Lem Forrester had teased him, saying he was as small as a penny, and the nickname stuck. Bummer.
He's super honest, too—Penny once walked miles back to a store to return the extra dollar they'd mistakenly given him in change.
To be fair, back in the mid-nineteenth century, a dollar was worth a whole lot more than it is now.
People didn't understand why Penny wanted to move into the scrub forest, away from city life.
He just needed a peaceful place, away from other people, to heal his spirit after his tough childhood.
He got married, bought land from the Forresters, and built a house there, even though the only water source was a sinkhole. Sinkhole water? Yum.
He'd intended to have a lot of children—which Lem Forrester had laughed at—and he did…but they had all died as infants.
Finally, Jody was born. Hooray!
But when the boy was two, Penny had to go off to fight in the Civil War.
He brought Jody and his wife, Ora, to live with his old friend Grandma Hutto, and they stayed with her till he came back four years later.
Ora was so traumatized by losing so many other babies that she never really shows any affection to Jody.
But Penny loves him with all his heart, and wants to allow him a carefree childhood.
Jody wakes up, heads to the kitchen, and starts examining himself in the mirror.
He declares that he's ugly, and his Ma agrees. Real nice!
Then he tells her he wishes he was dark, like the Forresters.
She tells him he should be proud he isn't, and that the Forresters are as "black as their hearts."
Brain Snack: "dark" and "black" don't mean "African-American" here—it just means dark-haired and sometimes having a slightly darker complexion.
Lem Forrester had made fun of him, too, telling him his ears looked funny. Boy, this guy makes the rounds, doesn't he?
Suddenly, their old dog Julia starts barking like crazy, and he hears his Pa outside, too.
He runs out to find that their brood sow has been killed in the night, and the tracks point to Old Slewfoot, a giant bear with one missing toe. Think he'd get a discount at a nail salon?
They drag the carcass to the house to use what meat is left. Mmm bear leftovers.
Ma freaks out, and demands to know how the bear got her without the dogs making a fuss.
Old Slewfoot is just really smart and sneaky—he knew the wind was in his favor.
They sit down to eat breakfast, and tease Ma a little to cheer her up.
Penny decides to take Jody hunting for Old Slewfoot. Yee-haw!
They pack some food and supplies and head out, following his trail with their dogs.
Penny is famous for his hunting ability—he tries to outsmart wild game, instead of just chasing after it and hollering, like the Forresters do. Um, duh. Wouldn't that just scare the animals away?
As they walk along, Penny tells Jody not to act like the Forresters, who kill animals they don't intend to eat.
He doesn't even kill animals their family needs, if they're eating or mating, unless they're really in desperate straits. He's just cool like that.
The dogs catch up to Slewfoot, and Penny loads his gun…
…which, for some reason, won't shoot!
He keeps pulling the trigger, until finally it backfires, and burns Penny's face. Yeeeoww!
Meanwhile, the dogs are in a wild battle with the bear, so Penny runs into the fight and jabs Old Slewfoot in the ribs with his gun. Talk about brave! (And possibly stupid.)
Slewfoot runs off, and Penny picks up the dog Julia, who's been hurt badly.
They eat the food they brought, and then head home to tend Julia's wounds. Poor pup!
Penny wants to keep Julia inside for the night, but Ora refuses to let her in their bedroom.
So Penny shares a bed with Jody instead, keeping an eye on her in his room.
As they drift off, Penny explains that wild animals aren't bad, they're just trying to survive—like their family
Jody feels safe in their little clearing, with his Pa nearby. Nighty-night!
Penny has decided to head over to the Forresters' house to trade for a new gun. Ya think?
He's going to trade their new dog, who isn't really good for any practical purpose.
Jody runs around like a chicken with its head cut off doing his chores, so he can come, too.
They ride down an old trail, which Penny tells Jody was made by the Spaniards who settled Florida.
Guess we know where this story takes place now.
When they come to the Forresters', there's a huge commotion going on inside. (Fight! Fight! Fight!)
They stop their argument when they hear Penny, and Jody's crippled friend Fodder-wing comes out to meet him.
He's called Fodder-wing because he once tried to fly by attaching a bunch of animal fodder—hay—to his arms and jumping off the barn. Brilliant.
Fodder-wing shows Jody his collection of pets, a huge number of adorable wild animals he's tamed.
Jody finally asks why they had been fighting, and Fodder-wing tells him it was because one of the dogs had an accident on the floor, and they couldn't agree whose dog did it.
Easy to set off, these guys, aren't they?
Everyone comes inside: all seven of the Forrester boys, their Ma and Pa, Jody, and Penny.
Pa Forrester starts telling Jody about the pet raccoon he had as a child, that was really sweet—until it bit a chunk out of his shin. Ack.
Penny is carrying their useless dog, and Lem asks if he's lame.
Penny says he's just trying to keep him safe from the Forresters' dogs. Uh-huh.
Lem thinks that must mean he's valuable, but Penny keeps denying it, and telling them the truth, that he's good for nothing. Hmmm—he's got something up his sleeve, though.
Lem won't believe it. Looks like the trick is working…
Penny mentions that his gun is broken, and tells them that he was hunting Slewfoot.
The Forresters want to hear the story, but Ma and Pa insist on letting Penny eat and drink first.
They all pig out—seriously, they have a huge feast, which for them is a normal lunch, but which stuns Penny and Jody, who aren't used to having much.
Before long, another argument breaks out.
This time, Pa Forrester puts a stop to it, and brags that even though his boys are rough, they listen to their parents
Ma Forrester tells her boys to wash their dishes, which they do! Jody is shocked.
Then they all settle down to listen to Penny's hunting story.
Penny knows how to make his stories spellbinding, and the Forresters are riveted. It was so good, it was like a "magic, that held these huge hairy men eager and breathless" (7.15). (Hee-hee. Hairy.)
Afterwards, Lem insists on trading Penny a new gun for his dog.
Penny protests, but Lem says he'll come steal him if he won't trade, so he agrees. (Yes!)
They all tell stories now about Slewfoot, and Buck Forrester even fixes Penny's old gun for him, too.
Finally, Penny says it's time to go, but Jody decides to spend the night.
Fodder-wing tells Jody that he's seen a Spaniard on a black horse riding by the Baxter's sinkhole, which totally freaks Jody out.
They go to bed, but not for long—the dogs start chasing something through the house, and all seven Forrester boys are running with them, buck naked.
Okay, is it just us, or is that weird?
To add to the weirdness, they all decide to stay up and play the fiddle—still naked.
So basically, Jody is at a nudist party, singing and laughing, while Ma Forrester cooks them a super-early bird special breakfast.
This situation has rapidly moved from weird to awesome.
Lem mentions to Jody that he wishes his girlfriend, Twink Weatherby, was there to dance with him.
Um, we're betting she's pretty glad she's not there right now.
Jody tells him that Twink is Oliver's girlfriend, and Lem threatens to rip his tongue out. Yikes. Sounds like someone needs a nap.
Finally, Buck takes Jody home once breakfast is over. With clothes on.
Jody gets home and sees a big deer hide stretched on the wall of their smoke-house.
He's all mad that his Pa went hunting without him, until Penny explains that the deer was just standing in his path on the way home.
Jody thinks about his mixed feelings towards hunting - how he loves the chase, but feels awful when the animal is killed. And then when it's been butchered and cooked, how he can't wait to eat it. We feel you, Jody.
Speaking of which, Ma's cooking venison right now, so Jody rushes to do his chores and then comes to the table.
He remarks, "I'm so hongry, my belly thinks my throat is cut" (8.57). Huh?
Apparently, that's a rude thing to say.
Ma and Pa get mad at him, and when he tells them he learned it at the Forresters', it upsets Ma even more.
Jody defends them, but Ma won't have it. They're too hungry—or maybe hangry, in this case—to argue for long, though.
Penny shows Jody an albino raccoon he caught in a trap.
Ma wants to sell the hide, but Penny tells her it's not worth anything (wink, wink), and asks her to make Jody a knapsack out of it.
Jody offers to clean the water troughs in their sinkhole, and Penny tells them he wishes he could have a well dug. Bricks are too expensive, you know.
Ma chimes in, saying she wouldn't know what to do with so much water. For 20 years she's had to make do with the water Penny carried from the sinkhole. Wow—we bet they turn the water off when they brush their teeth and everything!
Jody heads out to clean it, and looks over Penny's awesome set-up.
This guy is seriously clever. There's always a seepage of water down into the sinkhole, filtered through the limestone. The pool at the very bottom is where the hogs drink and wallow.
But Penny cut several other troughs into the limestone higher up, to catch the seepage. The lowest is for the cows and horse to drink, the next is where Ma does the laundry, and at the top is the one for them to drink and cook with. Pretty clever, right?
Jody goes down to the bottom and digs out all the leaves and sand.
Then he scrubs the next three troughs out, too, but stops to drink out of the top one. And then sticks his face in it. And then, naturally, does a headstand in it.
Of course, that's when his Pa shows up wanting a drink. Turns out he's not that thirsty.
Penny tells him he can't believe it's been 20 years that poor Ory has had to make do with the water from the sinkhole.
For some reason, Jody chooses this moment to tell Penny he really wants a pet. Penny tells him Ma would say no, even though he wouldn't mind.
Jody's sick in bed. His Ma thinks he's got the measles, and has been giving him different teas and medicines, but he thinks he just ate too many berries.
Finally, she figures out that he's okay, and sends him outside. Whew! Measles is no joke, Shmoopers.
Penny decides to take him fishing.
As they walk through the woods, they see six people walking by—they're Minorcans hunting gophers.
Okay, wait. What?
Penny explains that Minorcans are a people that was exploited in the past—they're sort of like Gypsies, but sort of…not.
He doesn't know why they're hunting gophers, though. Maybe they make a medicine out of them?
They find a pond, and pretty soon Jody lands a 10-pound bass. Holy moly! That'll feed them for a while.
Penny just catches a little fish for Ma, and has Jody throw back another, smaller one he caught.
Suddenly, Penny whistles like a quail. It's their signal, sort of like this one.
He gestures for Jody to come over, and then shows him what he saw—a huge flock of cranes, dancing.
They watch, entranced, and when the birds fly away, they head home in silence.
Jody starts begging his Ma for a fawn, but she doesn't want to hear it.
Penny decides to take him on a deer hunt (to cure him of wanting a fawn?), and stop into town to do some trading afterwards. Then they'll visit Grandma Hutto, an old family friend.
On their way, they see some adorable little bear cubs, and Jody desperately wants to keep one. But, of course, the answer is no. Um, yeah.
Penny does find a doe and a fawn for Jody to watch, though—which of course makes him want to keep it.
They eat lunch, and then keep hunting until Jody and Penny actually manage to shoot a buck.
As they're dressing the carcass, Penny teases Jody about a girl. He says Jody was holding hands with Eulalie at a festival, but Jody says it was just a game they were all playing. Jody's got a girlfriend, Jody's got a girlfriend!
They walk on into town, and sell most of the venison to Mr. Boyles, the shop owner.
Jody looks around the store, and Mr. Boyles offers to give him a dime's worth of anything he wants, since Penny doesn't get out there that often. Cha-ching!
He chooses a harmonica, and is very polite about it, so Mr. Boyles praises him to Penny.
Just then, Eulalie—who just happens to be Mr. Boyles's niece—shows up. Jody is filled with this crazy, irrational hate for her, and throws a potato at her.
Well, what else could a red-blooded, American boy do? Honestly!
Penny is furious, and says he can't have the harmonica now. He sends him outside to wait for him. Oooooh—he's in trouble
And now, here is the best advice that Penny gives Jody in the entire book. He asks him why he did it, and Jody says it was because she's ugly. Here it comes: "Well, son, you cain't go thru life chunkin' things at all the ugly women you meet" (11.144).
Let that be a lesson for all of you, Shmoopers.
They head over to Grandma Hutto's, who is thrilled to see them, and to get the venison and deer hide.
She is the polar opposite of Ory—super-feminine and welcoming.
They jump into the river to clean off, and then Grandma feeds them a fancy dinner.
Afterwards, a poor, pitiful man names Easy Ozell shows up. He's in love with Grandma, but hasn't got a chance. He rambles on about the war, and then drifts away.
As they go to bed, Jody tells Penny he'd like Grandma Hutto to be his real grandma. He'd want to stay in his own home, but have her move in, and get his Ma to do what she says.
Penny defends Ory, saying she lives rough because of him. And then—"'Pore boy,' he said, 'has got to grow up and learn women" (11.240). Ah, yes. Women.
The next morning, Jody hears a ship pass Grandma's house, and realizes Oliver has come home.
He runs out of his room—stark naked. What is it with these people and nudity?
Oliver comes in and greets everyone, and starts handing out presents.
And yep, Jody is still naked.
His Pa tells him to get dressed, but Grandma takes her shawl and ties it around his waist.
Oliver starts telling stories while Grandma makes breakfast.
He gives Penny some tobacco from Turkey and Jody a hunting knife. Sweet! Guess they won't be boarding any airplanes today.
Jody tells Oliver what Lem Forrester had said about Twink Weatherby, but he laughs it off.
Of course, now the talk turns to girls, and Penny teases Jody about Eulalie again. Hee-hee.
Grandma doesn't really approve of Ory, and says so.
Finally, Oliver leaves to go visit Twink. Jody's mad at him for leaving so soon,
Suddenly, Easy comes back to get Penny. Oliver has gotten into a fight at the store with three of the Forresters.
Penny and Jody hurry to help, and Jody tries to decide whose side he's on.
He figures it out pretty quick, jumps on Lem's back, and starts whaling on him.
Penny tries to talk some sense into them, but they won't listen, so he gets pulled into the fray, too.
Lem knocks Jody out. Ouch.
Jody comes to in a bed at Grandma Hutto's.
She and Penny are sitting nearby, worried to death.
He's hurt pretty badly, but he's mostly upset that helping Oliver, who left him to visit a dumb girl, might cost him his friendship with Fodder-wing.
Still, three against one wasn't fair—he had to help.
It's time to head back home, so they say goodbye to Oliver, who's recovering in the next bedroom.
Oliver asks Jody to send Twink a message for him.
Jody is mad, but agrees.
When they get to the store again, though, Mr. Boyles tells him she's left town, so he writes Oliver a note to let him know.
Home again, and it's back to work on the farm. Penny realizes all their hogs have been gone for a long time—they roam free, but always come back at night.
He figures the Forresters must have trapped them, and decides to take Jody to see. Great.
They follow the hog tracks, and see hoof marks and some corn after a few miles—and then, a hog trap. Yep, it was the Forresters, alright.
They steel themselves to go confront them, when out of the blue, a rattlesnake bites Penny!
He starts stumbling back towards home but stops to shoot a passing doe.
Jody thinks he's lost it, but Penny takes out her organs and pressing them to his bite so they can draw some of the poison out. (Heads up: we're pretty sure this doesn't actually work.)
Penny sends Jody to get help from the Forresters while he heads back home.
As he's leaving, he sees the doe had a fawn. Bing-Bing! Big Neon Sign!
He runs to the Forresters, yelling for Fodder-wing, but Lem tells him he's sick and can't come out.
He tells Lem and the other Forresters about his Pa, and they agree to help, saying they'd even help a dog who'd been bitten by a snake.
They're pretty mean about it, saying he'll probably die.
They ride off to help and get Doc Wilson, and Jody starts running home.
It starts pouring, and there are creepy animals prowling through the trees around him. Jody starts sobbing, worried that his Pa is already dead.
Finally he makes it home. The Forresters and Doc Wilson are all there, and his Pa is still alive, but just barely.
Jody realizes that he needs his Pa around to feel safe, and then cries for the fawn, whose mother is now dead.
The next morning, Penny is still alive. Woo!
Jody helps his Ma cook a huge breakfast for everyone, and Buck Forrester offers to stay with them for a while to help with the farming, until Penny recovers. Whoa—this guy is a Forrester?
Jody goes in to talk with Penny, and ask him if he can get the fawn.
Penny agrees that it's only fair for them to raise it, since he took its mother.
Even though Ory objects, Penny and Doc Wilson override her, and Mill-wheel Forrester takes Jody out to look for it.
Mill-wheel tells Jody he didn't know the Baxters were so poor, and that he thinks their hogs will probably show up that night sometime by themselves, cough.
He drops Jody off where he had seen the fawn, and Jody soon stumbles across it.
The fawn latches on to him pretty quickly. He carries it a while, and then when he gets tired out, the fawn follows him.
When he gets home, he shows his Pa, who is as thrilled as you can be when you're full of rattlesnake venom.
Ory is not enthused, to say the least, but Penny tells her that they're keeping the fawn, and that's that.
Jody feeds it some milk, and makes a bed for it in the shed.
Then he runs around trying to be extra helpful to his Ma, who cheers up soon, since she's so relieved that Penny made it.
Penny asks Jody what he's going to name the fawn, but he doesn't know yet. Buck says to ask Fodder-wing.
Jody brings some food to the fawn and snuggles up with it. It's like a living Pillow Pet!
Jody is having the time of his life with the fawn.
Buck is doing huge amounts of work for them, and Penny is slowly recovering.
One night, some foxes get into the corn crop, so Buck tells Jody he'll show him how to hunt them. This ain't no British fox hunt!
First, though, they go gather moss and find a bee-tree, light the moss on fire, and start chopping down the tree.
The bees swarm out, and Buck and Jody run to the sinkhole to hide in the mud and water.
Once the bees give up, drugged by the smoke, they crack open the tree and get all the honey out.
Buck tells the Baxters he'll be leaving in the morning, and teases Penny about trading Lem that useless dog. Out of all the Forresters, Lem's the only one who's really mad at Penny and Jody.
That night, Buck takes Jody out to the cornfield, and they shoot two foxes.
But while they're out, a bear, attracted by the honey, tries to get the fawn. Not to worry: Buck shoots him, and they split the meat. Mm, bear meat.
After everyone goes to sleep, Jody sneaks out and brings the fawn inside to keep him safe.
Jody's got to finish hoeing the sweet potato field before he can go visit Fodder-wing to get a name for his fawn.
The fawn's totally adorable, and goes everywhere with Jody, but it gets into trouble a lot, too, eating things it shouldn't. Well, don't we all?
Jody's been doing most of the farm work since Buck left, and so his Pa tells him that if he'll go get water from the sinkhole, he can stop hoeing, and go see Fodder-wing. Yippee!
He heads out with the fawn, and catches sight of some bears fighting. The fawn runs off (wouldn't you?), and Jody continues to the Forresters' house.
When he gets there, though, they tell him that Fodder-wing has just died. Oh no!
They let Jody in to see his body, and then he hangs around, feeding and watering Fodder-wing's pets.
The fawn comes back, and he sits with him, unsure what to do.
Finally, he offers to help Ma Forrester out with dinner.
She tells him that Fodder-wing had already picked out a name for the fawn—Flag.
Jody brings Flag in and agrees to spend the night sitting with Fodder-wing's body.
Penny shows up to see what's keeping Jody, and ends up staying over, too.
The next morning, they bury him, and Penny says a beautiful prayer for him.
When Penny and Jody finally get home, Ory's upset they were gone so long and not very sympathetic about Fodder-wing's death.
Penny scolds her for being so hard-hearted, and she says that's the only way she can stand pain.
It's August. The crops are growing and the hogs are back, but there's not much to eat at the moment.
Jody misses his BFF a lot, but he plays with Flag all the time.
One day, they head out to the sinkhole to get water for dinner, and on the way, Jody catches a glimpse of what looks like a Spaniard riding by.
It's Fodder-wing's Spaniard! Oh wait. It's just tree branches and moss.
He and Flag drink and then watch a mother raccoon fishing nearby.
Jody suddenly feels that Fodder-wing is present in the wild animals and trees, and thinks he can endure his death now.
He carries home the water, and tries to explain his thoughts to his Pa, but can't quite put them into words.
Our little boy is growing up.
September arrives, and the Baxters need rain.
They're in luck, because it starts to look like rain is headed their way…but then signs start to point to a hurricane. Uh-oh.
Right before the storm hits, Jody runs to get the eggs from the chicken coop—just in time to get soaked and almost blown away as he runs back inside.
Penny figures it'll be a three-day nor'easter, and they settle in cozily, eating and telling stories. They even let Flag and Julia inside. Don't you just love rainy days?
The next day Penny ventures out to milk Trixie the cow and feed the animals, but there's no break in the rain.
On the third day, their clearing is flooded, and they're reduced to drinking rainwater. Hmmm, not so fun anymore.
When Jody goes out to milk the cow, he finds that she has broken through the bars to her calf, and moved to a higher corner of the barn with her—and there's almost no milk left. Yikes!
On the fifth day, Penny and Jody run outside to check on some of the crops. They're all moldy on the outside, but still pretty good inside.
The sixth and seventh days, they head out into the downpour again to harvest anything they can possibly save.
Even Penny is losing hope now, but finally, on the eighth day, the rain stops. Thank goodness!
The entire family steps outside, two by two, like animals coming out of the ark. There had definitely been a floody-woody.
Buck and Mill-wheel Forrester show up to see if Penny and Jody want to come with them to take a look at the damage, so they'll know what to expect. Um, we're guessing they're going to find a lot of water.
As they ride, they see dead animals scattered everywhere, on the higher dry ground and floating in the flood waters. Freaky.
They stop by Doc Wilson's house to check on him, but he's left a note saying he skedaddled to avoid the storm. Smart man.
They shoot a bunch of wildcats, so they won't come after their farm animals, and then set up camp for the night.
They eat and tell stories, and eventually fall asleep.
But suddenly, Penny wakes Jody up. He's heard an alligator nearby! Hey—what do alligators say, anyway? Cows say 'moo'…and apparently alligators say 'whooo?'
They run at it to drive it away, and go back to sleep. They can sleep after that?
The next morning, they continue their trek, finding a huge flooded area full of fish—and, yikes, bears.
They decide to shoot some for the meat, and Jody actually hits one. Go Jody!
They load it up onto their horses, and then each family heads for home.
All the Baxters' crops are ruined. They try to salvage some by harvesting them early, but most of it is a total write-off, or would be if write-offs existed in the 1870s.
The flood waters have gone down, but the entire forest stinks like rotting things. Gag!
In desperation, Penny goes out into the woods and cuts some marsh grass for hay.
While there, he and Jody see a sick panther and an even sicker buck, with a black, swollen tongue.
It looks like there's a plague going through the wild animals, and Jody is terrified Flag will get it.
They can't eat any animals that are sick, and can only water their farm animals with their own drinking water. Great, strain their resources even more.
Jody keeps asking his Pa questions about the plague, and what's going to happen, but for once, Penny is stumped.
So many wild animals have died now, that hunting for food is practically impossible—and the few predators left have gotten way bolder. Super.
One night in November, Old Slewfoot returns, and kills another of the Baxters' pigs. He is so mean!
Penny gets sick, so they can't hunt him, but they do decide to go ahead and kill the rest of their hogs themselves early, so they can be sure to have at least some meat this winter.
Jody gets the job of grinding corn into meal, and lets Flag frolic around him while he works.
But Flag's mischief is getting worse. He finds their pile of sweet potatoes and tramples and nibbles them until most of them are ruined. Man, he's just as bad as Slewfoot.
Penny tells Jody he's got to keep him locked in the shed when he's not with him, but Flag hates it there so much, Jody decides to build him a pen.
He works all day on it, and puts Flag in—only to burst into tears when Flag jumps right out again!
Penny helps him build a cage to put the remaining sweet potatoes in, instead.
Flag keeps knocking over cans and getting into things, but Jody manages to keep the damage to a minimum. Good thing, too, since they're so short on everything.
It's the first frost of the season, and the Baxter family is snug inside by the fire.
Even Ma's in a good mood, cracking jokes, and Penny thinks they'll make out okay with food after all.
But, of course, that jinxes them, because a pack of wolves shows up and kills their calf.
Penny kills one wolf, but the rest escape, so he decides to go ask the Forresters for help hunting them.
Jody wants to come, but Ory refuses to stay home alone.
When Penny gets back from the Forresters', he tells them they insist on poisoning the wolves, but he refuses to help, saying poison's not fair. Dude. Your family is in danger of starving; maybe it's time to stop worrying so much about fair.
Ma and Jody both protest, but he won't hear it.
The Forresters go ahead and set out the poison anyway. Oh, well.
Buck stops by to tell Penny, and also lets him know that Twink Weatherby has run off with Oliver, and Lem's furious. So what's new?
The poison kills all but about a dozen or two wolves, and Penny agrees to help hunt those down the honest way.
Jody and Penny rise early to get ready and meet the Forresters. Yay! Field trip!
They head out to a water-hole where the few remaining game animals come to drink, and where they think they'll find the wolves, too.
As they wait there for the wolves to show, they see a buck. Lem wants to shoot it, but decides the wolves are more important. Wow—could Lem actually be acting reasonable for once?
They come up with a plan. Jody will run around behind the wolves and shoot at them to drive them towards the men.
He's terrified, but he does it, and they kill 12 wolves.
The rest have escaped, but they don't want to risk sending the dogs after them, so they turn their attention to capturing the ten little baby bear cubs they find nearby.
They decide the Forresters will sell them in Jacksonville, and while they're there, pick up some things the Baxters need, using their share of the money. Shop till you drop, y'all!
When Penny wants to leave, Lem thinks he really intends to go shoot the buck they saw before, but Penny says he just needs to shoot an alligator for dog food. Guess you can't just pick up some Purina at Wal-Mart, after all.
They go their separate ways, and Penny gets his gator.
But on their way home, a buck crosses their path, and Penny shoots it, too.
They get home, and Ma is all excited. She writes up a shopping list for the Forresters to take along with them to Jacksonville.
It's like shopping online, but without the internet. Or the computer. And instead of a credit card, you use bears.
The next morning, the Forresters stop by on their way to Jacksonville to get the list.
As they're leaving again, Lem sees that Penny shot a buck the day before after all, and knocks Penny up against the smoke-house wall. Dude, watch it.
Ory runs inside to get Penny's gun, but Penny insists it was pure chance he got that buck—he hadn't been lying to Lem.
Lem leaves him, and Buck apologizes. The Forresters head out. Thank goodness.
Jody can't understand why his Pa didn't fight back and he hates Lem even more now. We don't blame him one bit.
The bear cubs sell for so much that Buck is able to get the Baxters everything on their list, and a little bag of silver and copper, to boot!
The Forresters are acting weird towards Penny now, though, and he figures they believe Lem.
They decide they can go to the Christmas service and festivities in town this year, since they've got some extra moola.
Jody makes his Ma a necklace out of bright red Cherokee bean seeds for a Christmas gift, and hides it in his room. Aww! How sweet!
Penny and Jody go deer hunting to get some venison to trade in town, so Ory can buy some fabric.
She wants to add a panel to her old wedding dress, so it'll fit well enough to wear to the festival.
While they're hunting, the dogs find a deer trail, but refuse to follow it. What's up with that?
Penny was furious, till he found out it was Flag's trail.
They do shoot some deer, though, and as they prepare to go trading, they decide they'll only make it a day-trip, and not spend the night at Grandma Hutto's, since she and Ory don't get along. (Understatement of the century.)
The family gets all dressed up to go into town, and when they get to the store, Mr. Boyles is dying to hear news about the flood.
Ory buys ingredients for a fruitcake, but they're out of the fabric she wanted. The black alpaca wool they have is nice, but too expensive. Alpacas are just so cool, aren't they?
She sends Jody outside so she can buy him a gift, and then she goes over to Grandma Hutto's alone, to wait for them.
Penny doesn't want her to have to do without a new dress, so he buys her the wool after all—enough to make a brand new dress! How romantic!
Then he and Jody head over to Grandma Hutto's, where Ory and Grandma are arguing about whether women should wear frills. Seriously?
Penny calms them down, and they eat dinner and discuss their Christmas plans.
Before they leave, Penny warns Grandma about Lem. Good idea—that guy definitely has some anger management issues.
The Baxters' cow has another calf a week before Christmas, which makes it way easier for the fam to leave for a while for Christmas: the calf will take care of the milking for them!
Ory makes a giant fruitcake, and when she finishes, Penny gives her the fabric.
She bursts into tears of joy, and works for three days and nights making her dress. No helpful mice for her.
Buck stops by to tell them that Old Slewfoot killed one of their hogs, and Penny also finds out the Forresters are not coming into town for Christmas. Phew!
Everything is all set, and it's three days till Christmas…when Old Slewfoot strikes again, and this time he's killed their new calf.
Penny is mad.
Like, really, really mad.
He goes after him with Jody, and they track him all day.
Finally, they assume he'll be back to finish eating the calf that night, so they set a trap there.
They get home and conk out asleep, but get up early the next morning to check the trap.
Of course, wouldn't you know it—Slewfoot hasn't even come at all. Grrrr.
Penny is dead set on getting Slewfoot once and for all, so he tells Ory he's leaving to hunt him, and he's not coming home till he kills him.
Ory is devastated—it's Christmas Eve, and after all her hard work, they won't make it to the Christmas festivities after all? C'mon, have a heart, Penny!
Penny tells her to drive out to town on her own if they're not back in time. She's upset, but doesn't say anything. Sniff, sniff.
Jody and Penny pack up and head out.
They find Slewfoot's trail pretty quickly, and Penny shoots but doesn't kill him, so they keep on following.
They spend the night in an empty cabin by a creek, which belongs to a woman Penny dated before he married Ory—Nellie Ginright. Interesting.
She shows up the next morning, and once they explain their presence, she cooks them Christmas breakfast.
They head out afterwards, and find Slewfoot's trail easily. Da-dum. Da-dum. Da-dum-da-dum.
Finally, after a long chase and a huge battle with the dogs, Penny shoots Old Slewfoot and kills him! Woooooooo!
Thy can't figure out how to take his carcass home, but just then, the Forresters ride up, drunk as can be, and offer to help for half the meat. Yay?
They carry it back to the Baxters' house, and then all ride together into town to the Christmas festival. Is this really a good idea?
Buck decides to put on the bearskin, crawl into the church, and scare everyone—and it works, because obviously.
Penny and Jody are the stars of the party as they tell everyone about the hunt. Even Ory is proud of them.
But no one's very happy the Forresters are there, drunk. Luckily, pretty soon, they leave.
Suddenly, Grandma Hutto gets word that Oliver is back, and with Twink! She and the Baxters hurry to her house to keep them away from Lem.
When they get there, though—her house is on fire! What?!
They think the Forresters did it, when they heard Twink was with Oliver. On Christmas Day? Jerks.
Jody runs to tell Oliver, but when they get back, Grandma swears the fire was her fault, so he won't get into another fight.
It turns out he has married Twink, and Grandma decides to move to Boston to be closer to them. Phew—crisis averted. Well, except for the house fire.
The next morning, Grandma, Oliver, and Twink take the boat to Boston. The Baxters turn out to say goodbye.
Then they head home, talking about the Forresters and the fire. You know, the Forrest fire.
We'll be here all night, folks.
Jody can't wait to see Flag and tell him all about his adventures.
Things have quieted down on the farm, now that it's January.
The Forresters haven't stopped by to pick up their share of the bear meat, and Penny takes that as proof that they burned down Grandma's house—they're ashamed to show their faces.
The Baxters spend their time preparing the fields for crops, and chopping firewood. Good times.
One day, they see a wolf on their property, playing nicely with their dogs. They decide not to kill it, since it just seems lonely and harmless. But they don't dare tell Ory.
Penny gets hit with a bad case of rheumatism in February and is stuck in bed, worried he won't be up to the spring planting.
Meanwhile, Jody does as many chores as he can to help.
One day, at the sinkhole, he looks up and realizes how much Flag has grown. He'll be a yearling soon! Hey—isn't that the name of this book or something? And hasn't it been almost a year in Jody's life since the book started?
Flag has definitely become more of a problem. He has tricks to get out of any confinement, and knocks food off the table left and right.
When Ory wakes up screaming one night, because he had put his wet muzzle to her face, she finally banishes him from the house for good.
Jody is mad, but when he wakes up the next morning, Penny calls him outside to show him that Flag has trampled their tobacco plants, and ruined most of them. There goes their money crop. (Maybe Flag was just trying to warn them about the dangers of smoking?)
They decide not to tell Ma, but Penny tells Jody to put stakes all throughout the bed, so he won't run through it again.
March is beautiful, and Penny and Jody spend days planting crops, with Flag frolicking around them.
Penny is working extra hard, to make up for being stuck in bed so long with his rheumatism.
One day he tries to pull an old tree stump out of the ground—and keels over in agony. Ya think?
Jody has to help him home, where Ma goes into fits, blaming him for pushing himself too hard. Nice.
He thinks he just strained himself, and that he'll be fine soon. We'll see.
They figure Penny must have "ruptured," or gotten a hernia, because he doesn't recover. Ow!
The corn starts growing, and Penny warns Jody to keep Flag away from it.
Jody takes Flag squirrel hunting, and everyone is pleased with their success…
…until the next day, when Jody goes outside to find that Flag has eaten all the corn crops! Only a few tiny plants are left!
Jody is horrified, but has to tell his Pa. Oh man, oh man, oh man.
Pa discusses the situation with Ma, and they come up with a fiendishly clever plan.
Jody is to go get the ears of corn they still have stored, shell them, and plant those seeds. Then he has to build a strong, tall pen to keep Flag confined.
He runs off to obey. Once he finishes the planting, it takes him forever to haul the wood for the pen to their property.
Finally, he can start building it, and Ma is so impressed at his days of hard work that she actually helps! Well! There's a first time for everything!
They're almost done, when they realize that Flag has eaten the second crop of corn sprouts, too! (Cue the sinking feeling.)
Ory goes inside to tell Pa, and he calls Jody in.
