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New media and world politics
Sam Roggeveen, editor of the Lowy Institute's influential political commentary site, The Interpreter, www.lowyinterpreter.org, spoke in Melbourne on 4 November on new media and world politics.As a participant in the global online conversation, he offered his perspectives on how new media is changing
By Sam Roggeveen
Wednesday Lunch at Lowy: Comprehending Copenhagen - Dr Greg Picker and Fergus Green presentations
At the Wednesday Lunch at Lowy on 25 November a new Lowy Institute Analysis, 'Comprehending Copenhagen: A Guide to the International Climate Change Negotiations', by Dr Greg Picker and Fergus Green, was launched. The authors outlined the issues on the Copenhagen agenda – from carbon markets to
By Fergus Green, Greg Picker
2009 Lowy Lecture: Australia resources in the world
The 2009 Lowy Lecture on Australia in the World was delivered on 18 November by Mr Marius Kloppers, Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director of BHP Billiton Ltd
By Marius Kloppers
Wednesday Lunch at Lowy: China strategic culture - Thomas Mahnken presentation
China’s rise is transforming the Asia-Pacific strategic landscape, and understanding how 'China' thinks preoccupies governments across the region. At the Wednesday Lunch at Lowy on 18 November, Thomas Mahnken explored features of China’s national strategic culture, including a sense of cultural
By Thomas G. Mahnken
Abolishing all nuclear weapons
The Right Hon. Malcolm Fraser, AC CH, Former Prime Minister of Australia, delivered the 2009 Dr John Gee Memorial Lecture presented by the ANU Strategic and Defence Studies Centre and the Lowy Institute for International Policy.Mr Fraser addressed the current state of nuclear weapons acquisition and
By Malcolm Fraser
Regional security and middle power diplomacy
The Honourable Dr Mike Kelly, AM MP, delivered the second Annual Dr John Gee Memorial Lecture, presented by the Lowy Institute for International Policy and The Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, ANU.Dr Kelly addressed the Rudd Government's approach to regional security and middle power diplomacy
By Mike Kelly
Wednesday Lunch at Lowy: Stemming the 'evil flowers' - Brigadier Phil Winter presentation
In Afghanistan, Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) are now the number one killer of coalition forces, and the 2009 campaigning season is seeing a record number of IED attacks. At this week's Wednesday Lowy Lunch, the Commander of Australia’s Counter-IED Task Force, Brigadier Phil Winter,
By Phil Winter
Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall
Monday, 9 November, 2009 was the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. To mark this anniversary, the Lowy Institute engaged three prominent commentators on the significance of the end of the Cold War. Lowy Institute Executive Director, Michael Wesley, moderated a conversation between
By Owen Harries, Huw McKay, Michael Wesley, Claire Mallinson
Distinguished Speaker Series - The Hon. Kevin Rudd MP
On Friday, 6 November 2009, the Honourable Kevin Rudd, Prime Minister of Australia, spoke at the Lowy Institute for International Policy on 'Australia, the region and the world: the challenges ahead'. A transcript of the Prime Minister's speech is available for download
Wednesday Lunch at Lowy: When boring became sexy - Kevin Lynch presentation
At the Wednesday Lunch at Lowy on 4 November, the Honourable Kevin Lynch, the former Clerk of the Privy Council, Canada, addressed the significant role that public policy plays in responding to the global financial crisis, the most fundamental challenge to free-market orthodoxy since the 1970s, and
By Kevin G. Lynch
Wednesday Lunch at Lowy: The March of Patriots - Paul Kelly presentation
This week’s Wednesday Lowy Lunch focused on the foreign policy dimensions of Paul Kelly’s new book, 'The March of Patriots: The struggle for modern Australia'. Divided by temperament, politics and values, Paul Keating and John Howard had passionate views about Australia’s role in the world
By Paul Kelly
Next month will mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. This also makes it the 20th anniversary of the birth of the new global economy. At the Wednesday Lunch on 21 October, Mark Thirlwell, Director of the Institute’s international economy program, looked at some of the forces
Wednesday Lunch at Lowy: Australia bid for election to the UN Security Council - Amb. Colin Keating presentation
At the Wednesday Lunch at Lowy on 7 October 2009, Ambassador Colin Keating, who was New Zealand Ambassador on the Security Council in 1993/94, and now the Executive Director of Security Council Report, gave an insider’s view of what it takes to get elected and what being on the Council could
By Colin Keating
Lowy Institute Panel: Can Obama disarmament agenda work?
On 29 September, the Lowy Institute convened an expert panel to examine the implications of President Obama's push to reduce nuclear dangers, as well as to debate broader questions about nuclear disarmament. Moderated by Executive Director Dr Michael Wesley, the panel also included Deputy Director
By Lowy Institute for International Policy, Martine Letts, Rory Medcalf, Michael Wesley,
Wednesday Lunch at Lowy: Preparing for the second nuclear age - Martine Letts presentation
At the Wednesday Lunch at Lowy on 30 September, Deputy Director Martine Letts explored prospects for partnership between government and industry on nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament, and how Australia could lead
Distinguished Speaker Series: H.E. Prof. László Sólyom presentation
On 28 September 2009, as part of the Institute's Distinguished Speaker Series, the Lowy Institute was pleased to host H.E. Prof. László Sólyom, the President of the Republic of Hungary, who discussed how the experiment in Central and Eastern Europe started twenty years ago offers parallels and
By László Sólyom
Wednesday Lunch at Lowy: Australia’s UN Security Council bid - Dr Michael Fullilove presentation
At the Wednesday Lunch at Lowy on 23 September Dr Michael Fullilove launched his new paper making the case for Australia’s UN Security Council bid
Wednesday Lunch at Lowy - William Paterson presentation
At the Wednesday Lowy Lunch on 16 September, Australia’s Ambassador for Counter-Terrorism, William Paterson PSM, provided an overview of the terrorist threat in Southeast Asia against the background of terrorism trends worldwide
By William Paterson
Wednesday Lunch at Lowy: The need for a global response to gender-based violence - Ms Lyn Lusi presentation
At the Wednesday Lunch at Lowy on 9 September, Ms Lyn Lusi spoke about her experiences in the Democratic Republic of Congo, what we must learn from its tragic predicament and how the international community needs take responsibility for tackling the problem of gender-based violence as a tool of war
By Lyn Lusi
Wednesday Lunch at Lowy - Professor Warwick McKibbin presentation
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) process has focused on commitments of developed countries with an exclusive goal of emission reductions from historical base year emissions. However, these baseline emissions trend vary widely, and achieving similar targets can
Wednesday Lunch at Lowy: TV and war - Tony Maniaty presentation
Difficult and dangerous work, covering wars with TV cameras has become a core component of modern conflict - so much so that a 'military-media' nexus has arisen alongside what US President Eisenhower famously termed the 'military-industrial complex'. From Vietnam to Iraq and beyond, televised
By Tony Maniaty
The Pacific Islands and the World Conference
The countries of the Pacific region, once remote from the global centres of economic power, are now in the most dynamic economic region in the world. But are they using this position to their own advantage? Are they taking the right approach to realise their potential? These were the key questions
Wednesday Lunch at Lowy: China perverse rising superpower - Rowan Callick presentation
Westerners have presumed that China's rise will take a familiar trajectory incorporating first economic, then political and social development in a broadly liberal democratic, market-driven direction. The recent tensions with Australia underline the failure of that perspective to explain modern
By Rowan Callick
The following papers presented at the Lowy Institute conference, The Pacific Islands and the World: The Global Economic Crisis, are available here.Jim Adams, The Global Financial Crisis and the Pacific paradox.Ann Sherry AO, Partnerships for prosperity.Dr Jong-Wha Lee, Impacts of the Global Economic
The Lowy Institute's conference, The Pacific Islands and the World: The Global Economic Crisis, held in Brisbane on 2 and 3 August, created an opportunity for Pacific Island leaders, minsters, officials from international and regional organisations, private sector and civil society representatives
Wednesday Lunch at Lowy: Thinking blue - Dr Sylvia Earle presentation
Governing climate and weather, shaping planetary chemistry, generating most of the atmospheric oxygen, the ocean is vital to all life. In the past 50 years, more has been learned about the ocean than during all preceding history, but at the same time, more has been lost. Sharp declines in
By Sylvia Earle
Wednesday Lunch at Lowy: Research universities and Australia - Professor Ian Chubb presentation
The Rudd Government has announced major reforms to our university system in order to ensure that Australia can meet challenges of the next century. At the Wednesday Lunch at Lowy on 29th July, Professor Ian Chubb argued that it is imperative for Australia that we lift our sights and rebuild our
By Ian Chubb
Wednesday Lunch at Lowy: China: Stumbling through the Pacific - Fergus Hanson presentation
At the Wednesday Lunch at Lowy on 22 July a Lowy Institute Policy Brief by Fergus Hanson, 'China: Stumbling through the Pacific', was launched. The Policy brief examines the shortcomings of China's current approach to aid-giving in the Pacific region.Fergus Hanson is a Research Fellow at the Lowy
Wednesday Lunch at Lowy: The global war on drugs - Dr Alex Wodak presentation
When Nixon launched the War on Drugs in 1971, it was intended primarily as a political strategy rather than as a public policy. While it has failed as a public policy, the War on Drugs has often succeeded as a political strategy. However, significant health, social or economic benefits are hard to
By Alex Wodak
Wednesday Lunch at Lowy: The GFC and international migration - Dr Khalid Koser presentation
The global financial crisis is having a significant impact on international migration: for the first time in 25 years there has been a reduction in labour migration flows around the world; growing numbers of migrant workers are losing their jobs and returning home; the global value of remittances
By Khalid Koser
Wednesday Lunch at Lowy: Australia international future - Dr Michael Wesley presentation
At the Wednesday Lowy lunch on 1 July, Dr Michael Wesley, the new Executive Director of the Lowy Institute, talked about the challenges ahead for Australia and the Lowy Institute. The world after the Global Financial Crisis will be a world which asks some very searching questions of Australia's
Distinguished Speaker Series: Australasian Anxieties - Graham Freudenberg presentation
On Tuesday 30 June the Lowy Institute was pleased to host a lecture in its Distinguished Speaker Series by the author and political adviser Graham Freudenberg AM. The title of the lecture was: 'Australasian Anxieties: How Winston Churchill shaped Australia's relations with Britain, Japan and the
By Graham Freudenberg
Wednesday Lunch at Lowy: Wicked weapons - Rory Medcalf presentation
At the Wednesday Lunch at Lowy on 24 June, Rory Medcalf, Program Director International Security, drew upon recent consultations in the region to warn that efforts to reduce global nuclear dangers will founder if they do not account for the rising strategic concerns of North Asian powers, especially
The Lowy Institute MacArthur Foundation Asia Security Project
On the 28-29 May, a team from the Lowy Institute attended the inaugural grantees meeting of the MacArthur Foundation Asia Security Initiative in Singapore. The team, led by Director of Studies Andrew Shearer, participated in a workshop alongside 26 partner institutions from the Asia-Pacific, which
By Andrew Shearer, Raoul Heinrichs
Wednesday Lunch at Lowy: Going global: Australia-Japan relations - Andrew Shearer and Malcolm Cook presentations
At the Wednesday Lowy Lunch on 16 June, Malcolm Cook and Andrew Shearer discussed how the Australia-Japan relationship can help both countries respond to the emerging new order in international relations. This order is characterised by changing global power balances, the move towards a more multi-
By Malcolm Cook, Andrew Shearer
Distinguished Speaker Series - Ambassador de Brichambaut presentation
On 16 June, as part of the Lowy Institute's Distinguished Speaker Series, the Secretary General of the Organization for Security and Co-operation (OSCE) in Europe, Ambassador Marc Perrin de Brichambaut, spoke on the relevance of this body to the Asia-Pacific and what it offers to partners in this
By Marc Perrin de Brichambaut
Wednesday Lunch at Lowy: How will global trade fare post GFC? - Professor Robert Lawrence presentation
At the Wednesday Lunch at Lowy on 10 June, Professor Robert Lawrence of Harvard University spoke on the global financial crisis and international trade.At precisely the time when coordinated global action is required to meet the GFC, there are worrying signs in the US and other leading economies of
By Robert Lawrence
Wednesday Lunch at Lowy - Anthony Bubalo presentation
At the Wednesday Lunch at Lowy on 3 June 2009, Anthony Bubalo, Director of the West Asia Program at the Lowy Institute, previewed Iran's presidential election on 12 June. He discussed what it will mean for Iran's foreign relations and in particular for the Obama Administration's efforts to engage
Wednesday Lunch at Lowy: Innocent Abroad - Ambassador Martin Indyk presentation
On 27 May, the Lowy Institute was pleased to host, as part of its Wednesday Lowy Lunch series, Martin Indyk, who spoke on his new book 'Innocent Abroad: an Intimate Account of American Peace Diplomacy in the Middle East'.Ambassador Indyk has a distinguished career in United States foreign policy and
Distinguished Speaker Series - Dr David McCormick presentation
On 26 May, the Lowy Institute was pleased to host a speech in our Distinguished Speaker Series by Dr David McCormick, Distinguished Service Professor of Information Technology, Public Policy and Management at Carnegie Mellon University, on the current state of the world economy
By David McCormick
Distinguished Speaker Series - Robert McClelland presentation
The Lowy Institute was pleased to host, as part of its Distinguished Speaker Series, the Commonwealth Attorney-General, Robert McClelland, who in his presentation, 'Human rights: a moral compass', outlined the Government's approach to human rights and upcoming reforms aimed at strengthening
Distinguished Speaker Series: 2009 Defence White Paper - Professor Alan Dupont presentation
Is the Rudd Government’s new Defence White Paper more of the same or a significant departure from the previous strategic orthodoxy? More importantly, is it affordable, and will future governments commit to the level of spending necessary to ensure that the White Paper’s ambitious goals for the
Wednesday Lunch at Lowy - Florian Westphal presentation
On 20 May 2009 at the Wednesday Lunch at Lowy, Florian Westphal, the head of media at the International Committee of the Red Cross, in a presentation entitled 'Dealing with war crimes: what role for media and humanitarian organisations?' addressed the question of how the media and humanitarian
By Florian Westphal
The role of the civil nuclear industry in preventing proliferation
Lowy Institute Deputy Director Martine Letts and Research Associate Fiona Cunningham prepared a paper for the Second Meeting of the International Commission on Nuclear Nonproliferation and Disarmament in Washington, DC, 13-15 February 2009, entitled 'The role of the civil nuclear industry in
By Martine Letts, Fiona Cunningham
Wednesday Lunch at Lowy: Smart Power - Michael Smith AO presentation
In the Wednesday Lunch at Lowy on 13 May, Michael G. Smith AO, Executive Director of the Asia Pacific Civil-Military Centre of Excellence, joined us to discuss the way ahead for the Centre, which was set up in 2008 by the Rudd Government to develop 'national civil-military capabilities to prevent,
By Michael G. Smith
India security challenges: Pakistan, Afghanistan and the neighbourhood
In the 2009 Australia-India Strategic Lecture, delivered at the Lowy Institute on 11 May, Ambassador Chinmaya Gharekhan examined India’s dangerous neighbourhood, and in particular the deep security challenges posed by the situations in Pakistan and Afghanistan. He presented a sobering picture of
By Chinmaya Gharekhan
Power balances in Asia: The Coalition perspective
On Friday 1 May 2009, in his first major foreign policy speech as Opposition Leader and first address to the Lowy Institute, Malcolm Turnbull discussed the challenges and priorities in managing sensibly Australia's vital relationships across the region
By Malcolm Turnbull
Wednesday Lunch at Lowy: Obama First Hundred Days - Dr Michael Fullilove presentation
Ever since the days of Franklin Roosevelt, a new president’s first hundred days in office have come to be seen as the first important measure of his performance. Next week marks the end of Barack Obama’s first hundred days as president. How impressively has he performed compared to expectations
Wednesday Lunch at Lowy:Evolution of the Indonesian party system - Dr Marcus Mietzner presentation
The most significant and positive change in Southeast Asia in the last decade has been the democratisation of Indonesia, the world's fourth most populous country. Thirteen days ago, Indonesia held national parliamentary elections and it appears that the biggest winners are President Susilo Bambang
By Marcus Mietzner
Australia contribution to a global agreement on climate change
On Monday 20 April 2009, the Lowy Institute was pleased to host Senator the Hon. Penny Wong, Minister for Climate Change and Water, who addressed the Institute on the subject of Australia's contribution to a global agreement on climate change
By Penny Wong
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Azeri President Says Nation Must Prepare for War
BAKU—Azerbaijan is ready to restore its territorial integrity by military means at any moment, Azeri President Ilham Aliyev declared Wednesday at a ceremony celebrating Azerbaijan’s armed forces, reported mosnews.com.
