Forge Cottage, Guiting Power

Forge Cottage is a lovely Cotswold stone property, located in the heart of the quintessential English village of Guiting Power. The character filled cottage, including a cosy, roaring fire, is perfectly located for exploring the beautiful Cotswolds region.

Forge Cottage

Summary

Forge Cottage is a lovely Cotswold stone property, managed by the neighbouring Guiting Guest House. The cottage is in the centre of the beautiful and peaceful village of Guiting Power, which is surrounded by the stunning countryside of the North Cotswolds. The well known market towns of Stow-on-the-Wold and Bourton-on-the-Water are both approximately six miles away and the cottage is well placed for exploring the entire Cotswolds region.

The cottage has been enhanced by its current owners, whilst maintaining its traditional character, including wooden beams and floors, and a real fire. The character of the cottage is complemented by its modern facilities, including wireless internet access, a flatscreen TV with DVD player, and a well presented kitchen.

The cottage sleeps a maximum of five guests (one on a sofa bed), in two bedrooms, with two bathrooms. Quiet on street parking is freely available. Forge Cottage is an ideal retreat for friends, couples or a family, looking for a peaceful getaway in a beautiful village.

Description

The front door of Forge Cottage opens into a small hallway, off which are the following rooms:

Living/dining room: A large, characterful room, with wooden beams and floors, and a real fire. There is comfy seating for five and a large wooden dining table, with seating for six;

Kitchen: The good sized kitchen contains an electric oven and hob, microwave, fridge, freezer, dishwasher, kettle and toaster, plus a small table and a couple of chairs.

Stairs lead up from the hallway to the first floor landing. The following rooms are on the first floor:

Master bedroom: A large bedroom, containing a super king size bed and a sofa bed on a raised platform. There is an en-suite bathroom, with a walk-in shower, toilet and wash basin;

Bedroom 2: Contains a double bed;

Family bathroom: Contains a bath with overhead shower, toilet and wash basin.

There is a small, enclosed patio area outside the front door of Forge Cottage, with a table and chairs in the warmer months of the year, and guests are also welcome to use the neighbouring garden of the Guiting Guest House.

Key Features

Booking and payment

Character Cottages is a marketing agency and we do not own or manage any of the cottages listed on our website. Bookings made via us form a legal agreement directly between you and the property owner.

For bookings commencing more than 12 weeks in advance, a 30% non-refundable deposit is required to confirm the booking. The balance payment is then due 12 weeks prior to arrival.

All payments are made subject to the cancellation policy set out in the standard Booking Conditions.

Security deposits

A security deposit of £150 is payable, which is returned after the letting period, subject to an inspection of the property. For the avoidance of doubt, guests are requested to leave the property in a reasonable condition, consistent with the property's appearance upon arrival. In the event that the owners, or their appointed housekeepers, have to spend additional time tidying up after your departure, then the cost of this extra time may be deducted from your security deposit. The security deposit is payable prior to arrival at the property, via a bank transfer or a valid debit or credit card.

Occupancy

The maximum occupancy of the property, including its grounds, is five guests (including infants in cots), at any point during your stay. Unauthorised over occupancy is a breach of our terms and conditions and may result in the cancellation of your booking and additional charges. Please consult us prior to booking if you wish to discuss the possibility of having more than five guests at the property.

Pets

Regrettably, pets are not accepted.

Bed linen and towels

Bed linen and towels are provided for guests.

Arrival and departure times

Arrival time is after 4pm and departure time is by 10am.

Access will typically be provided by the property's owner, however, there is also a key safe, therefore it does not matter if you are arriving late at night.

Bed sizes and configurations

Bedroom 1: Super king size bed and sofa bed

Bedroom 2: Double bed

Bathrooms

Family bathroom: Bath with overhead shower, toilet and wash basin;

En-suite bathroom: Walk-in shower, toilet and wash basin.

Heating, fuel and logs

The property has an electric storage central heating system. Electricity is included in the rental price.