He tells Jody to take Flag into the woods and shoot him.
Jody takes Flag out into the woods, along with Penny's gun, but can't bring himself to shoot him.
He frantically tries to think of a way to avoid it, and decides to go see if the Forresters will take Flag to Jacksonville to live in a park! Uh, okay.
He hurries to the Forresters', but they're all gone trading except Ma and Pa.
He asks Pa Forrester for advice, and Pa says he'd shoot Flag, too, in their situation. Big help he is.
Jody decides to take him to Jacksonville himself—but when he stops for a nap, Flag just runs back home, and Jody has to follow.
He sneaks into the barn to sleep with Flag there.
The next morning, his Ma finds that Flag has eaten the rest of the corn and a bunch of the other newly sprouting crops. What a nightmare!
Penny calls for Jody, who tells him he just can't do it. Then he calls for Ma, and tells Jody to go to his room.
Next thing he knows, there's a shot.
Ma has shot Flag—but only wounded him. Way to go, mom.
Jody screams at his parents that he hates them, and chases Flag to the sinkhole, where he shoots him in the neck to end his suffering.
Then he vomits and passes out.
Jody is running away from home.
He is determined to go to Jacksonville, and from there to Boston, where he'll go to sea with Oliver.
He hitches a boat ride with a fisherman to Nellie Ginright's cabin, so he can use her old broken-down boat.
When he gets there, he fixes it up as best he can, and starts paddling. It's going to be a loooong trip.
Jody is still totally horrified at Flag's death and feels like his Pa betrayed him.
He camps out that night, starving but nauseated at the thought of Flag's carcass.
The next morning, he continues paddling along. When his boat starts taking on water, so he paddles back to shore in a panic.
Now he's lost and still starving. Like, actually starving. He keeps paddling until he finds an abandoned cabin.
There's just some flour there—but Jody is so desperate, he mixes it with water and eats it. He sleeps there that night.
The next day, he finally sees some other ships, but when he waves at them, they don't respond.
Exhausted, he collapses, sobbing, and then faints.
Finally, some sailors pick him up and feed him. They bring him back into town, and tell him to go home.
He heads home, not knowing what else to do.
On his way, he finds the place where he had built the flutter-mill last April, and decides to build another. But he doesn't enjoy it anymore. Hm. It's almost like he's been growing up.
Suddenly he can't wait to get back to his Pa.
He runs home and enters, to see his Pa sitting hunched over by the fire.
Penny can't believe he's home, and Jody can't believe he's still wanted.
Ma has gone to get more corn seed from the Forresters.
Jody eats, and tells Penny what he's done.
He tells him he'll take over the farm work now, and Penny can tell he's grown up.
Penny talks with him, man to man, about how hard life is.
Jody helps him to bed, and thinks of his chores in the morning. Neither Flag nor his Pa will be there to help him, but that's okay—he can handle it now.
He dreams of Flag, and of a boy and a yearling, running into the forest, never to return.
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Review: Voices – ‘Resurgence’
By Joshua Lowe January 22, 2018 No Comments
The latest EP by Indianapolis metalcore outfit Voices, the first in the span of 3 years, offers an acceptable piece of work that contains great production and performances, albeit nothing new from what we’ve heard previously within the genre.
Resurgence is a fairly straightforward foray into the world of metalcore, one that contains thick growling vocals alternating with a melodic counterpart. While there certainly are some highlights and a play on format, it comes all little too late as it borrows key elements from the past while also failure to evoke any true type of nostalgia.
That isn’t to say the EP is poor as the compositions here are well performed and the track listing flow nicely. Opening track “Demons” serves as an alright single and opening track as it hits with raw energy and attack, even though a track like “Haze” would’ve probably been a more suited introduction to the EP. The tracks holistically veer on poppiness as the band attempt to meld these hooks in true metalcore fashion. The end result can be debatable, but there’s no denying that there’s a certain confidence that carries these tracks forward.
A highlight of the EP is the second track “Worth (Keep Me Blind)” as it opens with a driving introduction followed by an infectious groove that flows into the breakdown almost naturally. It’s harsh but in the best way, delivering the most attack out of any track, and display the band at their best. It demonstrates some of the most solid performances on the record, with special consideration to the guitars and drums.
It’s also worth noting that the production is quite crisp and punchy. The guitar leads are mixed beautifully and the production as whole helps accentuate each instrument when needed to. There is very little wrong with the production and will certainly create a certain accessibility to the record.
Even though Voices deliver an EP that is worthy of the metalcore label, the result is a band leaving very little to differentiate themselves compared to the ocean of other acts attempting the same sound. Anyone a fan of the genre will enjoy this and the execution is mostly its greatest strength, but the band will have to try and push themselves creatively if they want to leave a mark.
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Brandon G. Walls
Brandon G. Walls 1986–2019 Hastings—Brandon Grant Walls, age 33 of Hastings and formerly of Stanton and Kenyon, died peacefully at his home on Monday, December 30, 2019. He was lovingly nicknamed "Tigger" by his grandpa Ray. Brandon was born on February 23, 1986 in Red Wing, the son of Christine Kimmes and Kenneth Walls. He was baptized at St. Pius V Catholic Church and later confirmed at Stanton United Methodist Church. He graduated high school in 2004 and was currently employed at Intek Plastics in Hastings. As the only boy, growing up with sisters was interesting! He tolerated many of their games and requests, only to end up laughing and playing along! He loved his family and enjoyed spending time with them. He was to be married to Mandy Vickney on October 10, 2020. He was an avid outdoorsman and loved hunting, fishing, and being in the woods, at "the park" at his grandparents, or enjoying the cabin life with Mandy's family. He loved sharing his passion for the outdoors with his son, Michael and stepson, Johnathan. From the time he was young, he was around animals, and he especially loved his dogs. He will be greatly missed by the love of his life, Mandy Vickney of Hastings; son, Michael and stepson, Johnny; his mother, Christine Kimmes of Stanton; grandparents, Ray Sr. and Mickey Kimmes of Stanton; father, Ken Walls (Laura Qualey) of Cannon Falls; grandparents, John and Jeanine Walls of Cannon Falls; sisters, Amanda Evans of New Prague, Brandi (Ben) Nesseth of Crookston, Linnea (Nate) Wayne of Ellendale, Cortney Walls and Kaitlyn (Jim) Pabst, all of Eau Claire, WI; nieces and nephews, Ellie and Joey, Monroe and River, Gus and Evelyn; and many aunts, uncles, and cousins, including special uncle Ray Kimmes Jr. of Cannon Falls. A memorial gathering was held on Thursday, January 2 from 4-7 pm, with a prayer service at 7 pm, at Lundberg Funeral Home in Cannon Falls. In memory of Brandon, donations may be made to donor's choice. Online condolences may be directed to www.LundbergFuneral.com.
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Shot Rock
Michael Tregebov
Publisher: New Star Books
SKU #: I16G
Fiction. Campus politics collide with curling club realities, releasing pent-up forces and triggering a chain reaction of unintended consequences. Blackie and his curling buddies find themselves whipped up by Blackie's university-age son to oppose the shut-down of their beloved Queen Victoria, Winnipeg's friendliest—and only Jewish—curling rink. Under the shadow of threat that this might be their last season ever, Blackie's foursome marches relentlessly towards the provincial bonspiel and the promise of glory.
Audio Excerpt @ CBC Radio Canada
Bernie Bellan @ The Jewish Post & News
Gordon Arnold @ Winnipeg Free Press
Michael Fraiman @ The Canadian Jewish News
Winnipeg native Michael Tregebov's first novel, THE BRISS (New Star Books, 2009), was short-listed for a Commonwealth Writers Prize, and was followed by THE SHIVA (New Star Books, 2012) and SHOT ROCK (New Star Books, 2019). A noted Spanish translator, he lives near Barcelona. His translation work includes books by Nadine Gordimer and William Carlos Williams, as well as over 100 episodes of Star Trek (both generations) and The Equalizer.
Author City: Barcelona SPA
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Another Big NY Firm Jettisons Trusts and Estates
Corporate law firms once viewed trusts and estates as a small yet important practice that discreetly advised wealthy families. But drafting wills and trusts, and the legal matters that flow from that, is less lucrative than the primary revenue drivers at big law firms: multibillion-dollar corporate transactions and high-stakes litigation.
And there are problems with trusts and estates within a big law firm model. The practice, to use the law firm management parlance, is not as leverageable as other areas. Corporate and litigation partners generate big fees by assigning armies of junior lawyers to megamergers and complex lawsuits. By comparison, trusts and estates work requires far less manpower, which mean far less profit.
Another issue in sustaining these departments is that individual clients bristle at billable rates that now reach more than $1,000 an hour. While big corporations grudgingly pay those rates, wealthy families often resist them.
As a result of these dynamics, firms’ trusts and estates practices have remained small and, in many cases, decreased. At the same time, firms have aggressively built up their corporate and litigation practices across the globe. They have also embraced hot, moneymaking practice areas like patent law and white-collar criminal defense.
-from "Debevoise & Plimpton Drops its Trusts and Estates Practice," in the Feb. 5 New York Times.
The process of large law firms pushing out their trusts and estates practices has been going for 20 years or more. Perhaps a key factor in this particular situation is a lock-step compensation system for senior partners. It has always seemed to me, however, that the big firms could simply pay the T&E lawyers less, unless the overhead structure is so burdensome in the big firm that the T&E lawyers would do better in a small firm setting. That is an argument that I hear from T&E lawyers who would prefer to practice in boutique firms and not to join a larger firm with a diverse practice.
We get several inquiries a year from large firms seeking a merger. Haven't bitten yet.
Top Schools Suing Grad Students Who Default on Perkins Loans
The Russians report the story this way:
Graduate student borrowers are defaulting on almost US$1 billion in federal loans that were given out to the poor. US colleges such as Yale, Penn State and George Washington are coming after them in the courts, suing for nonpayment.
-from "Wealthiest US Colleges Suing Students over Default loans" from the RT website.
Bloomberg reports it this way:
Needy U.S. borrowers are defaulting on almost $1 billion in federal student loans earmarked for the poor, leaving schools such as Yale University and the University of Pennsylvania with little choice except to sue their graduates.
From "Yale Suing Former Students Shows Crisis in Loans to Poor" from the Bloomberg News Website.
The government is holding the schools accountable that admitted the subject students in the first place. Those subsidies increased the demand for the grad school's education. Increased demand meant higher fees and expenses could be charged by the schools, which meant the students needed to borrow further, a malignant cycle, no? Now the schools sue the former students. We trust that prospective students are much more wary.
I have to question Bloomberg's assertion that the schools have "little choice except to sue their graduates," especially the top ones, with huge endowments, vast fixed assets, and prosperous alumni. They could start paying the government back right now and not wait on how their lawsuits turn out. But perhaps they are.
Surely some of the grad students, especially the ones who can't find jobs, will countersue the schools, alleging misrepresentation about the status of the jobs market and a failure on the part of the school to determine whether the student would be able to pay back the school before admitting the student in the first place.
I would be interested in how many suits the government has against the schools. Probably none at this point. It ought to happen.
In any event, this probably indicates that government subsidies of higher education generally are at serious risk. In fact, the articles state that this is the case. The higher-education bubble that Glenn Reynolds describes continues its slow motion burst. It would seem to me the entire business model of the university is experiencing a "creative destruction" wave of the sort that other business and social sectors have experienced. It's time.
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One of our apprentice fitters has been recognised nationally for his dedication and ability.
Cameron (Cammy) Evans, who works at our Bonnyrigg depot near Edinburgh, was named a Star of the Future at the Construction Plant-hire Association (CPA) awards held in Coventry.
Rob Cairns, regional manager for plant (Scotland), said: “This was a great achievement by Cammy as he was up against some strong competition from some large organisations.”
The awards scheme is for trainees in the plant-hire industry with separate prizes for Level 2 and Level 3 apprentices. They are assessed throughout the academic year on their work in college and in their work environment, with a particular emphasis on enthusiasm and commitment.
Steven Miller, workshop manager at Bonnyrigg, said: “Cammy has been enthusiastic from day one and gets on really well with his colleagues. He’s willing to learn, is always on time and is always asking the right questions.
“I’ve every confidence he will become an excellent fitter. We’re going to really push him forwards in his third year.”
Cammy, 19, was bursting with pride at winning the award.
He said: “I was amazed when I won the award for Scotland. It was an honour just to be shortlisted.
“I really like working for Story. I have been given so much support and hope to continue working here after my apprenticeship.”
Cammy starts the third year of his apprenticeship with the Construction Industry Training Board at college in Glasgow this September.
Story Contracting wins Carlisle College award
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Artist Rooms: Roy Lichtenstein
Jim Shaw: The End is Here
Hayward Gallery, South Bank Centre, London
26 February-16 May 2004
The Lichtenstein retrospective at the Hayward Gallery establishes an interesting timescale in terms of the appreciation and significance of Lichtenstein's work and the development of a critical apparatus to understand it. It reinforces the fact that Pop Art was of profound significance in cultural terms but difficult to assess by studying individual artists. Lichtenstein poses numerous problems and contradictions in critical terms, as the literature and reviews reveal.
In 1963, Roy Lichtenstein was 40. He was producing a series of seminal works that took comic-strip images and reinvented them as large paintings. In doing so he established himself in an unassailable position in the Pop Art movement and in the American art world. Five years later in January 1968 to coincide with the retrospective of Lichtenstein at the Tate Gallery, Studio International published a major, even seminal article by Lawrence Alloway, together with and preceded by one by Richard Hamilton. Hamilton was quick to examine, in Lichtenstein's case, the issue of transformation, the rejection of the idea of composition, replaced by, 'the conflict of flatness and illusory space' that 'reveals a superficial concern with style. It is a curious fact that these obsessions, a baroque love of decoration and a delight in illusion, often go together. In any essentially mannerist art it is in the extremity of the stance that the glory lies. Lichtenstein is marvellously extreme.'1
In 1974, Frank Whitford expressed the view that Lichtenstein's comic book paintings had been largely misunderstood. 'To explain the qualities of Lichtenstein's paintings by contrasting them with their [comic-book] sources in the light of conventional aesthetics misses the point: Lichtenstein had uncovered an underestimated, misunderstood and largely overlooked fund of exciting imagery and had introduced it to a wider public by celebrating it in an artistic context.'2
A further thirty years on, the Hayward Gallery retrospective (first shown at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark) has prompted an almost unanimous slating of Lichtenstein's work, in terms of significance and quality. 'There are worse things than being a minor artist. Perhaps this exhibition is clumsily chosen, but it makes him seem an infinitely slighter figure than his fame implies … there are some paintings here that make you seriously wonder if Lichtenstein deserves to be remembered even as a second-rank American painter.'3
Lichtenstein's comic-strip paintings became an essential aspect of the iconography of the 1960s. The mythology that evolved, and on which the Pop artists drew, contained contradictory aspects of the society that promised economic and technological prosperity. The assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963 and the outbreak of the Vietnam War revealed serious flaws in the American dream. Race riots and the personal tragedy of celebrity figures such as Marilyn Monroe and Elvis Presley brought into question the economic superiority of America. Andy Warhol revealed the banality of an obsession with money in multiple images of American dollar notes and in bottles of Coca-Cola®, the crass symbol of the American dream. Vulnerability and destruction were explored by Lichtenstein through images that hitherto belonged to popular culture.
The relationship between the media, the individual and society as a whole are addressed by Lichtenstein's larger than life comic-strip images. Pop Art sought to counter the hypnotic power of the media by using the imagery and technique in a new context - that of a gallery or museum.
Pop Art reacted to the phenomenon of depersonalisation in mass society with styles which were equally impersonal, with pictures which had an equally objectivising effect. The media had changed the relationship between individual subjectivity and mass consciousness, and Pop Art therefore also wished to redefine the role of individuality in art.4
Sentimentality in the media is amplified by the scale of Lichtenstein who presented banal stereotypical roles such as 'Drowning Girl', 1963. Sexual battles are here fought using the image of a staged melodramatic love scene; more traditional battles using fighter planes and the full machinery of war were created in works such as 'As I Opened Fire', 1964. In both, Lichtenstein echoes feminist issues and the preoccupation with war and destruction that were both significant issues in America during the 1960s - even if Lichtenstein himself claimed that he was concerned only with images, not themes. The themes, however, assume greater importance from an historical perspective. In terms of a retrospective, this is perhaps the most significant flaw in Lichtenstein's agenda; if he had involved himself with the themes that with hindsight are central to his work, he may have evolved a more interesting late body of work.
The viewers of these works of art, now firmly installed in an art gallery, can take part in the dialogue concerning dichotomies in modern society, rather than merely play the voyeur who reads comic-books in private. This aspect of Pop Art, which was a form of Neo-Dada, took its cue from Marcel Duchamp, the witty manipulation of imagery so that the original meaning becomes ambiguous. The personal catastrophes of the 'Drowning Girl', for example, 'I don't care! I'd rather sink … than call Brad for help!' were elevated to the realm of art, by virtue of its amplified scale and its installation in an art gallery or museum space. Reinforcing this notion is Lichtenstein's 'Art', of 1962, a large oil on canvas (91.4 x 172.7 cm.) which consists simply of the word ART painted like a commercial sign in three colours. In both form and content, the commercial comic-strip, 'derives from its function of trivializing and generalizing emotions, actions, people and objects so as to make these conform to popular opinion.'5
It is generally held that because comic books are created by production teams in which each specialist is responsible for a particular part of the production, the final outcome does not usually represent a cohesive theme. There is an anonymity in the mass-produced, sometimes vulgar and cheap comic book; the pictorial language, the typography, the pixels, all are borrowed from the aggressive language of advertising. Comic books traditionally inhabited the other end of the spectrum to the fine arts. It was precisely the commercial elements according to Tilman Osterwold in his most accessible study of Pop Art (1999), that helped Lichtenstein 'to exploit to the full, certain moods calculated to suggest the existence of something real. He was thus able to track down contemporary stereotypes of reality while simultaneously keeping his distance as an artist, both from his subjects and from himself.'6
Tom Wolfe, therefore, made the ultimate criticism of Lichtenstein when he stated that his cartoon-based paintings were quite simply inferior to his source material. In Tom Lubbock’s critique from The Independent Review, he described Lichtenstein’s work in the following terms.
The comic-illustrators such as Tony Abruzzo, Russ Heath, Irv Novick and Jerry Grandinetti were artists doing really vital and original work. Lichtenstein's borrowing just obscured the originality and sapped the vitality of his sources … The cartoon artists, though highly productive, were not naïve, anonymous hacks. A lot of innovations in Lichtenstein's pictures are innovations that they came up with first. They were responsible for adapting the convention of the cinematic close-up to the still image. They worked out the dynamic interaction of image, caption, speech-bubble and sound-effect. They devised those dramatic compositions from which Lichtenstein's work gets much of its impact. These illustrators, it seems to me, should be co-credited (alongside Lichtenstein) with the paintings to which they made such decisive though involuntary contributions.7
Lubbock believes that, in artistic terms, Lichtenstein's paintings are quite inferior to the originals on which they are based and although they do not constitute true plagiarism, there was such a degree of dependency in the matter of both image and composition, that Lichtenstein could not really function independent of it. Following the great success of the work produced between 1960-1965, Lichtenstein turned to stylised, impersonal works (using the limited formal language of the comic-book illustrators) that formed a dialogue with artists from the past including Cézanne, Picasso and Matisse. In doing so he questioned the very nature of artistic communication and 'the fact that reproduced reality now seems to many of us to be more real than reality itself'. As Whitford stated:
The brushstroke in an Abstract Expressionist painting is the epitome of freedom, individuality and of a painterly sensibility itself. What happens to it when it is reproduced by means of the simpler and simplifying language of photographic, technical reproduction, when it is redone in terms of the screen dots, primary colours and heavy contours of the comic-strip? It remains recognisable; yet it has become the opposite of itself. Total freedom now is rigorous discipline and its uniqueness, its autograph quality has been reproduced in a parody of the infinitely reproducible.8
The late works are disappointing. They give the impression that Lichtenstein's exploration of reality (as described so plausibly by Frank Whitford) and the transference of images from one medium to another, was not enough to sustain a long career. Many of Lichtenstein's works do not warrant inclusion in the Hayward Gallery show, but perhaps seeing them in this context - and against the backdrop of the important 1960s work - his career, and his contribution can be assessed in a more reasoned light. Lichtenstein's career was so overly focused on the aesthetics of the comic-strip that it did not develop in the independent and complex way that Eduardo Paolozzi or Andy Warhol's career's did. Lichtenstein limited his dialogue to a self-referential visual language - he was a playful technician who was not able to sustain his initial success or to diversify his initial achievement in the way Eduardo Paolozzi managed. Paolozzi developed a complex and original oeuvre that was informed by but not dictated by Pop Art. The breadth of his understanding of art history as well as of contemporary language and ideas is evident in a recorded conversation he had with Frank Whitford, and JG Ballard, published in Studio International in 1971, at the time of Paolozzi's exhibition at the Tate. Paolozzi stated:
A Lichtenstein is no more radical really than say, a Manet. I mean, Manet completely revolutionised painting. If I can cast myself back to 1850, or whenever it was, I can see that Manet delivered a body blow to the safe and comfortable posture of the intelligent eye. How can any Pop painter be said to have had that kind of impact, to have advanced beyond that? As far as I'm concerned there's a slight note of disillusionment with America now; the American dream is over.9
Compared to the superb Donald Judd retrospective at Tate Modern (which I expected might have been disappointing) after all these years, Lichtenstein has suffered from over-exposure and undue elevation in all respects.
1. Hamilton R. Roy Lichtenstein. Studio International. 1968; 175(896): 24.
2. Whitfield F. Roy Lichtenstein: Parody and Parodox. London: The Mayor Gallery, South Molton Street, 1974.
3. Lubbock T. Wham! Bam! Thankyou ma'am! The Independent Review: London, 25 February 2004: 13.
4. Tilman Osterwold, Pop Art. Taschen: London, 1999: 53.
5. Ibid, p.56.
6. Ibid, p.183.
7. Tom Lubbock, op.cit, p.13
8. Frank Whitford, op.cit, no pagination.
9. Paolozzi E. Speculative Illustrations: Paolozzi in conversation with JG Ballard and Frank Whitford. Studio International 1971; 136-143. See archive on this website.
Also reprinted in: Spencer R (ed). Eduardo Paolozzi: Writings and Interviews. Oxford: OUP, 2000: 202.
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Hall, in College on Tuesday nights throughout each term, is a formal, served, three-course meal for which members of College are encouraged to wear gowns.
Hall must be booked via the booking system. Wine is not served but can be purchased, please contact the Events Office to arrange this.
Six guests per College member will be permitted for any one meal (with the exception of the Burn's Night Hall, for which the maximum is three guests). Many of the other College events, such as St Cross Talks and Musical Evenings, will also be held on Tuesday nights, and the College bar will be open after the meal.
Hall meals are often themed, recent highlights include a Peruvian Hall organised by Junior Research Fellow Dr David Hume and his wife Laura, a Wimbledon Picnic Hall and a Vegan Hall. The catering team are always keen to hear suggestions for new themes.
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Manhart tuned BMW M3 5.0 V10 Touring
October 13, 2009 October 19, 2009 Rudi 0 Comments basis car, Bavarian, BMW, BMW 3 Series, BMW M3, BMW M3 E91, BMW M3 Estate, BMW M3 V10, BMW model, car package, CONVERTIBLES, Coupes, E60, electronics, engine electronics, EUR, Evo Tyres, Geilenkirchen, germany, Günther Manhart, M3 saloon, Manhart, Manhart Racing, mechanic, Monza, Nokia E90 Communicator Smartphone, North Rhine-Westphalia, performance sports seats, Sedans, Sports Cars, sports seats, Sports sedans, stainless steel exhaust system, steel, Stoptech Sport Trophy, the E91, V10
Attention all sporty, family men! The new BMW M3 is also available as a four-door saloon. That means it’s very easy to justify buying a new plaything to your sceptical wife (or, in fact, to your own conscience). It’s just a shame that the Bavarian company hasn’t yet been able to bring itself to make an M3 estate.
The tuners at Geilenkirchen-based Manhart Racing probably thought the same thing when they built the car that BMW didn’t want to build; an M3 touring. To produce it, the team centred around legendary mechanic Günther Manhart, furnished the E91 bodywork with the front apron, front side panels, side skirts and of course, the characteristic powerdome bonnet from the M3 saloon, designed their own M3-style rear apron and widened the rear wheel-arches to give them that M3 look. The aerodynamic rear-view mirrors really topped it all off. However, Günther Manhart knows that you obviously can’t just make a car look good; it has to have something under the bonnet too. The axles, the tank, the complete steering system and a range of other hidden but otherwise essential parts have all come from the M3.
V10 power in the E91
So it only remains to talk about what really makes the M3: The 4.2-litre V8 engine. But wait! At this point it should be mentioned that Manhart Racing specialises in fitting various BMW models with the formidable 5.0-litre engine from the M5 E60. And so the V10 engine found itself used in another BMW model, the E91. After optimising the electronics and incorporating HJS’s stainless-steel four-pipe exhaust system with two 200-cell racing catalytic convertors, the heavy-duty unit manages an extremely impressive 550 PS, which is kept on a tight leash by the 7-speed SMG gearbox, also taken from the M5 and by the corresponding 100% limited slip differential
With the vehicle possessing such an armoury, it can catapult itself from 0 to 100km/h in only 4.3 seconds and on the motorway it easily cruises past most other performance saloons and estates (including the ‘true’ M3 and M5 models) with its top speed of 324km/h. It’s a good thing then, that Manhart Racing has equipped the car with tunable Bilstein PSS10 coilover suspension and an extremely stable Stoptech Sport Trophy Kit braking system with a six-piston calliper with grooved 380mm brake discs at the front and a four-piston calliper with 355mm brake discs on the drive shaft.
The RÄD Monza three-part forged wheels with black rims fit perfectly with the character of this vehicle, and they are available in 9.5” and 10.5” x 20” sizes. Flat, size 255/30ZR20 and 295/25ZR20 Hankook S1 Evo tyres aim to provide higher levels of longitudinal and lateral acceleration.
Performance interior
A detailed look at the interior is also very much worth your. Driver and passenger both sit in outstanding BMW sports seats, and the back seats can be upholstered with leather or Alcantara to match those in the front. Likewise, the leather interior with Alcantara roof and door linings as well as the carbon fittings and the BMW performance steering wheel with illuminating indicator switches really give the car that racing look.
Manhart Racing has set the purchase price for the complete car package at around €120,000. If desired, your current basis car can be upgraded.
Technical facts
Vehicle: BMW M3 E91 5.0 V10 SMG
Bodywork: M3 E90 front apron, M3 E90 front fenders, M3 E90 bonnet, M3 E90 side skirts, M3 E90 wing mirrors, Manhart Racing-designed, M3-style, rear apron, widened rear wheel arches in the style of the M3.
Engine: 5.0-litre V10 from the M5 E60, modified engine electronics, lifting of the Vmax limiter, complete stainless steel exhaust system with 2 x 200-cell HJS catalytic converters and 4 x 86mm exhaust pipes, tank from the M3 E90, 550 PS.
Transmission: 7-speed SMG from the M5 E60, 100% limited slip differential from the M5 E60, front and rear axel from the M3 E90.
Chassis: Bilstein PSS10 coilover suspension, steering system from the M3 E90.
Brakes: Stoptech Sport Trophy Kit front and back, 6-piston callipers and 380mm slats in the front, and 4-piston callipers and 355mm slats at the rear.
Wheel/Tyres: three-part RÄD Monza aluminium rims in 9.5” x 20” ET20 and 10.5” x 20” ET20, Hankook Ventus S1 Evo Tyres in sizes 255/30ZR20 and 295/25ZR20
Interior: heated BMW performance sports seats, leather-covered back seats in the style of the front seats, full leather interior with Alcantara roof and door lining, BMW performance steering wheel with illuminating indicator switches, acceleration and quarter mile time displays.
Source: Manhart Racing
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America Brown
Actors: Frankie R. Faison, Michael Rapaport, Karen Black, lodie Bouchez, Elizabeth Bove
Director: Paul Black
In America Brown, a coming-of-age drama, high school football star Ricky Brown (Ryan Kwanten) flees his hometown in west Texas to start a new life in New York City. There he begins to cope with the accidental death of his ... more »older brother, Daniel (Michael Rapaport), and the lingering pressures of a small town's football-crazed culture. Ricky turns up on the doorstep of his childhood hero, the last great quarterback from his hometown, John Cross (Hill Harper), now a priest in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. After an emotional stay in New York, Ricky returns to Texas to confront what forced him to flee. « less
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"AMERICA BROWN is one of those little Indie films that creeps up on you and despite the technical flaws and obvious low budget milieu makes a solid impact as a bit a Americana worth visiting.
America Brown aka Ricky Brown (Ryan Kwanten) is a highschool senior who happens to be a football star in his tiny West Texas town where Bo (Leo Burmester) and Coach (Frankie Faison) have pinned there efforts to break into the big time in football if Ricky fulfills his expectations. Ricky lives with his beautician mother (Karen Black) whose strident husband is dead and whose oldest son Daniel (Michael Rapaport) recently died from a heart attack. Ricky needs to breathe and escapes to Brooklyn where he traces down his personal hero, former football Texas star John Cross (Hill Harper) who has become a Catholic priest but has secrets of his own. John takes in Ricky, and Ricky begins to discover the world outside of Texas, loses his virginity to a diner waitress Vera (Natasha Lyonne) and befriends Rosie (Élodie Bouchez), whose attachment to John Cross seems to have some undercurrents. Ricky is all innocence and beautiful youth as he walks the streets of New York in his jeans, cowboy clothes and Stetson - reminiscent of Midnight Cowboy. But as his mind is exposed to the world outside Texas and football he comes to grips with a recurring unbearable nightmare: he feels responsible for his brother Daniel's death. Ricky ultimately returns to his hometown, to his loving mother, and to football, faces his demons, and learns the meaning of becoming a man.
Young Australian actor Ryan Kwanten, complete with authentic Texan twang, creates a character impossible not to love. His mixture of optimism, naiveté, and inner torture is a fine portrayal of a gifted sportsman challenging what his world expects of him. The remainder of the cast is likewise very fine. London born, Canadian writer/director Paul Black gifts us with his first feature film here and he seems to have all of the makings of a truly fine artist. Watch for his future work! Recommended. Grady Harp, November 05
An obscure gem of an independent movie
Library CD Borrower | Boston, MA | 04/03/2006
"I thought I'd write a little blurb about an independent movie I've seen that got little publicity, shown practically nowhere, and has been seen by practically no one. The script is great, though there is very little humor and filled with many awkward silences so it's a bit hard-hitting. But that's understandable knowing the situation the main character is in. The waitress who plays Vera is the same girl who played the "band camp girl" in American Pie movies. She's adorable here as Ricky's first love, and frankly, not quite as flat-chested as she was in those movies - she's grown up some. There isn't really a resolution to Ricky's return except that he faces his fears and goes on with his life. The rest is left up to the imagination. A provocative, well-executed movie worth seeing, a movie better than most major-studio pictures I've seen lately."
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Russell G. Lavoie | Portland, ME | 01/24/2007
"This is one of the most imcomplete films I've ever seen. If "Ricky Brown" weren't such a likable and attractive character, I believe this film would have been unbearable. The character of the ex football player turned priest was just weird. His silence throughout the first half of the film was either bad direction or a case of over-emoting. I really wanted to like this film, as the preview on In Demand made it seem good. Actually, the preview on In Demand made it seem like a very different movie. All the characters have secrets that are never revealed, so it makes it kind of annoying trying to guess what motivates them, if anything motivates them. Apparently, Ricky Brown is gay and has decided to quit football and work in his mothers beauty shop because that's what all gay men do. But in the end you see him practicing for football. Also when Ricky, who we have discovered is gay, leaves New York, he kisses Vera goodbye as though he's in love with her. It really makes no sense. I think this film has a good premise and some decent performances, but it ultimately goes nowhere. Again, I went into it really expecting to like it, but it just didn't make the grade."
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In less than thirty years China has gone from being a marginal player in world trade to become the largest trading nation of all. But despite its growing dominance China still lacks the will and ability to lead, and has yet to find its role in international trade politics. On the one hand, it sometimes breaks the rules, for example concerning its WTO accession obligations. On the other, it operates like an established actor, adhering to the status quo and placing greater importance on its own interests than on the survival and stability of the system as a whole. China remains reserved and passive in the multilateral Doha process, but pursues a vigorous bilateral trade policy.
A survey of the actors, institutions, interests and debates reveals that the simplistic idea of a monolithic Chinese trade policy cannot be upheld. Any sweeping characterisation of China’s trade politics as liberal or mercantilist, as compatible or incompatible with WTO rules, can easily be contradicted in the complexities of Chinese reality. Alongside the central government agencies, regional and business interest groups determine the course of negotiating and implementation processes.
Despite numerous external economic controversies and conflicts, Germany and the European Union should not lose sight of the strategic objective of integrating China into the rule-based world trade system. Multilateral negotiations under the auspices of the WTO offer the best chances of opening Chinese markets and improving the enforcement of non-discrimination, transparency and rule of law. China, too, depends on an open world economy and a functioning WTO.
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The Spa and Lodge at Tagaytay Highlands
Situated on one of the highest points of Tagaytay Highlands, The Spa and Lodge offers its members the best accommodations and the ultimate in relaxation therapy and beauty treatments. Made entirely of Western Red Cedar logs, the two-level structure offers 25 well-appointed, tastefully-furnished suites, a whole wing of treatment rooms-including a his and hers salon-and a health bar at the Great Room Lobby Lounge offering the finest and healthiest dishes. Accommodations at the Lodge are available via a separate membership which is open exclusively to members of the TSL Club, while all Clubs members may enjoy the facilities the Spa has to offer.