“Azerbaijan has military formations capable of carrying out any mission. If necessary, Azerbaijan can use its military power to restore its territorial integrity, and it is our sovereign right. International law allows us to do it,” Aliyev said.
“We live in a state of war, thus our primary goal is and should be the strengthening of our army,” he added. “With the war still going on and only its first stage over, we are continuing our efforts to be ready to free our motherland from the enemy by military means at any time.”
The Azeri president sought to justify the countries unprecedented arms buildup over the years, saying that 15 years of “fruitless” negotiations with Armenia over the Nagrono-Karabakh conflict has left only the military option. He also claimed his country has repeatedly expressed its readiness to reach a peaceful solution to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict through negotiations and justified its enormous military buildup over the
But international mediators have pointed to Baku’s war rhetoric as one of the main obstacles to a peaceful settlement of the almost two-decade long conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
In an apparent reference to Armenia’, Aliyev said Azerbaijan’s economy has been successfully developing through the current crisis, while “some other countries depend on foreign aid.”
“Thanks to our strengthened economic potential, we have succeeded in creating a strong army,” he said.
The Azeri leader’s remarks come days after Matthew Bryza, the chief US negotiator for the Karabakh conflict said the Minsk Group hoped to clinch an agreement between Azerbaijan and Armenia on the principles of a peace deal at talks tentatively planned for mid-July in Russia.
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He tends to lose season when they're struggling, literally. Chambers suffers from a biological sleep disorder. As a season, there have been times where he's only slept for a single anatomy over an entire week. Meredith Grey can be difficult to deal with at times. Particularly in the early seasons of Grey's , she was in a very dark place and didn't confide in many people.
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While administering a few stars for a friend, her character Alex notes that before she joined the DEO, she wanted to be a doctor and even had a gig lined up in Seattle. Giacomo Gianniotti is one of the newest members of the Grey's Anatomy cast, having just been made a . Aug 23, � Meet the 'Grey's Anatomy' Cast's Real Life Spouses. ELLEN POMPEO. Starring as Meredith Grey in the hit medical drama, Ellen found the onscreen love of her life. In real life, Ellen sees her marriage KATHERINE HEIGL. T.R. KNIGHT. JUSTIN CHAMBERS. JAMES PICKENS JR. Meredith and Derek are definitely the biggest Grey's Anatomy couple to emerge from the series. But there's been a whole host of other memorable romances along the way, including Izzie Stevens and Denny Duquette, as well as Cristina Yang and Preston benjamingaleschreck.com: Rachel Ashcroft.
He was also granted Sierra Leonean citizenship following a DNA test, and engaged in charity work, travelling to Sierra Leone to help build a school and bring medical supplies. Walsh probably had the most dramatic entrance to the show of all the characters - she struts in, looking utterly fabulous, and drops a bomb on Meredith - McDreamy is married to her.
After wrapping two insanely popular television shows, Walsh returned to television with Bad Judge which only aired for one seasonand has worked on films including Dermaphoria, Just Before I Go, Staten Island Summer and Felt. Audiences first meet Lexie when she becomes a resident at Seattle Grace - and Meredith finds out she has a half-sister.
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He was involved in several dramatic storylines, which makes him a major part of the show. After Dr. Burke ends up leaving the show, Seattle Grace requires a new cardiothoracic surgeon - and that surgeon is Dr.
Erica Hahn, played by Brooke Smith.
However, a figure from his past soon emerges - Dr. Teddy Altman, a cardiothoracic surgeon who served in the military alongside Hunt, and ends up becoming the new cardio god at Seattle Grace.
While she has several interesting storylines, including her mentorship of Yang and her marriage to a patient, she eventually takes a job somewhere else and leaves the show. It seems she splits her roles between acting and voice acting gigs, so next time you hear a character that reminds you a little of Adele Webber, check the credits - it may very well be Loretta Devine.
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She also, interestingly, is an entrepreneur - George invented a product called Style Snaps which allows people to change the hem of their pants without requiring sewing. It may seem like a fad product, but George herself has said she earns more from that handy invention than she ever did from her acting career.
Gaius Charles is no stranger to being a part of a successful television show - before he was wandering the halls of the hospital as Dr. Given that Meredith Grey is arguably the most central character of the show - after all, the entire thing is named after her - it only makes sense that audiences would meet her mother.
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Poor Summer Glau didn't have that great a time on Grey'sshe played a nurse who Cristina accused of having an affair with Owen. Wilmer Valderrama. Maybe Demi hooked him up?
Mar 11, � In last week's farewell episode to Justin Chambers, Alex - one of the last original Grey's characters - was sent off in stunning fashion when it was revealed that he had abruptly left his wife. Aug 22, � This Past Saturday, Grey's Anatomy Star, Camilla Luddinton Marries Castle Rock Star Matthew Alan. The Long Time Lovers Were Shared The Day With Family And Friends And Their Daughter Hayden. Alan Author: Kaitlin Kaiser. Even though a lot of the Grey's Anatomy cast are in it for the long haul-averaging between to episodes, depending on their level of commitment-a large majority of the characters are one-or-two episode guest stars.
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Elisabeth Moss. Before her Mad Men days, Elisabeth played Nina Rogerson in season three, a girl who built doll houses with her sick mother. Sarah Chalke.
Sarah swapped her Scrubs doctors uniform for a waitress one to play a frantic mother who goes against the doctor's initial diagnosis. Constance Zimmer. Eric Stoltz. Eric came in to play William Dunn in season five, a murderer on death row, who messes with Meredith's head.
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Jan 23, � Grey's Anatomy first graced our television screens back in - that's right, over a decade ago - and has been airing episodes for a staggering 13 seasons. In the world of television, that's absolutely insane. Just stop to think - even classics like Friends were only on the air for 10 seasons! The reason is simple - fans just can't get enough of Shonda Rhimes' drama.
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Fraxiom has teamed up the California based artist Gupi for a new project called food house. The duo is dropping their self-titled debut album via Dog Show Records on October 29th. The album's lead single is called "Ride" and is accompanied by the wild video below.
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TCM Programming for the Week of Alert 07-11-16
Looking for a movie this week? TCM can help.
By Staff on July 10, 2016 12:32 PM |
Director Martin Scorsese is featured when the TCM spotlight focuses on America in the '70s. Also, the two westerns highlighted below certainly fit the series title, "Hundred More Great Westerns."
About Mrs. Leslie (1954) Monday, July 11 at 8:00 p.m. (ET)
An aging woman recalls the affair that consumed her life.
Shane Plus A Hundred More Great Westerns: The Naked Spur (1953) Tuesday, July 12 at 8:00 p.m. (ET)
A captive outlaw uses psychological tactics to prey on a bounty hunter.
Shane Plus A Hundred More Great Westerns: The Magnificent Seven (1960) Wednesday, July 13 at 10:00 p.m. (ET)
Seven American gunmen hire themselves out to protect a Mexican village from bandits.
TCM special theme: America in the '70's - Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1976) Thursday, July 14 at 8:00 p.m. (ET)
A widow dreaming of a singing career ends up waiting tables in Phoenix.
The Snake Pit (1948) Friday, July 15 at 8:00 p.m. (ET)
A young woman tries to recover her sanity in a corrupt mental institution.
Charley Varrick (1973) Saturday, July 16 at 10:00 p.m. (ET)
A band of small-time crooks accidentally steals the mob's money.
The Best Man (1964) Sunday, July 17 at 8:00 p.m. (ET)
Two presidential hopefuls get caught up in the dirty side of politics.
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In the beginning was the Word,
and the Word was with God,
This is the first verse from the gospel of John. An opening of a famous hymn to the divine Word. Some think it was originally a gnostic poem. Some others consider it to be a beautiful philosophical poem. It is also a beautiful creation story, New Testament creation story.
What is translated in our bibles as "the Word" was in the original Greek text ὁ λόγος. Proper translation is "the word". But I believe that in this case it should be just transliterated as LOGOS. Why should it be transliterated and not translated? Because Ο ΛΟΓΟΣ was such a potent term in the Greek and Hellenistic mythology and philosophy that any translation would not do it justice. It should become a loanword.
Think about other loanwords, all of them can be properly translated but there is much to be desired! TATTOO can be translated from Polynesian languages as “poked skin”. GEISHA is literally “an art person” in Japanese. UKULELE is “a jumping flea (instrument)” in Hawaiian language (because fingers pluck strings so quickly). CURRY is just a regular name for “a sauce” in Dravidian Tamil and ZEITGEIST translates from German rather spookily as “time ghost”
If we want to understand more fully this beautiful biblical poem from the beginning of the gospel of John, LOGOS cannot equal THE WORD no matter how much we embellish it and load it with meaning. Just like curry is not another sauce and when I play the ukulele I do not play a jumping flea.
Join us this Sunday when we listen and discern the ancient enigma word play:
In the beginning was LOGOS,
and LOGOS was with God,
and LOGOS was God.
Advent podcasts
In Advent 2019 I prepared with Peter Rinaldi these podcasts (Part of our ReligioSanity channel - We primarily upload to SoundCloud but our podcasts can be found also on Apple Podcast and other platforms.)
We always closed ourselves in the Rutgers Presbyterian Library and chatted about Advent and Christmas traditions but mainly about biblical and theological conundrums and provocative questions swirling about these preeminent religious holidays.
Sane Christmas 1 - St. Nicholas Day
Sane Christmas 2 - How Jesus Was Born In Bethlehem
(40 Years After His Crucifixion)
Sane Christmas 3- Delicately Talking About Mary's Virginity
Sane Christmas 4 - How Mary Became A Virgin Again
Sane Christmas 5 - Protoevangelium of James (Part 1)
Sane Christmas 6 - Protoevangelium of James(Part 2)
Sane Christmas 7- The Infancy Gospel Of Thomas
Un-confiscated Christmas
These are some toothbrushes confiscated by the “Homeland Security Agency” from the refugees crossing the US southern border. They were collected and photographed by Tom Kiefer when he worked as a janitor at the Border Patrol prison.
This picture gives me chills. You need to understand that I was born and grew up in the Czech Republic under Russian occupation. Until recently I had occasional nightmares of living again behind border walls and electric fences and under the dark shadow of malevolent secret police.
At that time toothbrushes and prisons had a special significance for us. It started with Vaclav Havel and other dissidents and opposition leaders. They could be picked up from streets and arrested at any time and put in prison without their families or anyone knowing for days. So they started to carry their toothbrushes with them just in case... Soon it became a coded saying. “I am taking my toothbrush with me.” It meant I am prepared to go to jail.
And here we are again! Loud, stupid, spiteful, chauvinistic propaganda with fences and walls on the border. Innocent people being put in jails, their families torn apart, children kept in cages, and even their toothbrushes being confiscated! Why? For what reasons? Just to be mean? Just to be even meaner than agents of totalitarianism?
Thankfully, there is good news in all of this. Occupation of my native home lasted for a long time, but eventually it ended exactly thirty years ago. Borders were demilitarized and those stupid border walls came tumbling down and fences were cut by the very dissidents who came almost directly from prisons to become presidents, prime ministers and secretaries of government. It felt like a miracle, but it was not coincidence, there is a deep, because divine, logic behind it.
The Christmas Gospel is bringing that message to us in this season. The abusive political power might look strong, but it does not have the ultimate word over our world. Join us this Sunday as we un-confiscate Christmas and seek hope for our world.
And by the way, I have no doubt at all that among those vilified desperate refugees, among those detained in cages and those whose toothbrushes are now confiscated are the future Vaclav Havels, Nelson Mandellas, leaders, politicians, scholars or industrialists in our or their original countries. So watch out what you do to those least of these!
This Monday I was making myself a simple supper – a slice of a rye bread, smothering of a vegan cream cheese and a slice of an heirloom tomato with a sprinkle of a salt and right as I was about to take my dinner to the table I was caught by sheer surprise. The slice of tomato looked like a beautiful star! And in a moment it also tasted heavenly in all its simplicity of rustic rye bread, the intense fragrance of a ripe juicy tomato and a few crunchy flakes of salt which I gathered myself half a year ago by the ocean shore. I savored every bit of my meal – the sight, the texture, the fragrance, the taste. My simple meal was tastier and happier than any elaborated banquet.
This Second Sunday in Advent we will listen to John the Baptist. But before hearing any of his words we will hear the message through his dress code (coat of camel wool) and diet (honey and locusts). He was an ascetic who was dressed and fed by divine providence yet in his time and place better than any royalty. Today we can translate his dress and diet into simple, locally sourced, sustainable, environmental, gentle living. That is and has been the model of divine providential care.
I believe that the message of the blessed simplicity is always important for us to hear, but it is especially inspiring in this Advent season, while we are attacked and lured from every angle by sirens of consumerism.
Join us to learn about and rejoice in the simple gifts.
Healing Community
Thirty years ago I was studying Theology at the New College of the Edinburgh University. The 1st of December was Edinburgh’s first AIDS awareness day. There was a big public campaign going on with buses, billboards and flyers with slogans “AIDS Concerns us ALL” and “Take Care”.
I arrived to Edinburgh as an international student from behind the Iron Curtain. Back in Prague we lived in semi isolation, there were few AIDS cases but in Scotland the situation was getting serious. There were more and more diagnosed cases and people were dying of AIDS every day.
Although the world was changing rapidly around us with the fall of the Berlin wall and the Velvet Revolution in Prague, I could not stay immune to this other strife going on. My fellow theology students as well as congregations of the Church of Scotland where I worshiped faced the challenge of AIDS epidemics like true disciples of Jesus. They advocated for the ostracized, against prejudice, for needle exchanges and free condoms for sex workers. They took to hospitals and fought for proper care for those ill and dying.
I know from the stories of those who lived through that period here in NYC how even more challenging of a time it was on the other side of the big pond (dark prejudice has its home among some American religious people). UWS presbyterians including our Rutgers Church were on the forefront of this struggle and they strived valiantly against prejudice and for dignity and love. This Sunday, the 1st of December is exactly World AIDS Day. On this day we will remember with sadness, gratitude to God and with hope for brighter times what it meant and still means to be a healing community.
Christ the King - Overcoming toxic divinity
A crucifix on the Charles Bridge in Prague with a (controversial) Hagios in Hebrew.
קדוש קדוש קדוש יהוה צבאות -- Ἅγιος, ἅγιος, ἅγιος Κύριος Σαβαώθ
Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus Dominus Deus Sabaoth.
There is no doubt that Jesus preached the Kingdom of God. The kingdom he preached was unlike any kingdom of his time or any time, different even from any subsequent forms of government. Jesus not only preached the kingdom, he was also embodying it and living it out by touching and healing the untouchables, by eating with the outcasts, and by bringing hope to all the marginalized. His message and his practice were a challenge and even cardinal offense against all the abusive powers at that time and so as this radical agitator/organizer he was eliminated, he was crucified.
This Sunday we celebrate Christ the King and the Gospel reading is about Jesus’ crucifixion. In this contraposition of king and crucifixion is the radical reinterpretation of authority and power is present. It is the beginning of the end of the violent power and the beginning of the end of what we can call toxic divinity.
Humans build their empires on violent abusive power and humans construct their theologies of supra natural divinity - in its center is the philosophical construct of a god as an abusive patriarchal figure who is an omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent supra-natural being. The crucified Christ the king is the major challenge to it, a great opportunity and an open invitation to the radically new spiritual and theological realm of divine radical love, compassion and self-giving. Two thousand years later it is still underappreciated and still radical and seldom heard about: God who rules not by the force of abusive power but by the power of attraction.
Come and join us in celebrating Christ the King, this new divine paradigm for spirituality and the world.
What Would Jesus Eat?
Jesus would not harm a living thing, right?
We expect Jesus to be gentle, compassionate, caring and loving, a true physician of our souls and the Universe. But that is not a full picture. In the Bible we hear about few occasions when Jesus got really angry and once even cursed an innocent tree which then withered and died (Mark 11:12-14+20). It is a unique example of a truly arbitrary and brutal miracle. People are shocked and theologians are often lost and left without answers.
Scholars studying ancient agriculture and economy might have an answer. I would like to illustrate it on my own experience. Twenty years ago we lived for a year in Louisville and we were surrounded with beautiful tobacco plantations - fresh green fields on rolling Kentuckian hills sprinkled with dark red tobacco barns. As peaceful and bucolic as it looked I wanted to curse those fields knowing for what they stood and what they meant - horrible addiction, deceptive, fraudulent advertising, serious medical health problems, endless suffering and often early deaths.
Or imagine cotton fields in the American South 200 years ago, in Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi. Beautiful, well kept by so well-mannered genteel owners. But all of that southern cotton and plantation culture deserved divine curse, regardless how they looked - because they stood for endless misery and suffering of slavery and racism which lingers until now.