An initial basket of logs is provided for the real fire and further supplies can be purchased locally.

Services provided

The property has free wireless internet access and a TV with a DVD player. Please note that the wireless signal strength is not very strong.

There is no telephone at the property and guests should note that the mobile phone reception in the property is variable.

Use of a washing machine and a tumble dryer is possible via arrangement with the owners, as these facilities are at the adjoining Guiting Guest House. The first use of these facilities is free of charge and all subsequent washes are subject to a fee of £5 per use, payable directly to the owner.

Parking

There is free, quiet on-street parking available by the village green, next to the property.

Housekeeping

Where a letting exceeds nine nights, a mid-stay clean, bed linen and towel change may be included in the price. Please check with us to confirm. Additional housekeeping services may be available on request.

Child friendly facilities

A travel cot (without linen) and a high chair are provided.

Initial consumables

A small quantity of initial consumables is provided for your convenience (eg. tea, coffee, sugar, milk, biscuits, bread and butter, dishwasher tablets, toilet rolls, cleaning products, etc), however, you should not expect the quantity of these provisions to be sufficient for the duration of your stay.

Accessibility, health and safety

This is an old property and has character features, including narrow and steep stairs, and two floors, which could pose difficulty to guests with limited mobility, or carrying babies, both in terms of their general movement and their ability to quickly exit the house in the event of an emergency.

The smoke detectors operate on a sound only basis and, therefore, those who have serious impairment of hearing may not be able to hear the alarm systems and could be at risk.

Owners

Forge Cottage is a self-contained cottage, which is part of the Guiting Guest House building, where the owners live.

Smoking

No smoking is permitted throughout the property.

Photographs

In order to provide you with as much detail of our properties as possible, we sometimes use wide angle photography, which can make certain rooms, or spaces, appear larger than they actually are. Wherever possible, we try to include a floorplan, with detailed dimensions of rooms and areas. If you have any queries regarding the size of any rooms or spaces, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Guiting Power and The Cotswolds

Guiting Power

The quintessential Cotswolds village of Guiting Power lies on a tributary of the river Windrush, its russet-coloured houses clustered round a sloping green, providing a perfect example of how the English village can seem to have been carved from the earth it is built on.

This delightful village is a fascinating example of the unconscious harmony created by Cotswold masons over the centuries. The cottages, shops and inns are all beautifully cared for, with many of the buildings being owned and restored by a housing trust, initially set up for twelve cottages in 1934. The church of St. Michael to the south of the village has an exceptionally fine Norman south doorway.

Road congestion in Guiting Power

Guiting Power is unusual for a village its size, in having a Post Office, a village hall, a children's nursery, a bakery, village shop and two public houses.

A number of glorious walks can be taken in the area around Guiting Power, north-westwards to Guiting Woods, south-eastwards down the Windrush Valley to Naunton, or south-westwards to Hawling, with the Hollow Bottom Inn and The Farmers Arms providing welcoming places to relax at the end of these walks.

The Cotswolds Farm Park, made famous by the BBC's Countryfile programme, is near to Guiting Power, with its many rare breeds of animal making it a favourite destination of families.

Bourton-on-the-Water

The village of Bourton-on-the-Water (or “Bourton”) is famous for its picturesque High Street, flanked by long wide greens and the River Windrush that runs through them. The river is crossed by several low, arched stone bridges, which have led to Bourton being called the “Venice of the Cotswolds”. Bourton is regularly voted the prettiest village in the Cotswolds.

Despite only being classified as a village, Bourton’s status as a major tourist destination means that it has numerous shops, pubs, restaurants, cafes and tourist attractions.

One of the Bourton’s long standing traditions is the playing every summer of a game of medieval football, with goalposts set up in the River Windrush itself. Two teams play with a standard football and a referee attempts to keep order. Crowds line the banks of the river, and the aim is to score as many goals as possible (whilst getting everyone else as wet as possible!).