The Spa and Lodge
25 fully-furnished well-appointed and special guestrooms
The Great Room lobby lounge and coffee shop
Exhilarating views of Mt. Makiling, Laguna de Bay, Taal Lake and Tagaytay Highlands Golf Course
Relaxation therapy, massage and treatment rooms
Ladies and Gentlemen Salons
Services by Asmara, Inc. – Spa Consulting and Management
Warm and cold stone massage
Hilot (Filipino massage)
Salt and aloe vera scrub
Organic red rice scrub
Barako coffee scrub
Foot massage and reflexology
Spa Facials by BiodrogaTM
Anti-Aging Apple Stem Cell Facial
Men’s Refreshing and Protective Facial
Golden Caviar Facial
Special massage and facial treatment packages
MEMBERSHIP REGULATIONS & FEES
Requirements for Secondary Transfer of Membership Certificate and Application for Membership to The Spa & Lodge at Tagaytay Highlands
Kindly return/submit the following minimum requirements to us to apply for membership:
Duly completed Application for Membership form. Please indicate N/A if not applicable.
Four (4) pieces recent 1×1 pictures (colored, white background, taken during the last 3 mos.)
Information Cards, to be accomplished in full and in duplicate by the applicant1
Photocopy of NSO-certified birth certificate
Letter of advice from the original member/seller informing The Spa & Lodge of his resignation and subsequent transfer of the membership certificate to the buyer
Acknowledgement Letter on annual dues and real property tax payment
Two (2) sets, original copies of a signed and notarized prescribed Deed of Assignment of Rights
From corporate sellers: Board Resolution indicating the transfer of the membership certificate and the authorized signatory for the relevant documents pertaining to the transfer
Check payment for the transfer fee amounting to P150,000.00 payable to The Spa & Lodge
If applicable, check payment for the annual dues amounting to P24,000.00 payable to The Spa & Lodge at Tagaytay Highlands, Inc.
If applicable, check payment for the real Property Tax amounting to P2,686.90 payable to The Spa & Lodge at Tagaytay Highlands, Inc.
Duly signed acknowledgement on having read and understood the policies and procedures of The Spa & Lodge
For Corporate Applicants, please submit the following in addition to the foregoing:
Certified true copy of SEC Certificate of Registration
Corporate Articles of Incorporation & By-Laws
Company’s latest General Information Sheet, as submitted to the SEC
Board Resolution and/or Secretary’s Certificate indicating the following:
Resolution to purchase a membership certificate of The Spa & Lodge at Tagaytay Highlands
Resolution appointing the authorized officer to sign on behalf of the company for the purchase
Resolution appointing the official designee member and his/her position in the company
Percentage of the Capital Stock owned by foreigners and/or foreign-based corporations (if majority- owned by Filipinos or Filipino-owned corporation, please state so)
Additional requirements (may be submitted even before the approval of the membership application but prior to the release of membership card to the applicant):
From the individual applicant/corporate designee:
Photocopy of the details page of valid passport or driver’s license
Membership Card/s duly signed in black ink (Please do not sign on the blank provided for the Authorized Signatory. Indicate the name of the applicant/dependent in pencil.)
Surrender of membership card/s issued to the seller and dependent/s
Original Membership Certificate issued to and duly endorsed/signed at the back portion by the seller
Certificate of clearance from outstanding dues issued to the seller (this may be obtained from the Billing Department of The Spa and Lodge at telephone number 046-483-0838)
From the applicant’s authorized dependent/s
Four (4) pieces recent 1 x 1 pictures of each of the applicant’s authorized dependents (colored, white background and taken during the last 3 months. Please write the owner’s name with a ballpoint pen at the back of the photo)
Photocopy of the details page of valid passport or driver’s license of each dependent
Photocopy of NSO-certified birth certificate of each dependent
From the spouse: photocopy of NSO-certified marriage contract
Important Note: The Clubs reserve the right to require the presentation of additional documents as they deem necessary. Inability to comply with any requirements may be used as grounds not to process the application. Please be informed that purchase of a membership certificate does not guarantee approval of membership. Processing of an application wherein complete and correct documents have been submitted is approximately 2 – 3 weeks.
The Tagaytay Highlands Club rules and regulations constitute, but are not limited to, the following guidelines:The Tagaytay Highlands clubs are private and exclusive membership clubs. For this reason, club facilities and privileges can only be used by members and by guests invited and accompanied by a member in good standing. Likewise, entry to any club may only be extended to members and to guests accompanied by a member. This member is responsible for his or her guests’ good behavior and the cost of services rendered to them by the club.
The spouse and unmarried children below 21 years of age of regular or assignee members shall have the right to use all the facilities of the relevant club. Children who are married or at least 21 years old are no longer considered as dependents of members and shall be treated as guests.
Drivers, bodyguards, and nursemaids are strictly prohibited inside the Clubhouses, and all facilities are intended for members and their guests only.
Pets are strictly prohibited within club premises.
The cable cars and funicular are intended primarily to transport golfers and their caddies with their golf bags. Thus, priority must be given to golfers and caddies.
Golf shoes with spikes are not allowed on the second floor and offices of the Tagaytay Highlands Golf Clubhouse, or anywhere in the Country Clubhouse and Sports Center.
Carrying of firearms within club premises is limited to club security guards in proper uniform, security personnel accompanying the president of the Republic of the Philippines, and those specifically authorized by the management.
Helicopters are allowed to land only at club helipads. A landing fee is charged for every helicopter.
Parking of vehicles is prohibited along the driveways, in front of the clubhouses, and in parking slots allotted for golf carts only.
Sleeping in the public areas is strictly prohibited. Likewise, proper decorum should be observed at all times.
The number of guests that a memberis authorized to bring inside the clubs is limited to ten (10) on Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays.
Food and drinks are not allowed to be brought and consumed inside club premises.
A member shall assume full responsibility for any damage to club property or injury to club personnel caused by him- or herself, his or her dependents, and his or her guests. A member shall likewise be responsible for his or her dependents’ and guests’ indebtedness to the relevant club.
Authority Guest Cards (AGCs) may be issued to members’ guests only in the presence of the sponsoring member. Presentation of a letter of authorization signed by the sponsoring member requesting for the issuance of an AGC will not be entertained. AGCs are issued to extend signing privileges to members’ guests
Members are required to sign checks or chits for food and beverage items, green fees, and all other expenses for themselves and their guests. Cash payments are not accepted.
The clubs are not responsible for the loss of property or valuables under any circumstances.
Proper dress code should be observed at all times.
The following are not allowed in the Golfers’ Lounge or at the Midlands Veranda:
Tank tops (sandos)
Rubber slippers
Proper golf attire should be worn on the golf course:
Shirt with collar
Golf shorts or slacks for men (Denim pants are not allowed.)
Golf shoes with soft spikes
Cigars, cigarettes, and hard drinks or intoxicating beverages are not sold to minors (below 18 years old).
Tipping club personnel for services is prohibited. If a member or his or her dependent or guest wishes to commend an employee for exceptional services rendered, a letter to the management will be appreciated.
Note: The foregoing rules and regulations are subject to change and may be amended or superseded from time to time as circumstances may warrant, and as management may deem appropriate.
The Spa & Lodge
The Great Room
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Aldi goes nationwide with Instacart
Online grocery service to reach 1,800-plus stores in 35 states
Russell Redman 1 | Sep 18, 2018
After an expansion earlier this year, Aldi and Instacart are rolling out online grocery delivery to all of the hard-discount grocer’s stores across the United States.
Aldi said Tuesday that online ordering through Instacart will become available by Thanksgiving at its stores in 35 states, covering 5,000 new ZIP codes. The national deployment will reach 75 major market areas, including San Diego, New York City, Miami, Raleigh (N.C.) and Minneapolis.
Related: Aldi set to kick off national ad campaign
Batavia, Ill.-based Aldi piloted the same-day grocery delivery service in the Atlanta, Dallas and Los Angeles areas starting in August 2017 and then in March expanded it to Chicagoland, northwest Indiana and west toward Rockford, Ill.
“Aldi is a pioneer and a leader in creating a shopping experience that works with people’s busy lives,” Aldi U.S. CEO Jason Hart said in a statement. “Our partnership with Instacart and the expansion of our e-commerce options are more ways we are meeting the growing needs of today’s shopper, who wants high-quality food at unbeatable prices.”
Related: Aldi firing on all cylinders
With the move, customers of Aldi’s more than 1,800 stores will be able to order groceries and fresh food — including organic produce, antibiotic-free meat and seafood — via Instacart for delivery in as soon as one hour. To use the service, shoppers go to Instacart.com/Aldi or download the Instacart app and fill the virtual shopping cart with groceries. Next, they select a delivery window, which can be anywhere from an hour to up to a week later, while at checkout. Instacart personal shoppers then pick, pack and deliver their orders.
In support of the rollout with Aldi, first-time Instacart users are being offered $10 off their first three Aldi orders of $35 or more with the code “ALDILOVE.”
“The response to the Aldi pilot programs in Atlanta, Dallas, Los Angeles and Chicago have been overwhelmingly positive. Bringing delivery to Aldi stores across the U.S. enables Instacart to grow its base of customers and introduce even more people to same-day grocery delivery,” stated Apoorva Mehta, founder and CEO of Instacart. “Like Aldi, Instacart is focused on delivering value and making quality food accessible and affordable to everyone. We’re excited to work together to further innovate the shopping experience with fast delivery and low prices for Aldi customers.”
Aldi’s national partnership with Instacart comes amid a $5.3 billion, five-year expansion program that will grow the chain’s store base by nearly 50% — to about 2,500 locations by the end of 2022 — and upgrade most of its stores. Aldi also has begun a major product expansion in which 20% of items in every store will be new versus a year ago. The product rollout, expected to run through early next year, focuses on fresh, organic and easy-to-prepare offerings and will expand the selection of fresh food by 40%. This week, Aldi also kicked off a national advertising campaign, dubbed “Shop differentli,” that highlights the quality and price benefits of shopping at its stores.
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Real Canadian Superstore expands grocery home delivery
Loblaw Cos. chain builds on partnership with Instacart
Russell Redman 1 | Oct 09, 2018
Discount grocery retailer Real Canadian Superstore has launched same-day delivery in Winnipeg, Manitoba, with Instacart. s
With the move, about 200,000 households in the Winnipeg area can order Real groceries and daily staple items through Instacart and have them delivered to their door in as soon as one hour, according to Loblaw Cos., the chain’s parent company.
Related: Loblaw introduces e-commerce commuter initiative
Real Canadian Superstore is part of Loblaw’s discount division, which has 500 stores across Canada and also includes the banners No Frills and Maxi (Quebec).
"We are a customer-led company and are always looking for new ways to make shopping more convenient," Herman Paek, senior vice president of e-commerce at Loblaw, said in a statement. "The option of home delivery complements our in-store and pick up experiences, to provide our customers with convenience and quality, however they want to shop with us."
Loblaw announced its partnership with Instacart last November and began delivery from Loblaws, Real and T&T stores in Toronto in December. That was followed by a launch in the greater Vancouver area in January.
Instacart now provides grocery home delivery for more than 250 Loblaw Cos. stores from British Columbia to Nova Scotia.
In late September, San Francisco-based Instacart announced plans for “Instacart North,” a technology hub in Toronto from which the company will grow its online grocery business in Canada. Currently, Instacart’s Canadian retail partners include Loblaw and Walmart Canada, which launched the service in the Toronto and Winnipeg markets last month.
More than 50% of Canadian households now have access to Instacart’s service, the company said.
"Since Instacart first entered the Canadian market through our Loblaw partnership in Toronto in December, we've received an overwhelmingly positive response and requests to expand into new markets," stated Andy Anthony, general manager at Instacart. "Today, Instacart is available to one in two Canadian households, and we look forward to continuing to grow that footprint and reaching more customers across Canada in the weeks and months ahead. This expansion also offers more flexible income earning opportunities to our thousands of [personal] shoppers in Canada, who help pack, pick and deliver the groceries."
Loblaw also offers store pickup for online grocery orders. Called Click & Collect, the service was introduced in Toronto stores at the end of 2014 and then expanded to Nova Scotia and New Brunswick in December 2017. Click & Collect is now available and more than 200 stores, and Loblaw said it plans to roll out the service to other Atlantic markets during 2018.
This past spring, Loblaw also launched a grocery pickup service with Toronto transit authority Metrolinx. Under the program, commuters order groceries online by midnight for pickup at GO Transit stations during their next day's commute. Depending on location, the groceries are supplied by nearby Fortinos or Loblaws stores and are held for shoppers in a special delivery truck, lockers or an enclosed kiosk. Loblaw launched in five stations and said it plans to expand the program in phases to more sites in the region.
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Home » South Pacific » Survivor 23 South Pacific Season Finale: Loyalties will be broken
Survivor 23 South Pacific Season Finale: Loyalties will be broken
by David Billa|Published December 19, 2011 -Updated March 16, 2018 |1 comment
And this is it, a wrap an another season of Survivor, a pretty great one despite a couple of dull episodes and for the first time in many seasons (probably since Todd Herzog winning Survivor China) I’m genuinely happy with the winner who won’t be named for a few more lines in case you haven’t watched the season finale yet (but after the picture, many spoilers ahead, you’ve been warned).
So let’s see what happened to our last remaining contestants during this last episode.
– Albert Destrade: I kinda feel bad for Albert. I mean, the guy doesn’t seem like a bad dude, but he really fooled himself big time. He was convinced that he was going to make a big move that was going to make him win the game, but didn’t manage to make a single one, and I’m convinced that if he had made one, he wouldn’t have make it to the end. He was convinced that he was playing the jury, but he was so transparent in his schmoozing that he didn’t get a single vote at the final tribal council. Yet, I need to give him some credit, he managed to go to the end thanks to some savvy moves at the beginning of the game, but from then it went downhill and he failed pretty much everything he attempted and he became the unlikely goat of this Final Three when he could have won had he been a bit more sincere and straightforward. Oh well…
– Benjamin “Coach” Wade: Coach failed where many great strategists failed (I’m looking at you Stephen Fishbach), he got so entangled in his double and triple promises and deals that it had to blow up in his face sooner or later. Seeing Coach’s face at the end of tribal I have the feeling that the jury really tore him down, even more so than we got to see. And yet he got three jury votes (not sure whom yet except for Cochran, I haven’t watched the Reunion as I’m typing these lines). And Cochran said it right: Coach played a great game, a much better game than anyone knowing Survivor could have predicted he would play (I even almost called him a great strategist at the beginning of this paragraph). And Coach said it right at the beginning of the episode: This game was his to lose. Don’t get me wrong he didn’t lose it during this final episode, but way earlier than that, basically when he started talking about honor and integrity with an alliance of five. He miscalculated a big thing, when you have an alliance of 5 or 6 and a final three, you will have to backstab people and you will make people angry. With a smaller alliance, you obviously make less people angry, and with a final two, you do too in the sense that people kinda expect to be backstabbed. But when you have an alliance of five and a final three, everyone in that alliance expects to be in the final three and that they’re not one of the two persons who will get screwed. So if you position yourself as the leader of that alliance, and start talking about honor and integrity you’re losing two jury votes right there and potentially more so because those two people will be among the last two being voted out and you can be sure they will strongly campaign against you at Ponderosa. Coach knows Ponderosa, he voted against Stephen in the Tocantins for that very reason, he felt betrayed by him more than by J.T. and yet, he didn’t take that into account in his own game plan. For that Coach didn’t deserve to win and can’t be considered a great strategist despite what I implied at first.
– Sophie Clarke: Congratulations Sophie, you did play a great game. Sure your social game could apparently have been a little better, but from a strategy point of view you were perfect even though your strategy was not as TV friendly as many “great strategists”. People will say that she didn’t make any big move, but she didn’t have to, she positioned herself where she had to, not as a ringleader (she had Coach and Albert as a shield for that) and not as a coattail rider either (she did have an active hand in voting most people out). Actually when she started preventing Albert from doing those big moves that would have been great TV for sure but would have screwed her end game, this is when I felt that she was going to be the winner despite her being so underedited (Probst, get over it, some women can be great player too), she was turning Albert into a goat and Coach was screwing himself over, she had the perfect two people to go to the final tribal just there, all she had to do was win those challenges at the right time and she did it.
Yes, despite what a lot of people will say for sure Sophie Clarke is a great winner. Congratulations again Sophie. Not only she now belong to the very private club of Survivor Winners, she also belongs to the even more private club of Survivor winners I think deserved to win and for whom I was rooting for (yes I am aware that I am the only person on Earth caring about that club).
I hope we see her again…
A few words about some jury members:
– Ozzy Lusth: His diatribe didn’t sound right at all, especially minutes (TV minutes, in real life it was obviously a day after) he was smiling while being voted out. I assume that he wanted to create some drama for TV sake, but Ozzy, you suck as an actor even more than you suck as a strategist. I’m surprised he voted for Sophie after being such a jerk to her (maybe he felt bad?)
– Rick Nelson: Seriously? You’re angry you’ve been lied to0.. at Survivor??? I guess you really sucked and deserved to be so underedited despite the fact that I spent my season trying to find an angle that could prove you could be interesting. Maybe you could learn a lesson or two from:
– Edna Ma: Wow, Edna. I’m proud of her on this one. For once we have somebody who’s really been taken for a fool during the game and who doesn’t play the bitter jury member card. In past seasons, we’ve seen juries being more and more bitter as if they had never watched the show before (ok, to be fair many members hadn’t), but Edna really took the high road here and for that she’s won many points in my books.
– John Cochran: I have the feeling that he was almost happier to be in the jury than on the grill at this point of the game, as he was taking part anyway and not being shred into pieces. I still think that his vote for Coach was a fanboy vote though, but hey, I’d rather have such a vote than a bitter vote any day of the week.
– Brandon Hantz: For the first time of the season I felt bad for him when I saw him literally melting upon hearing that he’s been lied to even more that he thought he had, but then upon learning that he still voted for Coach despite that… Well, he’s a fool and an idiot, what else can I say?
Next time on Survivor:
Well, I don’t know anything about Survivor 24 yet, not even the nickname… well I could look that up on Wikipedia… Let’s see… Survivor: One World… And there’s an extra info on Wikipedia that may or may not be a spoiler… Interesting… Well, I’ll be back soon to preview all of that (and I may post a few ranking/opinion things before introducing the new contestants sometime next month).
Meanwhile, do not hesitate to share your two cents in the comment and go read those fine people’s blogs and sites:
Super Jude: awesome blog from somebody who’s even more an hardcore fan than I am and whose analyses are always spot on.
Jeff Pitman’s True Dork Times has always hilarious and interesting awards every week for the contestants.
Dalton Ross at EW, funniest recaps online and as he knows everyone at Survivor, lots of inside info too (no spoilers).
Rob Cesternino‘s Website. I’m waiting to see him play this game again, meanwhile he keeps us entertained with his great podcasts. Rob had a big loss in his family this week, so he won’t make a podcast, but my thoughts are with him and his loved ones
Stephen Fishbach get your own blog! I can’t even link you properly. Well, we can still follow him on Twitter (just like most of the people I’m mentioning here).
The Midside: a great blog that analyses the game in terms of storytelling, always fascinating.
I may forgetting someone, but those are the people I read/listen to religiously every week after each episode and so should you.
Oh and if you’re on Google+, don’t forget to put Surviving Survivor’s page in your circles.
Albert Destrade
Benjamin "Coach" Wade
Ozzy Lusth
Sophie Clarke
One thought on “Survivor 23 South Pacific Season Finale: Loyalties will be broken”
Her strategy of staying with the alliance was the same as Rick’s and Brandon’s. She was just as likely to go out as they were. She was lucky enough that Albert and Coach considered Rick a threat in the final which was one of the dumbest decisions I have witnessed. Sophie, as expected, just waited for the tribal council and broke down when she realized she could be the one voted out. She was very very lucky indeed.
Oh, what about Albert in the last immunity challenge? Didn’t it seem like he was trying to prevent Sophie from doing well? I thought that was very awkward.
As much as I grumble about her getting strategical credit for doing exactly what the other 4 people in the alliance did, I will give her credit for pulling out a victory. Congrats Sophie!
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Home » News » Call for evidence on SDGs progress in Scotland
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The SDGs are the closest the world has come to a strategy to eradicate poverty, address climate change and build peaceful, inclusive societies by 2030. This is an almighty challenge but driving implementation of the SDGs can help us become the society we want to be. In Scotland, the National Performance Framework (NPF) is the Scottish Government's main local mechanism through which it will implement the SDGs.
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Cheap tech gifts
30 best Lightning accessories
By Matt Bolton 2012-01-13T10:00:00.12Z
Speaker docks, charge cables and adapters for Apple's newest devices
Apple released a slew of new products at the end of 2012, including the iPhone 5, iPad mini,
iPad with Retina display
fifth-generation iPod touch
and new
As was rumoured beforehand, these devices ditched the old, wide-dock connector that Apple has used for years in favour of the new Lightning connector. The tiny new connector takes up much less space in the body of the device, but does mean that all these new gadgets aren't compatible with the old dock's cables and other accessories.
Unsurprisingly, manufacturers are bringing out whole new ranges of toys that play nicely with the new connector, and this is what's available so far.
Naturally, Apple makes plenty of Lightning accessories, including some unique adapters that aren't available from third parties as yet.
For a start, you've got its standard Lightning to USB cable (£15), for charging and syncing your device, and the Lightning to 30-pin Adapter (£25) and Lighting to 30-pin Adapter (0.2m) (£30) for turning your old cable or accessory into one that's ready for the latest devices.
Apple Lightning to 30-pin Adapter
There's also the Lightning to Micro USB Adapter (£15) so you can use any old micro-USB cable to charge your device.
Beyond simple charging and syncing, Apple offers two video adapters: the Lightning Digital AV Adapter (£39) and the Lightning to VGA Adapter (£39).
The former offers HDMI output for your device, as well as a second Lightning port, so you can keep charging it while it's connected to a big screen. The latter is the same, except with an analogue VGA output, for connecting to older screens or projectors.
Those who like to transfer photos to their iPhone or iPad aren't forgotten, either. The Lightning to SD Card Camera Reader (£25) lets you connect a full-size SD card to your iOS device, so you can transfer photos.
The Lightning to USB Camera Adapter (£25) does the same thing with USB card readers.
Scosche has introduced three main Lightning-compatible lines, all focused around charging. The strikeDRIVE 12W ($30) can charge the fourth-generation iPad and any other Lightning device from your car.
Scosche strikeDRIVE 12W
The strikeDRIVE 5W ($25) is the same, but provides less power, so is only really suitable for the iPhone 5, fifth-generation iPod touch and iPad mini.
The strikeBASE 12W ($35) are pretty much the same, but charge from the mains. They feature folding wall prongs, so they can be packed away easily (though are currently only planned for the US).
The strikeLINE ($30) is a USB Lightning charging and syncing cable that retracts to keep itself compact, but can extend to three feet at its longest.
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Belkin offers the Car Charger with Lightning connector (£25) for keeping your device topped up on the road, though it's worth noting that its output is 10W – lower than the 12W it's wise to use for the fourth-generation iPad, but more than enough for the latest iPhone and iPod touch, and the iPad mini.
Car Charger with Lightning connector
There's also the Car Charger + Lightning ChargeSync Cable (£30), which is essentially the same, but with a USB-to-Lightning cable that's separate from the charger, rather than integrated.
Belkin also does the Charge + Sync Dock (£30), which is slightly pushing it as a Lightning accessory, since it doesn't actually have a Lightning connector of its own, but we're counting it anyway.
Belkin Charge + Sync Dock
It's a stand designed to accommodate the iPhone 5 or fifth-generation iPod touch, including an audio jack pass-through, since the headphone slot is not on the bottom. You have to slot your own Lightning cable into the hole provided if you want to actually charge and sync, but it's one of the first docks for the iPhone 5.
Griffin has produced a veritable cornucopia of Lightning USB syncing and charging cables. The 2' USB to Lightning Cable (£13) is a straight USB Lightning cable; the 3' USB to Lightning Cable (£15) is the same, but 12 inches longer; the 4' Coiled USB to Lightning Cable (£20) is a springy cable that extends to 48 inches at maximum; and the 10' USB to Lightning Cable is a very, very long sync-and-charge cable (£25).
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How to Aim a Slimline Dish
By: Billy Kirk
Aiming a Slimline Dish is a process that does not take a trained professional or any prior knowledge of satellite dishes or their installation. As long as you have a wrench on hand and preferably a friend to make the process move more smoothly, your Slimline Dish can be hooked up to its satellite receiver and properly aimed to receive satellite programming in only a few steps, although some guess-and-check with the aiming process is certainly required.
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Check the mounting area where the Slimline Dish will be installed. Make sure it is free of any obstructions. Look at the skyline surrounding your mounting area and ensure there is nothing that could block satellite signal reception, such as power lines, trees, structures or tall buildings. A clear view of the southern sky for a direct line-of-sight access to the satellite is required.
Point the Slimline Dish toward the southern sky. Aim the dish in a general direction, as precise adjustments will be performed later on.
Connect the Slimline Dish's satellite receiver to your television. First, take note of the connectors on the back of your TV and the back of your satellite receiver. There will be a set of three connectors on each that are red, white and yellow in color. Notice the standard audio/video (A/V) cables that shipped with the receiver have a set of "RCA-type" plugs on both ends, and these are also red, white and yellow in color. Connect these plugs to the jacks on the TV and the satellite receiver, matching each plug's color with its color-matching jack.
Connect the coaxial cable to your satellite receiver. This cable runs directly from the Slimline Dish and should be plugged into the "ANT IN" port on the back of the satellite receiver. Once connected, turn on both the receiver and the TV and wait for the menu to load up. Then, select the "signal meter screen" option. Have a friend stay with the meter screen as you return to the Slimline Dish.
Adjust the elevation (up/down movement) of the Slimline Dish. To do so, loosen the nuts that are located right by the elevation bolts on the Slimline Dish with a wrench (your Slimline Dish will come with a manual that gives a pictorial diagram of the location of the key nuts/bolts on the dish). With the nuts loosened, make slight up/down adjustments to the dish, and after each adjustment wait for a report from your friend viewing the signal meter screen. The screen will provide coordinates and instruct your friend as to how close you are to hitting each with your dish adjustments.
Adjust the azimuth (left/right movement) of the Slimline Dish. To do so, loosen the LNB dish arm nuts with your wrench. Then, make slight left/right adjustments to the Slimline Dish and again have your friend check the TV display. Once you have hit the coordinates and an overall reading of 70 to 80 is provided by the signal meter screen, the Slimline Dish is correctly aimed.
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All nuclear related obstacles removed: Araqchi
February 22, 2017 - 19:58
TEHRAN – Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said on Wednesday that all obstacles related to Iran nuclear issue have been removed under the nuclear accord, ISNA reported.
Speaking in Ferdowsi University in Mashhad on Wednesday, Araqchi said the nuclear negotiations were primarily aimed at ending the Western-led sanctions targeting Iran’s oil and the goal was achieved under the July 2015 agreement.
The primary sanctions put on place by the U.S. were not discussed during the talks, he said.
The top diplomat said other issues such as the details surrounding the purchase of airplanes and the “performance” of the current administration are not related to the nuclear deal.
“And how the Oil Ministry has ‘performed’ following the sanctions relief is a separate issue and not related to BARJAM,” he maintained.
BARJAM (JCPOA) is the acronym used in Iran when referring to the international nuclear agreement signed between the country and six world powers including the U.S., Britain, France, China and Russia plus Germany.
Under BARJAM, which took effect in January 2016, Iran received relief from international sanctions in exchange for a limited nuclear program.
“The things obtained are our [own] achievements and they [the U.S.] did not do us any favors,” said Araqchi, the second ranking negotiator after Foreign Minister Zarif in the nuclear talks which lasted for about two years.
He also casted serious doubt on Washington’s sincerity, saying the animosity of the Americans towards the Islamic Republic has not ended.
Earlier in February, the U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis called Iran “the single biggest state sponsor of terrorism in the world”. Mattis’s remarks came days after the Trump administration banned citizens of seven countries, including Iran of course, from entering the United States.
In an interview with CNN reporter Christiane Amanpour, Iran’s Foreign Minister Zarif responded to Washington’s anti-Iran rhetoric, saying, “You cannot find an Iranian who has committed a single act of terror against Americans. Iran has always condemned every single terrorist incident in the U.S. since 9/11.”
“We do not respond well to threats. We respond very well to respect -- mutual respect -- and mutual interest,” he added.
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Woodville man dead in Highway 98 crash
A Woodville man is dead after a crash on Coastal Highway 98 early Tuesday morning.
Woodville man dead in Highway 98 crash A Woodville man is dead after a crash on Coastal Highway 98 early Tuesday morning. Check out this story on tallahassee.com: https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/2019/10/30/woodville-man-dead-highway-98-crash/4095472002/
Karl Etters, Tallahassee Democrat Published 9:07 a.m. ET Oct. 30, 2019 | Updated 9:46 a.m. ET Oct. 30, 2019
A Woodville man is dead after a crash on Coastal Highway 98 early Tuesday morning. (Photo: Photo provided)
Kenneth R. Chadwell, 78, died at a Tallahassee hospital after the crash in Wakulla County at about 4:45 a.m.
Chadwell’s 1986 Chevy Monte Carlo went off the roadway, according to the Florida Highway Patrol, and hit two trees before landing on its hood.
Contact Karl Etters at ketters@tallahassee.com or @KarlEtters on Twitter.
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New houses in Bedfordshire impress couple
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Date: Tuesday 09 November 2010
Part Exchange scheme allowed Richard Tanswell and Jane Morris to secure their perfect match at Taylor Wimpey’s Castlemead housing development of new homes in Bedfordshire.
When Richard Tanswell and Jane Morris decided they wanted a more peaceful location in which to bring up their new baby Izabella, they were able to move into their dream property in Bedfordshire without even having to put their existing house on the market!
The couple were already aspiring to a more tranquil lifestyle away from the busy terraced street in Watford where they lived, when they visited friends at Taylor Wimpey’s stunning Castlemead development of new homes in Pitstone, Bedfordshire – and decided this was where they wanted to settle too.
Castlemead is in an ideal alternative location for property-seekers looking for homes for sale in Tring, Luton property and houses for sale in Aylesbury
The fact they hadn’t started trying to sell their home was no problem, as they were able to take advantage of Taylor Wimpey’s Part Exchange scheme. This meant the family moved into their new ‘Ivinghoe’ four-bedroom detached home in the space of just a couple of months – with no hassle or stress!
Richard (35) said: “We liked the area when we visited our friends and when we realised Taylor Wimpey was building another phase we popped into the showhome – and the rest is history!
“Part Exchange meant the move was really easy, much easier than the previous time we moved, as we didn’t have to deal with estate agents and it was also really quick – about two months in total. We were particularly pleased with Taylor Wimpey and how they managed the whole process.”
For Richard and Jane (29), the arrival of baby Izabella, now 14 months, refocused their lifestyle priorities, as they realised they wanted her to grow up somewhere quieter. Good local schools and plenty of space for IT consultant Richard to work from home were also key criteria.
Richard added: “When we moved three years ago we didn’t have a baby, but the whole scenario changes when you have your first child!
“As well as wanting somewhere rural and quieter, we looked at schools, which have got really good reviews round here. Also, I work from home much of the time now and space for a home office was another factor. I like the fact the top-floor landing is big enough to have a desk in and it’s nice and quiet up there!
“The layout of the whole house has been well thought out. It’s a good house for entertaining, all the rooms are good sizes, and we like having the en suite and separate bathrooms. And having moved from a terraced street, we really appreciate the garage and off-road parking!”
The ‘Ivinghoe’, available now at Castlemead priced from just £369,995, is an exceptional three-storey detached home, characterised by an open-plan kitchen and dining room, and a spacious separate lounge, each opening through French doors to the private rear garden. A handy guest cloakroom completes the ground-floor accommodation.
Upstairs, the first-floor landing leads to the master bedroom with en suite shower room, plus a spacious second bedroom and a main bathroom. Two further generously proportioned bedrooms and a shower room occupy the top floor, while outside, the property benefits from a garage and additional allocated parking.
Like all new homes being built at Castlemead, the ‘Ivinghoe’ enjoys a high standard specification including a fitted kitchen with built-in oven, hob and hood and a choice of units.
The housing development aims to achieve an EcoHomes ‘Excellent’ rating through a range of green features, including dual-flush toilets, water butts to collect rain for watering the gardens, secure cycle stores, recycling bins in the kitchens, rotary dryers in the gardens, and A-rated white goods available from Taylor Wimpey’s Options range of finishing touches for each home.
Additional Options in the range include flooring and carpets, upgraded kitchen units, granite worktops and appliances, and tiling, showers and bathroom suites.
And to make buying a home at Castlemead even more appealing, Taylor Wimpey offers a range of time and money-saving incentives to its customers, including its Part Exchange and easymover schemes, available on selected plots.
Castlemead is attracting a great many families and executive couples, keen to enjoy life in a thriving village community within easy reach of Aylesbury, Leighton Buzzard and central London.
The new homes at Castlemead in Pitstone are within easy reach of a pre-school, sports clubs and activities for youngsters, while the village church, cricket club, drama group and local history society offer activities for all. Pitstone is also the proud home to a museum of rural life, packed with fascinating artefacts charting the area’s rich heritage.
Children are well catered for by a selection of good educational facilities within the local area, including a primary school a mile from the development, and secondary schools in the market town of Tring, just three miles away.