When Jesus cursed the fruitless fig tree I am certain it was for what it represented. It represented the disintegration of society and Judean farming communities. It was a symptom of dispossessed little family farmers who were originally growing food but were replaced by expanding plantations of absentee landlords.
Jesus cursed the fruitless fig tree because he was angry over the fate of small family farms and in support of communities growing food for people rather than plantations of cash crops grown for profit.
This weekend we will welcome again our autumn speakers, this year Ben and Lindsey Shute - our CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) farmers. Come on Saturday at 2 pm for a presentation and discussion and on Sunday at 11 for worship to talk about their farm and to ask What and How Would Jesus Grow and for us How and What Would Jesus Eat.
Fair Taxation Miracle
I love paying my taxes. You can tell I was not born in America.
I love paying my taxes because I recognize that we need infrastructure, we need to pay for things which benefit all. Personally I think we need more bridges and less walls, more roads and less missiles and bombs. We can have an argument how much of which we need. But if we invest more in hospitals and nursing homes we would need fewer army, fewer police and fewer prisons.
I love paying my taxes because I don’t want to live in a society where a growing number of people lives in slums, while ever fewer folks hide behind high fences and guards in their gated communities. I don’t want to live in slum and I do not want to live in a gated community either. For instance I love meeting all different people in NYC subway! What is all the wealth good for if one cannot walk a dog without a bodyguard? Even for the rich such life can turn into a reversed prison.
I love paying taxes because I want to live in a just and equitable society. You can accuse me that I was clearly not born in the US and that I am crypto socialist. You might be right. But my reasons are not political or ideological. My reasons are theological and biblical and they go all the way back to Moses and Jesus.
This Sunday we will hear about Jesus’ miracle of fair taxation. It is well known that Jesus performed a number of healing and feeding miracles. What happened with and to Zaccheus can easily match all those better known miracles. Join us this Sunday as we rejoice in fair taxation miracle.
Reading the Augsburg Confession
I was preparing for the Reformation Sunday re-reading the Augsburg Confession (of course I read it during my theological studies but this time I was reading it in English and thus somehow with fresh eyes). I got all the way to Article XI on Confessions:
Our churches teach that private Absolution should be retained in the churches, although listing all sins is not necessary for Confession. For, according to the Psalm, it is impossible. “Who can discern his errors?” (Psalm 19:12)
I stopped reading. What a bizarre argument from the Scripture?!
Firstly, Psalm 19 is a famous composition. In its first part (verses 1-6) it is a beautiful hymnic rendition of a creation myth with some interesting Ancient Semitic parallels. The second part (7-10) merges it with the meditation on the Law (Torah) and the final part (11-14) wraps both parts into the author’s plea for innocence and protection from errors and from the perception of heresy. Thus in its final part the Psalmist intends to keep the creation myth and the revelation of Torah together and in harmony. The biblical half-verse 12a is quoted out of context and without understanding of its wider cultural, literary and religious context. (I know that at the time of Reformation, theologians did not have access to ANE literature and cultural context, but they did not pay attention to the context of the psalm itself anyhow.)
Secondly, even the terminology of this article is muddied. The article is talking about “confession of sins” but then it quotes the biblical passage which speaks about “errors” in understanding and teaching. (And the broader context makes it amply clear even in their 16th century understanding). Although there is an overlap between sins and erroneous teachings(thoughts), there is also a clear and large difference between these two terms both in theology as well as in everyday life.
Thirdly and most importantly, what kind of epistemology is it, to settle a need for thoroughness of confession or the lack of it by pointing to one biblical half-verse?! How could the authors even think that this is a satisfactory argument in matters of practical theology in deciding the need for thoroughness of confession or depth of self-examination?
All the other Reformation confessional standards are riddled with similar examples of biblical proof-texting. To a greater or lesser extent they all used the Bible (biblical text) as an epistemological jimmy which could be used, manipulated and twisted to open/answer any and every question and problem in faith and also in life. Here is the beginning of biblical fundamentalism (that original sin of Protestantism) and we have been struggling with it ever since.
Translatability
In my computer I have a Biblical software (BibleWorks9). As a pastor I use it almost every day. It contains Bibles in all the original biblical and ancient languages and hundreds of different translations in dozens of modern tongues. Besides seven translations in my native Czech, there are also no fewer than thirty six English translations.
Christian theologians have been pioneers of the art and science of translation from the oldest times of Hexapla of Origen of Alexandria (circa 240 CE) and Vulgate of Jerome (400 CE). The Reformation brought a further impulse in the development of linguistics and the theory of translation. Missionary activity of pietism took this endeavor global to languages all around the world. Thanks to theologians and Bible scholars we now have modern linguistics with diverse theories of translation and a full spectrum of translation strategies from word-for-word all the way to loose idiomatic translations.
Interestingly, this Christian translation zeal stopped largely on the level of language, as if other aspects of life and culture did not need translation. Take for instance the elements of the Holy Communion - the bread and wine, the staple food of the Mediterranean. Viticulture (growing of grape vine) was introduced by monks and early Christian missionaries into regions as diverse as Scotland (11th century) on the northern side to the Caribbean (as early as 1493) on the south side. Needless to say growing grapes in these different climate zones was possible but it has never prospered there.
One can only wonder why the Bible can be translated into local languages but symbols are bound by this strange fundamentalism of elements. Why the holy communion has never been truly inculturated and celebrated with the local staple foods. Join us on this World Communion Sunday when we try how it might feel to translate Holy Communion into the Mesoamerican context.
Blessed Cynics
Today I want to defend the Cynics. I mean the Cynics with the capital “C”. Not the modern derivative meaning - (a person who does not believe in selflessness). I just want to speak about this ancient Greek Post-Socratic philosophy school.
While other philosophers thought by their words, Cynics thought by their ascetic way of life. The Cynics were seeking EUDAIMONEIA - true, full, deep happiness which for them meant living in simplicity and harmony with nature. They often led an itinerant life in utter simplicity, in other words, life reduced to a bare minimum. There is an anecdote of Diogenes of Sinope, one of the early prominent Cynics - observing a boy drinking water with his cupped hands which led him to throw away even his drinking cup with the words, “A boy has vanquished me in living simply.”
Cynics claimed that things of great value were sold for next to nothing while useless things for abhorrent amounts. A simple meal of a cobbler was full of zest and better than a feast in a palace. Servants might be forced to obey their masters but the rich masters were even more tightly enslaved by their lust. Cynics challenged and attacked with their words and their way of life the dominant presumptions of the Greco-Roman society, or honestly any society which values class, reputation and wealth. The majority of society disliked this challenge and payed back with ridicule, pointing out that Cynics lived like street dogs and among street dogs and that is also how Cynics came to their name - KUNIKOS in Greek means “dog-like”.
Interestingly, early Christians shared many similar characteristics; itinerant teachers and preachers, nonconformist teaching and life; questioning established mores. Some educated biblical authors (like the evangelist Luke) hinted this proximity between Christianity and Cynics in their writings. One such Gospel story is coming up this Sunday about a person who held company with dogs. This story also radically questions our cultural paradigms.
Join us this Sunday as we bless and learn from the story of a biblical cynic.
Jesus' Radical Prayer II
The opening of the Lord's Prayer in the Codex Vaticanus
Matthew 6:9-11a
In Rutgers Presbyterian Church we use several different translations of the Lord’s Prayer. A number of these translations are based on dynamic equivalence. I personally prepared one translation which was primarily informed by the economic and social context of Jesus’ prayer and attempted to translate it into our current idioms. (Four Years ago I also summarized some of the exegesis and reasoning here - Jesus' Radical Prayer I)
Loving God of the highest authority:
In other words - heavenly parent. But “father” in the Ancient Near East context was primarily a figure of authority, especially if that figure was situated in the heavenly realm.
May what you stand for be the measure for everything.
That is an attempt to convey the concept of holiness and divine kingdom.
May the world be shaped as your love will have it:
Translating a petition which asks for divine rule to come from Heaven down on Earth.
Preserve for us and future generations enough for everyone to live:
with fresh air to breathe, clean water to drink, a blue planet to inhabit.
In the Ancient Near East devastating famines were a regular occurrence and for many people in Jesus’ times their food security was a daily concern.
In our world the food security is also a painfully reality, but is ever more associated with an environmental devastation.
May our society be organized fairly, without anyone crushed by debt or need.
The original text clearly spoke about the debt-forgiveness. All other words (sins, trespasses etc.) are attempts to translate the original Aramaic word חובא which was debt/obligation/anything owed. Our translation is an idiomatic attempt to provide similar meaning of forgiveness of debts and social justice.
(By the way, the medieval “trespassing” was primarily aimed against the destitute serfs who were driven to poaching in the vast holdings of their lords.)
Let the police and courts treat people justly, regardless of their class, nationality or race.
The original text requests protection from “being handed over to judgement/trial” either to the corrupt Jewish authorities or to the occupying Roman power. In our times when prisons are disproportionally full of black men, the poor and the mentally ill (not to mention recent highly problematic detention of Mesoamerican migrants), I think this is an accurate contextual translation.
With thanks we now submit ourselves under your bright and loving rule for ever.
And together we say - So be it!
The closing doxology is not biblical and I took freedom to translate it from the broader Greek context translating “kingdom, power and glory” and final “amen”.
Primal Bitcoins
I am almost certain that all of you have heard about Bitcoins, the best known veriety of digital/virtual money or cryptocurrency. Now, imagine stone age bitcoins! They indeed existed and were used for hundreds of years in Micronesia on the island of Yap.
Those stone "coins" looked like large millstones and as such they had a physical presence but otherwise shared many characteristics of our modern bitcoins. The stone coins were mined on the neighboring island of Palau (and sometimes Guam) and brought over to Yap. But many of these coins were so big, that they were kept in one location, and when they were used for payment only their ownership changed.
The bitcoins actually also consist of encrypted history of ownership and transactions (called Blockchain) which are preserved distributed among interconnected computers (distributed ledger). Similarly, the large stone coins of Yap did not change location but had a history of ownership and transactions which were preserved in oral tradition (like the blockchain) distributed among owners and witnesses (like the distributed ledger). Instead of relying on the pier to pier computer network they rested and depended on a network of human memory and oral tradition.
There is even a story of a large stone coin which sunk on its way from Palau to Yap. It ended up down on the bottom of the ocean, unretrievable and inaccessible, it could not be even inspected! But the people of Yap decided to treat it just like any other stone coin, thus making it into a real virtual currency.
Why am I telling you all this? Because it is so uniquely picturesque! But also because Jesus in the Gospel of Luke hints at something very similar. Money, any money is just our social construct. Money is just a human game, a very serious human game. As long as the majority agree it is serious, but it is a game nevertheless, just like the stone money of Yap or our modern bitcoins. Other games with other rules are imaginable and certainly possible. It is a revolutionary liberating realization.
Join us this Sunday as we rejoice in this freedom. Joining Jesus and his disciples in thinking about and hoping for the new divine economy of social, environmental justice. A radically different economy of divine grace.
Heavenly Bread-Making
In our church we regularly pray to God as “the father and mother of us all”.
This theological gender inclusiveness might sound quite radical, but only if you do not know the Bible. God as our mother is quite well founded in the Bible. It might not be a common biblical way of speaking about God but on the other hand it is not unheard of either.
The Hebrew Bible is almost entirely patriarchal, but for instance in several special and tender passages the prophet Isaiah, for instance, speaks about God as a loving and caring mother. (Isa 49:15 or 66:13). And Synoptical Jesus (Jesus in the gospels of Mark, Matthew and Luke) shares several parables in which God is portrayed as a peasant housewife.
In one parable God is like a woman sweeping the floor and looking for a lost coin. (Luke 15:8+9) In another parable God is like a housewife baking bread for her household, and considering the amount of flour (42 litters ~ 9 gallons), most likely bread for the entire village. (Luke 13:20+21)
Join us this Sunday for homecoming worship. At the beginning of the school year and the new season in our life together we want to rejoice in God’s motherly love and marvelous abundance of divine bread-making.
NRA apocalypse
Last week I was grappling with an issue on how to explain the original nature of apocalyptic literature. For centuries it has been abused to frighten good little people into obedience of the church or more often of different cults. It was used to make people put up with oppression and abuses of power. Apocalypticism was uprooted from its original context and made to promise afterlife (or after-history) rewards for the faithful.
How to undo centuries of these misinterpretations? How to return, or at least outline, its original radical meaning? And then, in the pile of old newspapers I found this folded parchment with another writing from The Manhattan Bible of Henry Rutgers:
An angel came to me, took me by hand and told me, “Come I will tell you what is going to transpire. Those with ears, listen, those with eyes, watch and see.
Be prepared and ready, the time will come when there will be shootings on almost a daily basis. Shootings in bars, in concerts, in churches and houses of worship, shootings in shopping malls and in workplaces and shootings in schools, even shootings of children in elementary schools. All of it will take place because the evil and death will have its reign. Little bodies torn by high power bullets, children bleeding to death and a grinning orange monster would suggest to arm teachers. Some of those shootings will have a direct inspiration from the highest office in the land.
But take heart, that is not the last word over this world! The lamb will come and usher a new and safe world. In that new kingdom there will be no semiautomatic and automatic guns, no bump-stocks, no high capacity magazines. The NRA will be banished to the ever burning lake together with all its corrupt political henchmen, banknotes stuffed into their gaping power-hungry mouths. Even the 2nd amendment so blatantly misinterpreted and abused will be eventually blotted out and the angelic police will be armed just with smiles and shooting ranges will be detoxified from all that lead and turned into playgrounds.”
This fragment clearly does not date to the first or second century CE but nicely conveys some of the aspects of an apocalyptic genre into our current idiom.
How do you feel? Does it really frighten you into obedience? Does it sound like a promise of the pie in the sky? Does it make you dull and submissive with the promise of a happy afterlife?
King in disguise
All around the world you can find a common folklore motive in which the king disguises himself and travels incognito among his subjects.
There are many fairy tale examples, legends, sagas, examples in literature and even modern TV versions of Undercover Boss. This motive of a powerful figure in disguise goes back as far as we can see, for instance Odysseus returns to Ithaca just like that.
But the true origins of this motive are as old as mythology and present themselves as divine visitors in disguise. Zeus and Hermes visit Philemon and Baukis (I wrote about it several weeks ago) or Demeter also visits Eleusis in disguise as an older Cretan woman Doso to be a nanny of unfortunate Demophon.
The same trope is known also in the Bible. YHWH visits Abraham under the holy tree of Mamre (Gen 18), an incognito angel visits Gideo and the future mother of Samson has a similar encounter. And of course in the New testament there is a famous story about Jesus walking unrecognized with two disciples to Emmaus.
The primary purpose of this folklore motive of an incognito king or god is to reveal or test the personal character of those unsuspecting hosts.
Join us this Sunday as the folklore studies help us to solve an old theological conundrum between salvation by faith or salvation by deeds. Join us as we rejoice as the community of Matthew 25 and meet our Lord in those most vulnerable of our world.
Very Hungry Caterpillars
This spring we decided to plant on our balcony not decorative annuals but just different green herbs. We planted oregano, parsley, two different kinds of thyme, marjoram and sage. I watered them faithfully and all were doing very well except for one lemon thyme. The parsley had been doing exceptionally well, growing into a lovely thick pillow overflowing from the planter.
But then last Sunday morning a disaster struck! I opened the door to inspect our little herbal garden and our exuberant parsley turned into a bunch of stems and sticks. I looked closer - our parsley got all consumed by about a dozen hungry caterpillars. I quickly identified them as swallowtail caterpillars. By pure coincidence a day before on my hike in Bear Mountain I photographed some beautiful adult swallowtail butterflies.
On Sunday after worship the hungry caterpillars on our balcony were just about finishing the last few remaining curly leaves. I quickly ran to our nearest grocery store and bought them another bunch of organic parsley and one small bunch of dill. I triple checked that the greens were organic, this time not for our family’s health sake, but for the health of those "pesty" caterpillars. You know, without those hungry caterpillars, there will be no beautiful butterflies, after all!
Why am I sharing with you this environmental fable? Surprisingly, or perhaps not, Jesus once told a very similar parable warning people against our zeal to eradicate what we so eagerly label as pests without even thinking about consequences. Try to guess what parable it might be? Come this Sunday to celebrate the intricate interconnected beauty of our world and divine as well as natural purpouse for pests and misfits.
And here is an adult Eastern tiger swallowtail
Pedestrian Jesus
Just as we were hearing about the prosecutions of Scott Warren in Arizona (for giving water to migrants in Arizona deserts) and the arrest of captain Carola Rackete in Italy (for rescuing drowning migrants in the Mediterranean Sea), pastor discovered in the box of one of our church defibrillators yet another fragment of the Manhattan Gospel of Henry Rutgers. It is just a fragment starting in the middle of sentence.