Various long-distance footpaths and local walks start, finish or pass through Bourton, including the Windrush Way and the Heart of England Way, which begins its 100-mile route north in the village.

Stow-on-the-Wold

Sitting elegantly in the middle of the world famous Cotswold’s countryside, Stow-on-the-Wold is the quintessential English market town. Stow is a natural and historic meeting place, with a fine selection of 16th century Cotswold stone shops, luxury hotels, chic bistros, inns, elegant manor house hotels and cosy teashops.

Along with Moreton-in-Marsh and Bourton-in-the-Water, Stow is one of the best known of the small Cotswold towns. It is the highest point in the Cotswolds, standing on top of an 800 feet hill, and is situated at the meeting place of seven roads, including the Roman Fosse Way, which runs from Exeter to Lincoln in an almost straight line.

Iron Age people were the first to settle in Stow, but there is also evidence of earlier settlements in this part of the Cotswolds, as Stone Age and Bronze Age burial mounds are common throughout the area. The first name of the town was Stow St. Edward or Edwardstow after the town's patron saint Edward, probably Edward the Martyr.

Stow-on-the-Wold in the 21st century looks quite a lot like Stow-on-the-Wold in the 17th century. It is the hub and service town for a rural community, but has maintained its traditional character. Stow is largely a town of small independent businesses, rather than the large chains that make many towns in England look the same.

It is this traditional character, and therefore individuality, combined with the beautiful honey-coloured Cotswold stone buildings, that make Stow so popular with tourists looking for ‘picture-postcard’ England. The town’s tourist trade makes it possible for Stow to support many more good hotels, B&B’s, pubs and restaurants than most other towns with a population of around 2,000.

Stow has been famous for many years as a centre for the antiques trade and in the last few years clusters of art galleries and fashionable clothing shops have added further character to the town centre.

The Cotswolds

The Cotswolds are a range of hills in west-central England, sometimes called the "Heart of England". The name Cotswold means "sheep enclosure in rolling hillsides".

The Cotswolds are characterised by attractive small towns and villages, built of the underlying Cotswold stone (a yellow oolitic limestone). In the Middle Ages the wool trade made the Cotswolds prosperous and some of this money was put into the building of churches, leaving the area with a number of large handsome Cotswold stone "wool churches". The area remains affluent, which has encouraged the establishment of many high quality pubs, restaurants and antique shops.

Cotswold towns include Bourton-on-the-Water, Broadway, Burford, Chipping Norton, Cirencester, Moreton-in-Marsh, Northleach, Stow-on-the-Wold, Stroud and Winchcombe. The town of Chipping Campden is notable for being the home of the Arts and Crafts movement, founded by William Morris at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries. William Morris lived occasionally in Broadway Tower, a folly, now part of a country park. Chipping Campden is also known for the annual Cotswold Olimpick Games, a celebration of sports and games dating back to the early 17th century. Famous places close to the Cotswolds include Stratford-upon-Avon, the birthplace of William Shakespeare, Cheltenham, home to the famous horse racing festival, and the beautiful university city of Oxford.

The Cotswolds is the largest Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in England and Wales. Whilst the beauty of the Cotswold AONB is intertwined with the villages that seem to almost grow out of the landscape, the Cotswolds were primarily designated as an AONB for the rare limestone grassland habitats as well as the old growth beech woodlands that typify the area. These habitat areas are also the last refuge for many other flora and fauna with some so endangered they are protected under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981. The uniqueness and value of the Cotswolds is engendered in the fact that five European Special Areas of Conservation, three National Nature Reserves and over 80 Sites of Special Scientific Interest are contained within the Cotswold AONB.

Information on things to do in the Cotswolds is provided in the Activities tab and places to eat and drink are listed in the Food & drink tab.