Tring also offers a wide range of shops, sporting and leisure pursuits, while Aylesbury, Leighton Buzzard and Hemel Hempstead are all within a 10-mile radius of Castlemead.
For those travelling further afield, the M25 is 20 miles away, and the M1 north and south is within a 10-mile drive. Tring Station provides regular services to London Euston in 45 minutes.
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Sunday Feature: Is burning of uplands a model for sustainable farming
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Sunday Feature: Destructive Fires reflect failed management of uplands but they could be a model for sustainable farming
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Burning of uplands has been a controversial issue this Spring, with good reason. Well over 60 large fires have taken place since the legal deadline in March 1st, half of them in national parks or conservation areas. This is despite numerous warnings from fire services which have not changed over the years. The advice of Co Clare Chief Fire Officer Adrian Kelly in 2014 still holds true: “The highest risk period occurs between March and June, when ground vegetation is dead and dry following the winter period.”
On Friday night a renowned project to save grouse on Boleybrack Mountain in Co Leitrim was put in jeopardy by a large fire. This took place the same day as James Moran, an ecologist from Sligo IT, had been there discussing fire risk with local landowners. These farmers assisted in trying to douse the flames, but clearly the message had not hit home with everybody.
Earlier in the week fires raged out of control in Sligo, Dublin, Roscommon, Kerry, Galway and Donegal. A fire on Killery mountain in Sligo rampaged over 4,000 acres. It was filmed by drones and the footage shows a wide arc of flame creeping towards forestry and houses. A major bog fire burned for days near Frenchpark in Co Roscommon, while last week a fire in Carraroe in Connemara destroyed the main power supply line for the Aran Islands.
The ongoing dry spell is obviously too much temptation for some. In addition at this point it's a case of devil may care for those who set a fire. We are so deep into the breeding season and so many fires have already caused destruction this year, that those setting them now will not take the risk of sticking around. This means that almost inevitably any fire set now will go out of control. It's a highly irresponsible thing to do, but it only takes a second of madness to do it.
Fires in these windy dry conditions will soon leap and fly so it is very lucky that no one has yet been hurt by them. Fire crews are working around the clock to control them and aren't getting much sleep. They have appealed repeatedly for people to stop the burning. By taking up their valuable time, gorse fires mean they will be slower to respond to other emergencies. The impeded response time for emergency services could still cost somebody dearly. In addition wildfires have come close on a few occasions to doing serious harm.
Residents of Fintown in Co Donegal had a close escape on April 30 when a large gorse fire swept through the village. One local described it as a scene like Armageddon, when a gorse fire suddenly appeared opposite the village. Joe Brennan told the Donegal Democrat: “The fire had spread and crested the hill opposite Loch Finn in less than a half hour.” He said it was “very intense and frightening.”
So much for the impact on people. Birdwatch Ireland released a statement last week entitled “Carnage in our mountains and hills, yet silence from our Government”. Head of communications, policy and engagement Oonagh Duggan outlined the pitiful response from government to the spate of illegal fires, concluding that it might be either “because nature has not been of high importance on the agenda of most public representatives,” or, “maybe because some vested interests have the ear of government”.
In any case, the lack of prosecutions for setting illegal fires can be attributed to a number of factors. It is difficult to pin the blame for illegal burning on any individual. Unless evidence exists to show that a person wilfully set a fire, how can they be blamed for it? Forensic investigators can pin-point the source of a fire quite easily, but Gardai do not seem to consider out of season gorse burning to be a serious enough offence for them to divert resources into investigating it. This is where government is needed.
Wildlife groups want to see these investigations prioritised as a deterrent to landowners. If the person on whose land the fire was started could be punished by withholding entitlement payments, landowners might think twice about burning after March 1. Birdwatch Ireland sees it as “a chronic lack of political will to protect and financially invest in our natural heritage and to put in place long-term resourced plans for our wildlife and nature.”
There is an overarching problem of upland management. The fact is, many of these habitats are man-made. Responsible management of uplands requires regular seasonal burning in order to renew the cycle of life. Small flowering plants benefit from scrub fires every five or six years. What has happened in Ireland and elsewhere is many hill farms have been abandoned or neglected. Regular burning has not taken place, allowing layers of detritus to build up on the ground while gorse and heather have grown leggy. This not only smothers the diverse range of rare plants that are vital to large numbers of insects and birds, it also creates a timebomb of highly combustible materials for when a fire does break out.
Burning after the closing date of March 1 does not qualify as responsible management because at this point the hills can be too dry and fires will easily go out of control. Fast-moving fires are devastating for all wildlife, as the photograph of a charred frog posted by Bantry Fire Brigade demonstrated. In addition, wildlife has already started to reproduce. Ground-nesting birds such as grouse, hen harriers and curlews are sitting on their nests. Once they have lost their offspring to fire, they are unlikely to nest again that year.
All this only exacerbates the issues that have plagued species such as linnets, skylarks, curlews, harriers and a range of other birds. Birds are not the only ones to suffer. Rare plants whose precious seedlings have just emerged are scorched, preventing them from setting more. At a time when they need all the help they can get to survive, we are burning these rare species into extinction. This is why it is so important that a system of controlled burning takes place in the off-season between September and February.
The EU is also becoming more aware of these issues. A study published this week outlines the risks of farm abandonment*. The authors found that in order to preserve many kinds of grassland flora and fauna, farmers would need to return to later season hay-making to allow ground-nesting birds to fledge, and grassland plants to set their seeds.
Lower quantities of artificial fertilizers benefit native fauna, while pesticide use should be minimised or halted in sensitive ecological areas. The report recommends the employment of traditional management techniques such as periodic upland seasonal burning. The problems with traditional grassland management from a farmer perspective are loss of yield and lower quality of grass crops.
To combat these disincentives the authors recommend financial supports be put in place: “To help avoid abandonment, [the authors] suggest that more dialogue is needed between conservation and farming stakeholders in order to form a better understanding of each other’s views regarding the value of grasslands, and to maintain farmer interest in traditional management. Financial compensation to farmers, for example as part of agri-environment schemes, may also enhance farmers’ motivations for involvement.”
But throwing money at a problem does not necessarily make it go away. Our delicate uplands must be managed much more sensitively than at present, or we will lose a lot of diverse species. The impacts of this might not be felt immediately, but they will be felt. From selling our country as a tourist destination, to the ecological services that flora and fauna provide, we rely on having a broad diversity of wildlife for our social and economic well-being. Achieving this at present looks like accomplishing some kind of revolution in how we regard these places.
I have often advocated for grants to aid aspiring smallholders in their desire for a piece of ground. So many people would love the chance to go farming on a small scale, providing artisan produce to the growing demand for organic or ethically-produced food, but are denied the chance by prohibitive land prices. Perhaps the solution to upland management is a scheme to allow new entrants to take over these abandoned farms and manage them in the right way, as it seems their current owners are unable or unwilling to do.
*McGinlay, J., Gowing, D.J. and Budds, J. (2017).The threat of abandonment in socio-ecological landscapes: Farmers’ motivations and perspectives on high nature value grassland conservation. Environmental Science & Policy, 69: 39–49. DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2016.12.007.
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This website has lots of information, facts and dates about Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII and the Tudor period. To make it easier to navigate, select a category below:
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Intelligent and well mounted pieces on the life and times of the enigmatic Anne Boleyn. She was highly intelligent and accomplished, witty, sophisticated, emotional, cunning, perceptive, ruthless (at her enemies), determined, pious, fun loving, creative – so many qualities, but above all she was incredibly brave.
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I agree with every word that Alex said. Anne Boleyn with all of those personality traits made her place in the fore front of history. When one thinks of King Henry VIII one instantly thinks of Queen Anne Boleyn before the other wives. I especially like the word, “Brave” as without this trait she would have become a weak figure in history, just another of Henry’s conquests so to speak. But Anne stands out because of her strength, she stood up to Henry and it took quite the woman to do that indeed! I have on my living room wall the heads of King Henry VIII and Queen Anne Boleyn by Bossons. When I look at them I often say, “See Henry, on my wall you are still with her, and you did not succeed in removing her from your life, as history did not allow that to happen.”
I love your post, David. i found it funny.
Jena says:
haha well written
Leenan Hayden says:
BoleynChild says:
Just a question-
I’ve always been someone who has never worn makeup, since I have no need for it, so I was wondering if Anne might have worn any. Was she a natural beauty? or did she use forms of makeup to try and make herself look like the other girls in court? (fair hair, creamy skin.. etc:) Would she have used anything?
Yes Lady Anne Boleyn most likely used make up because she wasn’t known for her beauty and Henry enjoyed beautiful women. So she still tried.
Natea says:
YOUR GONNA DIE
I think we all are, aren’t we?
*You’re
I have read that the typical idea of beauty at the time was light hair and eyes. Anne had dark hair and eyes. I believe she was considered attractive but not not in the typical way. In several books its said that Anne was the most desired by the men at court
I think she had magnetism and charm. I’ve known women who weren’t what we’d generally call good-looking but who have oozed sex appeal and carry themselves confidently, the kind of people who turn heads. I think Anne was one of those women.
Olive skin is beautiful! Anne must have been stunning.
Damaris Guadarrama says:
Me encanta Anne Boleyn bien bonita pero ella respeta que mal …..Diis te bendiga.
How could just guess that ? I’ve never even read anywhere that Anne used make up, although when grown up her daughter, Queen Elizabeth 1 did wear make up. Anne wasn’t unattractive, but wasn’t considered a great beauty. She was likely attractive enough, just not a “stunner”.
Bruno Thor says:
I have read different books about Anne Boleyn published at different times. Earlier accounts of Anne’s looks tended toward the negative as those books also portrayed Anne as a villain. Today’s books about Anne Boleyn generally paint a more positive picture of her and along with the elevation of her character, her looks are praised more highly. Whatever her appearance was, Henry VIII liked it as he went to such trouble to secure her affections and he married her after waiting several years.
I have recently read The Rise and Fall of Anne Boleyn which painted Anne in a much more positive light. It also takes into question whether or not Anne had anything to do with the downfall of Cardinal Wolsey or if she were an innocent bystander. Might want to give it a go anyway.
rushunda says:
Ann bolyen was a very beautiful women.so discuss in the book ‘The Other Bplyen Girl’ its says she grew weary of smileing and always happy for the king and it made her skin pale and her face tired looking.she ended up wearing face makeup I believe to cover dark circles and a weary face.hope this helps a little!
-Rushunda Hall
Young.jobo says:
The other Boleyn Girl, was based on Henry’s account more than her side, that is what I believe anyway. I pointed her out as a harlot. If you think about it there was no way that any person would talk to Henry VIII the way she supposedly did in that movie. Not to mention if you follow the history in that movie her sister supposedly had a little girl Naughty Boy, and other historical events are not correct. That is my opinion anyway. It’s all just Hollywood!
He not I…sorry auto correct
I wish you could edit after you read what you have written. Lol… I wrote she had a little girl not a boy…
I have always thought that she didn’t fit the idea of beauty at the time but the one compliment ‘her eyes are black and beautiful’ is a huge clue to her charm, eyes the windows…blah blah…but there was something Anne had..it is the ‘it’ factor, you know them when you meet them, they take over and fill the room, and they usually can’t help it!! I prefer to think of her in good terms. I can imagine she may have used something to accentuate her eyes and probably something was used for the lips.I wish there was a really good portrait of her that I could actually get a measure of her face.
ANNE BOLEYN HAD 3 BRESTS AND A EXTRA FINGER ON HER LEFT OR RIGHT HAND.NO WANDER HENRYVIII DIVORCED HER.SHE WAS UGLY ANYWAY LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I assume you’re joking, Natea.
In response to Ann Boleyn having six fingers, three breasts, numerous warts, slimy skin, two heads, a tail, and god knows what other defects she’s been branded with, surely to god her enemies would have had a field day with the evidence. Henry and Cromwell would have milked any defects for all they were worth. Remember he thought nothing of publicly declaring Ann of Cleves, stinky, and complained bitterly about her supposedly saggy breasts, so why did he not do the same to Ann? Not a chivalrous man at the best of times.
I have always loathed him for that remark about Anne of Cleves — among so many other things. I’m sure an obese man with oozing leg ulcers smelled like a flower garden… NOT.
I think he was schizophrenic and paranoid and he made it so many lies about her. Unfortunately those stories have carried on through time.
DivineAverage says:
That is the funniest thing I have ever seen. Natea, your post just made my morning. I believe your assumption is correct, and your reply most amusing, Claire. Anyhow, thanks for making such a comprehensive site on one of the most interesting women in English History. And for putting up with the commentary of goofy youngsters, as is the responsibility of any good webmistress! Keep up the good work!
Thank you, DivineAverage, I’m so glad you enjoy using the site, I love running it.
I am so thrilled to have stumbeled upon your site cheers and thank you
Painting your own portrait? Dear, dear.
Makes me think now that you’ve got to get off the bottle dear, for you’ve once again mistaken the mirror for Anne’s portrait!
no she did not she had a mole on her chest and thats why she wore that necklace all the time she did however have an extra little finger in which she hid with her sleve
I may have to correct quite a many few of you, Anne Boleyn did not in fact have an extra finger as when she was dug up and moved to a more respectful situated place she was said to have had no signs of a birth defect aka. an extra finger!
That’s not true, Abigail, I have the report from the doctor who carried out the examinations of all the remains exhumed in 1876 and he stated categorically that there was nothing unusual about her fingers and no extra one was found.
Sharlynn Cheesman says:
OK First off greeting from a fan here in the USA and I have been doing alot of reading on both Henry 8 and Anne Boleyn and Henry had an ego the size of this globe and I really do not think that Henry would marry a women who had several deformities. So I think that the 6th finger and 3rd breast and so on so was made up from the very people who did not like her and wanted to take her down.
on the contrary they say she was sumthing beautiful, do u really believe the king of england is going to marry a woman with birth defects such as 6 fingers? i dont think so, as well as this being an era when deformities were hidden away. there are tons of rumors regarding anne simply because of her ‘haters’ thru out time. and obvisouly it would take a beauty to have the king of england annual his 1st marriage and break away with the catholic church. in my opinion henry was a pompous ass . they say elizabeth looks just like anne except for the red hair which comes from the tudors.
You are absolutley right about Henry Jennifer!
Melissa Crisp says:
I definately agree!!!
Lorna Wanstall says:
Melissa.. I have to ask are your parents Steven and Jill Crisp?
no they are not my parents……
In todays world Anne would just be passable but certainly not beautiful. She was considered beautiful back in tudor times but I think that was down to the way she worn her clothes, her humourous lighthearted behaviour and her learning. You can see why Henry was attracted to her.
Henry turned the world upside down for her only to turn inside out to get rid of her. Would he have executed her if she gave him a son? I don’t think so but I certainly feel he would have divorced her at some point. Rumour has it that he tried to plea bargain with her prior to her execution by offering her her life if she gave up all rights to the throne and took Elizabeth and went abroad. She naturally refused as she knew that if she did she would be hunted down and killed, along with Elizabeth and because she was abroad the king could claim that they died of some disease or something, nobody would be any wiser and no one would question the king’s story..
To me Anne is my heroine as she was a remarkable, intelligent and humourous person, and she gave the ultimate sacrifice herself so that Elizabeth could rule and put the Great in Britain. Henry never admitted it but of the 3 children Elizabeth was his favourite, and she always said that she may not be a lion but she is a lion’s cub. How right she was. She certainly showed that she had her fathers fire and her mothers wit when dealing with William Cecil concerning the succession and said to her Madam you must marry and produce an heir. She rounded on him and said ” If I had been born crested and not cloven you wouldn’t have dared speak to me like this.. I’ll let you draw your own conclusion to that one..
Pam Covington says:
I love your assessment of Anne and her relationship with Henry! I can just see the two together..I’m so fascinated with English history. I’m American but English and Scottish in heart. My heritage is Scottish and English.
I have so often wondered how is it possible to love someone so much that you literally kill old and trusted friends and then have someone kill her. His deplorable treatment of Catherine and Mary do him no favours, but the murder of someone he professed to love only 3 years earlier…wow. His ruthlessness in his mind I think was, sanctioned on high, but I would love to know if the man had any feelings of guilt. I think not..I really do believe he truly was a sociopath.
He portrayed her that way, I am sure of it. Think about it he wanted to make himself look better. He threw a hissy fit to the Pope so he could get a divorce. Then abt. 3 or 4 years later divorces the woman he caused so much rift raft over, to marry another woman that he had set his eyes on… Seriously?! I’m sure he ranted and Raved to all the guys ( in the locker room) that she has saggy boobs, that turned into three boobs, and she was disgusting and deformed. He also said that she had an affair with her younger brother. I don’t believe one bad thing that was said about Ann. She was a woman of her time, that held her King in the highest regard. No matter what false accusations he held against her. History repeats itself, that is why he was married so many times.
and furthermore they could dig her remains up and do dna just to prove the false lies. then all would be known
I heard they actually did dig up her corpse and that they found no evidence of a sixth finger.
Alison Weir’s book, “The Six Wives of Henry VIII”
Well, Natea, I assume with Claire , that you are joking, and really , if your going to say thingd like that , you should use proper spelling. Breast is spelled B R E A S T . Im no English teacher, but really, do it right !
I agree with Jenny and Claire. It’s “you’re” and “breast” and you if you are going to join this site you shouldn’t make idle threats as well. Get off.
never mind, Natea mistook the mirror for Anne’s portrait… She’s really got to get off that bottle!
I forgot to add , 3 breasts? ??????? That is entirely false? What evidence is there for that? and an extra finger , come now, I admit to a small mole or blemish, but I think its highly exaggerated
Lennice Ayala says:
The history books have left out a very important fact. Girls, women, had no say in their lives back in those days. Their fathers, husband, uncles, brothers, whoever was head of the family dictated what they did. Anne Boleyn for example, her Uncle the Duke of Norfolk decided her fate, her father gladly went along because it meant power for him. If Anne had refused she would have been beaten and thrown out with nothing. Secondly, who would dare to refuse the King whatever he wanted. That was Henry’s major problem he always got what he wanted when he wanted it. Jane Seymour had no choice with her father and eldest brother pushing her into the marriage. Katherine Howard had little choice pushed by her Uncle who also had pushed Anne Boleyn. And Katherine Parr she was a widow, who had been left penniless and had no choice either. Anne Boleyn was no witch, whore, home wrecker, the men in her life were. Wake up History! It’s about time you got things right, don’t you agree?
Would just like to point out, Katherine Parr was not left penniless. She inherited her husbands fortune and was a independently wealthy widow. She had plans to marry Thomas Seymour. But unfortunately for her, she then caught the kings attention.
As Anne did and, au revoir Henry Percy!
At last a comment on how it was for women in those times Anne Boleyn was undoubtedly controlled and manipulated by the men in her family to merely empower and benefit them. Anne would have had no choice other than to carry out her father and uncles wishes or orders. She was used in what was a man,s world. Whether she was beautiful, had any extra fingers or breasts is not the issue. As she was most definitely a brave and strong woman who would not be controlled by any man. She put her daughters future first which is what any good mother would do. She is who we all remember as henry vIII,s wife. Give anne Boleyn some credit!
mistress moon. says:
I couldn’t agree more, Lennice. I have always believed that once Henry cast his eye her way and her uncle and father became aware, her path was drawn and she probably would have had little to say about it. It is clear that Henry was a womanizer and the women in his court were his personal playground, I bet it was prudent to keep him happy. Anne obviously possessed some quality or qualities that kept Henry coming around. If anything I feel so sorry for women of the time, I am sure we would all end up being beaten and executed.
Diann says:
When in London – taking a tour of the Tower – the guide did tell us that when a tiny woman’s skeleton was found under the floor of the chapel, there were, indeed, six fingers on each hand. He should know.
The things that guides tell people makes me so cross. Diann, I have the full report of the 1876 renovation of the Chapel which includes the pathologist’s report of the remains believed to have been Anne Boleyn and she had the normal amount of fingers. Why they have to embellish the facts is beyond me, the story is interesting enough as it is.
I believe tour guides would make something up indeed to catch the crowds attentions and keep it for sure. My one surprise is the Elizabeth did not dig up her mothers remains and give it a proper burial does anyone know why?
Ghost of Anne says:
Lizzy knew what she was doing. Her throne was not entirely stable and few people liked me since they supported Katherine. It would be unwise politically to call attention to me being her mother. I understand perfectly and believe she made a wise decision. I couldn’t be more proud of her.
Oh, yes, the guide also told us that the long sleeves with the gathered “ruff” that goes over the hand was used by Anne to make her hands less obvious.
George Wyatt, Thomas Wyatt’s grandson, wrote that Anne had some kind of blemish on one hand but I’ve never read of her wearing ruffed sleeves to hide it.
i doubt very much that Anne had six fingers, but if she did, so what??? Why should anyone care?? She was still quite a force in the history of England and the church. I doubt that Henry had her beheaded because she had six fingers. He loved her at one time, and i have no doubt that he regretted his orders, Henry was a dumbass and most likely ill.
From everything I have read on her and her sister it was a extra nail and she wear dresses with long sleeves to cover it
It was “a small show of nail” according to other sources. What could that be? Who knows? But nail does not a finger make.
Oh yes, in fact the sixth finger fell off one day onto the carpet in her room and she threw it into the fire pretending it was the last chicken bone from dinner the night before.
Hater says:
Ann Boleyn was hideous
Hideous looking? Hideous personality? Since we none of us knew her that seems a bit cruel.She had alot of people profoundly jealous as well as scared of the new ideas about religion, which it appears Anne was supportive of. Always remember history is written by the winners and Anne was not the winner here, her peers had much to lose. Also, when is the other woman ever portrayed as anything but a loose woman, ugly and bad.Katherine of Aragon had many supporters here and I think few people really understood Henry’s very real fear of dying without a male heir.
A good majority of the things I have read on Anne Boleyn has stated that she had a double fingernail on her pinky finger. That is a far cry from an extra finger. Anne was controlled by her family and at first was a pawn to her uncle’s ambitions. The tragic truth is that she fell for Henry as much as he did her. They have found love letters that he supposedly sent to her. He sent her expensive gifts, left his true wife, suffered excommunication from the Catholic church to have her. For what? To jump at the next woman that was shoved under his nose. Anne made too many enemies and that was ultimately her down fall.
The existence of an additional finger does occur though it is rare. Today when it happens, it is amputated immediately upon birth. It usually appears almost like an appendage to the pinky but is definitely separate from it.
With regard to the “three breasts”, there may be some confusion regarding terminology. The incidence of having a third nipple is also known to occur and is not all that rare. The nipple is clearly visible though it is undeveloped but close examination would clearly show it to be a nipple.
I have no idea whether Anne Boleyn had an extra nipple or a sixth finger on one hand but I thought I’d offer the above information as possible explanations if it is factual.
The sixth finger myth is related to early witch hunters who believed the physical characteristics of a witch were “devils marks” such as moles or third nipples or extra fingers. If the myth was even a little bit true, don’t you think that these things would have come out during her trial as proof of witchcraft so that she could be burned? Surely if it was true Chapuys the Spanish ambassador would have mentionned it in his dialogues at the time, instead of it only becoming false proof when George Wyatt claimed it at the end of the sixteenth century. Given that she was such a prominent figure at court, if there was any truth to it, don’t you logically think that someone would have commented on it earlier?
I AM NO EXPERT ON THE LIFE OF ANN BOYLEN, BUT FROM WHAT IVE READ, SHE WAS A STRONG PROTESTANT WOMAN WITH GREAT MORAL CHARACTER. IT SEEMS TO ME THAT THE PEOPLE HATED HER FOR THAT, AND HER INFLUENCE ON THE KING. THE WAY THEY PORTRAY HER IN MOVIES AND BOOKS SEEMS TO BE VERY NEGATIVE. COULD THIS BE BECAUSE THE CATHOLIC CHURCH STILL HAS INFLUENCE IN HOLLYWOOD? I REALLY HAVE NO IDEA, JUST A THOUGHT. I BELIEVE HER DEATH WAS VINDICATED BY HER DAUGHTERS LONG RULE.
Carol Arnall says:
This is a brilliant website. Thank you.
Do you know if Henry ever gave Anne a dog as a gift?
Purquoy was her little dog but not from Henry. If he had given her one, I’m sure somebody ate it.
Tudorrose says:
Anne had a dog indeed not just one but two! 🙂
She had a wolfhound named Urian and a little lapdog called Purkoy or pourpoi but as for wether they had both been a gift from the king or not is anyones guess as they could have both been given to Anne by her family nobody really knows for sure as no records exist stating one way or another unfortunately to say.
Elraine says:
The little dog was “pourquois”, which means “why” …
Well I think the rumors of queen anne are ridiculous and imature and untrue I love the story of henry VIII and his six wives in my opinon anne was great woman who was just simply ahead of her time and produced one of the greatest queens in english history and natea I’m sure she would have crushed u for treason u are clearly a childish man with no restpect for women or the history of england anne bolyen was a powerful woman and I do not for one second belive the accusations agaist her were true she was to powerful a woman in those times (she had an opinion) and that led to her death
Do use punctuation…
msmuffintop says:
I think the story about the six fingers has retained life after so many years because there was some kernel of truth to it. I suggest she had perhaps a double fingernail. She was known for fashionable long sleeves that may have minimized people seeing her hand. I doubt it was truly a full finger, because that would have been mentioned by contemporaries, especially before she became famous. Yet, it is not mentioned in correspondences
potato says:
hte fact abou tthe three breast and six fingers may not be real
Hi, I just want to mention that I´ve become a hugh fan of all the Anne Boleyn history by just wanting to practise my English listening skill when finding a documentary about Anne. Now, I´m totally interested in her life and the period of time when she was a queen! Emmanuel from Mexico, city.
Diann McRee says:
There is a book about the “Other Boleyn Sister” that might be of interest to you. It is primarily about Anne’s sister. Anne is in it a great deal.
Helllo all! This is a very interesting website! On to the topic. If we take a broader perspective of these times as some of you have already mentioned. We understand that the male sex dominated and women had to follow instruction. In my opinion Anne’s Uncle did play a major part in this affair, however I also think that they did fall in love with each other. With her Uncles support and the Kings attention Anne, caught up in the moment may have acted above her station. Due to Henrys position, changes where not easy and the relationship became more difficult. As a result Anne would constantly make promises to keep the King and her Uncle interested and satisifed. This is when Henry may have grown tired, and with the influence of Court gossips things began to change. In my opinion Annes Uncle was to blame, power and money hungry, Anne was a pawn in this game who innocently got carried away, upsetting many people. From the perspective of a King during this period, Henry would not know who to trust in court. Every man out for his own ambissions. So although I don’t condone the outcome it is understandable why he did what he did, he was probably hurt and acted with force to maintain his own image.
Cosmoseer says:
Woman in the court of England were very fair skined w/ light eyes and Anne had Olive skin w/ darker eyes. This is what attracted the king and along w/ the way Anne was from her teachings and spending time in the court of France. This is where I believe she
learned most. Why be Henry’s mistress if you can be his queen. Henry only gave up what he wanted and he was a selfish person. He wanted set free from the queen to bare more children because he wanted a son. He believed (fat head) that “I’m King” and the Knig does what he wants. He never really loved anyone. He had nothing to do w/ his daughters because they were females and females did not rule and not important
to him. Woman were bargaining tools for the country. When Anne did not give him a son he was ready to move on to Jane. He plotted to find away to have her killed. Brave yes but she didn’t have a choice. She made the choice to be with a married man and it cost her her life. No good ever comes out from bad. I believe she had some presure from her family because of what they would gain if she became Queen.
Elizabeth never married because she did not want a man to rule her country or her. This is what would have happened. She would have been pushed a side. She could have never born a child w/ out marriage. A virgin she was not but like her mother she watched and learned. No man would chop her head off!! She aloud her people to worship threre own religion. Smart lady! One of the best rulers.
Tash Wakefield says:
What a wonderful thing freedom of informaion is! Although, in alot of circles, it is the same info that has been ciruclating for years, nearly 500 in fact. From a humanist point of view, i think there are things to take into account, as everyone has cleverly reflected here (btw, you are all clever clogs, insightful and interesting) firstly, the mentality of roman catholicism towards sex, and towards sin. Tudor times although seeming liberal sexually, were still heavily oppressed, people with wealth, primarliy men, were conducting multiple and frequent affairs with women, but would have carried the stigma of guilt and self depreciation with them due to the catholic mentality. The women would have had no choice, and i am guessing there would have been a large amount of statutory and ‘date rape’ at this time. Henry was an egotist, having been taught his whole life that he was annointed by God (something our current queen elizabeth also takes very seriously) His family had only just taken rule, after 100 years of bloodshed. Women had ruled England many times in the past, Beudacea (spellt wrong?) and Mathilda, Mathilda being a notorious failure apparently. Henrys own mother was a beacon of ambiton and self proclamation. But at the tudor time, Roman catholicism had long ago taken hold as the only religion (they didnt have the choice we do, and women were considered fodder for mens enjoyment, and predominantly pawns to be used by men for power. Henrys court was filled with social climbers, he was chastised publically for hiring and enobling many many men of humble birth into his court, and one woman stood out, she being Anne Boleyn. Annes family were notorious social climbers, ambition being a sin according to the catholic church, yet another reason catholicism was clearly becoming outdated. The common mistake people make is crowning of Anne Boleyn as a scapegoat. There were many reasons Henry wished to abolish the catholic faith, this is abundantly obvious, Anne was just the excuse people around him made. Henry was an erratic and passionate ruler, often giving orders, then punishing those who carried it out after later changing his mind! His court was a rumour mill, of his appointted people spreading gossip and lies to cover his weaknesses (and he had many!) and his many mistakes. Anne was brilliant, her whole family were, and she stood out, she was ‘different’, and she was opinionated in a time when women were not allowed or expected to be. Our mistakes now lie in us believing the only written text and recordings of that time, which all state these rumours and lies. As king Henry would have been responsible for all official statements and recordings. They didnt have the freedom of info we have now, most people couldnt even read! And the fact that we keep using this biased bs info now, recycling it and taking it a gospel, is to me just silliness. People with half a brain know not to believe all they read, and no one believes everything they are told. And that is precisely what most info from the tudor time is.
Scoyphenson says:
I have no insight into the feelings of Anne Boleyn or Henry VIII, but here is what I believe based on my reading:
1) The Boleyns did not hesitate to pimp out the female members of their family in order to seize of hold power. They were determined to keep a Boleyn woman in Henry’s bed.
2) Anne was one of the savviest and most determined women of her time. She held off the king of England – one of the most self-indulgent and egotistical people alive – for SEVEN years in order to become queen and promote her preferred religion.
3) Henry VIII was a serial killer but has never been acknowledged as such.
4) The reason Anne fell was simply that she was not fertile enough. Henry was obsessed with the succession and when she only managed one live birth during their marriage, and a girl at that, he decided that he needed a new wife. A boy-bearing wife. And so he began wondering aloud if he had been bewitched into marrying her. Nine months later she was an adulterous, incestuous, headless witch.
1) The Boleyns did not hesitate to pimp out the female members of their family in order to seize of hold power. They were determined to keep a Boleyn woman in Henry’s bed – There is absolutely no evidence of this and actually evidence that Thomas Boleyn was not happy about Anne’s involvement with Henry.
2) Anne was one of the savviest and most determined women of her time. She held off the king of England – one of the most self-indulgent and egotistical people alive – for SEVEN years in order to become queen and promote her preferred religion. – How would she know that saying “No” to Henry would lead to an offer of marriage, surely it would have been more likely that he would chase after an easier “lay”.
As much as I don’t agree with some of Henry’s policies, he was a product of his time dealing with challenges to his throne. He was brutal but in a brutal world. Look at Mary I too.
4) The reason Anne fell was simply that she was not fertile enough. Henry was obsessed with the succession and when she only managed one live birth during their marriage, and a girl at that, he decided that he needed a new wife. A boy-bearing wife. And so he began wondering aloud if he had been bewitched into marrying her. Nine months later she was an adulterous, incestuous, headless witch. – Henry spoke of Anne bewitching him but his wording did not refer to actual real witchcraft, it was more a case of him falling under her spell as we all do when we are in love. She was never charged with witchcraft. There were lots of things happening in 1536 which led to Anne’s fall and it’s not quite as simple as him wanting a son.
I am a little uncomfortable in the remark her family pimped her out as well. Her father was my 15th great grandfather. I have been reading and doing so much research on the Shelton family. My grandmother was a Shelton, and my 2nd cousin is the last male to carry on the Shelton name in my family. If you are wondering, Queen Ann Boleyn’s father was my 15th great grandmother, her parents my 16th great grand parents built the church in Shelton, Norfolk England. They were very Christian, and when Ann was beheaded, they took care of Mary and Queen Elizabeth the I, and they raised them, until it was time for Mary to take the throne. They had to hide Elizabeth in the tower for protection from Mary until she passed. Once Elizabeth took the Throne, she gifted the family that raised her the church with no taxes. Apparently she held them in a high regard. Just saying that is what is in my family history.
Hods says:
” Queen Ann Boleyn’s father was my 15th great grandmother”
I think Anne has bewitched us all 🙂 otherwise we wouldnt all be adamantly pursuing her cause 500 years late! For any woman of anytime to have made such an impact on the world, she would have been something very special. I kind of imagine that no one pushed Anne into anything. It was the norm to save your virginity, not an exception, and i think it is a beacon of her strongwill and amazing strength that she had held out for 7 years, but although i totally understand her religous beliefs, she being along with Cromwell great advocates of a new religion, in my imagination, she must have felt love and passion for henry. She was a hot blooded passionate woman, i find it hard to believe that those seven years of celebacy didnt give her many sleepless nights! And as a mother of 1 beautiful daughter, myself suffering many miscarriages, i know the innate strength I have passed onto my own daughter, i feel she attones many of my mistakes and follies, and what a wonderful legacy Anne left behind in her daughter Elizabeth.