... they would not stop accusing him and attacking him.
So Jesus stood and told them. Imagine for a moment that you are not in New York City but somewhere deep in Mid-America on a busy street. And now there is a person who runs into the street at the stop light or even outside of a pedestrian crossing while running from a mugger or from a burning house. And that person gets hit by a truck and is badly injured. Now, what would you do? Would you call the police to give that person a ticket for breaking traffic rules? Or would you rush to give them first aid and call the ambulance?”
They darkly grinned and responded - just don’t try this on us you little clever Jesus! Aren’t helpers also stepping into the road and breaking the rules? They shall go to jail too. Under our government according to our taste, no acts of kindness will go unpunished...
Here the fragments suddenly brakes again.
It is unlikely, that this fragment dates to the New Testament times. But we know that Jesus had similar arguments and we also know that any threats would not stop him from helping those in need. Come this Sunday to hear what Jesus did, when he met distressed and hungry multitudes far away in the wilderness.
Folded prayers
In March 2017 we folded origami cranes in worship. We invited Janet Aisawa a dancer, choreographer and performer to teach and help us. We took several pews from our sanctuary and put in tables and chairs around them. While folding origami cranes we experienced that prayer can have different forms.
This was a form of prayer for Sadako Sasaki who died of leukemia in 1955 as a consequence of the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima. In the Japanese culture origami is indeed a religious practice and art.
Not everyone is good with words or public spoken prayers. Origami is different. It is about calmly folding and creasing paper step by step and at the end, blowing up the crane, giving it a three-dimensional form and thus bringing it to life. It certainly has spiritual calming and a reassuring dimension.
And our cranes which we had folded in March made it all the way to Hiroshima. Janet Aisawa took them there for the annual remembrance of the bombing on the 6th of August.
Although this Sunday we will not be folding cranes, in close proximity to anniversary of Hiroshima Bombing, we will learn from Jesus how to subdue and overcome our current religious, racial and national prejudices.
Holy Mountain?
On this video you can see remains after an Ancient Hawaiian industrial operation near the summit of Mauna Kea.
What has been happening on Mauna Kea has been fascinating for any student of ancient and modern religion. "Protectors of Mauna Kea" can serve as an illustration example of the use of religion for political (nationalistic) ends.
My academic qualification has been in the study of the Ancient Near East bronze age religion (more specifically Ugaritic Mythology). Over the last decade (unable to travel to Syria) I have been studying Hawaiian religion. I visited Hawaii more than a dozen times and even started to learn the Hawaiian language to better understand the cultural and religious mentality.
I have also visited the summit region of Mauna Kea a number of times and I know that there are geologic features closely associated with the Hawaiian deities and religion. To the best of my knowledge there were never any signs of ancient (pre-contact) religious structures in the summit area.
At the same time I know that the mountain was NOT untouchable and ancient Hawaiians (still living in stone age) used the summit region for a major mining operation - quarrying hard basalt rock for their tools (mostly adzes). Substantial mine dumps (tailings or spoil tips) near the summit can be still observed. On this video is a mine dump the size of about 5.8 acres and the total area with signs of mining covers about 100 acres! By the way - this can serve as a prime example of the environmental impact of even the stone age cultures!
Ancient Hawaiians used the mountain for a major industrial operation (within the context of their technology) and modern Hawaiians are in the process of turning it into an untouchable holy mountain and making it into a substitute issue to voice their political, national and religious grievances.
This is how religions evolve, morph and transform and respond to ideological demands, how holy mountains are born.
#Hawaii #MaunaKea #HawaiianReligion
Close look at refuse chips from pre-production of adzes.
An example of one smaller outlaying workshop with tailings of basalt chips.
Colorful Pearls
This Sunday we will listen to an enigmatic commandment of Jesus not to throw pearls before swine.
While researching the subject I learned that the knowledge of pearls came to the Mediterranean and the Western World quite late with the conquest of Alexander the Great from today’s Iran and India.
The English word for a pearl came from Latin perla. But the more common Latin name for pearl was margarita which came from the Greek ho margarites which itself was a loan word from old Persian marvarit.
The luster of pearls led to Italian, French and Spanish names for daisies (le margherite, les marguerites, las margaritas) and eventually gave name to a famous Mexican tequila drink the Margarita.
From Iran and its old Persian word through the Mediterranean all the way to the popular Mexican alcoholic drink - This is how our world is interconnected. If we ever sent all English words to their original homes, the English language would lose about 3/4 of its vocabulary and a substantial part of its grammar.
Diversity, borrowing and distant integration is not only a feature of languages and peoples. The entire world is like a beautiful and colorful pearl, diverse and interlaced, immeasurably complex and beautifully simple.
So, don’t throw pearls before swine! Join us this Sunday as we embrace and celebrate the beautiful diversity of our world and the original and surprising meaning of this often misunderstood Jesus’ commandment.
Precious Light
When Jesus said to his followers, “You are the light of the world” have you ever wondered how it might look?
On this picture is an oil lamp, a replica of an old terracotta lamp from the biblical period. It gave very little light. Thus in wealthy households they would use a number of lamps or alternatively they had lamps with several wicks and flames.
We live in an age of relatively affordable electricity. One flip of a switch floods the space with light. One faint electrical bulb would need to be replaced with tens of oil lamps and cost would be prohibitive! Using an oil lamp will cost you a hundreds time more not to mention the side effects of soot and smell. In ancient times only rich people could afford a decent light.
When Jesus said to his disciples you are the light of the world - he also said to them, in God’s eyes you are precious. Join us in worship this Sunday when we look deeper into this beautiful and rich metaphor.
Silly Salt?
Can salt be silly? Jesus certainly thought so! He said to his followers, “You are the salt of the world.” thus lifting up and validating his disciples. But he also gave them a warning - “You are the salt of the world, but don’t be silly salt!” Silly, stupid, moronic salt was the one which lost its purpose.
For a number of years I have been collecting my own salt and I can relate to it. (Here I wrote more about it.)
Salt certainly has a spiritual and even a metaphysical dimension. It is spiritually transformative to collect one’s own salt and then use it to spice up food and life, and at the same time to be aware of salt as an offering and an apotropaic (evil-repelling) agent.
In Jesus’ time salt also had a sharp social justice (fair taxation) edge. Many of Jesus’ disciples were fishermen and they depended on affordable salt to preserve their catch. They struggled with salt monopolies and unjust taxation. (This may be from a different time and land, but remember for instance Gandhi's Salt March!)
And these days we can extend the activism of salt into eco-justice. It is widely reported that sea salt is polluted with microplastic and table salt is produced with potentially harmful nanoparticles. From our current experience we can relate to Jesus’
concern for the purity of salt.
“You ARE the salt of this world,” Jesus says to us, “So, don’t be silly!” And thus we join in worship and activism to strive for the spiritual, social and environmental common good.
Heavenly Hospitality
In the Bible, the Acts of Apostles (14:11-13), there is a bizarre story in which apostle Paul with his colleague Barnabas are on a missionary trip through the South Central Anatolia and are mistaken for the gods, Zeus and Hermes.
Behind this bizarre misunderstanding is actually a beautiful ancient myth of hospitality. But unfortunately the misunderstanding of this misunderstanding is also connected with the growth of homophobia among the ancient Jews, Christians and Muslims.
Let us start with the story of hospitality. It is nicely preserved and beautifully narrated by a gifted Roman poet Ovidius. He tells the story of Philemon and Baucis, an elderly poor couple who offered hospitality to strangers not knowing they were Zeus and Hermes in human form. Philemon and Baucis were rewarded for their hospitality while the rest of the hostile, hateful city around them was punished for neglecting their duty towards traveling strangers. (Interestingly, Ovid also situated this story to the South Central Anatolia)
You might recognize that there is a typologically very similar story in the Bible (Gen 19). It is about two angels of the LORD visiting Lot in Sodom and Gomorrah. When I link these stories together, you can also realize why I did mention the emergence and growth of homophobia among the three Abrahamic religions. In all of them this story about hospitality and protection of strangers was twisted into the justification of vicious homophobia.
Paul and Barnabas misunderstood and harshly rejected the genuine gesture of hospitality from the citizens of Lystra. They might not know the story of Philemon and Baucis and they did not recognize similarity to the biblical story because by their time the biblical story had been already influenced by homophobia. Soon afterwards the Church (together with the Synagogue and the Mosque) codified this misunderstanding for the upcoming centuries and twisted the story about hospitality into the foundational story of hatred.
And this is something you might not know about the Bible. It is important to talk about it because only by talking about it and knowing about it we can undo centuries and centuries of viciousness and hatred and rejoice in the original story of welcome and hospitality.
If you come to our church this Sunday or if you know Ovid's poem,
you will understand why I picked this photo for this worship.
Secret gospel and homophobia
Now imagine this -- a brilliant and eccentric American scholar researching an old library in a tower of an ancient Middle East monastery paging through medieval manuscripts reading ancient writings and finding by a chance a quotation from a thus far unknown secret gospel. That quotation was part of a letter from the second century which mentions an ancient esoteric sect. Mystical interpretations are involved, secret initiation and magical rituals. There is even a perceived sexual innuendo. All is wrapped in cutting edge linguistics and theology and also involves accusations of ancient, medieval or modern forgery. And then this unique manuscript mysteriously vanishes from the Orthodox patriarchate in Jerusalem. To the best of my knowledge the only thing missing in this plot is a murder, otherwise it could easily compete with bestsellers like Umberto Eco’s “The Name of the Rose” or Dan Brown’s “The Da Vinci Code.”
But it is not fiction, this is a real part of recent biblical and apocryphal theology. Biblical theology can indeed be thrilling like best-selling mystery novels! And that perceived sexual innuendo played an unfortunate and important role as there were concerns about homo-erotic undertones. Thus Christian homophobia of the sixties, seventies and eighties and to some degree and in some circles even until now was likely behind the disappearance of precious manuscript. Without the physical manuscripts those accusations of modern forgery cannot be conclusively resolved in which ever way. This is how modern homophobia impacted biblical scholarship. That mysterious text is in almost every critical edition of early Christian Apocryphal Writings but with a note about its questionable authenticity.
As we remember 50 years from the Stonewall uprising, and 50 years of struggle for LGBTQ rights this is something very few people might know about the dark legacy of homophobia in the realm of biblical scholarship.
If you are intrigued, join us this Sunday to learn more about The Secret Gospel of Mark and its uneasy modern history tainted by homophobia.
Album parable
Today I want to talk to you about Elephantine Papyri but first allow me to share with you this rather lengthy introductory parable.
Imagine you are a member of an extended family. In your family you have a shared family story handed down from generation to generation and part of this lore is also an old photo album. It is called “The Album”.
You remember sitting with your grannie paging with her through all those old pictures and stories, naming people, remembering memories; here is uncle so and so, and this is great-grandfather who fought in the Civil War, this is a grandfather’s maternal cousin whose farm burned down to ground, and this is a great uncle who was a supreme court judge in some European country, this distant aunt married to a builder of a famous viaduct, and here is paternal nephew, he was a clergy and became famous missionary. All well documented in ancient sepia pictures and labeled with names and dates, organized into an easy flowing and persuasive family narrative.
You even received your own copy of The Album when coming of age. It is a true family heirloom. The Album records occasional trauma, but nothing really troubling, mostly it is a real source of family pride. Few minor glitches can be blamed on history, times and customs were different. All in all The Album shows and teaches deep and generally commendable family roots.
But then, while cleaning an attic of a family residence a large box of ancient correspondence and documents surfaced. Those ancient documents were written in difficult cursives and in several languages. It took some efforts to decipher and even years later it is still not fully finished.
First you noticed names, events and dates you knew from The Album, but then things started to become ever more complicated. Not everything can be put together neatly and there is no easy and simple narrative anymore. Family history is turning into something substantially different and so complicated! You realize that The Album, your family album is largely just storytelling. Some events clearly happened quite differently and some might not even have taken place at all.
You also realize that the storytelling hiccups and gaps in The Album can be often explained with the documents from the box, just like some of the palpable tensions around this or that uncle and many of those annoying family taboos and strange behaviours can also now be explained.
Reaction among the wider circle of relatives was quite diverse and divided. Some relatives threw the entire photo album into the recycling bin stating they always thought grannie was making things up and that it is all just babbling of a senile old woman irrelevant for their modern lives.
Other relatives, on the other hand, became all agitated. They made the album into a real shibboleth. In their part of the family children still memorize The Album and are made to swear on the veracity of every single picture and name. In their family branch everything is measured by The Album and its assumed lessons. The Album, thus divorced from any history and reality, is used to push some extreme agendas.
And you are in the middle of it. You love the old Album. You respect your grannie and her story as much as you are now aware that much of it was just fabulation. There are lessons to be learned from grannie’s Album just as there are lessons to be learned from the documents which surfaced in the attic.
Even more importantly, there are truly deep insights to be learned on the intersection between The Album and the archive, deep insights and appreciation for the family history and for grannie with all her complexes, great insights for your own self-understanding and understanding of the world.
I can imagine you can relate to this parable. We all know different aspects and parts from our own families. But I wrote this parable about the Bible (the Album) the church (the grannie-representation of institutionalized religious memory) and about documents uncovered by archeologists, anthropologists and theologians in the last one hundred years or so. Sholars found many old archives and archeological records which are complicating the shared lore. Today we will talk specifically about Elephantine Papyri ....
Picture of today's village on Elephantine Island.
Multidimensional Temple
This Monday I was in Hilo, Hawaii, preparing this Sunday worship while sitting on Moku‘ola (Island of Life) also known as Coconut Island in Hilo Bay. It was the original location of an old Heiau (old Hawaiian temple) and a holy place which was destroyed many years ago with only a few stones remaining. Yet that place still keeps a very special spiritual atmosphere.
I was preparing a worship in which I plan to talk about an ancient Jewish Temple. And although it was a genuine Jewish Temple, it was not in Jerusalem, but rather it was on an island called Elephantine in the river Nile in South Egypt.
There is not a single mention of this Jewish Elephantine temple in the Bible, because that was a great problem. You need to understand that a Jewish Temple outside of Jerusalem should had been an anathema it certainly was in the sharp contradiction of everything written in the Torah (Law of Moses).
And furthermore, this temple was not some rough heretical operation at its time. The community gathered around this Egyptian Jewish Temple was in regular correspondence with Jerusalem and Samaria and existed with the support and blessing from Jerusalem. Any memory of this Jewish Temple in Egypt was almost entirely suppressed. We would not know of its existence if not for the so called Elephantine papyri that survived and were discovered in the late XIX and early XX century.
For the biblical fundamentalists this ancient Jewish Temple in Egypt is an utter conundrum and a stumbling block for their hardened, harsh and often abusive religion.
In reality it offers us an intriguing new and fresh perspective not only for our understanding of the Bible but it invites us to embrace an alternative, multi-dimentional, more tolerant and inclusive self understanding of our faith - broader and more tolerant than the biblical fundamentalism.
Join us this Sunday as we embrace this new and broader vision.
And for those who want more information, here is an older article I wrote about this Jewish Temple in Egypt some time ago.
Church's Treasure
The second Sunday of Easter brings to us the story of doubting Thomas. Last year I wrote and recorded a short study about this apostle and truly ancient Thomasian tradition.
[Here you can read about Thomas among early Christians or here you can watch video clip about it.]
This Sunday I want to pick one story from this Thomasian tradition, the second chapter from the Acts of Thomas. But I do not want to completely give out that story, so instead here is a similar, yet later story from the early church.
In the early III. Century Lawrence was a church deacon. He was responsible for the distribution of alms to the poor and thus he controlled substantial financial resources. Then a prefect of Rome demanded that Lawrence surrenders to the state all the church’s wealth. Lawrence promised to do that, but asked for three days to gather all that wealth. When those three days were over, he reported to the prefect. He was asked, “Where is that promised treasure?” Lawrence pointed to the poor, crippled, blind, and many other sufferers which he brought with him with the words: "Behold, these poor persons are the true treasures of the church.”
And thus Lawrence became a saint, being executed for his devotion to the social justice.
Our story from the Acts of Thomas this Sunday will have a better ending, but it is of a similar nature. It is also a biblical metaphor expanded into a legendary story and also has a powerful social justice message.
Join us this Sunday to hear about Thomas ministry in the legendary lands of king Gundaphorus.
Video version of this blog is on YouTube here.
"Building castles in the sky" is an idiom which dictionaries define as "To create dreams, hopes, or plans that are impossible, unrealistic, or have very little chance of succeeding."