Food & Drink

There are a number of well-regarded pubs and restaurants located a pleasant walk or a short drive away from the property, including:

The Hollow Bottom, Guiting Power (www.hollowbottom.com): This 17th Century pub is nestled deep in the 'hollow' of Guiting Power, a picturesque village right in the heart of the Cotswolds. This quaint old stone pub has a wide mix of customers - young and old, unknown and famous, the latter including jockeys, trainers and racing commentators. The relaxed and informal beamed bar has plenty of atmosphere, lots of racing memorabilia and a winter log fire. The public bar is also equipped with newspapers, darts, board games and always has racing on the TV. There are tables out the front of the pub for those sunny days and a lovely beer garden out the back, complete with children's play area. There is a separate dining room from the bar or you can eat in the bar itself.

The Farmers Arms, Guiting Power: The Farmers Arms, Guiting Power: A great "locals" village pub, owned by the neighbourhood Donnington Brewery, where the local shepherds and craftsmen mingle with walkers and tourists. It has a traditional long bar, with a welcoming log fire in winter months, and a large garden. The pub offers great beer and traditional home-cooked food. It also has a skittle alley doubling as a function room when necessary.

The Black Horse Inn, Naunton (www.theblackhorsenaunton.co.uk): At the heart of the picturesque Cotswold village of Naunton, The Black Horse Inn has been serving excellent beers and delicious home cooked food to both locals and visitors for more than one hundred years and retains much of its original charm and character. The bar still has its original flagstone floors and you can be assured of a welcoming fire during the winter - you are also likely to be welcomed by one of the friendly pub dogs!!

Bourton-on-the-Water

Bourton has a variety of places to eat and drink, including cafes, tea rooms, pubs and restaurants, with a range of prices to suit all budgets. The list below is a small sample of the options available:

The Chester House Hotel and The Croft Restaurant (www.chesterhousehotel.com): Breakfast, morning coffee, lunches and evening meals in a riverside restaurant. You can enjoy freshly prepared, local produce throughout the day and night, with seasonal specials added to the menu daily.

The Duke of Wellington (www.dukeofwellingtonbourton.co.uk): A local village inn aiming to provide fresh home cooked food with a friendly service. There is a light snacking menu, a full menu and a wonderful range of desserts and hot beverages. As well as daily home cooked specials, on Sundays you can enjoy a traditional carvery with all the trimmings from 12-6pm.

The Mousetrap Inn (www.mousetrap-inn.com): A traditionally run Cotswold stone Inn, with a history dating back to the building of the railways in the 18th Century. Serving home-made food, along with fantastic, locally brewed real ales.

The Village Restaurant & Tearooms (www.thevillagerestaurant.co.uk): Traditional, home cooked food in a friendly atmosphere, overlooking the river Windrush, in the heart of Bourton-on-the-Water.

Stow-on-the-Wold

Stow has numerous places to eat and drink, with a range of cuisines and prices to suit all tastes and budgets. The list below is a small sample of the range of options available:

The Queens Head Inn (http://donnington-brewery.com/pub_queenshead.php): The Queens Head is a traditional town pub, owned by the local Donnington brewery. Here locals mix with tourists who are unsurprisingly attracted into this lovely old pub. Good traditional pub food and ale, in a great atmosphere.

The Conservatory Restaurant at The Grapevine Hotel (www.thegrapevinehotel.com): Contemporary fine dining. Diners sit beneath the century old Black Hamburg grapevine, from which the hotel derives its name. The menu is a blend of modern British cooking, offering an extensive choice of dishes, to suit the most discerning tastes.

The Talbot (www.thetalbot.net): Laid back drinking, eating and coffees in a traditional meeting place for the town slap bang in the Square. Sofas, original paintings, rickety old tables and chairs, with staff who are under the threat of death if they are not friendly!

White Hart (www.whitehartstow.com): A 'boutique' style Inn, which has recently been beautifully refurbished throughout. The Inn boasts two cosy bars, lots of open fires and an atmospheric dining room. Hearty food is served during the day, with finer dining in the evening. All food is sourced locally and prepared on the premises.