What do you think about the subject of witchcraft Claire? You have done so much research and have probably come across the concept a great deal. I feel so very undecided on the subject. We supposedly come from a long line of gypsies or ‘witches’ in our family. My great great grandmother, labelled the gypsy, apparently ensnared my great great grandfather, the illigitimate son of cln redvers buller, and somehow managed to have 27 children! She is in the 1980 guiness book of world records! Furthermore, and this makes me giggle a little, my mothers name is Gay Anne! Like Queen Anne, the most gay lol I think the women in my family must have a wicked sense of humour!
Ever since I was about seventeen I became intrestant in Anne Boylen. I’d read her story in a book I found in my English teachers class room and began reading. I’d hear the history of Henry the 8th but never really knew much about it. SO when I started reading the book I thouhg “Wow” but when I came to Anne’s story I became horrifed ,upset and down right angry.
I couldn’t get over what had happen to Anne. Let alone Elizabeth. Suddenly I found myself resurching and reading all I could about Anne and Elizabeth. To this day I’m still learning more and more about them. I feel connected to these two because I like Elizabeth lost my mother a younge age. So I know what it must have been like for Elizabeth. I also what it was like to have your father’s family not like your mother. Believe me.
But all in all I wish I could help prove to the world the anne was innocent and that she didn’t derve to die a horriable death. Nor should she have been in tombed in a chest under an old church. She have been giving a proper furneal and been allowed to be buried with her daughter. But as they say the past is the past and we can’t change it.
But to the point. I love this site and I love that you are helping to keep Ann’s story alive.
Hey Claire, I just had a q about the membership of the falcon (GREAT name!) is the price in pounds or american dollars?
Hi Tash,
It’s in $ so it works out at approx £32 per year. Do let me know if you have any questions. Our next webinar is on 23rd Aug.
Thanks Claire. Im not sure how much the aussie dollar is but i know american dollars are worth less and pounds much more so i think its about $48 aus bucks atm. I’ll see if I can swing it before 28th but am not working atm so it might be later in the year.
Thankyou for your quick reply, and for the site.
I am by no means an expert or scholar regarding the Tudors. I have a basic grasp of the characters and events, though, and I’ve always viewed the relationship between Anne and Henry VIII in a particular way. I’ve been reading through articles and comments on this site and have yet to find anyone who shares my view. I thought I might throw it out there in the hopes others might comment or shed some light. Again, this is only my personal view, based on my cursory understanding of the story and personal experiences with human nature.
As king, Henry certainly came to expect that he would always get what he wanted when it came to his sexual interests. I imagine that, originally, he found Anne to be exotic and desirable and assumed he could have her as well. Anne, however, ignored him. What a powerful aphrodisiac that must have been, particularly to a man like Henry who was athletic and competitive. To be so powerful that women would fall into your bed at the merest suggestion that you wanted them there, and then suddenly, here is a challenge! Here is someone to be pursued, as like in a hunt. The chase itself must have been quite invigorating. But what happens once the chase is ended and the prey caught?
All marriages require a great deal of work. We’re not really built for monogamy. Now imagine waiting for and wanting someone for seven years, building the fantasy up in your mind of what it will be like. Real life was perhaps a disappointment when measured against a fantasy powerful to sustain one through such a prolonged time. Anne’s strong personality, her willingness to argue and berate–often in public– probably did much to exaggerate Henry’s feelings of disappointment and disillusionment. The fact that Anne gave him a daughter and subsequently suffered miscarriages may have provided too powerful a sense of deja vu for Henry, as well.
At any rate, I generally have a positive view of Anne. I also think that recent theories that suggest Henry may have been Kell positive and suffering from McLeod syndrome deserve a lot of merit, and therefore am willing to cut him more slack than most. I simply wonder why no one has considered the effect that a long-held fantasy versus reality may have had on the strength of Henry’s passions (and perhaps Anne’s as well since it seems she was disappointed with his prowess between the sheets). It seems to me that such scenarios carry themselves out even today in extramarital affairs that become “legitimized” later.
Any thoughts/ideas/opinion are appreciated. We can never really know, of course, but speculation is always fun.
An intelligent and well thought through view.
Annes Fan says:
ok Natea what is your problem? Please learn how to spell also
What a great forum…put everyone’s opinions together and we have the makings of a great soap opera..the great thing is that no one can categorically say that your wrong..All our differing opinions have been gleaned from what we have read..all differing in their conclusions…carry on carrying on!!!
I think that History Love affairs are no different from the nowadays ones. It is always better to be a mistress for a number one womaniser like Henry than his wife. No matter how beautiful and clever you are. If Anne even gave him a so-much-desired son, that would probably have saved her life, not Henry’s love though. However, if Anne as a mother to his son continued to stand up to him, make endless domestic scenes and make his life uncomfortable, he would possibly have thought as how to get rid of her anyway. Since a divorce would not have been an option – a little accident, perhaps?
I am getting to know my ancestor more and .more as I read. I wish could been a fly on the wall to get hear everything that was said about her. I believe she was definitely railroaded by Cromwell and Henry. They did everything to get rid of her. Anne was already found guilty even though she was still considered innocent. If this was a crime drama, Anne would be innocent before the jury even deliberated. Cromwell was definitely the most despicable..
I read in some book — can’t remember which one — that Henry’s leg was already absessed so badly that when he married Anne he could be smelled from two rooms away. Have you heard this, Alex, and do you believe it?
I’m not 100% sure but wasn’t this didn’t become a problem until he had his serious accident whilst jousting just before Anne’s last miscarriage in 1536. It became constantly infected causing terrible pain which, as theories go, caused him to become the tyrant we know him to be. Henry was still athletic and handsome during his marriage to Anne. This is what I have read.
Me encanta la historia de la vida “Henry Vlll es Rey tudor del londres.
I have a theory that Henry made the decision to have Queen Anne beheaded as a simple divorce would not have sufficed. I don’t think that Anne would have agreed to the divorce and would have put up a bigger fight than Catherine. Quite rightly too. I know that Henry would have got the divorce due to his own laws regardless but Anne was such a strong character that she would have spoken up for the rest of her life. She had lost her younger years through henry and after a divorce from the King, it would have made it even more highly unlikely that she would find happiness. I do believe that Henry truly loved her and did so until he died and regretted his decision. I think that his subsequent marriages were done, not only to gain a son but, to get the same kind of passion he had with her through them. Yet, they all disappointed him.
Shaun Underwood says:
all of this is just evil and tragic
one man mission to sleep with as many women as he wanted…in fact Henry the 8th is a mass serial killer
plane and that simple!
Mark (again) says:
*Playn
Hazel Hulet says:
Very interesting page, but being a distant relative of Boleyn I cannot understand the premature accusations about Anne’s physical state. It is well known in the family that Anne had two toenails on her ring toe and also three kidneys. I can’t believe how childish you all are to believe those forged doctor’s notes. We have never truly forgiven them, or the Tudor dynasty for their crimes against our family.
Hmmm… well, I’d be more inclined to believe primary source accounts and a pathologist’s report on her remains and I don’t think that it’s childish to do so. But I’m assuming you are joking or being sarcastic…
How very dare you, we are currently working on the petition as I type. I wish you would include actual balance to your website. This page is so two-dimensional. I would at least like some investigation rather than a dismissal. Us Boleyn’s are proud of Anne’s deformity’s, this page acts as if it is a travesty and tries to hide it.
I dare because I base my work on primary sources rather than my imagination. I would prefer to be 2-dimensional and accurate rather than make up deformities that have nothing to back them up.
Oh dear. How much research have you actually done? Claiming you are a descendant counts for nothing without research. Do you have access to the contemporary accounts? I do and believe your statement is nonsense. When you say ring toe, do you mean what we in England refer to as the big toe? If you are a distant relative then most institutions will allow you to access original documents from the period.
Anne, please just delete all the garbage comments ! You’re too nice and you put up with it.
I wish the troll and harassing, silly comments would be deleted. It detracts from and muddles your website. More serious,respectful readers have to wallow through the muck of some pretty unpleasant or pointless comments to find the better quality discussion/comments.
I don’t know if I can watch the movie now. It’s just too, too sad.
I was wondering if you can share the pathologist report on the remains of Anne Boleyn , I would like to read it. It sounds interesting for such a infamous Queen like Anne Boleyn
Question: Do you all think that our Beloved Queen Ann Boleyn wanted to leave the Tower, go to the scaffold and be beheaded, or go to the sc afford and tell some reasons for accepting her tragic end, to her thousands of supporters, both past and present? I think, think,the latter. Beloved Queen Anne, Rest in Peace.
I am a historian who is passionate about Anne Boleyn, as is my mother. I am enjoying your site and would like to make the following comments:
1. If you are a Boleynista, read everything you can about her and then form your own decisions about her looks, character etc. Simply reading “The Other Boleyn Girl” and then using that as your sole research makes you look ill-informed.
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2. I have read everything I possibly can, including contemporary reports, and it is my belief Anne had the beginnings of a tiny nail just to the side of her little finger – probably on her left hand. Remember, in those days, even the slightest deformity could give credence to accusations of witchcraft, hence her designing sleeves to hide it.
3. Please monitor the comments for the silly troll remarks which jar when reading interesting and constructive comments.
Otherwise I am enjoying the site and comments and I wholly support your theory as to Anne’s original execution spot. I, too, have been highly suspicious of the Tower Green theory – it does not make sense.
Catherine Anne says:
to be honest, I’ve always enjoyed the myth that Anne had a eleventh finger and wart on neck, because Anne still won Henry’s heart, and to me it shows how smart and charismatic she was. if she was really that ugly, she managed to charm the King with her wits and education as well as many men at court.
I do believe she had an extra nail or bump on her finger (like a callous or something) and a mole on neck, not six fingers though.
whysomanycatherines says:
Anne was not considered beautiful for the times. In fact she was considered ugly. For some reason blondes were considered more submissive (lol I am a blonde), such as Jane Seymour, I guess because of the whole lights=good, dark=bad thing? Anne had dark hair and eyes, maybe even skin. I do not think she was black but probably very tan like a nice olive color. Yes, it was her charms that ultimately seducted Henry, because she was not pretty for the day’s standards, but today she would be considered a goddess and I’ve always seen her as pretty even if the Tudors wouldn’t have. I think she would have looked like a slightly younger version of Kate Beckinsale who is considered pretty attractive 🙂
I always wondered if there is any sign of Henry feeling remorse for what he did to Anne. Perhaps by the end of his life..
Anne Boleyn was one of the bravest women period people always ask me why do you like Anne so much what is your opinion about her and I always say without hesitation she was innocent everyone knew their minds were just poisoned by the king and I think she was ambitious, kind, clever, brave and so much more I’m 14 years old and the six Tudor queens history has a pull on me and that’s when I decided to be a historian my family asks me why but I always say in Anne Boleyns death speech she said if anyone should take up my case I ask them to judge it kindly and not many people do so I want to write about the side not many people see
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This is the 11th complete album by the preeminent electro-industrial group Skinny Puppy, and it comes across as an unfortunate mellowing of the style of this usually boisterous, eccentric band. Skinny Puppy has a tradition of naming their songs with puns and neologisms. Thus we find tracks with names like “Ovirt” and “Cullorblind,” but I wouldn’t suggest you try to find the hidden meanings.
Overall the album is a languid collection of plodding, mournful tracks with reduced rhythm complexity, slowed cadences and toned-down lyrics when compared with the established Skinny Puppy oeuvre. There is conspicuous absence of the delightful and puzzling sound-samples from movies and TV that used to add an element of uniqueness and artistry to their prior albums.
Most of the songs tend to trip along, never approaching a climax. Tracks three and four would actually make great tunes for trying to fall asleep. Occasionally the rhythm breaks into a light gallop or even a rapid-fire pace. Beats in “Point” take the form of recurring electronica derived from video game or Star Wars weaponry, the effect of which is sadly cheesy.
Don’t get me wrong. There’s much in HanDover that has Skinny Puppy’s signature sound. “Vyrisus,” by far the best track on the album, revives a familiar Skinny Puppy musical device, starting with an eerie, high-pitched note that hangs drone-like, suspended over a complex and hypnotic rhythm. It is then laced with Nivek Ogre’s vocals, which alternate between a growl and a harsh whisper. But the next track, “Village,” morphs into a clone of something by My Life With the Thrill Kill Cult with its driving, drum-machine beat. HanDover concludes with “NoiseX” over seven tedious minutes of chaotic sounds with neither rhythm nor a melody. Many of Skinny Puppy’s better albums traditionally include just such a wastebasket track with leftover noise.
The formula for the album seems to have been to put Ogre’s solo work into a blender with 2007’s Mythmaker. This album unfortunately has no breakout special hit single, no powerful or explosive track. There is no delicious melody worked into an industrial soundscape as can to be heard in bygone masterpieces such as “Warlock,” “Addiction” or “Killing Game.” But it is good, serviceable if somewhat mediocre industrial music still bearing the Skinny Puppy flavor, and it is, at the very least, acceptable to the fan base. I have no idea, however, why they would go to the trouble of producing HanDover.
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By Cephas Larbi On Jan 4, 2018
Mr Maxwell Quophi Blagodzi, the Deputy Volta Regional Minister, has called on teachers to help improve the academic performance of girls in Mathematics, Science and Technology (MST) to promote economic development.
He said technology had become a driving factor in acquiring knowledge and skills in the contemporary labour market, thus the need for female children to be abreast of the new ways of acquiring such skills.
Mr Blagodzi said this at the opening ceremony of the second edition of the Volta Regional Girls Vacation Camp Meeting, which attracted 100 girls from the Hohoe, South Tongu and the Afadjato South districts in the Region.
“The girl-child should be provided with opportunities to access, understand and evaluate current information and tools related to technology if they are ready to live in the 21st century,” he said.
Mr Blagodzi appealed to stakeholders in the educational sector to help create a curriculum that leaned towards practical application in solving national problems.
The ceremony, on the theme: “Active Participation of Girls in Science and Technology: an Essential Tool for Change,” with funding from Plan International Ghana, was to sensitise the girl-child on her role in nation building and overcoming societal hurdles in becoming future leaders.
Nana Batakeyi II, the Volta Regional Girls Education Officer, Ghana Education Service (GES), said the Unit saw Science and Technology as a driving force for social change and committed to improving performance of girls in MST at the Basic Education Certificate Examination by 15 per cent within three years.
She said the theme was to awaken the interest of Science and Technology in the daily life of girls and also empower them in life skills to enable them to contribute positively to society.
Mr John Teku, Acting Volta Regional Director of Education, said misconceptions and bad teaching methods had scared off many students from Science and Mathematics and entreated teachers to make the subject more flexible and interesting for students.
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The New Mutants Release Date, Cast: Marvel and Warner Bros are very much outspoken about their upcoming projects of superhero movies, but 20th-century FOX production house seems not to be in a mood to reveal about their one of the most blockbuster franchise viz. X-Men. Apart from the Logan and Deadpool 2 of Ryan Reynold’s all other projects are seems heading to The New Mutants.
If our sources are not mistaken, then X-Men: The New Mutants, will be based on the longstanding spinoff comic and it will be the story of younger superhumans (mutants) supervised by Professor X. Hence, apart from the Cyclops, Jog on, and Jean Grey, there will be other mutants also. As there are no official announcements by Fox, we do not have the whole list of character star cast yet. The director of the movie will be Josh Boone, The Fault in Our Stars fame.
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The official announcements have been close to zero. Previously, there were rumors that Charles Xavier will be the part of the upcoming film and later Actress Anya Taylor-Joy also confirmed it. She revealed that James McAvoy will join the team as a team’s psychic leader (McAvoy was co-actor Anya Taylor-Joy in Split). X-Men: Apocalypse actress Alexander Shipp – who played Storm – is also said to be returning.
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Some reports were also stating that Taylor-Joy will play the role of Illyana Rasputin-aka Magik who is the sister of X-Men mainstay Colossus. Nowadays, the media also indicates that she is all set to be the part of the film. The same report is claiming that we will see Taylor-Joy in Game of Thrones as a lycanthropic shapeshifter Wolfsbane. The excitement of McAvoy can be seen on the set of M Night Shyamalan’s Split where he showed animated test footage to his colleagues.
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13 Reasons Why star Henry Zaga and Stranger Things’ Charlie Heaton are also joining the cast as Brazilian mutant Roberto da Costa/Sunspot and Sam Guthrie/Cannonball respectively. Others include The Originals’ Blu Hunt as Danielle Moonstar/Mirage or Psyche. Elysium actress Alice Braga will play Cecilia Reyes, a medical doctor with defensive shield powers.
X-Men: Apocalypse actress Alexandra Shipp will reprise her role as Storm, but Michael Fassbender’s Magento seems out of the equation at the time.
The New Mutants Plot
As per the several information updated by Boone’s on the social media, it is obvious that he will have a classic new lineup of Mutants. It is said that the plot of upcoming movie will be closely related to that of classic magazine. It is as follows.
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Karma a telepath who can possess other people
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Wolfsbane and teleporting sorcerer Magik will also add up to the team
The Original X-Men had started in 60’s but as time passes this team grown has older and hence above team is the replacement for the original X-Men and was introduced in 1982. Talking about the plot, we can infer from the aforementioned animated snippet that the villain of the film will be a psychic monster connected to Mirage, her Native American heritage and a classic new mutant named Demon Bear.
This Bear is not witty and hence, we can expect more human villain in the movie. If everything goes well then Boone is planning to get a trilogy of NewMutants adventures. It seems that Demon Bear may not be the sole villain. Rumors suggest that the post-credits scene will feature the classic X-Men bad guy Mr. Sinister.
The best description till date was given by Fox Studio Head Stacey Snider. It is as follows:
“New Mutants is about these teenagers who are just coming into their powers. It’s like watching mutants go through adolescence and they have no impulse control, so they’re dangerous. The only solution is to put them in a “Breakfast Club” detention/“Cuckoo’s Nest” institutional setting. It protects the people on the outside, but it’s strange and combustible inside. The genre is like a haunted-house movie with a bunch of hormonal teenagers. We haven’t seen it as a superhero movie whose genre is more like “The Shining” than “we’re teenagers let’s save the world.”
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The release dates of New Mutant have been announced. Adding a golden feather to your entertainment X-Men: Apocalypse sequel Dark Phoenix will hit the theaters in 2019. Earlier, The New Mutants was supposed to be released on April 13, 2018, but the date was postponed not one but two times. The latest known date is August 2, 2019.
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Whilst David was at school, he spent many years establishing a shooting ground there, using his family's business (The Oxford Gun Company) to encourage students and teachers to enjoy clay shooting, and introducing as many new young people to the sport. David set up a School Shooting Team at Bredon, which entered The Nationals - the Bredon Team were placed a very respectable 9th out of 345 entries!
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Initially, The Schools Challenge competitions were all held at the Oxford Gun Company - but demand quickly grew to require a second venue, Bredon School jumped at the chance to get involved and support TSC. The event was combined with the school's summer fete, helping to broaden the interest and significantly increase the reach of TSC. This developed into a significant event in the shooting calendar, becoming The Festival of Shooting weekend at Bredon School.
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Messi gets 3-month international ban for CONMEBOL corruption comments
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Lionel Messi has been suspended three months and fined $50,000 after the Argentina star accused South America's football governing body, CONMEBOL, of corruption during this summer's Copa America.
CONMEBOL announced the decision with a statement on Friday, asserting Messi's claims "were unfounded" and "represent a lack of respect."
The punishment is in addition to the one-match ban Messi received for a sending off in the third-place match against Chile following an incident with Gary Medel.
Messi was also docked $1,500 in June for criticizing match officials and the quality of the playing surfaces at the competition, which host Brazil won.
"We were ready for more, they did not let us get to the final," Messi said after the semifinal loss to Brazil. "Corruption and referees do not allow people to enjoy football and it ruined a little bit."
A three-month ban means the Albiceleste skipper will miss upcoming international friendlies against Chile and Mexico in September, and Germany in October. The 32-year-old's previous one-match ban is for Argentina's first 2022 World Cup qualifying match.
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What Is Dijon Mustard?
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By Danilo Alfaro
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Dijon mustard is a style of prepared mustard that originated in the city of Dijon, France. You will often see it used in vinaigrettes and sauces as well as putting the finishing touch on a sandwich. It is a pale yellow rather than the typical bright yellow American-style mustard. French-inspired dishes that feature Dijon mustard as an ingredient are referred to as "à la dijonnaise."
Dijon mustard is used as a condiment and an ingredient in recipes. This prepared mustard has a pale yellow color and slightly creamy consistency. It is sold in both jars as well as squeeze bottles. One of the most popular brands is Grey-Poupon. While mustard is usually gluten-free, those who are sensitive should be careful to read the label. It is vegetarian, but some vegans would shun Dijon mustard because the wine used to make it might be processed using animal-based fining agents.
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Origins of Dijon Mustard
Dijon mustard originated in the city of Dijon, which is the capital of the Burgundy region of France in the eastern part of the country. The Burgundy region (called Bourgogne in French) has a rich culinary history and is especially known for its wines. Mustard is grown in vineyards as a cover crop beneath the rows of vines, providing nutrients to the vines when it is plowed under.
By the 1200s, Dijon, France, was recognized as a significant area for mustard making and is now regarded as the mustard capital of the world. King Philip VI first used the mustard in 1336 which became popular roughly 500 years later when Jean Naigeon created the formula that replaces vinegar with verjuice (verjus in French), which is a juice made from unripe grapes. The most famous brand, Grey-Poupon, was created in 1866 by mustard maker Maurice Grey with a recipe including wine, along with his financial backer, Auguste Poupon.
At one time, any product called Dijon mustard had to be made in or around the city of Dijon—a so-called "protected designation of origin," as is with Champagne or Parmigiano-Reggiano. Mustard produced elsewhere had to be called "Dijon-style mustard" or simply "dijon mustard" with a lowercase "D". Today, however, the term "Dijon mustard" has become generic, so any mustard using the basic Dijon recipe can be called Dijon mustard.
What Is It Made Of?
Dijon mustard is made from brown mustard seeds and white wine. One of the crucial ingredients in traditional Dijon mustard is verjuice. This tart liquid gives Dijon mustard its characteristic flavor. The original recipe includes white wine from the Burgundy region, like Chablis or Bourgogne blanc (which are made from Chardonnay grapes).
The ingredients listed for Grey Poupon include:
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What Does It Taste Like?
Dijon mustard has a tangy, sharp, and strong flavor with a bit of spice. The commercial recipes made today use an ingredient with a low acidity level in the mustard, which allows the potency of the mustard seeds to shine through.
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Cooking With Dijon Mustard
As Dijon mustard is a condiment, it can be used as a spread any time mustard is called for when you prefer a more potent mustard flavor. It can top a hot dog or be smeared on a roast beef or turkey sandwich. Dijon is the perfect pairing for a corned beef or pastrami sandwich on rye bread since a spicy mustard is called for.
But this tasty, prepared mustard is also a key ingredient in many different recipes, such as vinaigrettes and sauces as a little bit of Dijon goes a long way. Dijon mustard is also a common ingredient in salad dressings providing a bit of tang as well as a nice thickness. It is also used in many barbecue recipes as a flavorful layer that helps keep a rub on the meat.
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Recipes With Dijon Mustard
Dijon chicken is a common "à la dijonnaise" dish that can be made with or without cream. When incorporated in a sauce, it can turn simple dishes such as pork chops and steamed asparagus into something special.
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Where to Buy Dijon Mustard
Dijon mustard is readily available in the condiments aisle of the grocery store along with all of the other types of mustard. Until somewhat recently, it was only packaged in a glass jar, but now you can buy Dijon in a squeeze bottle for easy dispensing.
How to Make Your Own Dijon Mustard
Making Dijon-style mustard is fairly simple; it's mostly a matter of grinding up brown or black mustard seeds and puréeing along with white wine, vinegar, and salt. It is important to soak the mustard seeds before using them, though, and you need to refrigerate the finished mustard for 24 hours before serving.
If you are inclined to make truly authentic Dijon mustard, you should include the verjuice, if you can get your hands on some. Nevertheless, lemon juice or vinegar is a fine substitute.
Once opened, jars of Dijon mustard should be stored in the refrigerator and will last one year past the best-buy date. Unopened jars will keep two to three years past the best-buy date in the pantry. The taste may not be at its peak, but it is still good and safe to eat.
Benefits of Dijon Mustard
Dijon mustard adds a lot of flavor to food without adding much in the way of calories. One teaspoon of Grey Poupon, for example, has only 3 calories. Using mustard instead of mayonnaise, for example, is a healthy swap. While it does have 135 milligrams of sodium, you may be able to do with less added salt in your dish due to the flavor enhancement. You usually don't use enough mustard to benefit from its vitamin and mineral content, as a teaspoon of Dijon mustard provides less than 1 percent of your daily value for calcium, iron, and vitamins A and C.
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Break out those walking shoes, garden tour season has started: Real Dirt
By Sonia DayGardening
Fri., June 3, 2016timer3 min. read
Get out the comfy shoes, hats and sunblock. Mother Nature has suddenly turned up the heat and decked herself out in glorious colours. So it’s time to go looking at gardens.
Only trouble is, where? With dozens of public-spirited folks in Ontario now opening their private spaces to rubberneckers, choosing a garden tour can be tough. A few suggestions:
Open House at St. William’s Nursery & Ecology Centre, Norfolk County, Saturday, June 4, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Not really a garden tour, but a rare opportunity to check out a 400-acre nature reserve, which supplies native plants, shrubs and trees to nurseries and is normally not open to the public. And get this: their stock will be on sale, on this day only, at wholesale prices. I got a sneak peek at the likes of some Yellow Pimpernel, Prairie Smoke and Canada Mayflower recently. The selection is truly amazing.
Where the heck is St. Williams you may ask? You’d be forgiven for not knowing. It’s tiny, near Turkey Point Provincial Park, on Lake Erie. Details at: stwilliamsnursery.ca.
Cabbagetown Garden Tour, Sunday, June 5, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. It’s the 10th anniversary of this tour, which shows off Toronto’s historic streets and Victorian architecture, along with tucked away retreats. Many residents who took part a decade ago are still around — and still gardening.
The 6000-square-foot rooftop garden on top of the Hugh Garner Co-Op is open to the public during this tour. Gardening grande dame Marjorie Harris will be on hand, too, dispensing pithy bons mots about all things botanical.
Don’t take the car. Advance tickets are $15 atwww.cabbagetownpa.ca and on the day at 237 Carlton St, or tour HQ at 89 Winchester St.
Through The Garden Gate, The Kingsway, June 11 and 12, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. The Toronto Botanical Garden’s biggest fundraiser, and the crème de la crème of all garden tours. Why? Because it gives us ordinary folks a peek at how the other half lives. Upscale neighbourhoods in Toronto are almost always featured — and what fun it is, gawking at no-expense-spared landscaping, posh patio furniture, swimming pools, tennis courts, and outdoor kitchens to die for.
Master Gardener volunteers from the Toronto Botanical Garden start scouting for possible sites a whole year ahead by making cold calls to these ultra upscale homes. Very brave of them, I think. But hats off to the owners too, who are mostly flattered and delighted to participate — and then must endure hordes of visitors invading their privacy over a weekend.
This year’s tour is The Kingsway, north of Bloor St. and south of Dundas St. W. Lots of luxurious ravine properties to ‘ooh’ and ‘aah’ over. But if you love unusual plants, be sure to check out 20 Mill Cove, home of John and Kathy Chris. The two are avid plant collectors and their woodland garden is full of curiosities such as Spotty Dotty Mayapple, two kinds of Allspice, a dogwood called Golden Shadows and the rarely-seen Arisaema Sikokianum. They’ll be present during the tour.
Other pluses: Master Gardeners in all gardens to answer questions; there are shuttle buses for tired feet; a cool tour HQ selling novel refreshments, including Augie’s healthy popsicles (made by a Toronto entrepreneur); a tour option by bike, riding with a Master Gardener and an architectural expert; and a 30 per cent off coupon at one of my favourite garden centres, Plant World.
Tickets cost $45. Only a limited number are sold, to avoid stressing the gardens (and their owners) too much. So buy in advance. They are available from many GTA garden centres or online. Go to torontobotanicalgarden.ca//ttgg
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Resident gets help putting up American flags on River Road
Marysville's John Knuth wants to 'bring some pride' in country amid national holidays with effort
Resident gets help putting up American flags on River Road Marysville's John Knuth wants to 'bring some pride' in country amid national holidays with effort Check out this story on thetimesherald.com: http://bwne.ws/2umYlZV
Jackie Smith, Times Herald Published 8:27 p.m. ET July 4, 2017 | Updated 8:45 p.m. ET July 4, 2017
Marysville resident John Knuth, with the help of neighbors, organized a mile-plus stretch of flags along River Road to mark the national holiday Tuesday, July 4, 2017. It was the second time after Memorial Day, and something he hopes to continue on Labor Day.(Photo: Jackie Smith/Times Herald)Buy Photo
This time last year, John Knuth got an especially patriotic idea.
And this year, little by little — and flag by flag — with the help of friends and neighbors, he said that idea has come to fruition.
Those moseying down River Road in Marysville on Tuesday were treated to a lineup of America flags along the street for just more than a mile. It marked the second national holiday this summer to greet passers-by with the long row of flags and solidified the symbolism that Knuth said he hoped it held for people on July 4th.
“I noticed another street, I think it was in Port Huron, and I thought, ‘Boy, that’d be nice for River Road,’” he said. “… The goal is to eventually get it down to the end or River Road, if possible, down by Busha Highway.”
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Knuth, a longtime Marysville resident and well-known local high school coach, said he’d written the idea in his planner and began the process before Memorial Day.
With help and donations from neighbors — he emphasized it was his idea but one embraced by many — they put up 210 flags, coving River Road from Davis Road to Mack Avenue.
“After that, I began to ask (for) the next stretch from Mack to the cemetery, and some people donated money and bought some more flags, another couple hundred,” Knuth said. “The city has also contributed by putting up some flags.
“The amazing thing is when I put the flags up the first time, when we put the flags up because people helped, people helped (more) and donated money,” he added. “We have so much divisiveness in our nation and, certainly, we can all agree on one thing: We all love our country. And I thought this would be a good way all those service members, who have donated so much to our country and, along with that, bring some pride to our nation right here in Marysville.”
Neighbor George Tache said Knuth had bounced the idea off his wife and him, then “offered to help any way we could.” As Knuth also began asking for donations from other neighbors, Tache said, “Almost anyone he asked was more than willing to help.”
This weekend, Tache said he’d help setting flags back up from Mack to Davis for Independence Day, and plenty of people stopped in their cars or came out from nearby apartments to thank them.
“It wasn’t a chore, it was a pleasure to do,” he said. “I think at this time, there’s a lot of unrest politically in this country, and I think it was important to show people still had pride in their country. … Above all things, we’re still Americans.”
Tache also said Knuth had been the “driving force” behind the effort.
Knuth said the first stretch covered about half a mile, and for the July 4th weekend, he said it was about 1.2 miles.
He hopes to continue to put up and take down the flags along River Road — next up with Labor Day Sept. 4.
Those who are interested in donating or lending a hand can email Knuth at johnknuth@comcast.net.
Contact Jackie Smith at (810) 989-6270 or jssmith@gannett.com. Follow her on Twitter @Jackie20Smith.
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Bill Viola/Michelangelo: Life Death Rebirth at the Royal Academy of Arts
Bill Viola/Michelangelo: Life Death Rebirth at the Royal Academy of Arts | Exhibition review
Anna Souter
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Bill Viola/Michelangelo: Life Death Rebirth
26th January 2019 - 31st March 2019
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Bill Viola, one of the most accomplished video artists working today, is best known for his searing spiritual art, with its passion of religion and the soul. Viola asks some big questions, and his work undoubtedly follows in the footsteps of many of his art-historical forebears. And yet, it takes some nerve to show a contemporary artist alongside Michelangelo.
The Royal Academy claims that the exhibition “proposes a dialogue between the two artists, considering Viola as an heir to a long tradition of spiritual and affective art, which makes use of emotion as a means of connecting viewers with its subject matter. It also aims to recapture the spiritual and emotional core of Michelangelo, beyond the awesome grandeur of his works.”
This is all very well, and they are right to present Viola as “an heir” rather than “the heir”. However, this “dialogue” is pretty one-way; as much as Viola might want to express a commonality, Michelangelo did it first. Moreover, who thinks that the “spiritual and emotional core of Michelangelo” needs “recapturing”? The Sistine Chapel ceiling might be awe-inspiring and grand, but it is also deeply human, and anyone who missed Michelangelo’s emotion should take another look at his Pietà in Rome, or his unfinished Deposition in Florence, where he carved his own features onto the face of the old man lifting Christ’s limp body from the cross. We don’t need Bill Viola or a few works on paper to tell us.
Bill Viola, Nantes Triptych, 1992. Courtesy of Bill Viola Studio
There is a tension at work at the heart of this exhibition, and it is never quite resolved. On the one hand, Viola’s immersive installations explore the nature of being human – long clips of a woman in labour combined with shots of Viola’s mother on her deathbed are deeply moving. On the other hand, many of the installations seem to be trying to capture the “awesome grandeur” that we are told to look beyond in Michelangelo’s work. Part of this is due to the scale of the Royal Academy’s rooms: from the round, high-ceilinged rotunda (featuring a larger-than-life naked man who emerges from water as if from baptism) to the church-like central hall. It is also due to the epic, cinematic quality of Viola’s films, where special effects add a sense of slickness absent from Michelangelo’s chalk drawings. How are these scales to be reconciled? The exhibition doesn’t offer many clues.