The second act of Apostle Thomas is very likely the beginning of this idiom and instead of duplicity its primary focus was on social justice.
Singing Hallelujahs
The Christian salvation story is in great need of radical expansion. I am convinced that the Easter message needs to reintegrate with the entire creation.
Here is an illustration of what might have gone wrong and why I think this reintegration is needed.
Medieval art, especially from high Gothic times through Renaissance, often depicted baby Jesus with a bird. Sometimes Jesus awkwardly holds it, even clutches it. Later on, with some rising sensitivity, the bird is only gently touched. Occasionally the bird is being tethered on a golden string.
In order to understand what is going on, you need to know that the bird in these paintings is Carduelis Carduelis - the European Goldfinch. Goldfinches are associated with thistles, brambles and anything thorny. In those paintings this bird is a signal, a pointer and an omen foreshadowing the crucifixion.
I find it symptomatic of our treatment of nature in our religion. We made our religion all about us, and only us and about our individual salvation. Nature is used, like that bird in those paintings, as a stage or even worse as a tool and accessory to the great story of our own salvation.
I always felt badly for those pure birds in those paintings being so awkwardly handled by the medieval Jesus. Especially as they were made into those unwilling pointers to the cross and unwilling coincidental accessories to the crime of crucifixion while goldfinches are joyful and famous songbirds.
Join us this Easter Sunday when we reintegrate goldfinches and all creation into the salvation story. It will not diminish its glory, it will amplify it! Let us all sing with entire creation our Salvation Hallelujahs.
And here is a video version of this blog - Singing Hallelujahs .
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Kingdom of Jerusalem-Crusader Period, 1099-1295
Siege of Jerusalem, 1099
Richard the Lionhearted, 1157–1199
Benjamin of Tudela’s First Letter from Jerusalem, c. 1165
Benjamin of Tudela’s Second Letter from Jerusalem, c. 1165
Maimonides’ Letter about Jewish Captives, 1168
Letter of Nahmanides from Jerusalem, 1267
The Crusader Kingdom 1099-1187, Teddy Kollek and Moshe Pearlman, Jerusalem- Sacred City of Mankind, Steimatzky Ltd., Jerusalem, 1991.
Hospital of the Knights of St. John, 1099
Dome of the Rock Renovations, 1099-1187
Monastery of the Cross, 11th century
Yeshiva of Geon Yaakov, 11th-13th century
The Lintels of the Holy Sepulchre, 12th century
Candelabra, 12th century
Crusader Fortress, 12th century
Upper Room/Cenacle, 12th century
Crusader Chapel on the Mount of Olives, 12th century
Montfort Crusader Fortress, 12th century
Crusader Chapel in the Church of St. Catherine, 12th century
Christian Cavalry, 12th century
Crusader Map of Jerusalem, 12th century
Acre- Capital of the Crusader Kingdom, 12th-13th century
Crucified Jesus, 12th-13th century
Apollonia, 1101
Crusader Church of the Annunciation, 1106
Khanqat Salahiyya, 1117
Judah HaLevi’s Poetry, c. 1130
Church of St. Anne, 1131
Belvoir Crusader Fortress, c. 1140
Crac des Chevaliers, 1142
A Monk Investigates the Cave of Machpelah, 1150
Commemorative Stone at Ashkelon, 1150
Maimonides Lands in Acre, 1165
Coin of Saladin al-Ayyubid, 1174-1193
Margat Crusader Fortress, 1186
Conversion of the Church of Ascension, 1187
Head of Crusader Knight, 13th century
Cafarlet Crusader Castle, 13th century
Talmud, 13th century
Letter of Reference Signed by Moses Maimonides
Maimonides’ Tomb, 1205
Genghis Khan, 1206–1227
Syriac Gospel Lectionary, 1216-1220
Chateau Pelerin, 1218
Grave of Philip d’ Aubingni, 1236
The Mamlukes Conquer Egypt, 1250
Map of the Route to Jerusalem, c. 1250
Rare Silver Half Drachma, 1251-1257
Hulegu Enters Jerusalem, 1260
The Battle of Ain Jalut, 1260
Seal of Nahmanides, c. 1267
David Playing the Harp, c. 1278-1298
Royal Crusader Seal
Crusader Coin
Crusader Relief
Capital from Church of the Annunciation
Crusader Capital
Castellum Belveer
Chapel of Helena
Capital from Church of the Repose
Crusader Reliquary Cross
Cross from Church of Holy Sepulchre
Destruction of the Me’ara Synagogue in Jerusalem
Excerpt from The Crusades, George W. Cox, 1886, Laffan, R.G.D (ed. and trans.), Select Documents of European History 800 – 1492, 1929.
The Crusades and the Mongolian Devastation of the Middle East, Robert Drews, Vanderbilt University.
Religion and Religiosity in Catholic Europe after the Crusades, Robert Drews, Vanderbilt University.
The Rugged Beauty of Crusader Castles, Adrian Boas, BAR 32-01, Jan-Feb 2006.
When Crusader Kings Ruled Jerusalem, Jack Meinhardt, Archaeology Odyssey 3-05, Sep-Oct 2000.
Jerusalem in the Crusader Period, David Eisenstadt, Bar-Ilan University, 1997.
A Smithy in a Crusader Church, Dan Bahat, BAR 6-02, Mar-Apr 1980.
Eroticism and Infanticide at Ashkelon, Lawrence E. Stager, BAR 17-04, Jul-Aug 1991.
Books in Brief- The Churches of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem, John Wilkinson, BAR 22-02, Mar-Apr 1996.
Lawrence of Arabia as Archaeologist, Stephen E. Tabachnick, BAR 23-05, Sep-Oct 1997.
Queries and Comments- The Testimony of a Crusader, The Dismal Science, BAR 25-02, Mar-Apr 1999.
ReViews- A Jewish Archive from Old Cairo, Lawrence H. Schiffman, BAR 27-03, May-Jun 2001.
The First Crusade 1096-1099
The Near East, 1135
The Campaign of Ain Jalut, 1260
Eyewitness to History- The Crusaders Capture Jerusalem, 1099
Special Treasures from the Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary
The Crusades- Virtual Course by E. L. Skip Knox, Boise State University
Click here for more on The Jews of Medieval Western Christendom, 1000-1500
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You are at:Home»Latest News»Infrastructure»Atlas Copco’s sale of Road Construction Equipment leads to establishment of Dynapac SA
By Evans on May 25, 2017 Infrastructure, Latest News, Materials & Equipment
The Atlas Copco Group has sold its global Road Construction Equipment Division, including the Dynapac brand name, to the number one construction Group in France and world-leader in road construction equipment, Fayat Group.
Atlas Copco sells road construction equipment divisionThe Road Construction Equipment division became part of Atlas Copco‘s Construction Technique business area in 2007 and manufactures Compaction Rollers for asphalt and soil application, as well as asphalt equipment Planers and Pavers. The products are well known globally under the Dynapac trade name.
Founded in 1957, Fayat is a 100% independent family owned Group with an international scope in 120 countries and representation by 152 companies around the world. Fayat has earned a reputation for being a dedicated and reputable original equipment manufacturer through eleven road construction equipment companies and dedicated brands active in this area.
Dynapac will transfer to Fayat on 1 July 2017 and become a company within the Group operating under the Dynapac brand name. Following the acquisition, road construction equipment which forms one of the Group’s seven core businesses – public works, foundations, building, energy services, steel and mechanical construction and pressure vessels – will become the strongest division in the Fayat Group.
Middle East Africa will be one of eleven regional Dynapac business areas globally, with sales and service operations in 37 countries together with five global production facilities being Brazil, Sweden, Germany, India and China. The global holdings company will be based in Sweden and the divisional management head office in Germany. Dynapac has 1 265 employees with revenues of approximately MSEK 2 900 (MEUR 309) for 2016. Once all due diligences have been finalized, Dynapac SA will be a local legal company responsible for the Southern Africa territory within the MEA region and the head office based in Dubai.
“This is an ownership change and not a change in business structure,” says Neville Marthinussen, Atlas Copco Construction Technique Business Line Manager, Dynapac Road Construction Equipment. “Until closure, the Road Construction Equipment Division will remain part of Atlas Copco’s Construction Technique Business Area. So it is business as usual,” Marthinussen assures customers. “As Dynapac South Africa we will continue to serve the market with our products and services. The current product portfolio remains unchanged and all scheduled product renewals will continue as planned.” Marthinussen confirms that the Atlas Copco name will gradually be phased out to end 2017 and the Dynapac brand will be prominently displayed on all products come 2018.
Fayat has plans to further strengthen its strategic position in road construction and road maintenance equipment. “The Group’s reputation as a world-leader in road construction equipment with over 60 years’ experience, presents a solid platform on which we are able to reinforce the strength of the Dynapac brand through continued development, improvement and expansion of our Dynapac product ranges and services that have clearly earned the respect and trust of our customers over many years,” concludes Marthinussen.
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February 2016 Unit Patch Notes – Part 1
This entry was posted in News on February 11, 2016 by Elyot Grant
We’re currently putting the finishing touches on a new February 2016 Prismata Alpha unit patch that will go live within the next week.
With this patch, the total number of Prismata units will increase by 4. We are adding three new units, plus replacing the existing Deadeye Operative with two other units that replicate its current role.
I won’t be spoiling the new units just yet, but I do wish to announce the bulk of the balance changes that we’ll be deploying. We’ll not be deploying as many balance changes as last time, but some of the new things we’re testing are quite important.
Before announcing the changes, I want to talk about some of our motivations behind our balance adjustments.
A number of weeks ago, we put out a January 2016 Balance Survey in which we asked alpha players several specific questions about a number of Prismata units. We also asked more general questions about what types of Prismata gameplay they would like to see more often or less often in the distribution of random sets that they encounter while playing games on the Prismata ladder.
We’ve published the survey results here. The resulting data revealed a number of things, including the following:
(1) A majority of players answered “WANT MORE” or “WANT SOMEWHAT MORE” when asked about games in which units of all three colours were purchased.
(2) A sizable chunk of Prismata players want to see larger games more often and smaller games less often.
(3) About half of all players want to see Shadowfang get nerfed, and a similar fraction of players want to see fewer games with ultra-efficient attackers (hardly any players want to see more of them).
Now, it’s important to note that in designing Prismata, we take many things into account: the elegance and simplicity of the game’s rules, the amount of variety in-game experiences that players can have, and the amount of opportunity for stylistic and expressive play. Design-by-democracy is a poor process for achieving some of these goals—if we simply make every Prismata game more similar to what the average player wants, a huge number of players might end up missing the unique aspects that they cherish most.
Despite that, it’s hard to ignore the general trends in our survey results. A substantial cohort of players want to see more bigger, slower, 3-colour games and want to see fewer rush games and fewer games involving hyper-efficient units like Shadowfang. We’ve seen a number of discussions pop up about the prevalence of games in which low-econ red rushing appears to be the only viable strategy, and while many players enjoy these games from time to time, we feel that the ideal fraction of Prismata games that turn out this way should likely be a slight bit lower than it is right now.
Accordingly, a number of changes in this patch aim to modify red units that were often implicated in rush-forcing lines, either by directly weakening them or by adjusting them to allow for greater opportunities for counterplay.
Before I get to the changes themselves, I wish to share a further bit of backstory.
The History of Shadowfang
Shadowfang is the most-commonly cited example of an overpowered red unit that frequently forces a brutal low-econ fight due to its ruthless efficiency. Shadowfang is inarguably one of the most cost-effective sources of damage in the game at its current (soon-to-be-former) price of 7RRR. There are essentially no other attackers in Prismata that provide consistent damage at a lower cost-per-unit-attack.
However, Shadowfang actually began its Prismata career at the even-more-insane cost of 6RRR, where it remained for many years in pre-alpha before we nerfed it in 2014. And we truly felt that it was balanced at 6RRR. What was so different?
To answer that question, it makes sense to look at Shadowfang’s many weaknesses. Shadowfangs are highly breach vulnerable, meaning that players must invest in good defense to keep them alive. Since a Shadowfang requires RRR to produce, players generally need 2 Animuses if they want to get Shadowfangs. Red tech generally isn’t that great defensively, so players frequently waste red and make inefficient purchases in the late game when defending their Shadowfangs (hence the Rhino spam you often see in the final turns of a Shadowfang mirror before one of the players inevitably gets breached). Moreover, Shadowfang’s awkward cost also frequently forces players to waste a red when buying a Shadowfang, especially if Blastforges, Conduits, or other tech are purchased. It’s actually really difficult to plan and execute a Shadowfang build in which you employ your resources efficiently throughout the whole game. Additionally, taking a high-econ route is often not an option, since your opponent can rush you down with Shadowfangs!
Alas, Shadowfang’s insane cost-effectiveness has historically been kept in check by the unit’s awkwardness and the resulting difficulty of spending red efficiently in games where players go for Shadowfangs. Shadowfang offers fantastic value, but players can seldom buy it without being wasteful at some point.
So what changed?
Well, we can’t point to any single balance update that made Shadowfang a problematic unit at 7RRR. It was more of a “boiling frog” effect that crept up on us gradually over the last year or so as units like Nitrocybe, Blood Phage, Corpus, and Ferritin Sac were introduced. As they were added, they joined Perforator and Flame Animus in a list of units that eased the burden of creating Shadowfangs by providing alternate red sources or efficient ways of spending red in the late game. With the addition of these units, Shadowfang could suddenly realize its true potential in a much larger fraction of games, and the unit’s insane level of cost-effectiveness became a design liability. The weakening of chill units like Frostbite and Cryo Ray also reduced the strength of available counterplay that sometimes made Shadowfang less desirable.
Now, don’t get me wrong; we want Shadowfang to be strong! We also want Shadowfang’s strength to be influenced by other units, and made deliberate efforts to ensure this was the case. In particular, we want players to be challenged by the need to assess Shadowfang’s situational effectiveness. To find the best strategy in a Shadowfang game, players must evaluate how strong the unit is in the presence of the other available supporting units. That’s part of what makes the unit interesting.
However, Shadowfang becomes far less interesting when the answer to the question “how effective will Shadowfang be this game?” is simply “it’s a must-buy unit.” Unfortunately, we found ourselves in a position where this appeared to be the case in a large percent of base+8 games involving Shadowfang, and our players weren’t too happy about it (as you can observe in the survey results above).
Going forward, there were three options available to us. Doing nothing would be the easiest option, but our goal has always been to find the best version of each Prismata unit, and we certainly felt that potential improvements were worth exploring, especially in the face of a growing number of concerns from our players. Thus, we took aim at rebalancing the distribution of answers to the question “how effective will Shadowfang be this game?“, and found ourselves with two tools to do it: we could either nerf Shadowfang, or adjust a large number of other Prismata units to substantially weaken the average amount of situational effectiveness added by supporting units.
As it turns out, we’re doing a bit of both. Though we experimented with the idea of simply leaving Shadowfang as-is and targeting a few of the more broken Shadowfang combo units (Corpus in particular), we ultimately felt that this approach had two shortcomings—it didn’t do enough to address the underlying problem (Shadowfang was still “too good, too often”), and it didn’t relieve us of the restriction that units like Shadowfang impose on our design space (all potential supporting units that strengthen Shadowfang could be potential future problems).
I should point out that Shadowfang is only one example among many red units that have been affected by recent adjustments to the distribution of random units in Prismata. Though Shadowfang is probably the most egregious offender at the moment, we’ll be making changes to several other units in an effort to tone down the frequency of games in which low-econ red openings are the only viable strategy (though, as I mentioned above, we don’t want to eliminate those games entirely!)
With that out of the way, let’s get to the balance changes themselves:
Changes in the February 2016 Balance Patch
This isn’t a complete list, as we’re still finalizing a few things. However, it contains all the adjustments to red units that we’ve hinted at above.
Corpus: Cost decreased from 6RRR to 6RR. Comes with 1 Husk instead of 2 Husks. Click ability changed from “Pay 4RRR, construct 4 Husks” to “Pay 5R, construct 3 Husks”. Prompted by problematic games involving Corpus and other heavy red units like Tatsu Nullifier and Shadowfang, this change is aimed at reshaping Corpus into a more middle-of-the-road red defender that can be flexibly used in a variety of situations, rather than employed as a cost-effective source of damage soak in games where a double Animus is purchased. Its efficiency has been drastically reduced, but its availability has been increased.
Shadowfang: Cost increased from 7RRR to 8RRR. We experimented with a variety of other changes, including a 7RRRR Shadowfang, and various buildtime-2 variations. However, we found that an 8RRR Shadowfang was best for preserving the unit’s situational variability in value in the presence of other supporting units. At 8RRR, Shadowfang is still one of the most cost-effective Prismata attackers, but you can expect to see somewhat larger economies in many Shadowfang games, with fast Shadowfang rushes only occurring in situations where an ideal cocktail of supporting units are present.