The Bell (www.thebellatstow.com): The Bell at Stow is the perfect country pub. Behind the ivy-clad façade lies a charming, stylish interior with the warmest of welcomes. A favourite with the locals, The Bell is open all day every day offering everything from a pint of well-kept cask ale through to a delicious three-course supper. Friday evenings are legendary for the Champagne Happy Hour at 5pm - grab a seat if you can as the weekend gets off to the perfect start!

Stow has a Tesco and a Co-op for regular food purchases and, for special treats, there is a traditional butcher's shop and a number of delicatessens specialising in local produce, including:

Hamptons Fine Foods (www.hamptons-hampers.co.uk): Hamptons offer a wide range of quality foods to discerning customers. The shelves are packed with exclusive and delicious fine foods that one would not normally find in the mass outlets. A veritable Aladdin's cave. Hamptons specialise in gourmet hampers which can be collected from their shop or delivered direct.

North Cotswolds

There are many excellent places to eat and drink in the wider North Cotswolds area, with the major towns of Stow-on-the-Wold, Bourton-on-the-Water, Moreton-in-Marsh, Chipping Campden, Broadway, Burford and Chipping Norton containing a wide variety of tea shops, pubs and restaurants, catering for most tastes and budgets.

The list below focuses on the traditional Cotswold pubs located in the lovely villages throughout the North Cotswolds:

We recommend phoning in advance, to check opening times and availability of food, especially during the quieter months of the year. Many pubs accept children and dogs, but you should always check this in advance.

Activities

There are numerous tourist activities in and around the Cotswolds and the list below is a small sample to give you a flavour for the wide range of attractions and activities that are available. Further information is available from Tourist Information centres, which are located in the following North Cotswold towns:

Stow-on-the-Wold

Bourton-on-the-Water

Moreton-in-Marsh

Woodstock

Broadway

Chipping Campden

Burford

Chipping Norton

Historical buildings, stately homes and gardens

Batsford Arboretum & Wild Garden, Moreton-in-Marsh GL56 9AB (www.batsarb.co.uk): Set in 56 acres of natural beauty and once home to the famous Mitford family. Meandering paths wander through glades and alongside streams. A garden of peace and tranquillity for all seasons;

Berkeley Castle, Berkeley GL13 9BQ (www.berkeley-castle.com): England’s oldest inhabited castle. Over 24 generations of Berkeleys have transformed a savage Norman fortress into a stately home full of treasures. Learn about murder, mystery and plotting, then enjoy the grounds, adjacent Butterfly Farm and church;

Blenheim Palace, Woodstock OX20 1PX (www.blenheimpalace.com): A World Heritage site and the birthplace of Winston Churchill, Blenheim Palace is one of the finest private houses in England. It is surrounded by over 2,000 acres of spectacular Capability Brown parkland and award-winning formal gardens;

Broadway Tower Country Park, Broadway WR12 7LB (www.broadwaytower.co.uk): A unique Capability Brown Folly Tower open to visitors wanting to experience great English heritage in an inspiring location. Displays, roof viewing platform, shop and Red Deer Park are a must for Cotswold visits. Broadway Tower is one of England’s outstanding viewpoints and offers unrivalled views over a 62 mile radius and as many as 16 counties;

Broughton Castle, Banbury OX15 5EB (www.broughtoncastle.com): This historic 14th century moated castle, enlarged in the 16th century, has fine walled gardens with herbaceous borders, old roses and clipped box. Inside boasts splendid plaster ceilings, fireplaces and panelling. Described as "the most romantic house imaginable", Broughton Castle has won starring roles in many films, including The Madness of King George and Shakespeare in Love;

Chastleton House, near Moreton-in-Marsh GL56 0SU (www.nationaltrust.co.uk/chastleton): A rare gem of a Jacobean country house, Chastleton House was built between 1607 and 1612 by a prosperous wool merchant, as an impressive statement of wealth and power. Owned by the same increasingly impoverished family until 1991, the house remained essentially unchanged for nearly 400 years as the interiors and contents gradually succumbed to the ravages of time. With virtually no intrusion from the 21st century, this fascinating place exudes an informal and timeless atmosphere in a gloriously unspoilt setting.