There is still much to admire here in Viola’s work. The final video, Tristan’s Ascension (The Sound of a Mountain Under a Waterfall) from 2005 is particularly powerful, and worth watching for the full ten minutes. However, his art pales in comparison to Michelangelo, whose expressiveness in pencil and chalk manages to put all the technology of contemporary art to shame.
Featured image: Detail from Michelangelo Buonarroti, The Virgin and Child with the Infant St John, c. 1504-05
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Bill Viola/Michelangelo: Life Death Rebirth is at the RA from 26th January until 31st March 2019. For further information visit the exhibition’s website here.
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Sexualizing Little Girls': 'Naughty Leopard' Halloween Costume for Toddlers Sparks Major Debate
"Something very 'naughty' or risque and totally inappropriate for a little girl to wear..."
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Every Halloween it seems there are a number of controversial children's costumes that make headlines. This year, furor has already commenced over a "Naughty Leopard" disguise that is being widely decried.
The original report about the costume comes from Consumerist, after a woman named "Rachael" apparently submitted a photo of the toddler attire she found at a local Walmart. According to Cosmopolitan, she was in the Portland/Southwest Washington area when she discovered the Halloween surprise.
While it was initially unclear if the product truly was for sale, after some digging we found that it is, indeed, currently available on Walmart.com -- but under a different name (we'll get into that, below).
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Consumerist shares additional details and voices some concern about the "naughty" label:
Every Halloween, we’re at the forefront of showing you who the Costume Industry Gods have decided needs to be “sexy” this year. Little girls as sexy pirate wenches? Dogs as sexy Catholic schoolgirls? This year, Walmart helps you to start your toddler daughter off early with the “Naughty Leopard” costume.
One of my esteemed colleagues pointed out that the biggest problem with this product isn’t that it’s all that bad: there’s not much all that sexy about it, and it’s quite adorable. The problem is that it looks nothing whatsoever like a leopard. Is this really what we want to teach our children?
On Wed. morning, TheBlaze turned to Walmart's website using the search term "naughty leopard," but to no avail. The search term ironically only brought up some random Christmas ornaments (see below):
A screen shot from Walmart's website
But a report by KATU-TV provides a link to the same costume on Walmart.com, but, as noted, it has a different name. The very-same "Leopard Child Halloween Costume" is on sale for $19.97 and the word "naughty" is nowhere to be found in the description.
Interestingly, the online product appears starkly different from the packaging that was submitted to Consumerist. But the design of the costume and the kid in the picture are identical.
A screen shot from Walmart.com
While some are shocked that the "naughty" outfit would be on sale for such a young target audience, others don't see why the story is making such a splash in the first place. Over at TheStir.com, Michelle Zipp covers the dilemma in detail, offering up her surprise to find what she described as a relatively benign children's costume.
"When I heard about this Naughty Leopard Costume for toddlers, I thought for sure I was going to see a skin-tight leopard body suit with some chicken cutlets sewn in where the boobs should be. Something very "naughty" or risque and totally inappropriate for a little girl to wear on Halloween," she wrote. "Instead I saw this cute little girl in what looked more like a goth princess costume, and if it wasn't for the ears, I wouldn't have identified her as a little girl dressed up as a leopard of the naughty (or any other) variety."
In the end, Zipp said that, while there are many crazy kid costumes, this really isn't one of them. In making her point, she focuses on the word "naughty," which is clearly capturing attention and creating some angst. While some might see it as an overtly-sexual and inappropriate word, she argues that it's entirely possible that critics are reading too deeply into it.
That said, Cosmopolitan's Anna Breslaw has an entirely different opinion on the matter. While she acknowledges that there are different definitions of the word "naughty," she's not convinced this costume is such a good idea, especially in today's culture.
"These days the connotation is way more 'Spank me, Daddy,' than 'I stole some cookies and got into harmless childish hijinks,' which lands this one straight on the Sexualizing Little Girls Expressway," she writes.
What do you think? Is the costume inappropriate?
(H/T: Gawker)
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by M. W. Byrne
There’s an endless stream of varying kinds of motorcycles out there, with bad ones outweighing the good by a massive margin. Getting a solid motorcycle as your first buy is a tough order to fill, particularly if you aren’t a guru in the world of the two-wheeled steeds. While we did tell you everything you need to know to get your first bike in our guide, there’s still a lot of options running around the highways and byways of the world which will sucker you in with tales of adventure, then leave you with a greasy mess of parts in your driveway.
While you need to ask yourself what kind of motorcycle is right for you, and work out the kinks yourself, there’s a fair number of beginner bikes that will make most everyone happy, or can at least give you a starting point for your quest to find the world’s most alluring machine. If you’re at a loss, each of these is a fairly basic road/dirt bike that will suit the standard Sunday rider, and be able to tackle most journeys. They’re not one size fits all, but will give most a place to cut their teeth on something safe, reputable, and fun to ride.
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It bears mentioning that we generally aimed for used bikes, merely because any first-time buyer is going to drop this bike at some point. We sought ubiquitous models that have stood up to the test of time, and still have quality support in the modern age. Even if you can buy new, there’s a lot to be said for what you’ll learn on a bike that’s been around. You can make #2 pop and sizzle, make this one smart and savvy. Though, most of these models have new lines in production, which carry the torch of their forebearers proudly.
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Riders know this acronym, and if you’re a beginner, it’s imperative that it slide into your lexicon. This stands for “All The Gear All The Time.” That means, when you ride, ATGATT is what you should be wearing. If you don’t have all the gear, get that, then the bike. If you don’t know what you need, the answers always lie in Reddit’s Gear Guide.
Notes On Numbers
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When buying a bike, you’ll want to consider engine size before much of anything else. That’s traditionally measured in Cubic Centimeters (cc’s). The more cc’s, the bigger the engine. With larger engines, you get more displacement, which means more speed and often more weight. Speed and weight are great, but not on your first purchase. Generally, anything in the 250 cc to 650 cc range is right for beginners, though climbing much over 300 tends to be asking for trouble. Getting more bike than you can handle is a literal death sentence, so be realistic as you shop and stay the hell alive.
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Anyone with a yen to one day hop on a hog should start slow into the life and think about a scooter. The only difference is the added stability and the step-through design. The same basic engine applies to both, giving you easy practice, a zippy little commuter piece, and an introduction to life in the two-wheeled world. For the greenest beginners, or those looking to learn the most they can as quickly as they can, grabbing any inexpensive scooter under about 400 cc’s will do the job nicely.
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A controversial choice for a beginner’s motorcycle, the advantage to a Bonneville over something a bit more petite is that it’s very forgiving. It has a lot of different models, each bearing the double twin engine. Shifting is simple, and so long as you can work the throttle, you can make it go while you work out how to hop through gears. Best for bigger guys or more experienced riders as these can run chunky.
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Largely thought in the industry to be the skeleton key of the beginner bike industry, the SV650 tends to be the answer to many new bike-buyer’s prayers. The riding position is aggressive without being hunched, making it comfortable for commuting or even touring, while it has enough power to make a freeway run no problem. A little much out of the gate, but a good bike to grow into and hang onto for basic runs. They’re also everywhere, so easy to buy, easy to sell, easy to get parts.
Though finding a used version of this isn’t likely, yet, it delivers so nicely that it’s tough to resist. Enough power to get you there, it’s set on an extremely light body that makes it feel like a lot more. The gas gauge never seems to drop, even after a day peeling through the salt flats, and the work Honda has been doing with ergonomics pays off in dividends with the CB300F.
Kawasaki Versys-X 300
A go-anywhere adventure cycle, the Versys-X is an experiment by Kawasaki that has paid off. They were looking to revamp their image as being more adventuresome, and proved it. Like finding out your accountant is also a semi-pro MMA fighter, they’re showing skills in off-road technique. This is way more bike than a first-time buyer usually needs, but if you want a Swiss Army bike that can do it all, and take a beating, this nimble little bastard just begs to be taken home.
Suzuki GS500
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Like a bad penny, GS500’s are impossible to get rid of, which is what makes them a perfect first bike. You can beat it up, it won’t cost you more than a pittance, parts can be had easily, repair is simple, and the bigger 500 cc engine provides enough kick that you won’t feel like a gorilla on a tricycle. Then, you can sell it and it will make you appreciate your second bike so much more.
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The scrappy Ninja 250 is the must buy motorcycle of the moment because there’s so many of these laying around that finding a deal is as simple as making two phone calls. Particularly helpful for younger, smaller, or slightly more timid riders, there’s enough pickup to get you moving and have plenty of laughs, but it’s not likely to overpower you.
Yamaha FZ-6R
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Built specifically for novice riders, you can’t help but admire the ingenuity that Yamaha has shown at limiting how much harm a person can do to themselves on a bike. The engine feels electric, though it’s a 600 cc that can prove it on the track, so you rarely recognize that this sharp-lined little commuter has some huevos should you decide it’s time to run.
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UJM is a term that is not thrown about much anymore. It means “Universal Japanese Motorcycle” and it indicates a motorcycle with a particular upright frame intended to be good for all riders. These came about in the 70’s and 80’s just as motorcycles were finding their way into the mainstream. The Z650 is a good example, but there’s many other models available, such as the Honda CBR650F, the Suzuki SFV650, and Yamaha’s FZ-07. Basically, anything with that wide seat and comfortable, upright posture has some UJM DNA sitting in its
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LONGFELLOW CENTENARY
Celebrated in Sanders.--Tributes Paid by Friends.--Order of Speeches.
NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED
Last night a meeting was held in Sanders Theatre, under the auspices of the Cambridge Historical Society, to celebrate the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow h.'59, Smith Professor of the French and Spanish languages and literatures, and Professor of Belles Lettres, in the University from 1836 to 1854. Sanders Theatre was crowded to the utmost so that many were forced to stand, and many others could not gain admittance. Professor C. E. Norton '46, chairman of the assembly, opened the meeting by a short address, which is printed in full below. The other speakers of the evening were President Eliot '53 and Colonel T. W. Higginson '41. A poem, which is also printed below, by T. B. Aldrich h.'96 was read by Mr. Copeland, owing to the illness of Mr. Aldrich. The principal address of the evening was written by Mr. W. D. Howells h.'67, but on account of Mr. Howell's illness, it was read by Professor Bliss Perry. In addition to the addresses of the evening a short cantata entitled "The Village Blacksmith" was rendered by an orchestra and chorus composed of pupils in the Cambridge public schools.
Among the guests of honor seated upon the platform with the speakers were: Governor Guild '81, Professor W. W. Goodwin '51, Dr. W. J. Rolfe, Mayor Ward-well of Cambridge, Professor W. James '69, Professor K. Francke, Professor J. Royce, Professor H. Munsterberg and Mrs. Julia Ward Howe.
Following are the addresses according to the order of the program:
Address by Charles Eliot Norton.
"Forty years ago today the Boston Daily Advertiser contained some verses addressed to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow on his birthday. They were signed with the initials of his neighbor, friend and brother poet, Lowell. The second stanza read as follows:
"'With loving breath with all the winds his name
Is blown about the world, but to his friends
A sweeter secret hides behind his fame.
And love steals softly in through the applause
To murmur a "God bless you," and there ends.'
The last stanza but one of the brief poem contained a prophecy of the fulfilment of which this meeting of ours is one of the many signs:
"'Surely if skill in song the shears may stay
And of its purpose cheat the charmed abyss,
He shall not go, although his presence may,
And the next age in praise shall double this.'
"In another month that benignant presence will have been gone from us for twenty-five years--a quarter of a century in which there have been many shifts and fluctuations in current taste in literature, and in which the competition of authors seeking popular favor has been keener than ever before. Many have had their little day of sunshine; few have outlived a single short summer; but all this while there has been no change in the hold of Longfellow on the hearts of men, and today bears witness to the truth of Lowell's prophecy that the next age should double the praise that his own had lavished on the poet.
"But I leave to others to set forth the charm of poems which
"Long as our modern usage shall endure
Shall make forever dear their very-ink.'
for here in Cambridge, the home of our poet, tonight, it is the life rather than the poems of Longfellow that I, as the spokesman of his fellow townsmen, am drawn by affectionate memory chiefly to celebrate; more mindful of the sweeter secret which lies within the melody of his verse than of its outward rhythm and rhyme.
"Of all the blessings with which heaven may endow a community, there is none greater than the habitual presence in it of a good and pleasant man or woman, and this blessing is immeasurably enhanced when to goodness and pleasantness is added the gift of genius which makes its possessor a special object of admiration and of general interest; and if this genius finds its expression in verse addressed not only to the comparative few of highly cultivated intelligence, but through its breadth of sympathy and through its musical expression of simple elementary moral sentiments appealing to the vast multitude of common men and women, the blessing is still further enhanced. And if combined with genius be a character of exceptional purity, gentleness and graciousness, then the blessing of the presence of such a nature in a community is perfected. Such a blessing was bestowed upon Cambridge while Longfellow lived. Its influence abides with us and will abide with those who follow us. 'A good life hath but a few days, but a good name endureth forever.'
"The prosaic aspects of our town, even though such as those which Harvard square represents, are made interesting by memories and associations with the poet, while its pleasanter regions, such as Brattle street and Kirkland street and many others are beautified by his memory, and already are places of pilgrimage for his sake. More than one youth in each of our swift college generations as he takes his daily walk, shall be touched by refining and inspiring thoughts as he recalls that he is treading the very path which the poet trod in years gone by; and many a stranger from distant regions of our own country or from distant lands will seek Cambridge for the sake of viewing the localities which Longfellow's Muse has consecrated.
"But as was said three centuries ago,
"'. . . the diocis
Of every exemplar man the whole world is.'
"And so, though Cambridge was made the better by his actual presence and is the more famed by his memory, the diocese of Longfellow is bounded only by the limits of the language in which he wrote. For the spirit which inspired his poetry was that of the sweetness and peace and good will for which the whole world longs. Walt Whitman, with a genius of a different order from that of our poet, said well concerning him: 'I should have to think if I were asked to name a man who has done more and in more valuable directions for America.' And, so, at the close of a century from his birth, in every quarter of our land, America is celebrating the birthday of him who did so much for her. Everywhere the tone of affection will mingle with the tone of admiration. It is the man whose life was as beautiful as his own verse; it is the exceptionally good and pleasant man, no less than the delightful poet, who is everywhere cherished and honored; and here in the community which knew him best, the two tones of love and admiration mingle in one harmony of blessing on his memory."
Col. Higginson's Speech.
"We have met this evening to pay tribute to a man who had, among all American authors of his time, the most individual and disarming combination of qualities. He was at once genial and guarded,--kind and cordial in greeting, but with an impassable boundary line of reserve:--dwelling in a charmed circle of thought, yet absolutely self protecting; essentially a poetic mind, but never out of touch with the common heart:--yet not so much a creator as a composer; and viewing his themes, as a very acute observer has said of him, 'in their relations, rather than in their essence.'
"He was one to whom a poem might occur, as did the 'Arrow and the Song,' while he stood before the fire waiting for his children to go to church with him; and he was equally able to spend patient years in hearing and weighing 'slowly and with decorum,' as he says, the criticism of other and younger Italian scholars on his version of Dante. He was abstemious, yet wrote joyous drinking songs for his friends;--did not call himself an abolitionist, yet pronounced the day of the execution of John Brown of Ossawatomie to be 'the date of a new Revolution, quite as much needed as the old one.' When worn with over-work, he could sit down to write 100 autographs for a fair in Chattanooga;--or, perhaps, go out and walk miles to secure kindness for some old friend troubled with chronic and insuperable need of money.
"He was choice in his invited guests, yet drove his housemaids to despair by insisting on the admittance of the poorest children in Cambridge to tramp through his study daily or to sit triumphantly in the chair which their little subscriptions had bought for him. This was the man whom we meet to commemorate: this was Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
"It is an obvious truth in regard to the poems of Longfellow, that while they would have been of value at any time and place, their worth towards the foundation of the literature of a new world was priceless. The first need for creating such a literature in America was, no doubt, a great original thinker such as was afforded us in Emerson. Yet Longfellow rendered a service only secondary, in enriching and refining that literature and giving it a cosmopolitan culture, providing for it an equally attentive audience in the humblest log-cabins on the prairies or in the more distant literary courts of far away lands.
"The editor of one of the great London weeklies said to an American traveller a few years ago: 'A stranger can hardly have an idea of how familiar many of our working people, especially women, are with Longfellow. Thousands can repeat some of his poems who have never read a line of Tennyson and probably never heard of Browning.'
"You may count in our Harvard College Library, as I have myself done, with the aid of the most varied linguist there employed, the titles of at least 100 versions from Longfellow scattered through
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The pursuit of material things
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CBT + Mindfulness = MBCT
Mark Williams, a professor of clinical psychology at Oxford University, talks about Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy.
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Carol's take on CBT for Depression
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Chloe Hatzitolios - Apr 4
The UN has a plan for a climate change-proof floating city
Lin-Manuel Miranda is in and so are we!
If you’ve been sitting around wondering what we’re going to do when the world ends in 12 years because of climate change, the United Nations might have an answer. Rather than be totally displaced as the tides rise and increasingly worse storms slam our structures to oblivion, we could take to the seas in our own inflatable cities.
Stop laughing, this is serious.
The U.N. just unveiled plans developed by Danish architect Bjarke Ingels with Oceanix (a builder of floating structures) for a giant hexagonal floating city that could house up to 10,000 residents. The city is designed to withstand water-based natural disasters such as tsunamis, floods and category 5 hurricanes and will be impervious to the inevitable rising tides.
The city would essentially be a collection of hexagonal platforms that can each hold around 300 residents. pic.twitter.com/YbCUsnGFtZ
— Business Insider India🇮🇳 (@BiIndia) April 4, 2019
The designers consider a group of six platforms to be a “village.” The entire city would contain six villages, for a total of around 10,000 residents. pic.twitter.com/sXhUKfCZQQ
Pulling off a floating city concept is difficult, but within reach. It’s somewhat akin to landing on the moon. pic.twitter.com/gETNufHtQw
While “floating city” sounds pretty far fetched and has been laughed at in the past, this particular concept is actually supported by the experts at the U.N. According to Business Insider India, Maimunah Mohd Sharif, director of the United Nations Human Settlement Programme, says the international organization would help make it a reality.
“Everybody on the team actually wants to get this built,” Oceanix CEO Marc Collins said. “We’re not just theorizing.”
These little utopias will also be fully focused on being green and sustainable. BI reports that an aquifer system will extract clean water from the air, high-emitting vehicles will be banned and each city will have an accompanying “ocean farming” system which will allow the cultivation of crops under water.
The concept calls for “ocean farming,” which would involve growing food beneath the surface of the water. pic.twitter.com/RgvYMwB205
And if you’re worried about your whole city just floating around the great blue sea, that won’t be a problem. While the project is billed as a “floating city,” the whole structure will actually be secured to the ocean floor for stability.
So where do we sign for our very own floating weatherproof condo?
The idea is gaining traction fast, and even Lin-Manuel Miranda is on board. After the devastation in his home of Puerto Rico by Hurricane Maria in 2017, Miranda has a deep understanding of the impacts of climate change on coastal regions.
Plus, he’d really like to take on author Maureen Johnson in a game of Settlers of Catan.
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— Lin-Manuel Miranda (@Lin_Manuel) April 4, 2019
I’ve never played.
*hides from the replies*
Please let this plan be more than a concept design for Meet the Robinsons 2!
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Magic® PCW-MATTE Wins Wide-Format Imaging 2015 Top Product Award
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DCNR grants awarded to Cambria, Somerset counties
By Mark Pesto
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EBENSBURG – Hundreds of thousands of dollars in state grants awarded recently will fund efforts to develop trails, improve parks and support conservation efforts in Cambria and Somerset counties, two state legislators said Thursday.
State Rep. Frank Burns, D-East Taylor Township, announced in a press release that the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources has awarded a total of $500,000 in grants to benefit parks, recreation opportunities and conservation efforts wholly or partially in Cambria County, including the following:
• $25,000 to the Pennsylvania Environmental Council to coordinate and fund the PA Water Trails Program, including implementation of its 2020 mini-grant program, which supports the Kiski-Conemaugh Water Trail, which runs through Cambria County;
• $40,000 to Portage Borough to install fencing, provide Americans with Disabilities Act-compliant access, renovate tennis courts and make other site improvements at Crichton-McCormick Park;
• $40,000 to the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy to develop a plan related to climate change impacts in the Laurel Highlands region, which includes Cambria County;
• $165,000 to the Pennsylvania Environmental Council Inc. to coordinate and fund activities of the Laurel Highlands Conservation Landscape, including a mini-grant program and the implementation of a communications strategy to promote water resources in the region;
• and $230,000 to the Allegheny Ridge Corporation to assist communities with the development of new access points and related improvements to the Kiski-Conemaugh River Water Trail and the Juniata River Water Trail.
Additionally, state Sen. Pat Stefano, R-Fayette, said in a separate press release that $270,000 was awarded to support the development of the September 11th National Memorial Trail in Somerset County. That award is meant to fund construction of a 1.5-mile trail segment between the Great Allegheny Passage trailhead in Garrett Borough and the proposed alignment of U.S. Route 219 in Brothersvalley Township.
Mark Pesto is a reporter for The Tribune-Democrat. Follow him on Twitter at @MarkPesto.
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Effects of Testosterone on the Human Body
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Hormones are a chemical substance which is secreted from the endocrine gland into our blood to target specific areas for action. These hormones are what occurs in both woman and men, but each sex needs different amounts, for different areas of the body to cause different effects. Testosterone is thought of as a male hormone in men as it has long been linked to different male behaviours and is present in a male before and after birth effecting behaviour and development. (Carré & Archer, 2018).
Testosterone has an effect even from inside the mother’s womb as it develops the sex of a male’s organs at seven weeks old which also influences the brain making the hypothalamus more enlarged in volume. (Vousden et al., 2018).
Testosterone has advantages to a male’s physical state before and after as not only does it form a male’s organs in conception but also increases at puberty in later development. Testosterone allows the testes to produce and grow, producing regular sperm with levels of testosterone increasing right through puberty. This is shown in a male’s voice, by becoming deeper. Also, growth in pubic hair and muscle density to grow strong and form allowing manly features to show and along with this comes an increase in sexual desires and competitiveness.
In male testosterone increases neurotransmitters which help tissue to grow, which in turn testosterone increases levels of hormone growth, making exercise more likely to build muscle. This is known as Gonadal hormones and as it helps males bulk where females do not bulk as easily. The gonadal hormone is what controls the reproductive functions in testosterone and oestrogen and identifies a woman from a man biologically. (Comer, Gould, & Furnham, n.d.).
While testosterone has its advantages, it also has disadvantages as men with low levels of testosterone may experience erectile dysfunction. A person can feel a loss of confidence, with no sex drive and feel low on energy levels which results in weight gain and sweating of the body as the body is unable to regulate its body temperature. (Yassin & Saad, 2008).
The body temperature stays regulated due to the anterior pituitary gland (frontal gland) as this is under the control of hormones secreted by the hypothalamus (brain). Hormones released from the hypothalamus is sent down the axon, which is then connected to the pituitary gland, then carried to the anterior gland which release tropic hormones. These hormones help keep the body in a regular state. (Jannini, Screponi, Pepe, Giudice, & Benvenga, 1999).
In a response to stress, the hypothalamus in the brain gives a signal to the adrenal glands which then secrete glucocorticoids and cortisol. If levels of cortisol in the blood remain high from constant stress, overuse can result in lower ability to regulate cortisol so lower levels are then produced through overuse due to damage to the hippocampus. This can stop our fight or flight mode and immune response or metabolism, causing aggressive behaviour and stress from the breakdown of several areas. (Carré & Archer, 2018).
There are many arguments over the brains lateralization and what functions take over from the effect of testosterone from male behaviours such as aggression and visuospatial. In a man the hypothalamus contains a cluster of large cells which is known as the sexual dimorphic nucleus, when compared in size to a female’s brain, the males appear to be much larger in size.
As research has already shown, the brain has two sides, left and right. The left for language and right for spatial and non-verbal tasks.
Research carried out by young 1996, (Baxter et al., n.d.) using MRI scans to monitor the brain during language tasks was done to see if there is evidence of reasons to why the male has a larger SDN. This showed that woman used both left and right hemispheres, whilst the male used only the left side. Evidence showed that a male’s brain was influenced by testosterone by working more independently on one side compared to the female’s brain of both sides which shows testosterone can influence lateralization of a man’s brain resulting in the size difference on the SND.
Research was carried out (Henley, Nunez, & Clemens, 2010) with rats to see the effect of testosterone on the SDN showed similar similarities in the size difference in the brain. This was done by injecting female rats during their early stages of development. Not only did they show aggressive and experimental behaviour later in life, but also young found the size in the SND in males to be larger compared to the females SND. This showed a repeated pattern carried out by Baxter in 2003.
As the study was carried out in a lab by injecting the rats with injections the rats received a higher dosage than what a human would compared to what a human who would receive on a daily basis at steady and natural pace when the body needs it so findings of this where not seen as been as generalizable compared to that in a naturalistic environment which Baxter carried out. Also, another main factor is that animals and humans do not have the same brain structure to start with making the research and validity uncertain and the main factor raised was if it was it right to use animals in such a cruel way.
In the evolutionary approach to gender, it believes that gender role came from our ancestors through needs of survival to reproduce from the environment. So, men hunt, and woman stay at home to nurture the children, meaning genes are coded. The biological approach to gender argues that nature and nurture both play roles in development. The suggest that gender is determined by certain events from exposure to prenatal hormones and postnatal labelling from what gender they are. (Miller, 2016).
Regardless of nature or nurture or testosterone in pre-stages, are we as a modern society doomed to fail as woman, men been more competitive, whether it is an evolutionary one, leaving our genes to play fate subject to a hormone or a biological one coming from social labelling after genitals, regardless both gender play crucial roles in future development of a child as we have seen proof of this through evolving in numbers.
Baxter, L. C., Saykin, A. J., Flashman, L. A., Johnson, S. C., Guerin, S. J., Babcock, D. R., & Wishart, H. A. (n.d.). Sex differences in semantic language processing: A functional MRI study. Retrieved from www.elsevier.com/locate/b&l
Carré, J. M., & Archer, J. (2018). Testosterone and human behavior: the role of individual and contextual variables. Current Opinion in Psychology, 19, 149–153. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2017.03.021
Comer, R. J., Gould, E., & Furnham, A. (n.d.). Psychology. Retrieved from https://catalogue.sunderland.ac.uk/items/385593?query=psychology+ronald+comer&resultsUri=items%3Fquery%3Dpsychology%2Bronald%2Bcomer
Henley, C. L., Nunez, A. A., & Clemens, L. G. (2010). Exogenous androgen during development alters adult partner preference and mating behavior in gonadally intact male rats. Hormones and Behavior, 57, 488–495. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yhbeh.2010.02.007
Jannini, E. A., Screponi, E., Pepe, M., Giudice, F. L. O., & Benvenga, S. (1999). Lack of sexual activity from erectile dysfunction is associated with a reversible reduction in serum testosterone, 392, 385–392.
Miller, C. F. (2016). Gender Development, Theories of. The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality Studies, (April), 1–6. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118663219.wbegss590
Vousden, D. A., Corre, C., Spring, S., Qiu, L. R., Metcalf, A., Cox, E., … Palmert, M. R. (2018). Impact of X/Y genes and sex hormones on mouse neuroanatomy. NeuroImage, 173, 551–563. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.02.051
Yassin, A. A., & Saad, F. (2008). Testosterone and Erectile Dysfunction. Journal of Andrology, 29(6), 593–604. https://doi.org/10.2164/jandrol.107.004630
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Washington Capitals right wing Tom Wilson (43) fights Pittsburgh Penguins defenseman Jamie Oleksiak (6) during the first period on Wednesday at Capital One Arena in Washington, D.C. Photo by Alex Edelman/UPI | License Photo
Pittsburgh Penguins defenseman Jamie Oleksiak (6) leaves the ice after fighting with Washington Capitals right wing Tom Wilson (43) during the first period on Wednesday at Capital One Arena in Washington, D.C. Photo by Alex Edelman/UPI | License Photo
Washington Capitals right wing Tom Wilson (43) and Pittsburgh Penguins defenseman Jamie Oleksiak (6) fight during the first period on Wednesday at Capital One Arena in Washington, D.C. Photo by Alex Edelman/UPI | License Photo
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iPhone 6 Bendgate Controversy “Overblown”, According To Consumer Reports
There has been a lot of controversy regarding the new iPhones due to numerous reports of the phones bending. This is an issue that a handful of iPhone 5 users had experienced in the past so it is definitely not new per se. However some are arguing that the issue has been overblown and while Apple has offered the media a look at their testing facility, we’re sure some are still a little doubtful.
Well the folks at Consumer Reports have decided to put the new iPhones to test themselves and have included other phones as a form of comparison. The test that they used involved using an Instron compression testing machine which basically pushes down on the middle of the phone with varying degrees of force.
The phones used in the test include the iPhone 5s, new iPhones, the LG G3, the Samsung Galaxy Note 3, and the HTC One M8. According to their finding, it seems that the HTC One M8 and iPhone 6 were the weakest of the bunch and deformed at 70 pounds of force. This was followed by the iPhone 6 Plus which deformed at 90 pounds, followed by the LG G3 at 130 pounds, and the Galaxy Note 3 which was the sturdiest at 150 pounds.
According to Consumer Reports, they conclude by saying, “While not the strongest phones on the market, fears of a serious structural design flaw in the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus seem overblown.”
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Replenished Ethnicity Author on Immigration Reform in the L.A. Times
Tomás R. Jiménez, author of Replenished Ethnicity: Mexican Americans, Immigration, and Identity, recently contributed an op-ed to the L.A. Times on the immigration bill just passed in the Senate whose fate will now be determined by the House of Representatives. Jiménez and co-author Helen B. Marrow argue against claims that Mexicans who immigrate to the U.S. show no interest in assimilating into American culture and will remain a “permanent underclass.”
To the contrary, they say, “Many Mexican immigrants and their children have traveled paths to becoming full Americans that, even if slower, are not unlike the paths followed previously by European immigrants.” Advocating an approach testable by social science data, the authors write:
For Mexicans, who have been immigrating to the United States for a century, the historical moment of arrival and the number of generations removed from the immigrant generation are crucial parts of the story. When accounting for both, the best analyses suggest cautious optimism. Each passing generation of Mexican Americans does better than the one before at making economic gains and progressing toward full integration into U.S. society.
One comprehensive study published in 2008 tracks Mexican Americans’ experiences in the large Mexican centers of Los Angeles and San Antonio, where sociologists Edward Telles and Vilma Ortiz found significant and steady upward educational mobility. On average, first-generation parents completed just 4.1 years school in the 1900s to 1930s. Their second-generation children completed 10 years in the 1930s to 1950s, and their third-generation grandchildren completed 13.1 years of school in the 1950s to 1980s. Later-generation Mexican Americans also narrowed the gaps in educational attainment with non-Latino whites to 1.3 years from 3.4 years.
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The owner of Save On Meats, a well-known social enterprise business in the Downtown Eastside, is being sued by Vancouver Community College over a $300,000 contribution to a kitchen training project. Photo Dan Toulgoet
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In a lawsuit filed September 11, Vancouver Community College (VCC) is alleging, among other things, that the owner of a well-known social enterprise in the Downtown Eastside misappropriated all or part of $300,000 the college contributed to a kitchen-training project.
None of the allegations has been proven in court and the defendant, Mark Brand Inc., has yet to file a response. Restaurateur Mark Brand owns Mark Brand Inc. and Save On Meats, a butcher shop and diner at 43 West Hastings Street.
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The suit claims that Mark Brand Inc. approached VCC and the City of Vancouver in January 2012 to fund the Vancouver Incubator Kitchen.
The plan for the kitchen was that VCC would be able to use the space to train its students. It would also be used to teach cooking skills to Downtown Eastside residents and be made available to community organizations to prepare food, with the goal of supporting the community, encouraging small businesses and promoting local food.
According to VCC’s claim, the community college agreed to pay $300,000 and the City of Vancouver contributed $100,000 toward the establishment of a “state-of-the-art” kitchen at Save On Meats. Mark Brand Inc. was also supposed to invest $100,000 in the project.
Mark Brand Inc. was to buy the kitchen equipment on behalf of VCC, which would then own 60 per cent of the equipment while Mark Brand Inc. and the city would each own 20 per cent.
Vancity Credit Union was also a partner in the project.
In court filings, VCC alleges Mark Brand Inc. has used VCC funds intended for the kitchen for other purposes, has not bought all the equipment necessary for the kitchen and has not provided a list of the equipment bought with project funding.
VCC also alleges Mark Brand Inc. has breached the project agreement by refusing to provide VCC a full accounting of how the funds have been spent, not keeping the funds for the project in a separate bank account and not getting adequate insurance.
As well, VCC alleges Mark Brand Inc. has not obtained a lease for the premises of Save On Meats that would waive the rights of the landlord to obtain the kitchen equipment, a condition VCC says was included in the project agreement.
As a result, VCC alleges it has not received a properly equipped teaching kitchen and has not obtained ownership of the equipment required to be purchased for its benefit as set out in the project agreement. VCC alleges Mark Brand Inc. has misappropriated “all or a portion of the project funding provided by the plaintiff and the city.”