Amporilla: Cost increased from 12RRR to 13RRR. As with Shadowfang, we felt that recent red unit additions and other adjustments have made Amporilla too strong, too often. We’ve thus reverted Amporilla back to its old cost of 13RRR (how many of you can remember a time when Amporilla was 13RRR? It was a long time ago!)
Blood Phage: Cost changed from 7RRE to 8RE. This change is aimed at reducing the frequency of turn 2 Animus builds that are frequently forced in Blood Phage sets. We’re never happy when a unit single-handedly reduces opening diversity to the extent that Blood Phage was doing. We experimented with a huge number of possible changes to the unit (including adding buildtime and removing the 1-gold-at-start-of-turn ability), but a simple cost change to 8RE ended up being the simplest solution to the problems we were seeing.
Gaussite Symbiote: Cost increased from 7RR to 8RR. Ability now produces 6 Gauss Charges instead of 5 Gauss Charges. We’ve long been worried about Gaussite Symbiote being responsible for games in which early red-green rushes were essentially forced. In some cases, such rushes were nearly unbeatable by other strategies (especially with units like Feral Warden and Protoplasm present). We reduced Gaussite Symbiote’s cost from 8RR to 7RR many months ago (around the same time we changed Flame Animus’s cost from 8B to 7B) in order to experiment with more efficient tech/attacker combo units, but after months of feedback from our alpha players, we feel that the resulting units were simply too strong. However, we also feel that the old 8RR Symbiote was a bit lacklustre, so we’ve increased the power of its ability to compensate for the nerf in cost.
Wild Drone: Supply decreased from 10 to 4. Though Wild Drone exhibits balanced player 1 and player 2 winrates on most of the Prismata ladder, the unit has become one of the most player-1-favouring units at high Elo levels (1800+). A number of players have suggested that a supply reduction will eliminate this by reducing the power of 4-Engineer Wild Drone openings. After some testing, we believe that such a change will be beneficial overall (though we will miss some of the games in which a large number of Wild Drones were bought!)
Asteri Cannon: HP decreased from 16 to 14. Click ability cost decreased from 5HP to 3HP. Asteri Cannon’s buy rate decreased substantially when we changed it from producing Forcefields to producing Barriers, leading us to believe that we might have nerfed the unit too much. Consequently, we’re making a very minor adjustment that slightly buffs Asteri Cannon by allowing it to create one extra Barrier. This adjustment also slightly nerfs the unit in breachproof situations by reducing its HP.
Lancetooth: Cost changed from 7B + “pay 1 attack” to 6B + “pay 2 attack”. A number of players and survey respondents have told us that they thought our recent buff to Lancetooth made the unit too strong. We considered simply reverting the change, but after playing with the “6B + pay 2 attack” version of the unit, we really like it! So we’re going to test this variation on the alpha server instead. We’ll be seeking your feedback.
Vai Mauronax: Cost changed from 14BRRR to 13BRRRR. This change is aimed at a powerful combo involving Vai Mauronax and Chrono Filter. Though we didn’t feel that an auto-win situation was present, we did feel that the combo was too strong, to the point where games involving those two units often followed a highly scripted sequence of opening moves. This change should address that combo without affecting Vai too much in other situations.
… (to be continued!)
Part 1 has grown too long… the new units will have to wait until Part 2! Here are some image spoilers, though!
About Elyot Grant
A former gold medalist in national competitions in both mathematics and computer science, Elyot has long refused to enjoy anything except video games. Elyot took more pride in winning the Reddit Starcraft Tournament than he did in earning the Computing Research Association's most prestigious research award in North America. Decried for wasting his talents, Elyot founded Lunarch Studios to pursue his true passion.
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Author Interview: Bret Christian
AUTHORS NON FICTION
Bret Christian is a journalist who runs a group of suburban Post newspapers in Western Australia, when he came across stories that he felt simply had to be told to a broader audience he started concentrating on Presumed Guilty. We were able to find out a little more about the book and the career of Bret Christian in this interview.
Welcome to Beauty and Lace Bret, thanks for taking the time out to talk to us.
Your career began as a journalist, what made you decide to write a book?
There were compelling stories to tell – stories that had never before seen daylight. The reaction to the book has shown that readers are startled and challenged by these stories, but at the same time they can’t get enough!
Can you tell us a little about ‘Presumed Guilty’?
Presumed Guilty is a book in two parts. It begins with two truly baffling murder mysteries which occurred 50 years apart, with all the elements of crime thrillers.. Both the victims were innocent women. The second case is continuing in the courts, but the investigation and court hearings of the first crystallises everything that can go wrong in cases of wrongful conviction, which are far more common than most people realise. Part two is the why – why do the wrong people come under the notice of the police and go right through a jury trial without the truth being discovered?
Lots of real-life examples are used, from Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton on.
What do you think is the biggest issue with jury trials?
Most of us presume the defendant guilty, otherwise he wouldn’t be in the dock. That’s OK if he is guilty, but sad experience has shown us that too many are not. Juries are drawn from the general population, and are influenced by this apparent presumption of guilt even when they try their best to be impartial. Studies have proved that many jurors have great problems understanding highly technical forensic evidence and legal terms such as “beyond reasonable doubt” and “presumption of innocence”. The internet has introduced a whole new set of problems – “trial by Google” where a simple net search turns jurors into criminals.
How did you come across the 1959 Jillian Brewer case and what made you want to look into it?
I first heard the gruesome details of the Jillian Brewer case from my parents when I was a child. It was the talk of the town. I looked deeply into it when I met Darryl Beamish, who as a 20 year old was sentenced to hang, but served 15 years in jail when the sentence was commuted, all for a crime he knew nothing about. No journalist could ignore a story like that.
Where did you find all the cases you unearthed?
I kept up contacts with lawyers and investigators. They tipped me off to doubtful cases and as a starting point I sat through the trials and took notes. One of those trials lasted three months. At the same time I had a full-time job editing and running my chain of suburban newspapers. Thanks to the loyal staff for covering my backside!
Can you tell us a bit about how you managed to get a serial killer’s confession?
Darryl Beamish authorised me to access his defence file from his original cases. Although I am not a lawyer, I was adopted by his lawyers as a central part of the legal team when Darryl launched his final and successful appeal, decided in 2005. I found the serial killers chilling confession in Darryl’s file and it now forms part of the court record.
You explode the myth of ‘copper’s instinct’, can you tell us a little about that?
Many police, and most members of the public, believe that vast experience gives police officers special powers in detecting guilt and innocence in suspects. I found the origins of this belief really fascinating, and explain why. But science now tells us that “copper’s instinct” is a myth – police officers’ ability to detect liars or truth-tellers is no better than chance: 50-50. Strong belief in the myth has had devastating effects on wrongly-suspected people, when the officer has refused to abandon his initial belief in guilt. This “belief persistence” can carry on right through the criminal justice system and sometimes into appeals.
Can you tell us about the two factors making juries obsolete?
The first new factor is cognitive science, in which relatively recent studies have proved that the consensus system used by juries is the worst way to reach a just decision. Jury studies have proved that juries with strong personalities but with over-confidence in their mistaken beliefs have persuaded less assertive jurors to make unjust decisions. Jury-room bullies are more common than most people imagine. The second is the internet. Recent leaks via the internet have revealed what was once concealed by the tight security of the jury room. Jurors have tweeted their intentions to find the defendant guilty before hearing one word of evidence. The other factor is trial by Google, where information strictly forbidden from jurors’ eyes, such as the criminal record of the accused, is now freely available.
Can you tell us about the alternative to juries already in use in Australia?
We already have a tried and proven alternative to juries, the system used in appeals, where usually three experienced judges sit as a panel. They conduct civilised conversations with witnesses and lawyers, rather than “trial by battle” that now occurs between opposing lawyers. As well as being a genuine search for the truth, this system would help remove the incentive for police to tickle their evidence to help convict the accused.
Are there more books in your future and are you working on anything at the moment that you can tell us about?
There are a couple bubbling away in my internal espresso machine, both of them true-life block-busters. Wait and see.
Presumed Guilty is published with Hardie Grant and has an RRP of $29.99, it is available now where good books are sold.
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LOS ANGELES, CA October 5, 2009 – Live Nation announced today a 2-for-1 club concert ticket deal on 200,000 tickets to over 350 concerts in 29 of its club venues across the country. Available only at LiveNation.com this Wednesday, fans will get two tickets for the price of one, a 50% savings, to see any of a wide variety of artists across genres including Hanson, Colbie Caillat Trey Songz, Mario, The Bravery, The Used and Moby, and many others.
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Column #23 Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent, United Kingdom
October 1, 1996 Dartoid's Column No comments
Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent, United Kingdom
In the heart of one of the most scenic stretches of countryside in England is a quaint little town called Tunbridge Wells. Life began here in 1606 when some guy named Dudley, Lord North sipped a drink from a spring and claimed the water to have special health giving properties. I’ve tried the stuff — direct from the original Chalybeate Spring — and can only figure that Dudley had more than a few lagers first…
The rest is history. The British began to flock from all corners of the country — all for a drink of this mysterious brew. As word spread the famous followed. Queen Victoria as a child. The author and dandy Richard ‘Beau’ Nash. Then, in 1909 Edward VII passed through and gave the place royal sanction. Simple little Tunbridge Wells — a nowhere place with an itty bitty spring — became “Royal” Tunbridge Wells. It’s all so perfectly British.
Today, in the center of this history (or nonsense, if you share my perspective) is a pub called The Duke of York. It’s located smack in the middle the famous colonnaded shopping strip known as the Pantiles, not more than twenty tards from where Chalybeate Spring still dribbles away. I’ve been stopping in here for almost ten years to use the dart board on the far back wall. I really don’t know why I keep coming back…
The setup is atrocious. The path from the oche to the board has been walked for so many years that it noticeably dips in the middle. Because of this there is no question that the throwing distance is couple of inches short of regulation. The lighting is way too low. Chalk is nowhere to be found. And the place smells like it’s been serving up beer for almost half a century. The amazing thing is that it sort of has been — the building was constructed just three years after Dudley sloshed through town.
As a pub, it’s a thing of beauty. Dark wood interior. Brass appointments. A fire burns next to the board in the wintertime. It’s as British as a British pub can get. A beer will run you two quid — about three dollars (US).
…I guess I continue to visit the Duke because I just love to throw darts in England. Winning here is like winning nowhere else in the world. There is just no feeling better than trashing some poor soul at their own national pastime. And some guy named Nigel made me feel mighty good tonight!
Getting to Tunbridge Wells will take you about an hour by rail from London. From Gatwick Airport the time is about the same. Either direction, the journey through the Kentish countryside is worth the effort — stately homes, formal gardens, castles, ancient abbys, and even hop farms dot the landscape. It’s a trip worth taking.
And the Duke of York is definately a stop worth making.
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Value: This is one of a group of French regional surnames of noble and romantic origins. It describes a person of Brittany, a region of France with strong Celtic origins. Le Breton as a surname is not unlike the ames Irish, English, Cornish and Welsh, all are nationalistic, and refer to people from those particular countries. They are all 'from' surnames, which is to say that they were usually granted to people after they left their native region and moved elsewhere. In the small communities of the medieval period and for centuries afterwards, people were often designated by nicknames, and a locational nickname was the easiest to apply. Recorded in the spellings of Le Breton, Lebreton and Breton, this surname is as well recorded in France as can be expected. Because of the civil war between the protestants known as 'Huguenots', and the Catholics, which often raged from 1550 to 1750, only to be followed by the Revolution of 1789 - 1794 when all religions were banned, and the church registers often destroyed, French records are often either erratic or non existent. However we have found a number of examples and these include Jean Le Breton of St. Nicol, Finisterre, on January 26th 1670, and Claude Le Breton at St. Doucelin, Meuse-et-Moselle, on December 12th 1692. Heraldically the name is recorded in Brittany, Lorraine, Maine, Tournay, and Isle de France, and surprisingly perhaps a Coat of Arms was also granted to 'Le Breton' of Jersey, Channel Islands, and London, this being two gold chevrons on a blue field. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Bernadine Le Breton, which was dated June 9th 1648, christened at Pontrioux, Cotes du Nord, France, during the reign of King Louis X1V of France, known as 'The Sun King', 1643 - 1715.
Сильная, яркая, светлая
Армену дорога дана,
Дорога прямая, приметная,
Ждет его завтра она.
Утро волшебное звонкое
Встретит его колокольчиком,
И облачко белое тонкое
Помашет в дорогу бутоничиком.
Армен по дороге той быстро пойдет
И скоро он счастье в дороге найдет.
Дорога не просто так вьется -
Дорога судьбою зовется!
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Value: This name, with variant spellings Lochhead, Lochead, Loffhead etc., is of Scottish topographical origin for one resident by a lake or enclosure on a headland. The component elements of the name are the Old English pre 7th Century 'loc(a)', an enclosure, or perhaps the Old Gaelic 'loch' meaning a lake or pool, plus the Old English 'heafod', (Medieval English 'heved'), literally meaning 'head', but used in various transferred sense such as 'headland' or 'upper end'. The earliest form of the surname was recorded towards the end of the 13th Century, (see below). In 1626 one, James Lochheid was burgess and guild-brother of Glasgow, and on November 21st 1654 David Lochhead and Jeane Symsoun were married in Edinburgh parish, Midlothian. On April 26th 1742 Elizabeth Loughhead, an infant, was christened in Flockton, Yorkshire, and on May 23rd 1861 Mary Ann Loughhead and John Groome were married in Manchester Cathedral Lancashire. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Gilbert de Lakenheued who 'rendered homage', which was dated 1296, in the 'Records of Lanarkshire', Scotland, during the reign of John Balliol of Scotland, 1292 - 1296. Surnames became necessary when governments introduced personal taxation. In England this was known as Poll Tax. Throughout the centuries, surnames in every country have continued to 'develop' often leading to astonishing variants of the original spelling.
В маленькой кроваточке
Маленькая Яна
Спит и улыбается,
В доме утро. Рано.
Бабушка на цыпочках
Подойдет к роватке
Пожелает Яночке
Спать подольше сладко,
Пожелает бабушка,
Выйдя за порог,
Чтоб родную внученьку
Добрый бог сберег.
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Far Western at the 35th Great Basin Anthropological Conference
By Kaely Colligan November 21, 2016 January 4, 2021 Announcements
October 6th – 9th 2016: Far Western researchers, along with colleagues from across the nation, gathered to present recent research and share ideas at the 35th Great Basin Anthropological Conference in Reno, Nevada. Organized around a conference theme of “Featured Landscapes of the Great Basin”, archaeologists from Far Western presented or contributed to nineteen paper and poster presentations. These included a poster symposium organized by Bill Hildebrandt highlighting the Ruby Pipeline Project, a plenary presentation by D. Craig Young, and new research from the Lincoln County Archaeological Initiative, the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in the Mojave Desert, the Naval Air Station Fallon, and the Soldier Meadows Area of Critical Environmental Concern. A full menu of Far Western presentation abstracts and viewable posters is provided below.
The Great Basin Anthropological Conference is organized biennially by the Great Basin Anthropological Association – Far Western’s President, Kim Carpenter, serves as Treasurer on the association’s Board of Directors. Conferences such as the GBAC are great opportunities for archaeologists, historians, ethnographers, native communities, and regulatory agencies to present and discuss new research and future directions.
A special thank you to our Art Director, Tammara Norton, for assistance with our 2016 GBAC presentations.
Preliminary Findings on the Paleoindian Archaeology of Cave and Lake Valleys
Daron Duke and D.Craig Young
Far Western is conducting surveys in Cave and Lake Valleys as part of a LCAI Round 7 project to develop a Paleoindian Archaeological Context. Using both random and nonrandom sampling methods, the fieldwork is designed to test the predictions of a GIS-based model for the decline of Great Basin pluvial lakes and, by extension, the wetland habitats surrounding them. We infer that the Paleoindian record associated with short-lived lakes, such as Lake Cave in Cave Valley, would be more restricted to an early Paleoindian record than that associated with enduring lakes, such as Lake Carpenter in Lake Valley. Observing the differences between these neighboring basins will inform the broader regional issue of how and when Paleoindian peoples responded to the ultimate demise of the basin wetland habitats central to their land use strategy.
Michael Lenzi
Results of Experiments with Replicated Crescents to Evaluate Proposed Functions
This paper presents results from a series of experiments involving replicated crescents to evaluate some of the more common hypotheses proposed for the function of crescents and gain a better understanding of their role in the prehistoric toolkit. Crescents were used to cut leather, scrape willow, and tip projectiles thrown at targets. Models from human behavioral ecology were applied to evaluate the efficiency of crescents for each task. Additionally, the breaks that accrued from use on the replicated crescents were compared to archaeological patterns. Results from this study indicate that the primary function of crescents for cutting and slicing tasks and scraping plants is not supported; however, use as transverse projectile points is well-supported.