Hailes Abbey, near Winchcombe GL54 5PB (www.english-heritage.org.uk/hailes): Set in the beautiful western fringe of the Cotswolds surrounded by wooded pasture, the Abbey was one of the main centres of pilgrimage due to a phial said to contain the blood of Christ. The museum displays fine examples of sculpture and decorated tiles;

Hidcote, Chipping Campden GL55 6LR (www.nationaltrust.org.uk/hidcote): Relax and unwind in one of the country's great gardens and experience for yourself the fulfilment of a quiet American's English fantasy. You'll never forget the exquisite garden rooms, each with its own unique character. Discover rare shrubs and trees, herbaceous borders and unusual plants from around the world. The garden changes in harmony with the seasons, from vibrant spring bulbs to autumn's spectacular Red Border. Nestled in the Cotswolds with sweeping views across the Vale of Evesham, a visit to Hidcote is inspirational at any time of year;

Painswick Rococo Garden, Painswick GL6 6TH (www.rococogarden.org.uk): The garden is situated in a hidden Cotswold valley. Its flamboyant design combines formality and informality and is a magical experience at any time of the year. Charming garden structures nestle next to informal plantings, herbaceous borders and a striking kitchen garden;

Rodmarton Manor, Cirencester GL7 6PF (www.rodmarton-manor.co.uk): Attractive Arts and Crafts House with original hand made furniture, painted pottery, wall hangings. A large garden of outdoor rooms with many parts including topiary, herbaceous borders and plenty of places to sit;

Snowshill Manor & Garden, Snowshill WR12 7JU (www.nationaltrust.org.uk/snowshillmanor): Explore the treasures collected by one man with an eye for the unusual. Be intrigued by the story of Charles Wade, be amazed by his huge and varied collection from around the world and relax in the peaceful hillside garden;

Sudeley Castle, Winchcombe GL54 5JD (www.sudeleycastle.co.uk): Once the property of King Ethelred the Unready, later home of Queen Katherine Parr and garrison headquarters of Prince Rupert during the Civil War. Romantic ruins, award-winning gardens and one thousand years of fascinating history are among the many reasons to visit;

Sulgrave Manor, near Banbury OX17 2SD (www.sulgravemanor.org.uk): The ancestral home of the Washingtons in Britain. A compact Manor House - a gentle stroll through three centuries of English history in the company of a friendly and informative guide. The largest UK collection of George Washington memorabilia, demonstrating the British contribution to the origins of the USA, with a separate exhibition on George's life and career in the US;

Upton House & Gardens, Near Banbury OX15 6HT (www.nationaltrust.org.uk/uptonhouse): Presented in its 1930s heyday, this handsome country mansion contains world-class art collections. Delve into the story of a millionaire’s life, hear stories, play games, relax and read magazines or journals. Wander through the beautiful gardens, with sweeping lawns, terraced borders and a kitchen garden which supplies the restaurant;

Westonbirt, The National Arboretum, Tetbury GL8 8QS (www.forestry.gov.uk/westonbirt): Spectacular all year round, the Forestry Commission’s National Arboretum contains one of Europe’s finest collections of trees and shrubs. 17 miles of paths to explore, it is a magical place to visit for the whole family. Famous for its beautiful displays of autumn colour, a popular place to visit in spring for the flowering rhododendrons and in the summer for the Festival of the Tree.