VCC is seeking damages for breach of the project agreement. The college is also seeking court orders that Mark Brand Inc. produce bank statements and financial records for the Vancouver Incubator Kitchen, open and maintain a separate bank account for the project, obtain proper insurance coverage and obtain a lease for the premises under which the landlord has waived all rights to the kitchen equipment.
According to Brand’s response via email to Business in Vancouver: “This filing caught us by surprise after a long and successful partnership with the college through all of their difficult leadership changes. We’ve provided all documentation requested and are happy to continue to work on clarification with the college as none of the people who worked on this project remain in their employ.”
Brand said two cohorts of VCC students had been trained at the incubator kitchen.
VCC sent BIV a statement that asserts: “VCC was compelled to bring its action after repeated failure by Brand to live up to its obligations and after giving notice to Brand that a lawsuit would be forthcoming if it did not live up to its contractual obligations.”
City of Vancouver communications staff sent BIV an email stating that the city is concerned by the allegations and is reviewing them but “believes in the value of having kitchen space available to enable local community groups, social agencies, or entrepreneurs to provide low cost/no cost meals, and to achieve entrepreneurial or social enterprise aims.” The email states that 22 community groups and start-up businesses have used the incubator kitchen since 2014.
A year ago, BIV reported that restaurant supplier Sysco had sued Mark Brand Inc. for $324,000. According to court documents filed in connection with the Sysco suit, Save On Meats was in the process of paying back over $400,000 in taxes in arrears at the time.
Brand stated he has a good working relationship with Sysco and deliveries from the supplier to his restaurant resumed September 1. But a trial date remains scheduled for November 2, according to court documents.
A claim brought against Brand in small claims court by Joanne Griffiths, who had partnered with Brand to start A Better Life Foundation charity, was resolved in November 2014 with an order that Brand repay Griffiths the $3,000 she claimed he owed her, according to court documents.
Another claim brought against Brand in small claims court by graphic designer Calen Knauf has not been resolved, according to court documents.
Brand became well known in Vancouver after he was featured in a Vancity advertisement and in two reality television shows that documented his struggle to establish a business that gives back to the Downtown Eastside community.
Brand was previously the owner of several businesses in the Gastown area, including high-end restaurant Boneta, clothing store Sharks and Hammers and Sea Monstr Sushi.
In his September 2014 interview with BIV, Brand said he had closed those businesses by choice, in part to focus on Save On Meats.
Brand is the co-owner of Persephone Brewery on the Sunshine Coast, which employs people with developmental disabilities.
Brand sits on the Presidents Group, an advisory committee to the provincial government on employing people with disabilities, alongside business leaders such as Vancity CEO Tamara Vrooman and Vancouver Airport Authority CEO Craig Richmond.
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Trump Hoping Brett Kavanaugh Will Keep His Tax Returns Secret
An appeals court has ruled against him, and the Supreme Court is the president’s last-ditch attempt.
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Donald Trump has devoted himself to many pet projects since becoming president—demonizing immigrants, sucking up to dictators, luring psychiatrists out of retirement—but none have received the kind of time and focus as the undertaking that is keeping his tax returns—which he at one point promised to release!—secret. Unfortunately for Trump, such efforts have not gone so well of late. Last month, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals upheld a congressional subpoena of his longtime accountants for his financial information, and on Monday, a separate three-judge panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that those same accountants must turn over eight years of tax returns to New York prosecutors.
Rejecting the extremely Trumpian argument made by his lawyers that he can’t be prosecuted or even investigated during his time in office, the panel said that “any presidential immunity from a state criminal process does not bar the enforcement of such subpoena.” (Trump’s personal lawyer insisted with a straight face last month that such immunity would extend to the president shooting a random pedestrian on Fifth Avenue, saying local authorities could do nothing about it.) The court upheld an October ruling from U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero, who characterized the claims of presidential immunity as “repugnant to the nation’s fundamental structure and constitutional values.”
Further, Chief Judge Robert A. Katzmann wrote that in this particular case, the notion that the founding fathers wanted to avoid the president being distracted by such investigations is bullshit because the subpoena was issued to the accounting firm Mazars, not Trump himself. That may cause Trump to sweat like he’s just been told Conan the Baghdadi dog is waiting in the Oval Office and has been trained to detect contraband Big Macs stuffed down people’s pants, but that’s his problem, not the court’s. “The subpoena at issue is directed not at the President, but to his accountants; compliance does not require the President to do anything at all,” Katzmann said. Judges Denny Chin and Christopher F. Droney agreed.
Luckily for Trump, for whom the notion of people seeing his tax returns is apparently more terrifying than multiple, credible allegations of sexual assault, the ruling doesn’t mean the information will be turned over immediately. In a statement, attorney Jay Sekulow said that the decision will be appealed to the Supreme Court, adding that the constitutional implications of allowing New York prosecutors to investigate whether any state laws were broken in connection to hush-money payments made before the 2016 election are “significant.” That appeal is due in 10 days, and while the Supreme Court could simply let the ruling stand and refuse to hear the case, something tells us a certain beer-loving justice, along with this fellow conservatives, will try to persuade John Roberts to come to their pal’s rescue.
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Brad Pearce with Jared Lorenzen, his favorite UK football player, before a 2015 UK game. (Larry Vaught Photo)
I can still remember being at former Kentucky offensive lineman Dave Hopewell’s pregame UK football tailgate in 2015 when I met Brad Pearce. Actually, it was like meeting Jared Lorenzen II.
It was Halloween and Pearce, the youth and worship pastor at North View Baptist Church in Lexington, had dressed up like Lorenzen.
“The costume was ridiculous but it was all in love. He is by far my favorite UK player ever and I’m truly saddened that he’s gone,” Pearce posted on social media Wednesday after Lorenzen’s passing. “He was such a great guy. I’ll never forget throwing ball with him.”
Lorenzens somehow heard about Pearce being there or just accidentally came by where Pearce was. Was Lorenzen offended? Not at all. He laughed, posed for pictures and threw football with Pearce. I was lucky enough to be nearby and got to watch it all.
“I came back out (in the outfit) the next year for the Mississippi State game in 2016 at the request of ESPN,” Pearce said.
He also came to Danville in full gear to be on a radio show with me in 2015 after I wrote about him that drew quite a crowd to the show to see him.
“It was a great experience. I appreciate y’all having me on,” he said.
All I ever remember is how Lorenzen seemed to love what Pearce had done. However, the UK fan often wondered if there was any chance he offended the former UK quarterback.
“That’s weighed on me a lot. Especially in 2017 when he came out with his plan to lose the weight. KSR (Kentucky Sports Radio) always used the image of him and me together and I just hoped everyone realized the costume was done out of respect and adoration,” Pearce said.
“In no way was it meant as a put down. He was so nice that day (in 2015) and all smiles. I was always pulling for the guy.”
My hunch is that Lorenzen knew exactly that because part of what made him so special was how lovable he was and that he related to fans in a way few UK athletes ever have or ever will.
Larry Pup on July 5, 2019 at 6:53 pm
I remember this. Funny and all. Great article Larry V.
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Thanks Pup. I just got lucky and happened to be at a tailgate when Brad came by and then boom, here came Jared
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National parks dealing with vandals, human waste during shutdown
Human feces, garbage, illegal off-roading and other problems overwhelm some of the West's national parks as a partial government shutdown drags on.
National parks dealing with vandals, human waste during shutdown Human feces, garbage, illegal off-roading and other problems overwhelm some of the West's national parks as a partial government shutdown drags on. Check out this story on vcstar.com: https://www.vcstar.com/story/news/2019/01/01/national-parks-deal-vandals-human-waste-government-shutdown/2460265002/
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Human feces, overflowing garbage, illegal off-roading and other damaging behavior in fragile areas are beginning to overwhelm some of the West's iconic national parks as a partial government shutdown leaves the areas open to visitors but with little staff on duty.
"It's a free-for-all," Dakota Snider, 24, who lives and works in Yosemite Valley, said by telephone Monday, as Yosemite National Park officials announced closings of some minimally supervised campgrounds and public areas within the park that are overwhelmed.
"It's so heartbreaking. There is more trash and human waste and disregard for the rules then I've seen in my four years living here," Snider said.
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The partial federal government shutdown, which has forced furloughs of hundreds of thousands of federal government employees, has left many parks without most of the rangers and others who staff campgrounds and otherwise keep parks running.
Unlike shutdowns in some previous administrations, the Trump administration was leaving parks open to visitors despite the staff furloughs, said John Garder, senior budget director of the nonprofit National Parks Conservation Association.
"We're afraid that we're going to start seeing significant damage to the natural resources in parks and potentially to historic and other cultural artifacts," Garder said. "We're concerned there'll be impacts to visitors' safety."
"It's really a nightmare scenario," Garder said.
Spokespeople with the Interior Department did not immediately return emails seeking comment on Monday.
National Park Service spokesman Jeremy Barnum had said as the shutdown took hold that "national parks will remain as accessible as possible while still following all applicable laws and procedures."
In practice, that meant on Monday that many park toilets were closed or filled to overflowing, despite holiday crowds.
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At Channel Islands National Park, San Miguel Island, one of the most remote spots, was closed to visitors. But others in the five-island park remained open during the weekend, at least. Boats were sold out and camping was steady.
This time of year, Island Packers only takes people to the islands closer to shore – Anacapa and Santa Cruz — along with whale-watching trips. So the shutdown didn't impact that schedule.
On Sunday, visitors returning to the mainland said they noticed few signs of the shutdown. That is, except not seeing rangers in their familiar green and gray uniforms.
Park restrooms, campgrounds, lookouts and trails stayed open.
The National Park Service was unable to provide any visitor services, including campground check-in and check-outs, as well as maintenance of restrooms and campgrounds.
Beginning Wednesday afternoon, visitors to Joshua Tree National Park in the Southern California desert will need to leave once the sun goes down.
Camping restrictions will begin at noon due to the partial government shutdown that sent staff home and led to free access to the national park.
Indian Cove and Black Rock campgrounds are open for day-use, but they will close at sunset. Lost Horse Mine Road is closed due to unspecified illegal activity and Rattlesnake Canyon is closed to prevent search-and-rescue efforts during a period with limited resources due to the government shutdown.
Campers had reported squabbles at Joshua Tree as different families laid claims to sites, with no rangers on hand to adjudicate, said Ethan Feltges, who operates the Coyote Corner gift shop outside Joshua Tree.
Feltges and other business owners around Joshua Tree had stepped into the gap as much as possible, hauling trailers into the park to empty overflowing trash bins and sweeping and stocking restrooms that were still open, Feltges said.
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Feltges himself had set up a portable toilet at his store to help the visitors still streaming in and out of the park. He was spending his days standing outside his store, offering tips about the park in place of the rangers who normally would be present.
"The whole community has come together," Feltges said, also by phone. "Everyone loves the park. And there's a lot of businesses that actually need the park."
Some visitors have strung Christmas lights in the twisting Joshua trees, many of which are hundreds of years old, the Los Angeles Times reported.
Most visitors were being respectful of the desert wilderness and park facilities, Joshua Tree's superintendent, David Smith, said in a statement.
But some are seizing on the shortage of park staffers to off-road illegally and otherwise damage the park, as well as relieving themselves in the open, a park statement said. Joshua Tree said it would begin closing some campgrounds for all but day use.
At Yosemite National Park, Snider, the local resident, said crowds of visitors were driving into the park to take advantage of free admission, with only a few park rangers working and a limited number of restrooms open.
Visitors were allowing their dogs to run off-leash in an area rich with bears and other wildlife, and scattering bags of garbage along the roads, Snider said.
"You're looking at Yosemite Falls and in front of you is plastic bottles and trash bags," he said.
Elsewhere in California, the lack of staff and unsanitary conditions have led to the closures of several areas of Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks.
The closures went into effect at 6 p.m. on Monday, according to Sintia Kawasaki-Yee, Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks public affairs officer.
"The parks are being forced to take this action for health and safety concerns," Kawasaki-Yee said in a news release issued Monday night. "Trash receptacles are overflowing, resulting in litter dispersal throughout the area and a threat to wildlife."
Sequoia National Park closures include the Generals Highway at Hospital Rock.
The closure extends through Giant Forest and Lodgepole, through to Lost Grove. Concession facilities at these locations, including Wuksachi Lodge, are also closed.
An overflow of vehicles, traffic collisions and icy roadways have caused congestion along Generals Highway. Visitors can expect up to three-hour delays on the roadway, according to park rangers.
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Areas within Kings Canyon have also become hazardous.
The Grant Tree Trail, normally minimally maintained by sanding, has become extremely slick. The ice and snow have become compressed and glazed due to heavy traffic, which has caused multiple falls and at least one injury, park rangers said.
Those visiting the Grant Grove area can also expect closures.
Closures include the road to the General Grant Tree, Big Stump picnic area, and Azalea Campground.
Grant Village will remain open, as will Highway 180 for through traffic to Princess Campground and Montecito Sequoia Lodge.
It is likely the closures will remain in effect for the duration of the government shutdown, according to Kawasaki-Yee.
USA TODAY Network staff and The Associated Press contributed to this report
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Written Answers — Home Office: Criminal Investigation (5 Nov 2019)
Louise Haigh: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the Government collects data on the number of people released under investigation for each category of offence.
Louise Haigh: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans the Government has to collect data on the category of offences for people released under investigation.
Written Answers — Home Office: Police: Recruitment (5 Nov 2019)
Louise Haigh: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much of the £750 million police recruitment fund announced in the Spending Review will be retained by her Department to spend on publicity.
Louise Haigh: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much of the £750 million of funding for the recruitment of police officers in 2020-21 will be allocated to (a) police forces and (b) retained by her Department.
Written Answers — Department for Work and Pensions: Work Capability Assessment (8 Jan 2020)
Louise Haigh: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will issue guidance to ensure that claimants of benefits are aware that they have the right to record work capability assessments.
Written Answers — Ministry of Justice: Family Courts: Domestic Abuse (13 Jan 2020)
Louise Haigh: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what progress he has made on his Department's review of domestic abuse and the family courts.
Written Answers — Department for Work and Pensions: Universal Credit (13 Jan 2020)
Louise Haigh: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make the assessment period for universal credit coterminous with HMRC deadlines.
Written Answers — Ministry of Justice: Family Courts (14 Jan 2020)
Louise Haigh: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent discussions he has had with the President of the Family Division in relation to transparency in the family courts.
Written Answers — Home Office: Bail (14 Jan 2020)
Louise Haigh: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what progress she has made on her Department's review of pre-charge bail legislation; and if she will make a statement.
Written Answers — Home Office: Police: Recruitment (14 Jan 2020)
Louise Haigh: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many frontline police officers will be recruited to local police forces in (a) 2020, (b) 2021 and (c) 2022; and if she will make a statement.
Written Answers — Home Office: Police Pursuits (14 Jan 2020)
Louise Haigh: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans she has to bring forward legislative proposals on police pursuits; and if she will make a statement.
Written Answers — Home Office: Police: Private Sector (14 Jan 2020)
Louise Haigh: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the powers are of private security firms contracted by public authorities to carry out policing duties; and if she will make a statement.
Written Answers — Home Office: Police (14 Jan 2020)
Louise Haigh: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what progress she has made on establishing a Police Covenant; and if she will make a statement.
Written Answers — Home Office: National Police Chiefs' Council: Disclosure of Information (14 Jan 2020)
Louise Haigh: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many requests his Department has made to the National Police Chiefs Council for data outside the normal reporting rules since July 2019.
Written Answers — Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport: Cambridge Analytica (14 Jan 2020)
Louise Haigh: To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what recent representations she has received from the Information Commissioner on Cambridge Analytica.
The Secretary of State was asked: Victims of Domestic Abuse (14 Jan 2020)
Louise Haigh: The previous Government implemented an independent review of the family courts’ treatment of domestic abuse survivors. Domestic abuse survivors across the country will be watching with interest to see how that review is taken forward. Will the Minister meet me to discuss how that review can make the impact that is necessary?
Written Answers — Department of Health and Social Care: Social Services (15 Jan 2020)
Louise Haigh: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent progress he has made on cross-party talks on social care.
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Lighthouse, 1647 GUE
Exterior (low1) / (low2) / (high)
Exterior (looking north) (artA) / (artB)
Exterior (from east bank) (low) / (high) / (art)
Behind Lighthouse (low) / (high) / (artA) / (artB)
Vines Hanging on Debris (A) / (B)
Raft Made from Debris (art)
Front Door (low) / (high) / (artA) / (artB)
Front Door (artA) / (artB)
Interior (low) / (high) / (art1A) / (art1B) / (art2)
Looking East from Roof (low) / (high)
Panarama view from Roof (art1) / (art2)
NORTHERN RIVER LIGHTHOUSE
The original Northern River Lighthouse was a keep built on the western side of the river, linked to Shanbar by the Road to the South. Across the river to the east lies the village of Bel Naire.
Through the 1630s and 40s, the curse of Morphius had devastating effects upon the infrastructure of the valley. In the process, the keep was reduced to nothing but a pile of rubble.
The second lighthouse was built as an anti-vulture warning system, supposedly to signal the townfolk of any dangers heading their way. Constructed on a bend in the river in the Valley of the Sparrows, it lay to the north of Shanbar. Though not as impressive at the first, the roof had the best view in the valley. At one time a rope bridge crossed the valley, providing an alternate shorter route to Bel Naire, as opposed to having to loop southward and cross at Shanbar; but it later fell down.
Following the completion of the lighthouse, further damaged came to the valley as a result of Morphius' evil. The entire village of East Shanbar completely disappeared, while a majority of West Shanbar was dislocated a significant distance south. Only a few buildings remained in their original location. The remaining buildings and lighthouse became divided by a large patch of cursed land, in which anyone that tread there instantly perished. This second lighthouse quickly became decrepit under the burden of the evil enchantment.
Throughout these years, the lighthouse was run by a befuddled fellow who isolated himself in the lighthouse.
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Plaster Binders—Mineral Glue
Adobe, rammed earth, cob, wattle and daub are all examples of raw, unfired clay based construction.
Gypsum is actually a "salt" of calcium that occurs naturally as a relatively soft stone.
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Binders, that’s certainly not a term you hear every day. However, in the world of plastering, binders are very important. Really—more than any other
single ingredient—the binder will determine how the plaster will ultimately perform. As the name implies, they “bind” or glue other materials such as sand, other aggregates and fibers together and strongly influence such characteristics as permeability, compressive strength and surface hardness of the finished plaster.
Due to their importance, most plasters are named after their binder, for example a “gypsum plaster” or a “lime stucco.” In this article, we’ll give a brief introduction of the three traditional mineral binders: clay, gypsum and various limes. For thousands of years, until the middle of the 19th century, these were the only binders used for plaster in building.
Clay is not just a binder for plaster it is also the oldest material associated with construction in general. There is good reason for that. Clay is extremely abundant and easily accessible almost anywhere around the globe. Over millions of years, erosion grinds hard minerals like feldspar, granite and quartz into the mass of fine, sticky particles that we call clay. Typically, all one has to do is dig two or three feet through the topsoil to encounter thick beds of clay that is suitable for construction. It is the only binder ready to use straight out of the ground for plaster, no further manufacturing required. Clay or “earthen plasters” are easy to make, simple to apply and look beautiful.
Living in North America and Europe - where the use of concrete and cement dominates construction- you may find it hard to believe that even in the 21st century, clay is still the most used building material in the world. Adobe, rammed earth, cob, wattle and daub are all examples of raw, unfired clay based construction. And why not? Clay is both an inexpensive and practically inexhaustible resource having little to no embodied energy in its production. Furthermore, clay is the most ecologically friendly material you can imagine, boasting a completely non-toxic life cycle.
Gypsum is actually a “salt” of calcium that occurs naturally as a relatively soft stone. It forms in a number of ways, the most prevalent being the decomposition of limestone exposed to sulphuric acid from volcanic activity. For this reason, historically, it was also commonly referred to as “sulphate of lime.” Its properties were discovered many thousands of years ago. It’s been theorized that its use as a plaster or mortar was discovered from gypsum rocks being collected for the outer ring to contain a campfire.
Since gypsum “calcines” or changes its chemical state at a relatively low temperature, the typical heat from a campfire is more than enough to convert it into plaster. Just as we might do today, water would have been tossed on the fire the following morning when breaking camp and the calcined gypsum rocks would have fallen to powder, absorbing the excess water to form a putty. Within minutes the putty would have hardened again into solid gypsum.
No doubt some clever camper (maybe a plasterer?) found the properties of this rock potentially very useful. That hardening process was more than just rapid drying. Gypsum plasters undergo a chemical change or “set” that distinguish them from clay plasters which simply dry out. Due to these unique chemical properties, plasters made from gypsum are “self-binding,” in other words, they don’t shrink, rather, they expand a little bit when they set. This makes gypsum plasters not only excellent wall plasters but particularly useful for thick casting applications such as mouldings and ornament.
A Variety of Limes
Lime is without question one of the most versatile and enduring building materials available to mankind. Lime originates principally from the burning of limestone, the compressed accumulation of millions of years of marine skeletal remains. Similar to gypsum, it has been conjectured that the discovery of lime occurred by accident. Limestone calcines at a much higher temperature, a level of heat associated with terracotta and ceramic production. Ancient potters might have been disappointed that their limestone kilns fell apart but their plaster and mason fellows became the beneficiaries of an incredible discovery, the ability to burn and reconstitute limestone.
There are “pure” limes, composed almost entirely of calcium compounds that make beautiful white plasters perfect for everyday use, such as the “grounds” for frescoes like those of Michelangelo. Dolomitic limes are a combination of calcium and magnesium compounds that have a long history of use as mortars for masonry. Some limestones have very specific impurities that have leached into their porous structure. When burnt they form “hydraulic” limes, meaning that they “set” or harden when mixed with water. Depending on the nature of these impurities the set can be quite rapid and very hard.
A few limestones with high clay infiltration known as “marls” produce a natural cement. The Romans became experts at exploiting hydraulic limestones and marls in Celtic Gaul, modern day France, to construct aqueducts and ports. Back home they discovered that adding volcanic ash from Mount Vesuvius to pure lime would produce a similar hydraulic reaction, the famous “Roman” or pozzolanic cement responsible for the greatest unreinforced architectural work in human history, the dome of the Pantheon.
We’ll return to examine these binders in far greater detail, breaking down their chemical and physical properties as well as highlighting practical plaster applications. However, in my next article, we’re going to take a closer look at what these minerals are binding together: aggregates and fibers.
Recent Articles by Patrick Webb
Patrick Webb: Spanish Natural Cement
An Introduction to Traditional Plaster Blends
How Can Cement be Natural?
History of Veneer Plastering
European Standard for Building Lime
Patrick Webb is a traditional and ornamental plasterer currently instructing as Adjunct Professor of Architectural Plastering at the American College of the Building Arts in Charleston, S.C. Additionally, he serves as senior technical consultant for heritage plaster manufacturer Plâtres Vieujot, providing services to architects to assist them in properly specifying plaster and plaster systems. He can be reached at webbp@buildingartscollege.us.
Clay: The Original Plaster Binder
Interior Plastering Vocabulary
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AFH Financial buys Broadleaf Financial Services
Verdict Staff September 20, 2019
By Verdict Staff September 20, 2019
Wealth consolidator AFH Financial Group has acquired Wirral-based Broadleaf Financial Services for a maximum consideration of £3.2m.
The deal includes an initial payment of £1.7m, which was paid from the company’s cash reserves. The remaining sum will be paid in cash over a 26-month period.
The deal amount is subject to Broadleaf performance criteria during the through the two year earn out period.
Four advisers and support staff will migrate to AFH as part of the transaction. Broadleaf director John Shaw and other directors will retire from the business after the acquisition.
Broadleaf acquisition will add £140m to AFH Financial Group’s funds under management (FuM).
The deal follow AFH Financial’s acquisitions of Mulberry Independent Financial Advisers and AE Garment in September this year.
Commenting on the acquisition, AFH CEO Alan Hudson said: ” The acquisition has been completed on a similar attractive multiple to previous transactions and extends the AFH footprint in the North West of the UK.
“The Company remains well capitalised to take advantage of the previously identified acquisition opportunities and to continue its record of delivering profitable growth and enhanced shareholder value.”
Earlier this year, AFH acquired West Midlands-based Hayburn Rock Group and its subsidiary companies.
Last December, AFH made the largest-ever acquisition in its history by buying Hull-based advisory firm CTL Three and its subsidiaries in a deal worth up to £10m.
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8 women talk about what it’s really like to be a millennial
By Bandana Tewari 14 February 2017
Life in the age of the smartphone
This hashtag loving, emoji-using generation may seem narcissistic and obsessed with instant gratification, but the millennials and Gen Z are heralding a new world order—and a cooler, kinder one at that.
For starters, we have an entirely new vocabulary to describe them and what they do. They are digital natives who work in the gig economy, never having known a world without smartphones and viral connectivity. In the US alone, they are the largest generation, swiftly dethroning the Baby Boomers. And world over, each country's social currency and pop-cultural soft power is defined by this brat-pack generation, powerful in its digital universe of common ideals and egalitarianism. This generation's world view has been defined by global events experienced in real time, opinions synchronised by Instagram hashtags and Twitter handles, making their parents' generation wonder if they are indeed not millennials but Martians.
Technology is embedded in their lives and has become the guiding force in the way they toggle between the digital and real worlds. Jobs? That's “so like, yesterday,” they will tell you. They do gigs, floating from one job to another, as they cross-pollinate ideas and mash up creative and professional disciplines. They live the ultimate hybrid and hyphenated lives.
Constant connectivity and sharing of information and opinions on social media have allowed for a level of cultural integration never seen before. No matter which country you go to, millennials and Gen Z seem to look the same. They are tech-savvy, liberal, educated and opinionated. They are also politically progressive and deeply engaged in social issues of our times. Yet they are particularly individualistic, defining their personality in clothes and styles that make them stand out and stand up for a world of diversity and acceptance, whether you are gender-proud or gender-fluid, fashion victim or fashion activist.
One of the most impactful consequences of this global connectivity is that they have a deep sense of individual worth and a singular voice, allowing them to meander through life with a strong sense of social empathy and a desire to change the world.
To throw a little light into their complex world, we invited eight young peeps to ask them what sets them apart, and if their online chatter translates to offline impact.
What does it mean to be a millennial?
Hair: Richard Wilkinson/Toabh Management. Make‑up: Jose Herrera/Toabh management. Stylist Aradhana Baruah
With inputs by Shweta Chaudhri
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How has 10 years of chasing likes on social media affected our lives?
By Sarah Raphael 12 December 2019
Are TikTok’s E-girls the biggest beauty influencers for Gen-Z?
By Avanti Dalal 27 December 2019
Inside Condé Nast's panel discussion on diversity and inclusivity in the workplace
By Mihika Agarwal 15 January 2020
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New Student Wellness Center open on campus
Jan. 6, 2020 -- Located in the new Steve Clark YMCA building at Mike Oatman Drive and Mid-Campus Drive, Student Health Services and Counseling and Prevention Services will now share an office known as the Student Wellness Center.
Dec. 18, 2019 -- Creating eco-friendly refrigeration and cooling technology is one of the top concerns when it comes to fighting climate change. Thanks to resources and knowledge at Wichita State University, a Wichita company is one step closer to finding a solution to that problem.
Alumna in the running for Grammy Music Educator Award
Dec. 16, 2019 -- Courtney Powers, music director at South Philadelphia High School, is in the running for a Grammy of her own for her work in music education. She is currently one of 25 quarterfinalists for the award.
Meet a Shocker: Stella Yang, economics graduate
Dec. 12, 2019 -- Stella Yang has served in many roles on campus since she enrolled in 2016, including business senator and treasurer of Student Government Association, as well as vice president of Asian Student Conference.
Meet a Shocker: Noah and Shauna Holloway, education grads
Dec. 11, 2019 -- Noah and Shauna Holloway are education majors in the Teacher Apprentice Program at Wichita State. They are parents of two who took classes while teaching full-time. They earned their degrees with help from family and by working with professors when life intervened.
Meet a Shocker: Gavrilla Arya, biology and chemistry grad
Dec. 11, 2019 -- Wichita State senior Gavrilla Arya excelled as a biological sciences major and helped the golf team to the 2016 NCAA regional. A native of Indonesia, Arya earned academic All-American honors four times.
Meet a Shocker: Sydney Easterberg, sociology grad
Dec. 10, 2019 -- During Sydney's time at Wichita State she took courses that influenced her experiences and career path. She's loved her time on campus and appreciates all the opportunities she's lucked into.
Alumnus Brenton D. Myers makes $1.25 million gift to College of Engineering
Dec. 9, 2019 -- A $1.25 million gift from the estate of Wichita State University alumnus Brenton D. Myers will support the WSU College of Engineering, where Myers earned the degree that helped him build a lifelong career in engineering and airport planning.
Meet a Shocker: Nayeli Cano, health management and health science grad
Dec. 4, 2019 -- Nayeli Cano is passionate about helping people and wants to work with underrepresented communities to provide equal access to health care for those in need.
Meet a Shocker: Michaela Marioni, video game design grad
Dec. 6, 2019 -- Texas native Michaela Marioni moved to Wichita when her husband was stationed at McConnell Air Force Base in 2015, and she decided to enroll at WSU. Originally a veterinarian medicine major, Michaela discovered her talent for video editing in a class and pursued it with a passion to her graduation this month.
Student thoughts: Finals are the pits
Dec. 6, 2019 -- It's that time of year where students caffeine to make it through, are sleep deprived and stressed to the max because of final exams. Cramming is the pits and so are finals.
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Polygon Comedy
Description: It’s Comedy Month here in Philadelphia, and what better way to laugh than with our most packed lineup yet! Come see Polygon's monthly showcase of stand-ups, sketch and improv groups from the local independent comedy community.Start off the evening with the improv kings of ambition Malone as they grace our show once again. Like a familiar friend, Hot Dog will warm you to the core with their gentle wit. You can sure that you’ve never seen a movie quite like this when Deleted Scenes takes the stage. And if you’ve ever worked in a building, then you’ll love the stylings of hilarious office mates Cubed!
Style: Improv
Date: Tuesday, November 13
Time: Doors open at 7:30, Show begins at 8:00
Admission: $5
Location: L'etage (624 S. 6th St. Philadelphia)
by Aaron Hertzog
Volunteer for The Philadelphia Improv Festival
The 8th Annual Philadelphia Improv Festival is looking for volunteers to help with their week-long event. For each shift worked, volunteers can see a show for free (and depending on the shift they work, they may be able to watch while working as well depending on the position they are working).
Full info about positions and shifts available are listed below:
BOX OFFICE - sells tickets in the lobby, manages will-call list
REGISTRATION - checks in groups, distributes
CROWD RUNNER - controls the flow up to theater, checks badges & tickets, maintains noise levels
STAGE MANAGER - groups report to this person for call, gives groups time reminders, escorts maintains noise levels
USHER - Seats patrons at tables, controls seating flow
TECH ASSISTANT- Sits next to the tech runner, runs slideshows, plays music and calls blackouts
SECURITY - Monitors audience for camera use during Live Nude Improv (Sat at 10PM)
Wed, November 7 & Thu, November 8 (Shows at 7:30PM & 9:00PM)
REGISTRATION: 6:00PM - 9:00PM
BOX OFFICE: 6:45PM - 10:00PM
CROWD RUNNER: 6:45PM - 10:00PM
STAGE MANAGER: 6:45PM - 10:45PM
USHER: 6:45PM - 10:45PM
TECH ASSISTANT: 6:45PM - 10:45PM
Friday, November 9 (Shows at 7:00PM, 8:30PM & 10:00PM)
REGISTRATION: 6:00PM - 10:00PM
Saturday, November 10 (Shows at 7:00PM, 8:30PM, 10:00PM & 11:00PM)
STAGE MANAGER: 6:15PM - 12:00AM
TECH ASSISTANT: 6:15PM - 12:15AM
SECURITY: 9:45PM - 11:00PM
Sunday, November 11 (Shows at 7:00PM & 8:30PM)
BOX OFFICE: 6:15PM - 9:30PM
CROWD RUNNER: 6:15PM - 9:30PM
STAGE MANAGER: 6:15PM - 9:45AM
USHER: 6:15PM - 9:30PM
If anyone is interested in volunteering for a full or partial shift, please contact Aubrie Williams at aubs913@gmail.com.
"A Dead Saint in an Altar" - Interview with Meg Favreau
Tomorrow night at Camp Woods Plus Meg & Rob will perform together for the first time in over a year. The sketch duo was a staple of the Philly comedy community for years until Meg Favreau moved to Los Angeles to further pursue a career in comedy. We asked Meg some questions about her time in LA, her return to Philadelphia, and her reunion with sketch partner Rob Baniewicz.
WITOUT: You've been in Los Angeles for a little over a year now, what do you miss most about Philly comedy, or have you forgotten about us completely?
MEG FAVREAU: I miss the sense of community the most. There's definitely a great comedy community out here, and I've made a lot of friends through it. But because of the size of things, it's a lot more splintered. I love how in Philly there is so much cross-pollination between stand up, sketch, and improv. Moreover, every time I went to a comedy show, I wasn't just going to a show -- I knew that almost no matter what the show was, I would walk in, and a bunch of my friends would be there.
I also think comedy in Philly tends to be more playful and experimental. I've seen a lot of great sketch since moving, but I've also seen so much samey sketch in LA. I think there are a few reasons -- for one, a lot of people are trying to become part of existing teams and institutions, so they try to match that voice or style. And then, when they finally get on a team, it's a bunch of people who (probably) haven't worked together before, headed up by a director wrangling disparate voices. But I think stronger sketch often comes from what generally happens in Philly -- when a group of friends decide to work together and just follow what makes them laugh the most in the way it makes them laugh the most.