Michael Lenzi and Vickie Clay
New Obsidian Sources, Conveyance Zones, and Toolstone Profiles from Southern Lahontan Valley and Rawhide Flats, NAS Fallon, Churchill County, Nevada
Sourcing of obsidian nodules collected during evaluation of sites on one Naval Air Station Fallon training range in southern Lahontan Valley identified three previously unknown obsidian sources. These new sources are designated Dead Camel Mountains, Desert Mountains, and Lahontan Valley. Chemical ascription of temporally diagnostic obsidian projectile points from 29 sites in southern Lahontan Valley and Rawhide Flats generally demonstrate foragers had very large conveyance zones during the Paleoindian Period, with decreased conveyance zones through time. Lithic material type profiles for projectile points, tools, and debitage found on these sites located in two adjacent valleys show measurable differences in toolstone use that may represent different proximities to sources and/or different types of land use.
Kelly McGuire and William Hildebrandt
Taking Stock: A Far Western Perspective of Native America and CRM in the Great Basin
The Native American voice within the institutional and regulatory framework of Great Basin CRM has rightfully increased through the last several decades. While a number of successes can be pointed to, much of the current status of this relationship remains challenging, and sometimes contested. While Far Western must navigate this landscape, we also have a unique perspective, as we work directly with Native Americans, mostly younger people, actually doing archaeology. This experience has proven positive and occasionally transformational for both Native Americans and archaeologists. We advocate for the expanded participation of Native Americans at all levels of the archaeological enterprise.
Adrian Whitaker and Jeffrey Rosenthal
Delayed Adoption of Intensified Hunter-Gatherer Subsistence Strategies and the Continued Utility of the Traveler/Processor Model to Explain Changes
Bettinger and Baumhoff’s Traveler/Processor Model was a crucial contribution to Great Basin archaeology nearly 35 years ago and the model continues to bear theoretical fruit today. This paper examines how people living in large villages with intensified economies in California’s Great Central Valley co-existed with less-economically intensive adaptations in the adjacent Central Sierra Nevada Foothills for nearly 4,000 years despite consistent contact between the two. In this paper, we examine how the adjacent regions had such different trajectories of economic intensification. We outline how a combination of new technology and climatic instability changed the relative suitability of processor economic strategies and led foothill foragers to shift to a more valley-like adaptation. More generally, the model provides a framework to explaining the coexistence of neighboring but dramatically different economies – for instance foragers vs. farmers – despite contact, as well as the mechanisms that might catalyze a shift from one economy to another.
Justin Wisely
Crazy Little Thing Called Starch: Starch Grain Analysis of Bedrock Mortars
Starch grain analysis is an underutilized non-destructive method for improving our understanding of prehistoric plant usage, previously only utilized as a laboratory technique. As part of a larger landscape sampling for my master’s thesis at California State University, Chico, I sampled bedrock mortars at CA-ALP-156 and CA-ALP-171 in the Sierra Crest using the in-field extraction method I developed. This research covers the development of the reference collection, the creation and application of this new in-field sampling technique, and subsequent results. As the sampling of bedrock mortars is only one of the many potential uses for this non-destructive technique, there will be a discussion of future research avenues made possible by bringing starch grain sampling out of the lab and into the landscape.
D. Craig Young
Deep in the Dust: Archaeological Landscapes in Tons per Year
The search for early archaeology in the Great Basin has shifted from a focus on prominent lacustrine features (e.g., spits and strandlines) to zones of potential resource productivity, especially basin-margin and deltaic wetlands. While theoretically smarter, we have made our work more difficult – these once expansive landforms may now be buried deep in dust. Bounded only by wind, dust transport and deposition are truly landscape-scale phenomena. Primary dust deposition can be measured today in tens of tons per acre per year. In the drying Late Pleistocene-Early Holocene transition, dust production and deposition may have been an order of magnitude greater. Eroded from hundreds of drying basins, eolian dust was deposited as vast silt plains or recycled into expansive distal reaches of alluvial fans. Reworked dust, as loess or alluvium, often forms temporally undifferentiated playa-like deposits, where we continue our hopeful searches – this silt-capped, reworked landscape may be too young. Temporally constraining dust episodes while identifying and investigating dust-infused landforms reveals potentially stratified paleo-landscapes, thereby narrowing our search for significant Paleoindian archaeology in the Great Basin.
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Ryan Byerly
Hunter-Gatherer Sites on the Pisgah Crater Lava Flow near Lavic Lake, San Bernardino County, California
Far Western’s National Register evaluations of archaeological sites on the Pisgah Crater Lava Flow, adjacent to Lavic Lake aboard the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in Twentynine Palms, California, reveal that hunter-gatherers utilized the many natural shelters created by collapsed lava blisters and tubes within the flow as settings for short term camps in support of regional resource pursuits. This poster summarizes data gathered from limited test excavations and collections of these lava flow sites and compares them to similar data gleaned from other local sites to frame a coherent picture of regional site use as a foundation for the construction of a Base-wide hunter-gatherer settlement-subsistence model.
Ryan Byerly, Lindsey Daub, Eric Gingerich, and Joanna C. Roberson
Modeling Mojave Desert Hunter-Gatherer Settlement and Subsistence from Lava Flow Sites Aboard the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, San Bernardino County, California
Throughout prehistory, that portion of the south-central Mojave Desert now encompassed by the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center appears to have largely supported short term hunter-gatherer occupations linked to the procurement of locally available jasper and chalcedony. Here, we specifically examine and compare data gathered from Far Western’s National Register evaluations of sites on the Pisgah Crater and Amboy Crater lava flows to model broader-scale settlement and subsistence patterns of the hunter-gatherers that preferentially exploited these toolstone, primarily as evident during the Late Holocene.
Daron Duke, D.Craig Young, Sarah Rice, Jaynie Hirschi, and Anya Kitterman
The Wishbone Site: An Early Paleoindian Waterfowl Cooking Feature from the Great Salt Lake Desert
Recent survey on the Old River Bed delta yielded a charcoal-rich feature containing burned waterfowl bones and debitage. The feature is eroding from the playa surface and is surrounded by an associated concentration of stone tools, including Haskett projectile points. It is over 12,000 years old. Artifacts were found both on the surface and buried. In this poster, we provide details, including radiocarbon dates, faunal and macrobotanical evidence, and lithic analysis.
Tucker Orvald and Kathryn Ataman
Surface Archaeology of the Soldier Meadows Area of Critical Environmental Concern (ACEC), Humboldt County, Nevada
Located in the Black Rock Desert-High Rock Canyon National Conservation Area, the Soldier Meadows ACEC is an exemplary locality given its unique hydrological, biological, and cultural features. Between 2013 and 2014, the BLM Black Rock Field Office directed Section 110 inventory aimed at formally documenting cultural resources within the 2,078- acre ACEC. Surface archaeology includes a near-continuous distribution of early through late Holocene flaked and ground stone accumulations as well as historic-era Emigrant Trail evidence, a stage and freight transportation corridor, and extensive ranching infrastructure that reflects homestead- through corporate-scale land use. An understanding of the surface archaeology in the ACEC will allow for long-term adaptive management, provide a resource for problem-oriented archaeological research, and help the BLM conserve this unique setting and its pervasive archaeological record.
D. Craig Young (Contributor)
Prearchaic Adaptations in the Central Great Basin: Preliminary Findings from a Stratified Open-Air Site
Brian F Codding (University of Utah), David W. Zeanah (California State University, Sacramento), D. Craig Young (Far Western Anthropological Research Group, Inc.), Joan Brenner Coltrain (University of Utah), Erik P. Martin (University of Utah) and Robert G. Elston (University of Utah)
Early Holocene occupants of the Great Basin preferentially occupied highly productive habitats surrounding pluvial lakes. While growing evidence details the adaptations of these Prearchaic foragers in the Eastern and Western Great Basin, our understanding of the Central Great Basin remains impoverished, largely due because of the limited number of stratified archaeological sites containing well preserved material suitable for faunal analysis and radiocarbon dating. However, recent investigations of an open-air site along the northern shore of Pleistocene Lake Gilbert in Grass Valley, Nevada have revealed a buried deposit with preserved organic material associated with Prearchaic technology. Here we report preliminary analyses examining the chronology, subsistence, and technology associated with the site. Geoarchaeological analyses of soil map units and landforms suggest that similar sites are likely to be found elsewhere in Grass Valley. These findings help clarify our view of Prearchaic foragers in the Central Great Basin and expand our understanding of the earliest adaptation in the region.
A Behavioral Ecological Frame of Reference for Investigating Prearchaic Adaptations
David W. Zeanah (California State University, Sacramento), Brian F. Codding (University of Utah), Amber Johnson (Truman State University), Robert G. Elston (University of Nevada, Reno), and D. Craig Young (Far Western Anthropological Research Group, Inc.)
Occupants of the Great Basin 13-8 kya cannot be understood by direct analogy with ethnographic Great Basin foragers because they lived in climatic circumstances and at population densities utterly unlike those of recent times. Archaeological evidence suggests that hunter-gatherers were highly mobile with hunting oriented lithic technology lacking milling equipment, but acquired a broad spectrum of faunal prey and tended to camp near wetland environments. Here we develop expectations about the range of hunter-gatherer adaptations feasible under climatic scenarios for the Pleistocene-Holocene Transition as inferred from paleoenvironmental proxies. Using the marginal value theorem and theoretical expectations of sexual division of labor, we evaluate the range of subsistence and mobility evident in Binford’s ethnographic database under similar environmental parameters. This serves as a framework for casting specific expectations for Grass Valley, Nevada in context of broader Pre-archaic subsistence-settlement in the western and central Great Basin.
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Prehistory of Nevada’s Northern Tier: Highlights from the Ruby Pipeline
Project Organizer: William R. Hildebrandt
Kaely Colligan, William Bloomer, and William Hildebrandt
Native Stoneworking Across Northern Nevada
Interesting characteristics from flaked stone assemblages recovered during the Ruby Pipeline project portray varied production patterns across the northern swatch of Nevada. Single-component assemblages reveal a transition from obsidian dominate landscapes in the west to cryptocrystalline silicate areas in the east over time. Data from these areas support several trans-Holocene changes in tool stone selection, production intensity, and reduction strategies which can be linked to broader changes in demography, land-use patterns, and work organization – most notably, the changes that occur late in time when the intensity of flaked stone production crashes and people’s interest in biface reduction declines as well.
William R. Hildebrandt
Colonization of Northern Nevada
The Ruby Pipeline corridor passes through four major habitat zones. Maximum resource productivity occurs in the west, and declines when moving in an easterly direction. Consistent with the expectations of Ideal Free Distribution modeling, the most productive zones were occupied first, followed by the infilling of the others over time. This sequence of settlement remained in place until about 500 years ago when long term habitat rankings were up ended, and the lower ranked eastern zones saw higher population densities than the western areas for the first time in prehistory. This radical change is linked to the more intensive use of small seeded plants with new technological systems brought to the area by the Western Shoshone.
Jerome King
Long-Distance Obsidian Conveyance in Late Prehistoric Northern Nevada
The huge database of geochemically sourced obsidian artifacts from the Ruby Pipeline provides a unique perspective on changing patterns of prehistoric obsidian procurement and conveyance in the northern Great Basin. One of the most striking trends is an increase in obsidian source diversity in the Late Prehistoric period, driven by increased representation of distant obsidian sources. Average transport distances, as quantified both by diagnostic projectile points and by samples of debitage from dated site components, are by far the highest in the Late Prehistoric period. Local sources still dominate obsidian source profiles, as they do in earlier periods, but the increase in the representation of far-distant sources is dramatic. The apparent timing of this shift, as well as the very long distances involved, suggest that obsidian may sometimes have been transported by Native traders on horseback.
Kelly McGuire and Nathan Stevens
The Archaeological Correlates and Evolution of Geophyte Procurement in the Northwestern Great Basin
The economic importance of geophytes along the northwestern rim of the Great Basin is such that the entire region has been broadly categorized as the “root complex” by Catherine Fowler. However, the archaeological manifestations of geophyte gathering, processing, storage, and consumption are not well understood. Here, we review assemblages recovered from prime geophyte habitat in the Barrel Springs area in an effort to correlate certain tool types with productive geophyte zones, and to establish a settlement context of geophyte use. Particular attention is given to formed and simple flake tools and their role in the manufacture and maintenance of digging sticks, a central element of the geophyte harvest. We then discuss the energetic returns associated with geophyte procurement and its role in foraging systems through time in this region.
Allika Ruby and Jerome King
Landscape Analysis of Pronghorn Trap Features in Eastern Nevada
A Landscape Analysis of Pronghorn Trap Features in Eastern Eastern Nevada contains the remains of many large wooden enclosures that were thought to have been used by prehistoric hunting groups to capture pronghorn. These enclosures, or corrals, display highly similar characteristics which reflect their builders’ sophisticated understanding of pronghorn behavior. Researchers from Far Western Anthropological Research Group, Inc., conducted a detailed analysis of the construction techniques used to build four such enclosures along the Ruby Pipeline corridor near Montello. Our study indicates that the builders intentionally integrated features of the landscape into the corrals that likely increased their effectiveness. Our presentation highlights the characteristics shared by the four prehistoric corrals as well as a nearby historic-period corral, compares them to other documented pronghorn corrals in the region, and offers a predictive model for locating additional corrals.
Andrew Ugan and Laura Harold
Large-Scale Perspectives on Subsistence Stability Across the Northern Great Basin
Substantial attention is paid to prehistoric big game use in the western U.S., especially as it relates to changes in climate, hunting pressure, or the social contexts of foraging. However, many such studies are tightly focused, sometimes site-specific affairs. Here we take a broad look at big game use by summarizing faunal assemblages from 153 sites across the northern Great Basin. We show that while there is huge variation in site-specific reliance on big game within time periods and an increase in the frequency of large animals between the Paleoarchaic and later periods, the overall array or resources taken is generally broad and there is little difference in mean reliance on big game from the Early Archaic onwards. These data suggest broad stability in hunting patterns, and we discuss the reasons for the observed pattern, its generality, and its implications.
The Eco-Regions and Geomorphic Setting of the Ruby Pipeline Project in Nevada’s Northern Tier
The varied landforms of Nevada’s Northern Tier provide context for understanding the archaeological patterning that forms the basis for interpreting the human past in the vicinity of the Ruby Pipeline Project – research presented in this poster session. Eco-regions defined by modern floral communities and geologic units are the starting point, and these are viewed through a lens of late Pleistocene to Holocene landscape evolution. Geomorphological investigation of local landforms and regional geomorphic process included documentation of 25 alluvial profiles at 15 study locations in eleven hydrologic basins. These localities inform a model of changing conditions in alluvial systems across the Northern Tier.
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The stunning, timely new novel from the acclaimed, internationally bestselling author of The Architect's Apprentice and The Bastard of Istanbul.
Peri, a married, wealthy, beautiful Turkish woman, is on her way to a dinner party at a seaside mansion in Istanbul when a beggar snatches her handbag. As she wrestles to get it back, a photograph falls to the ground -- an old polaroid of three young women and their university professor. A relic from a past -- and a love -- Peri had tried desperately to forget.
Three Daughters of Eve is set over an evening in contemporary Istanbul, as Peri arrives at the party and navigates the tensions that simmer in this crossroads country between East and West, religious and secular, rich and poor. Over the course of the dinner, and amidst an opulence that is surely ill-begotten, terrorist attacks occur across the city. Competing in Peri's mind however are the memories invoked by her almost-lost polaroid, of the time years earlier when she was sent abroad for the first time, to attend Oxford University. As a young woman there, she had become friends with the charming, adventurous Shirin, a fully assimilated Iranian girl, and Mona, a devout Egyptian-American. Their arguments about Islam and feminism find focus in the charismatic but controversial Professor Azur, who teaches divinity, but in unorthodox ways. As the terrorist attacks come ever closer, Peri is moved to recall the scandal that tore them all apart.
Elif Shafak is the number one bestselling novelist in her native Turkey, and her work is translated and celebrated around the world. In Three Daughters of Eve, she has given us a rich and moving story that humanizes and personalizes one of the most profound sea changes of the modern world.
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John Lewis Leads UK High-Street Battle
posted 2 Jan 2014, 09:13 by Mpelembe [ updated 2 Jan 2014, 09:14 ]
Reuters Business Report - John Lewis brightened up the gloom on Britain's high street business scene with a 7.2 per cent rise in Christmas sales.
A prolonged bout of bad weather and consumer caution has meant a struggle - and heavy discounting - for many retailers.
But the employee-owned department store spoke of strong demand for tablet PCs through to coffee machines.
Online sales jumped 22.6 per cent on a year ago - making up just under a third of total sales.
They came in at 734 million pounds in the five-week Christmas retail period - including, at nearly 36 million pounds, the stores biggest ever taking on a single day.
George Macdonald is editor of Retail Week.
SOUNDBITE: George Macdonald, Executive Editor, Retail Week, saying (English):
"They've done multi-channel really well, they've spent quite a lot of time and money making sure they've got a great online offer that works in tandem with the shops. I think they've done well with their marketing, they always make a big splash with theirChristmas advert and they've got a great reputation for product quality and standards of service and I think that's stood them in good stead."
Online sales also helped House of Fraser to its best-ever Christmas trading.
They were up just under 58 per cent - total sales showing an increase of 7.3 per cent on a year ago.
It could be a welcome sign of a turnaround for the store, which made a nearly seven million pound loss in its last year ...
... and which, according to industry sources, is attracting buyout interest from French peer, Galeries Lafayette.
But analysts are predicting a tough retail environment ahead.
George Macdonald, Executive Editor, Retail Week,
"The fact is consumers don't have any more money in their pockets this year than they did last, so they're being quite selective about what they choose to buy and when they choose to buy it, so retailers really need to be more in tune with the shopper than every before."
Debenhams continues to take a bruising in the Christmas high-street battle.
Two days after a profit warning showing how far it had fallen behind its rivals, it has announced the departure of finance director, Simon Herrick.
The warning - its second in a year - blamed heavy discounting across Britain's retail centres for a 25 per cent cut to its first-half profit forecast - although some analysts say Debenhams is also struggling due to a weaker online offer.
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Successful first year for environmental tech firm
In Buildings, Economy, Energy and Waste on 29.03.2016
A green technology installer in Stockport is celebrating a successful first year in business, having benefitted from specialist low carbon sector support from the Business Growth Hub.
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Integrated water management approach to delivery of the North West England River basin management plan.
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In 1927 my grandparents, Frank and Edith Matthews, sold everything worth selling and moved from Brown Hill, near Kalgoorlie to the inner Perth suburb of Mt Lawley. Brown Hill, like many mining towns in WA. does not exist today. In its place there is an enormous hole called "The Super Pit" I think they chose 29 Huff St, primarily for the three horse stables in the backyard Grandpa owned and trained trotting horses and for many years they were the most important thing in his life. It has always been a family joke that his horses were better cared for than the family because the stables at Brown Hill, attracted more interest when auctioned, than the house.
As a small boy, what impressed me most about '29' was its size; everything about it seemed huge. There were three bedrooms, all at least four metres square, and a smaller maid's room. The lounge, at twelve metres square, was more like a dance hall than a normal room, and during the war years, when a friend of the family was home on leave it was frequently used as such. Then there was the kitchen, a bathroom, a vestibule and a long dark passage, sixty six feet long, the same length as a cricket pitch and there was also a verandah/sleep-out.
During the latter years of the war, Mum and Aunty Mavis used one bedroom as a toy factory, where they made stuffed, felt toys which they sold to a city retailer and a couple of local stores. The backyard seemed nearly as big as a football field, especially when, as a teenager, it was my tum to do the mowing. How grateful I was that half the yard had been fenced off and made into a fowl run which didn't require mowing. Grandpa died in 1961, Grandma in 1970 and that wonderful old house that had been such an important part of my life was sold for $16,000 in 1972, having been in the family for forty five years.
I lived there with my father, mother and sister Valerie, in 1941, when I was five. We lived there again for a short period in 1943, after spending about eighteen months in the country, just a few miles south of Serpentine; 'hiding' from the Japanese. When we returned, a partition had been built down the centre of the huge lounge room dividing it into two long rooms; we lived on one side while Aunty Mavis, uncle Bob and their three children occupied the other half. My family moved to Kalgoorlie in early 1944 and it was not until about October 1950 that I returned to Perth to attend High School and '29' again became my home.
My most vivid memories are of the years I lived in the maid's room, while attending Forrest Junior Technical High School in Lord Street East Perth. I don't know when she arrived but for many years an elderly spinster, we all called Aunty Daisy, rented the 'toy factory' bedroom. She had been a friend of Grandma's since they were girls. Aunty Daisy was a small rotund little lady with short grey curly hair and an even shorter temper. I have no idea how much she paid in rent, but for an extra two shillings and six pence she joined us for dinner each Sunday. I suspect it was the only nutritious meal she had all week.
The piano in the lounge belonged to her and she played it frequently, particularly on a Sunday night. Some times I would try to sing along with her until she would snap. 'Ron! You are singing it all wrong.' Then I would answer. 'Well, that's the way Guy Mitchell sings it,' and storm off to the peace and tranquility of my bedroom.
The kitchen-dining room featured a dark, narrow walk-in pantry where Grandma kept her home made biscuits. There was a special tin for me, or which-ever grand child was living there at the time, in which she stored biscuits that did not meet her high standard. 'Seconds,' I suppose, but to me they were anything but second class, especially the strawberry jam and coconut slice, which was a particular favourite of my cousin Frank and to this day many in the Matthews family still call it "Frankie's Cake."
Then there was the bathroom, it too had a large walk-in cupboard where, to Grandma's disgust, Grandpa stored his brandy. It was always 'Seppelts Solero,' Three Star Hospital Brandy and he drank some every night, obviously for it's medicinal value, it was after all, Hospital Brandy, the label clearly said so. This same cupboard had been used during the war, to store Uncle Bert's 'black market grog'; wine and spirits which he sold to American servicemen, on leave. Grandpa kept his cut throat razor there. I thought it had the sharpest, cleanest cutting blade in the world and was perfect for cutting balsa wood, so I often borrowed it, being very careful to wipe it spotlessly clean before replacing it in the exact original place.
Next day he would curse and swear at the razor because it didn't seem to hold an edge like it should. He would then spend half an hour carefully stropping it. If he had discovered the reason for the razor loosing its fine edge, I think I would still carry the scars on my backside today. Sunday night was always 'bath night' when I would light the chip water heater then sit on the floor and feed paper and wood chips into the fire box to warm enough water for my weekly bath. It was a slow boring task, made even slower by me falling asleep while reading some of the heating fuel, namely The 'Reader's Digest,' and allowing the fire to go out.
The most impressive room was the lounge. An oval shaped dining room table and eight chairs were in the centre, a piano in one comer and an open fire place in another. In the comer opposite the piano, there were double glass doors which opened on to the "L" shaped verandah/sleep-out. There was also a trophy cabinet, book shelves, a three piece lounge suite, and a small oval table with a brown, bakelite, mantle radio on it. (Grandma always listened to 'When a Girl Marries,' 'The Burtons of Banner Street,' 'The Lawsons' and anything that involved Jack Davey.)
It was a beautiful room and in those pre T.V. days I had to have a very good reason before I was permitted to enter. One excuse which I used frequently and was always accepted was to look at Grandpa's trophies. I would read the inscriptions over and over again. They were a lasting tribute to his success as an owner and trainer of trotters. The largest and most prestigious of all had been won by a mare called "Dorrie Direct." It must have been nearly two feet high with handles on the side that stood out like wings. On the top was a solid silver horse, standing on the small circular lid. He must have felt so proud when it was presented to him. I believe my cousin Frank has it now, which is not unreasonable considering that he is the oldest son, of the oldest son and third generation to carry the name Francis Clement Matthews. Grandpa was a founder and Life Member of Western Australian Trotting Club.
At the end of the long, dark passage was the vestibule, a strange sort of room, quite large, which had no real purpose other than to link the passage, bath room, the back door and the maid's room. At different times at least five of her grand children called the maid's room 'home'. It was the smallest room in the house but large enough for a teenage boy in High School to be comfortable. It was also sufficiently far enough away from everyone else that the smell of thinners, acetone, dope, ether, Tarzan's grip, methanol, castor oil and turpentine etc. from my aero modeling activities, did not create panic among the more responsible residents.
The backdoor was in the centre of the vestibule and opened onto the verandah which stretched the full width of the house. At the far end there was the laundry, complete with an open, wood fired, boiling copper and two cement washing troughs which sat on a raised platform. I cannot recall ever seeing a washing machine but there was a hand operated clothes wringer bolted to the partition in the centre of the troughs. A short, curved path lead from the verandah to the toilet, a small stand alone brick building with a curved corrugated iron roof and cement floor. Instead of toilet paper there were small bundles of old newspaper, neatly cut into six inch squares, and threaded on to a piece of twine or hung onto a large nail, put there for that purpose.
Sometimes Grandma would be given a case of apples with each piece of fruit individually wrapped in green tissue paper. She must have been a conservationist at heart, because each sheet was saved, carefully flattened, then hung on the nail. After using news paper for so long the tissue paper felt as soft as silk. The high mounted cistern used at least four gallons, about eighteen litres, of water every time it was flushed because it took ages to refill, and reduced the flow to every other tap in the house.
The Hutt St Punters Club
About 1954, when cousin Frank was the resident grand child, he, Dad, another cousin Brian, and myself converted the harness store into a photographic dark room. It was never really dark enough to develop films by day but we did quite a few at night.
It was certainly a big step up from using the bath-room, where on one occasion someone turned on the light and ruined the film we were developing at the time. We called our group 'The Foggy Photo Camera Club.' Membership was restricted to those who had helped build the dark room plus our cousin Bernice, who firmly rejected our requests that she pose for us nude. Who can tell, it may have been the start of two new glamorous careers, for Bernice as a model, and for me as a photographer. One more lost opportunity?
I was seventeen and it was in the second half of 1953 when we began our gambling club. It was my father's idea, he was a born gambler, and we called it "The Hutt St Punters Club". There were only four members, restricted to those with the surname MATTHEWS, with two T's, the correct Cornish spelling: it was rather an exclusive club. The others were my two cousins Frank and Brian. Nearly every Saturday night for about a year we met at Frank's place to play penny-poker. Frank was "the grandchild in residence" at the time, occupying the small room at the back of our Grandmother's huge old house in Mt Lawley, an inner Perth suburb. This was the same room that I had happily occupied two years earlier, when I was a high-school student of very mediocre academic ability.
Yes, I know I said we played penny-poker, but it would be just as correct to say jelly-bean poker because jelly-beans were as acceptable as coins of the realm, having a value of two per penny. When we decided to add some variation to the night's activity by including the Perth trots, where we took turns at being the book maker, we rescinded their currency status and ceased trading in jelly-beans limiting all bets to a maximum of one shilling. At two beans per penny, no one wanted to go home with a pocket full of, much handled, rather grubby, sometimes licked, jelly-beans.
One Saturday night I was delayed and arrived later than the others, so after paying my respects to Grandma and her friends playing euchre in the lounge room, I made my way to Frank's bedroom. It surprised me to see that the light was out, the radio silent and the room apparently empty, because I had expected them to be set up and ready for the first race, which was scheduled to start in about five minutes, so I reached inside the door for the light switch. Beside the switch there was what we called a "skeleton wardrobe." It was a light, wooden frame, about the size of a normal wardrobe but instead of wood panelling on the outside, there was a patterned linen sheet which slid on a curtain spring.
As I was about to place my hand on the switch something grabbed me firmly by the wrist. It gave me such a fright that I wrenched my arm away violently, turned, ran across the vestibule then raced up the long dark passage convinced that I was in great danger of being eaten alive by an unseen monster. On reaching the door at the end of the passage I became aware of distant laughter and paused for a second before slowly retracing my steps toward Frank's bedroom, which seemed to be the source of the laughter. I pushed the door open, reached in and very cautiously turned on the light, where I saw Frank and Brian rolling on the floor, clutching their sides in a fit of uncontrolled laughter.
And there, sprawled against the wall, moaning and groaning, amidst the wreckage of the wardrobe, sat my father. He really was a sad and pathetic sight as he squatted with his head in his hands, blood from the gash in his forehead oozed between his parted fingers while a lump, already the size of an egg, grew larger by the second. They had been waiting in the dark for me to arrive and it was Dad, not King Kong or Godzilla, who grabbed me by the wrist. I had wrenched my arm away with such force that I pulled him through the side of the wardrobe and onto the edge of the partly opened door. In hindsight I think he probably had concussion and should have gone to see a doctor but he was never one to make a fuss, besides it was his tum to be the bookmaker and everyone knows that bookmakers always win.
Having had such a fantastic time the previous Easter, in 1957 I made plans to go to the Safety Bay Regatta with two old school friends. Unfortunately for me, Dad, Grandpa and Frank had made other plans and without bothering to ask me what I was doing, they had organized a compressor and all the equipment necessary to paint the roof. Dad and Grandpa were to stay on the ground mixing paint and watching the grass grow and the compressor compress, while Frank and I went aloft to clean and spray the corrugated iron roof. By mid morning on the second day we were going great guns and well on target to finish by late that afternoon. I was even having ideas of getting to the regatta late that night. Silly me!
Frank was using the spray gun when he noticed that the paint wasn't going on as it should. It seemed as though there was too little pressure even though we could still hear the compressor running. We called out to those below but didn't get any answer so we climbed down to investigate. As we approached the machine we smelled burning rubber. It didn't take long to find out why. Several feet of the air hose had become entangled around the pulley and had worn through in several places. Dad and Grandpa were inside enjoying their morning tea. To add insult to injury they blamed us for the problem. It took most of the day to get it repaired and functioning properly again so any ideas I had of sailing, dancing and beach parties were quickly dashed.
Grandma's Jam & Games
The most noteworthy feature of the back yard was the fig tree. It was enormous, covering almost half the yard. Every summer Grandma made jam. Not just a few jars but dozens and dozens and every vintage was better than the previous one. She gave it to her five children, to her numerous grandchildren, to her neighbours, her many friends in Kalgoorlie, Albany, Bunbury and Narrogin. She gave it to her friends at croquet, to Grandpa's bowling mates and to anyone who wanted some.
Many years later when I was serving in the Army, and living interstate, whenever I came home on leave I always took several jars with me when I left. Grandma was really quite famous throughout W.A. for her fig jam. The smell of it cooking on the old wood stove, floated across the neighborhood like a magic carpet with an almost hypnotic effect on all who inhaled the wonderful aroma. I could imagine people four blocks away licking their lips. If I close my eyes and sit quietly for a minute or two, I can taste it now. Then one fateful day Uncle Morry cut it down. I was devastated when I heard the news, shattered beyond hope, my world had been destroyed. As if to get revenge, the stump produced a crop of new shoots that came up around the base. In a few years there were six trees where there used to be only one. Justice had returned to the world and jam production began again.
Grandma's other great passion was playing cards. She loved any kind of game but preferred bridge, 500 and euchre and for several years, Dad and I participated in the Wednesday night ritual. In the winter we always played on a folding card table in the kitchen, which was warmed by the ancient Metter's wood stove. There was always an old blanket neatly spread across the card table so that the cards would slide smoothly. Grandma would not dream of playing without a blanket on the surface to protect the playing cards.
In a drawer in Grandpa's trophy cabinet there were dozens of packs of new playing cards, some she had won in competition, others she had been given. We could have used a new pack every month for ten years but Grandma was never one to waste anything that was still useful, so instead, we used her favourite old ones, which were regularly wiped clean with a damp cloth, lightly sprinkled with Johnson's Baby Powder then carefully put away for another day. I can't recall Grandpa ever joining us, but there were usually five or six players, one of which was Aunty Daisy, who was not a good player and almost always lost, while Dad and I almost always won. We kept our card money in a large 'Sunshine Full Cream Powdered Milk' tin, in the walk-in pantry and about every second month we emptied the copper contents into a calico bag to take home, count and bank.
During my life I have lived in at least thirty different places. In flats, houses, boarding houses, houses on railway wheels, hessian covered shacks, tents, army barracks and for the last six years, in a Retirement Village, but Grandma's house at 29 Hutt Street Mt. Lawley will always have a very special place in my heart and I suspect in many other hearts as well.
Yes, it was more than just bricks and mortar. It was a living, breathing thing that said to all. 'Come in! Make your self at home, how about a nice cup of tea?'
Whenever I visit Perth, a quick look at the old house is always high on my lists of things I must do.
Brown Hill
The Super Pit
Toy factory
Forrest Junior Technical High School
Dorrie Direct
When a Girl Marries
The Burtons of Banner Street
The Lawsons
Jack Davey
Western Australian Trotting Club
Safety Bay Regatta Albany
Metters stove
Johnson's Baby Powder
Sunshine Full Cream Powdered Milk
Seppelts Solero
Bath night
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