To combine the two, I miss the hell out of Sketch Up or Shut Up. Not hosting it (although I did love that), but just getting to spend one night a month with a bunch of hilarious and supportive people trying things out.
WO: Tell us about the comedy projects you have going on in LA.
MF: I'm in a sketch group called Bone Mouth with fellow Philly ex-pat Alexis Simpson. It's funny -- I had moved out here so focused on meeting new people to do sketch with, and then I ended up forming a group with the person I've known the longest. I'm really happy with the stuff we've been doing. It's super dark and absurd, and we have a great director, Brian James O'Connell, who really gets our sensibility.
I also just got cast onto a sketch team at the iO called DJ Faucet. We've only had a couple of meetings, but so far, it's great -- the director is really experienced and knows how to make a writers' room feel really positive while still being critical and productive, and the other people on the team are pretty awesome too. I'm missing the first show while I'm in Philly, but I'm so stoked to write and perform with them more.
WO: How has being in LA for the past year affected your work as a comedian and writer?
MF: Overall, I think it's made me a stronger writer and better at working with other people. I've had some really great experiences, and some really bad ones -- for a little while, I was on a team that was just not the right fit for me, and the director wouldn't put up a single sketch I wrote. It was really frustrating, but I came out of that surer of my own voice and the kind of work I want to do.
I'm also writing more long work -- specs, and at the moment, a pilot -- which is something I did a little in Philly, but always felt clueless about. I'd get halfway through a spec script and want to give up, convinced that my brain only understood short form work. But living in LA has made writing longer work feel both more necessary and more achievable, and I'm enjoying the process a lot more.
The biggest change, though, might be that I've moved from feeling like a career as a comedy writer is this amorphous "maybe that could happen" thing to a concrete, achievable goal. The path isn't always obvious, but living here makes it seem very doable.
WO: How is the process of writing and working on a show when your partner is three thousand miles away?
MF: At this point, it's actually not that different than when we lived close by. Shortly after Rob and I started working together, I switched jobs (we met when working together at QVC). We wrote almost all of our sketches at work, then emailed each other notes. Practicing will be another matter -- there's only about 24 hours between when I arrive in Philly and when this show goes up. And this is assuming that my flight isn't delayed by East Coast Terror Storm 2012.
WO: Have you noticed a difference in Rob and his work since you've been gone. Do you think your absence has affected him in any ways (positively or negatively)?
MF: Well, shortly after I left, he was listening to the Pixies song "Cactus" a lot. You know, that one imploring the girl to get sweat and blood all over her dress and then send it to Frank Black. I would have sent Rob a dress, but he never offered to pay for it.
But I think that the split was hard for both of us. While we both did comedy in some form before Meg & Rob, so much of our development as writers and performers was together. It was scary to be let loose from that. The sketches I've read of his recently have been great though. Also, he has a wife now. I'm not saying that couldn't have happened while I was there...but it did happen after I left.
WO: The November 1st Camp Woods Plus show will feature Meg & Rob, Secret Pants, and of course, Camp Woods — can you talk a little about what you think each of these groups brings to the table with their own brands of sketch comedy?
MF: Oh my goodness. I love both teams so much. When Rob and I started doing sketch, Secret Pants was already so strongly forged, and they've only gotten better. Well, I've been away for a year and a half, so maybe they've gotten worse in that amount of time. But I feel like with some groups, you see good writing hide shitty staging, or really wonderful staging hide shitty writing. Secret Pants writes smart, funny sketches and always has great acting and staging.
It's been awesome to see Camp Woods become more and more of a super-group — they were already so good and different, and they've added some of my favorite comedians in the city. What I've seen from them recently has struck a really good balance between staying grounded and being batshit weird.
WO: What else are you looking forward to on your return trip to Philadelphia?
MF: Seeing friends and eating and drinking everything -- especially 1,000 sandwiches from Paesano's and real apple cider. Also, I'm going to do some touristy stuff I never got around to while I was living in Philly, primarily, seeing St. John Neumann. Did you know Philadelphia has a dead saint in an altar? How did I live there for six years and not go see that?!
And the Winner of the October WitOut Caption Contest is...
Congratulations to Chris Oberlin, winner of the October WitOut Caption Contest! Here's Chris's caption:
Uh, dude… I’m already *riding* you, so you can stop winking at me.
Chris, look for an email from WitOut with information to claim your prize (two tickets to a Philly Improv Theater show of your choice)! If we don't hear from you within a week, we'll be awarding the prize to our runner-up.
And speaking of our runner-up, congratulations also to Matt Nelson! Here's Matt's second place caption: "Brian was beginning to doubt Jess and her vast array of obscure colloquialisms, such as 'Save a horse, ride a Ratcliffe.'"
To the rest of you: Thanks for participating, and best of luck next time! We'll launch the next WitOut Caption Contest on November 15th.
Announcing the 2013 Witout Awards for Philadelphia Comedy
The 2013 WitOut Awards for Philadelphia Comedy will be held at World Cafe Live on Sunday, January 13 at 6:00pm with an after party in the venue immediately following. This year, awards will be given in the following categories:
Best Stand-Up Comedian
Best Sketch Group
Best Improv Group
Best Stand-Up Bit
Best Sketch
Best Male Improviser
Best Female Improviser
Best Regular Show
Best Short-Run or One-Time Show
Best Podcast or Web Series
Special Achievement in the Field of Tweeting
Best Open Mic (Stand-Up, Sketch Open Stage or Improv Jam)
Best New Act (Improv Group, Sketch Group or Stand-Up Comedian)
Some changes have been made in the nomination and voting process. Nominations will take place from November 12-30 via online survey, and will be open to performers in the Philadelphia comedy community. Each performer will have the opportunity to make three nominations in each of the 13 categories.
The top five most-nominated individuals/groups in each category will be announced on December 10, and online voting will take place from December 10-21. Voting will be open to both performers and the general public. The winners will be announced at the 2013 WitOut Awards for Philadelphia Comedy ceremony at World Cafe Live on January 13.
Best of luck to all performers. Let's hope to have a fun- and friendship-filled awards show.
The Monthly Hour - The Great Debate Promo Video
Even though The Monthly Hour with James Hesky (as well as all shows, rehearsals, classes and workshops at PHIT) has been cancelled for tonight we still wanted to bring you this promo video made for the monthly variety show. Watch as Tim from Port Richmond and Jim from Fishtown prepare for the second round of their debate for a coveted seat in the State House of Representatives.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbZlXfFw2UI
Philly Comedy Round-up, Vol. 62
Due to the impending threat of Hurricane Sandy, all shows, classes, rehearsals and workshops scheduled for tonight (Monday, October 29th) and tomorrow (Tuesday, October 30th) at Philly Improv Theater have been cancelled. We will keep you posted with any further schedule changes from PHIT, or any other Philadelphia comedy venues as we receive news.
Comedian Doogie Horner has been named one of the Smartest People in Philadelphia by Philadelphia Magazine. They specifically mention his graphic design work and flowcharts which you can find online or in his book Everything Explained Through Flowcharts.
Last week, Rittenhouse Comedy at Noche came to an end, but those looking for a Tuesday night open mic won't have to wait long. This week - The Tuesday Night Shitshow hosted by Steve Miller-Miller premieres at Underground Arts (1200 Callowhill St.) Signups begin at 8:30 and the show starts at 9:00.
This Thursday, Camp Woods Plus returns to L'etage (624 S. 6th St.) for a special show featuring Secret Pants and the reunion of Meg & Rob. The show will mark the first show for the sketch duo since Meg Favreau moved to Los Angeles last year. Doors open at 8:00 and the show begins at 8:30.
Episode 8 of Patrick Dodd's Comedy. Food. Sports. podcast is online and features comedian Jim Norton, who calls in to discuss his conversation with Muhammad Ali, Rachel Ray’s hips, A-Rod and Romo never being clutch and much more. The episode is available online via iTunes.
Comedy with Phyllis Voreen and Friends
Description: Showcase with TJ Hurley, Mike Logan, Joe Dougherty, Phyllis Voren, Setoiyo SEtoiyo and more - BYOB Followed by Open Mic for Stand-up, Improv, Sketch Hosted by Robert Lewis * Sign-up 7:30, OM 9:15
Style: Stand-up
Date: Wednesday, November 7
Admission: $5 requested donation
Location: MOONSTONE ARTS CENTER - 110A S. 13th Street (at Sansom St)
Contact: Facebook Event
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Channel 4 are offering staff up to £500 to try to tempt them to Leeds
The Corn Exchange (Photo: Channel 4)
Joe Cooper
Published: 10:17 Updated: 10:42 Tuesday 20 August 2019
Reluctant Channel 4 staff are being offered paid leave and up to £500 to cover a trip to Leeds to try to entice them into moving to the city.
The broadcaster chose Leeds for its new regional base and is offering a 'recce trip allowance' so staff can get a taste of what it has to offer, according to the i newspaper.
Channel 4 will move into the Majestic building, which is currently being refurbished, in 2020.
-> Leeds MP 'astonished' as Channel 4 explains why about 80% of relocated staff will quit instead of move here
In June it emerged that 70 to 90 per cent of staff working in London Channel 4 roles that are being moved to Leeds will choose to leave the company instead of move to the city.
To try to change that, eligible workers are being offered five days’ paid leave and £350 to cover travel, accommodation and meals while visiting Leeds with their partners.
This rises to £500 for people with children, according to Channel 4's relocation policy, which the i obtained using Freedom of Information laws.
-> Channel 4 kicks off recruitment drive for move to Leeds - here are the jobs on offer
Homebuyers’ legal fees, estate agency fees, stamp duty, surveys, mortgage redemption fees, and house removal fees are also being offered as incentives for those who want to move north.
The Corn Exchange (Photo: Channel 4).
There is also an allowance of up to £5,000 for temporary living, which includes van hire to move belongs into a rented house and cash for new furnishings including carpets and curtains.
But if staff who move to Leeds later resign or want to move back to London, they have to repay the cost of the relocation support at a rate of 75 per cent if they quit within the first 12 months of moving, or 50 per cent within two years.
Leeds will become the new regional headquarters for the broadcaster, with hubs also being established in Glasgow and Bristol.
Around 200 - 250 jobs are moving directly to Leeds and it is hoped 3,000 jobs will be created in the longer term outside of London.
-> Channel 4's Leeds job drive puts theory into practice and adds 'feather in the cap', says commerce chief
The first round of staff are expected to move to Leeds next month.
They will initially be based near Leeds Station and will move into their new home, the Majestic building, in 2020.
Channel 4 documents said the relocation policy was 'fairly standard' for a company of its size and was designed to ensure staff who wanted to move were no worse off, the i reported.
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A Channel 4 spokesman said: "We’re proud that we’re opening up jobs for people to work in the creative industries outside London. The increase in our original UK production spend from our current quota of 35 percent to a new voluntary 50 percent will result in a further 3,000 jobs being created in the nations and regions creative industries.”
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Leeds United eyeing deal for ex-Liverpool man, Sunderland interested in Middlesbrough-linked Doncaster Rovers favourite plus MORE transfer news - League One rumours
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Hundreds in Fresno honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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Germany: Father jumps on moving train with children on board
Posted: Aug 14, 2019 / 08:03 AM PDT / Updated: Aug 14, 2019 / 03:13 PM PDT
BERLIN (AP) — German police say a 42-year-old man jumped on a moving train after its doors closed with his children on board and him standing in a Hamburg station.
Police said the father had stepped out of the train for a smoke during its Hamburg stop on Tuesday afternoon.
A police statement issued Wednesday said when the train started moving out of the station with his 9- and 7-year-old children inside, the man allegedly grabbed the pleated rubber cover between two cars and tried to climb his way to a door.
A passenger spotted him and alerted a conductor, who ordered the train halted.
The father faces a criminal investigation.
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YUBA CITY, Calif. (AP) — Authorities are investigating the theft of nearly 100 beehives from an orchard in northern California.
The beehives, which are used to pollinate almond orchards, were discovered missing on Friday, beekeeper Mike Potts said. He estimated that the theft of the 92 hives, about a third of his operation, would cost him about $44,000 in revenue.
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SUV on grounds of Beijing’s Forbidden City sparks outrage
BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese woman sparked social media outrage in her country by posting photos of herself and a friend with a Mercedes-Benz on the grounds of Beijing's Forbidden City. The reaction prompted an apology from the management of China's 600-year-old former imperial palace.
Vehicles have been banned since 2013 to protect the cultural dignity of the vast site and its hundreds of historic buildings, according to the official Xinhua News Agency. The palace was home to the Qing and Ming emperors, who ruled China for nearly five centuries.
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This article came from the Chronicle published April 1985. Pages 26 – 28
AN ‘OPPIDUM’ OF THE DUROTRIGES AT ILCHESTER
Author: P.J. Leach
New discoveries in archaeology are not infrequently associated with freak weather conditions and their effects. Parch marks resulting from prolonged drought are an obvious example, but it is rare for quite opposite conditions to be of use. However, severe flooding at Ilchester in December 1979 led to one such discovery, the potential of which was only fully realised in October 1984.
Air photography under flood conditions, field survey, and observations made in the sides of fortuitous, if destructive public service supply trenches, demonstrated the existence of a large semicircular earthwork enclosure within the meadows immediately south of Ilchester. With the aid of a generous grant from the Maltwood Fund of the Royal Society of Arts, a small team from the Western Archaeological Trust and the University of Bristol were able to sample this site last autumn. Several possible theories to account for the site’s existence were postulated, but following our work it would now seem that a more definite and potentially exciting explanation can be offered.
Excavations in 1984 and earlier observations suggest that a very considerable earthwork enclosing at least 16 hectares occupies the river flood plain meadows south of Ilchester; its south east side possible bounded by an old abandoned course of the River Yeo. Elsewhere the enclosure was defined by a broad clay bank and a wide outer ditch, together occupying a zone 25-30m. wide. The broad shallow ditch is largely waterlogged, with great potential for organic preservation. The bank, composed largely of clay, was fronted by a low drystone wall revetment, composed in part of Ham Hill stone. Although still visible in places as a low earthwork, slumping of its clay body and partial burial beneath subsequent alluvial flood deposits had disguised the course of both bank and infilled ditch, preventing their earlier recognition.
Inside the enclosure extensive occupation deposits evidently exist at several locations immediately behind the rampart. Where sampled these have produced a wealth of late Iron Age pottery, slag, and animal remains, some of the former evidently originating from Ham Hill.
Interpretation of this site as an ‘oppidum’, a class of late Iron Age settlement with some proto-urban attributes, more familiar in south eastern England, rests upon several considerations. Its apparent date, morphology and location, both geographically and. politically, all argue in favour of such an interpretation. Low-lying, weakly defended positions, often with direct access to navigable rivers,frequently characterise these sites; within which a variety of social, industrial, and economic functions may be concentrated. Furthermore, the relationship of this site with Ham Hill, and with the later site at Ilchester, both at different times playing a dominant political and socio-economic role within their region, suggests a similar if short-lived role.
Oppida seem to represent changes in the organisation of late iron age society in Britain and the increasing centralisation of authority within tribal regions, leading ultimately towards urbanization. In Britain this process was suddenly accelerated by the imposition of Roman authority and culture. At Ilchester it cannot be a coincidence that the suggested ‘oppidum’ site, representing as it does an organisational shift away from the pre-1st century AD. hillfort dominated Durotrigian territorium, lies so close to its Romano-British successor. Roman Lendiniae, although never attaining the size of other cantonal capitals in Britain, has nevertheless been interpreted as one such centre. Whatever its precise status, Ilchester’s function as a regional administrative and economic centre for a wealthy region of Roman Britain can hardly be doubted. The discovery of such an ‘oppidum’, despite the apparent backwardness and reluctance of the Durotriges to abandon their hillforts in the decades prior to the Roman conquest, only conforms to a widespread pattern now emerging more clearly in southern Britain. Its discovery provides further confiirmation of the potential status and importance of Roman Ilchester as a cantonal capital of the Lendinienses.
Further work during 1985, subject to support from the Maltwood Fund, may reveal clearer information of activities, status, and the material culture of this site. For the future its long term preservation and protection from disturbance must be a high priority.
P.J. Leach.
1. Ilchester Volume I, Excavations 1974-5 P.J. Leach, Western Archaeological Trust. 1982.
2. A Late Iron-Age ‘Oppidum.’ at Ilchester, Somerset. P.J. Leach and N. Thew, Western Arcnaeological Trust 1985.
3. “Town & Market in Iron-Age Europe” in Cunliffe and Rowley, “Oppida: the Beginnings of Urbanzation in Barbarian Europe.” J. Collis BAR Supp. Series II 1976,3-23.
4. Oppida: Earliest Towns North of the Alps. J. Collis, 1984
5. Iron Age Communities in Britain. B.W. Cunliffe 2nd ed. 1978.
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Fri 3rd Jan 2020 – Members’ Evening – all welcome
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Taras Shelestyuk headlines ‘Night of Champions’ this Saturday night
Unbeaten welterweight standout Taras Shelestyuk (16-0, 10 KOs) marks his return to the ring this Saturday, March 9 in the eight-round main event of Thompson Boxing Promotions’ annual private show, “Night of Champions.”
While tickets are not available for purchase, the promoter will livestream the entire fight card on TB Presents: Night of Champions starting at 8:00 p.m. PT / 11:00 p.m. ET.
Boxing fans can stream the fights on our Facebook page, YouTube channel, and ThompsonBoxing.com. Blow-by-blow announcer Beto Duran and veteran boxing analyst Doug Fischer will call the action live from ringside.
Shelestyuk, 33, will face veteran Martin Angel Martinez (18-16-1, 11 KOs) of Mexico in the showcase fight from the Doubletree Hotel in Orange, Calif. Shelestyuk, a southpaw from Los Angeles by way of Ukraine, was absent from the ring last year and has been inactive for a year-and-a-half.
In contrast, Martinez has seen consistent action in each of the last four years, logging a total of sixteen fights. The 28-year-old is battle tested, having gone up against former interim title holder Mike Alvarado and high-end talent such as Jose Roman, Alex Saucedo, and Giovani Santillan.
Shelestyuk, however, comes from an outstanding amateur background that culminated in an Olympic bronze medal at the 2012 London games. The seasoned Shelestyuk mixes punching power with technical ability that at one point landed him as a top contender among the WBO rankings.
“I feel as confident as I have ever felt,” said Shelestyuk, who is promoted by Thompson Boxing and Banner Promotions. “I’m always in the gym working hard. I plan on attacking early and seeing what Martinez is made of.”
In the co-feature, Napa’s Brandon Trejo (4-1, 2 KOs) faces Mexico’s Jose Alberto Castillo (6-1, 4 KOs) in a battle set for six-rounds in the lightweight division.
Trejo, the former two-time California Silver Gloves champion and back-to-back National PAL winner, is looking to build on his knockout win from October. Prior to that contest, Trejo suffered the first setback of his career, a points loss to Bogar Padilla in April.
“I’ve put that loss behind me,” Trejo said. “Now it’s all about moving forward and getting better with every fight. Castillo is the right opponent for me. He’s young and hungry and I’m looking forward to the challenge of beating him.”
In other action, undefeated junior welterweight prospect Angel Ruiz (13-0, 9 KOs) of Los Angeles takes on Roberto Almazan (7-9, 2 KOs) of Texas in a scheduled six-round fight.
Opening the “Night of Champions” show is featherweight prospect Arnold Dinong (3-0, 1 KO) of Daly City, Calif. and Miguel Angel Moreno (pro debut) of Brownsville, Tex. (four-rounds).
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Is War Office Reshuffle Related to Info Leak?
By THE IRRAWADDY Saturday, January 16, 2010
Burma's military junta reassigned six officials from the War Office in Naypyidaw to the front lines last week, in a move that may be related to last year's leak of information about secret military ties between Burma and North Korea.
According to military sources, Col Win Thein, a general staff officer under Joint Chief of Staff (Army, Navy, Air Force) Gen Shwe Mann, and five others were reassigned from the War Office to front-line posts.
The others are Aung Zaw Aye, Theik Soe, Thein Tun Oo, Win Min Tun and Aung Zaw Oo. All are lieutenant colonels with the rank of general staff officer -1. Aung Zaw Oo is from the Military Affairs Security (MAS), the regime's military intelligence agency.
Military sources said as many as 30 other lieutenant colonels and colonels have also been reassigned from their posts over the past month.
Last June, photos and documents detailing a November 2008 visit to Pyongyang by Gen Shwe Mann, who is regarded as the third most powerful figure in the regime, were leaked to the international media. The documents also contained images of tunnels being built by the the Burmese junta, possibly with North Korean technical assistance.
Soon after the leak was reported, dozens of officials from the Ministry of Defense and Ministry of Foreign Affairs, including Col Kyaw Kyaw Win, who was the director general of the ruling State Peace and Development Council (SPDC), were arrested and interrogated.
Earlier this month, Maj Win Naing Kyaw and a staff member from the Foreign Ministry were sentenced to death for their role in leaking the information. Another staff member from the Foreign Ministry received a long prison sentence.
This has led some analysts to believe that last week's military reshuffle could be related to the information leaks about military ties between Burma and North Korea.
“Reshuffles are normal in the Burmese military, but last week, six officials from the War Office were replaced at the same time. That makes me think there's more to this than routine business,” said Aung Kyaw Zaw, a Burmese military observer based on the Sino-Burmese border.
In the recent reshuffle, Win Thein was reassigned to serve as the deputy commander of the Northeast Regional Military Command, while the other general staff officers were given positions as temporary tactical operation commanders in front-line commands such as regional operation commands and military operation commands. Four of the posts are in Shan State and one is in Arakan State.
Military sources said general staff officers at the War Office have more authority than temporary tactical operation commanders in front-line commands. They said appointing Win Thein as the deputy commander of the Northeast Regional Military Command was effectively a demotion.
“If someone from the War Office is appointed as a regional military commander, we can say it is promotion. But appointing them deputy regional commander could hardly be called a promotion,” said Win Min, a military researcher based in Thailand.
“Also, temporary tactical operation commanders are not as powerful as general staff officers from the War Office,” he said.
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Surgical management of extra-regional lymph node metastasis in colorectal cancer
Mahdi H. Albandar, Min Soo Cho, Sung Uk Bae, Namkyu Kim
ABSTRACT: One of the major problems in rectal cancer surgery is local recurrence, found in an average of 21% to 46% cases in 1990. However, the advent of chemo-radiotherapy (CRT) and total mesorectal excision (TME) improve local control and enhances survival rates in colorectal cancer (CRC). Regional lymph node involvement is determined to be an independent prognostic factor in local recurrence; however, extra-regional lymph node (ERLN) metastasis has a higher recurrence rate (up to 58.1%). Lack of supportive data in management of ERLN metastasis in CRC has added further strain and challenges to structure a unique treatment strategy. ERLN refers to extra-mesenteric involvement either in the para-aortic lymph node (PALN) or the lateral pelvic lymph node (LPLN). Treatment of ERLN metastasis is challenging because of the shortage of the resources. Here, we will outline and summarize approaches and management of ERLN metastasis. We also aim to clarify the role of surgical intervention in CRC
Expert Review of Anticancer Therapy
Rectal Neoplasms
Albandar, M. H., Cho, M. S., Bae, S. U., & Kim, N. (2016). Surgical management of extra-regional lymph node metastasis in colorectal cancer. Expert Review of Anticancer Therapy, 16(5), 503-513. https://doi.org/10.1586/14737140.2016.1162718
Albandar, Mahdi H. ; Cho, Min Soo ; Bae, Sung Uk ; Kim, Namkyu. / Surgical management of extra-regional lymph node metastasis in colorectal cancer. In: Expert Review of Anticancer Therapy. 2016 ; Vol. 16, No. 5. pp. 503-513.
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Designers, Encore Hospitality, Hospitality, Zeftron nylon
Encore and Zeftron Come Through for New Distrikt Hotel Pittsburgh
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The Distrikt Hotel in downtown Pittsburgh, which officially opened in July 2017, is the latest signature hotel from the Distrikt Hotel Management Group. We recently sat down with Jennifer Austin, Executive Vice President, Development and Brand Strategies, to discuss some of the design challenges she faced. She also talked about how Encore Hospitality Carpet worked closely with her to develop a fully custom-designed carpet made with Zeftron nylon to meet the hotel’s unique design and functionality needs.
ZN.: How did the project come about?
J.A.: The Distrikt Hotel Group opened their first signature hotel in New York City in 2010. When it came time to expand, we found this amazing historic building in a key area of Pittsburgh that was for sale. We immediately realized this would be an excellent opportunity for our second location.
Z.N.: What were some of the challenges you faced in opening the Pittsburgh Hotel?
J.A.: Well, considering we were converting a historic, 10-story former Salvation Army building originally built in 1926 into a modern hotel, we had quite a few challenges. We had to completely gut the building from the second floor up, then we added a few rooms to the 10th floor.
As a historic building, we needed to adhere to local building codes. For example, we needed to meet the city’s request to not build a parking garage. They also requested we add green amenities. We also needed to preserve the façade, the windows and the amazing lobby area.
Another unique challenge we faced was the guest rooms. Some rooms have 12-ft. ceilings, while others have 8-ft. ceilings. This created some interesting design challenges.
Z.N.: What support did you receive from Encore Hospitality Carpet?
J.A.: Encore was a dream to work with. They had provided the carpet at our New York hotel when it came time to replace the original carpet, so we were familiar with them.
The Pittsburgh hotel was my first FF& E project; handling all the design, construction and installation. It was a big learning experience. But working alongside Richard Heaver (President of Encore) made the process so much better and easier.
Richard took the time to get to know me and listen to me. He took a real hands-on approach other flooring manufacturers would not have. And, because we were not using an architect or a designer, I had to rely heavily on him.
His knowledge and willingness to listen to what I envisioned completely paid off: The carpet he ultimately presented was really stunning, and not normal at all.
Z.N.: Where is the carpet being used?
J.A.: The Encore carpet made with Zeftron is in all corridors and all 185 rooms. Encore rugs with Zeftron are in public spaces, including the main lobby area.
Z.N.: Can you describe the design you were trying to achieve?
J.A.: We knew that we did not want to copy or emulate what other hotels are doing. But more importantly, we wanted to balance the historical nature of the building and the essence of Pittsburgh, while bringing a fresh, modern look. Essentially, we wanted the design to be understated and elegant, evoking a sense of place and time.
Z.N.: What purpose did you need the carpet to serve?
J.A.: We needed the flooring to serve three major purposes: One, it needed to support and enhance the overall design of the hotel; two, it needed to assist with wayfinding in the corridors; and three, it needed to stand up against staining and wearing.
From a design perspective, we wanted the carpet to be reflective of the historic elements of the building and ensure it blended nicely with what we were trying to achieve. So it’s got some fading elements that speak to something historical. But at the same time it’s got some sparkle and pop, making it look contemporary and modern. It ended up perfect; everyone comments on it.
From a functionality standpoint, there are some winding paths in the hallways – not all hallways are completely straight. So we had to work very closely with Encore to create the transitions from hallway to corner. This was some pretty tricky work: How do you take a pattern and not make it look awkward when it’s going around a corner and then going a different length of hallway? The end result is that we have some great corner-to-hallway transitions that help our guests navigate the turns in the corridors.
Bottom line, the carpet is beautiful, affordable and it cleans beautifully. The unique colorways, surface textures and intricate patterns all come together great — it’s kind of a dream.
Z.N.: Thanks for speaking with us!
J.A.: You’re welcome. Thank you.
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Flooring and Today’s Flexible Office Environments
zeftronnylon August 3, 2017 Leave a comment
As summer begins to wind down and we return to the office from vacations, we thought we would explore the ever-growing trend of flexible office environments.
F rom American Express and GlaxoSmithKline, to Facebook and hundreds of other companies, businesses have been shifting away from cubicle-style floor plans to a mix of individual and collaborative work areas.
Inc. magazine notes that the variety of choices for employees is increasing as businesses offer “comfortable living rooms, libraries, stand-up tables, outdoor spaces, nooks and crannies–to collaborate, create, contemplate, present.”
More Collaborative Spaces
It’s not just the layout of the office that is making a difference. Metropolis magazine’s “The Living Office—The Action Office for the Digital Age” takes a look at a new office system designed by Yves Behar and fuseproject. The design, titled “PUBLIC Office Landscape,” addresses the desire for employees to collaborate at a desk area. This allows individuals or groups to use a desk area equipped with storage bins, mobile privacy screens and more.
Hot-Desking Continues
Another take on the fluid workspace is the practice of “hot-desking.” This practice allocates desks to workers when they are required or on a rotating system, rather than giving each worker their own desk. According to Gensler’s 2016 workplace survey, everyone can benefit from this new approach. The study suggests that organizations, “empower the entire organizational community, not just senior leadership, with the ability to choose when and where to work.”
Flooring’s Role
So how does flooring fit into this new workplace paradigm shift? When it comes to carpet, it can be pretty important. Consider the following:
Way-Finding — Carpet color and patterning can help with way-finding and navigation between spaces, such as down hallways or corridors.
Space Differentiation – Carpet can create differentiation between different spaces when moving between such things as office departments or different end-use areas.
Acoustics – Open spaces, bereft of offices or cubicles, can sometimes be loud and noisy. Carpet’s inherent acoustics can also make workspaces quieter, thus contributing to greater productivity.
Visual Balance — Carpet provides a nice visual balance and design element when paired with a hard surface such as wood or LVT in an open floor plan – a growing trend in many office environments today.
Here are some photo examples of how carpeting is being used to define space:
Image credit: Still from video footage, courtesy of videographer Jason Cheung via Work Design Magazine
Image credit: Photography: Manuel Martinez via Crain’s Chicago Business
Image Credit: Shaw Contract
What are your thoughts? Do you work in an open/flexible office? If you specify flooring, how are you using various flooring to create the open, flexible and productive workspaces of today?
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Four Commercial Carpet Trends for 2016
zeftronnylon January 26, 2016 Leave a comment
These are exciting times for the commercial design industry. New colors are constantly being introduced and applied in fresh and unexpected ways. Innovative products – from seating to lighting to flooring — continue to inspire for their form and functionality. The way we think about the spaces we work, live and play in continues to evolve. In short, architects, designers, and manufacturers are all pushing the limits of what’s possible. We are all rethinking the way in which people and products interact with their spaces.
So, what does this mean for commercial carpet products in the new year? We have some thoughts!
Zeftron offers colors that can make your custom carpet come to life
More Custom Colors and Carpets – Our carpet mill customers frequently ask for new and custom colors, and we are happy to oblige! This trend is driven by product design teams and designers who realize that as the most abundant surface for any interior, carpet can play a major role in making a design statement. Custom colors and customized carpets are crucial in making that design statement. Customization can help create a space that evokes a feeling or an experience. As color experts for more than 40 years, we’re proud to be able to work hand-in-hand with our mill partners and designers to help them create the custom colors they desire.
Greater Styling Versatility – The “blending” of interior spaces continues. Many offices today integrate a residential or homey feel to them. Senior living spaces, while still traditional in many instances, are bringing in themes typically found in a hospitality setting. This new reality requires manufacturers to think differently and develop crossover products that are versatile enough to work in many different end-use spaces. Fortunately, Zeftron nylon is a highly flexible fiber when it comes to styling. Our fiber enables carpet manufacturers to create products with varying styles, patterns and colorways to easily work across multiple end-use spaces.
Exceptional Performance – The more things change, the more they stay the same. Designers expect more from the products they specify today. In addition to customization options and greater styling flexibility, they expect exceptional performance. Zeftron nylon is the only fiber brand that offers designers the piece-of-mind they need when it comes to performance. Concerns about staining, color fading and wear become a non-factor when specifying a carpet made with Zeftron nylon.
More Green –One could argue that having a sustainable product is a given in today’s marketplace. Yet sustainability should never be a given or an afterthought. As a fully closed-loop recyclable nylon with a minimum of 25 percent recycled content in every color, Zeftron continues to be a responsible steward of the earth and its resources. We see green not as a trend for 2016, but as a vital part of everything we do every single day, month and year.
We welcome your thoughts and comments.
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Sierra made with Zeftron Nylon
zeftronnylon September 24, 2015 September 25, 2015 1 Comment
Zeftron is proud of its history of sustainable achievements. We continue to innovate and find more ways to preserve and protect our earth’s limited resources and offer environmentally responsible choices for the marketplace. That’s one reason we love working with mill partners who value sustainability. BOLYU Contract was named “Environmental Supplier of the Year” by Home Depot, and they use renewable energy in all commercial facilities to meet manufacturing needs. One of the beautiful carpets made by BOLYU with Zeftron nylon is Sierra.
Construction: Tip Sheared Scroll
Pattern Repeat: 24” W x 14.25” L
Available in 13 colors: Sandoval, Hawk Springs, Yellowstone, Sierra Mesa, Ponderosa, Medicine Bow, Copper Canyon, Great Divide, Bitter Canyon, Paradise Hills, Eagle’s Nest, Sweetwater, Black Mountain
One use of BOLYU‘s Sierra made with Zeftron nylon is this installation featuring a custom version of Sierra at the Red Lobster corporate headquarters in Orlando.
(All photos by Michael Riley & Chad Byerly Photography)
BOLYU Contract is the commercial carpet division of Beaulieu of America which was founded in 1978. Today it is one of the largest privately held flooring producers in North America. Originally established to manufacture area rugs, the company invested in yarn extrusion in 1981 becoming the first manufacturer in the carpet and rug industry to produce their own yarn. The company then diversified into tufting carpet (under the brands of BOLYU and Aqua Hospitality Carpets), establishing the factory known today asBeaulieu Commercial in Chatsworth, GA.
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