Wildlife

Birdland – Park & Gardens, Bourton-on-the-Water GL54 2BN (www.birdland.co.uk): A natural setting of woodland, river and gardens inhabited by over 500 birds; flamingos, pelicans, penguins and cranes in various water habitats. Over 50 aviaries of parrots, hornbills, toucans and many more. Discovery Zone (indoor education area) and Marshmouth Reserve (2.5 acre nature reserve). Take time to wander and relax in this tranquil environment. Plus Penguin Café, picnic areas, play area and gift shop. The only group of King Penguins in England;

Cotswold Falconry Centre, Moreton-in-Marsh GL56 9AB (www.cotswold-falconry.co.uk): Eagles, hawks, kites, owls, vultures and falcons are flown throughout the day giving you a chance to appreciate their speed, grace, agility and their close relationship with the falconer. You can enjoy these wonderful birds and think positively about their conservation;

Cotswold Farm Park, Guiting Power GL54 5UG (www.cotswoldfarmpark.co.uk): As featured on BBC’s Countryfile, this is a rare farm treat for all the family, offering the chance to meet over 50 breeding flocks and herds of farm animals. Seasonal demonstrations, adventure playground, Touch Barn, Fun Barn, Maze Quest and Jumping Pillows. Gift shop and Cotswold Kitchen;

Cotswold Wildlife Park and Gardens, Burford OX18 4JW (www.cotswoldwildlifepark.co.uk): The Park is set in 160 acres of parkland and is an attraction for all members of the family. There are over 250 species of animals from Leaf-cutting ants to White rhinos; giraffes were a major addition in 2010. You can walk with lemurs in the Madagascar enclosure, ride on the train and be inspired by the beautiful landscaping and seasonal displays throughout the Park;

Longleat Safari Park, Warminster BA12 7NW (www.longleat.co.uk): As featured on BBC’s Animal Park, Longleat is a “must do” for visitors of all ages! From Safari Park to Safari Boats, Hedge Maze to Adventure Castle and so much more.

Museums

Corinium Museum, Cirencester GL7 2BX (http://coriniummuseum.org/): Discover the ‘Treasures of the Cotswolds’ at the award-winning Corinium Museum. Trace the story of the Cotswolds from pre-history to the 19th century. See what life was like in Corinium, Roman Britain’s second largest town. Come face to face with Anglo-Saxons. Something for all the family. Also home to Cirencester Visitor Information Centre;

Roman Baths, Bath BA1 1LZ (www.romanbaths.co.uk): Around Britain’s only hot springs, the Romans built the finest religious spa in Northern Europe. This great temple and bathing complex still flows with natural hot water and its extensive remains lie beneath the centre of Bath. Brand new displays, costumed characters and free audioguides in 8 languages.

Other attractions

Cheltenham Racecourse, Cheltenham GL50 4SH (www.cheltenham.co.uk): One of Europe’s top racecourses, hosting the three day Open Meeting and the four day Festival in March. The Centaur is the region’s largest facility for exhibitions, conferences and concerts;

Clearwell Caves, near Coleford GL16 8JR (www.clearwellcaves.com): An incredible natural cave system tunnelled into by miners for more than 4,000 years in their search for iron ore and ochre pigments. Nine impressive caverns with mining equipment and displays throughout. ‘A great underground experience’ for all the family;

Cotswold Water Park, South Cerney GL7 5TL (www.waterpark.org): Explore this watery landscape, with loads of lakes, offering watersports, fishing, birdwatching and much, much more. Call in to the Gateway Information Centre to discover where to go and what to do;

Daylesford Organic Farm, near Kingham GL56 0YG (www.daylesfordorganic.com): The Harrods of farm shops! One of the most sustainable farms in the UK, located in 2,000 acres of beautiful countryside of the English Cotswolds, owned by Sir Anthony and Lady Bamford. Award-winning food in the farm shop and café and a host of things to see and do: farm tours and farm walks, cookery school and organic farm school, and relaxing treatments at the Hay Barn Spa;

Gloucester Antiques Centre, Gloucester GL1 5SF (www.gacl.co.uk): Gloucester Antiques Centre is one of the largest and longest established antiques centres in the UK. Over 100 specialist antiques dealers offering the widest range of antiques and collectables in the West of England. Enjoy light lunches, homemade cakes and refreshments in the café;

Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway, Toddington GL54 5DT (www.gwsr.com): The ‘Friendly Line in the Cotswolds’ offers a scenic 20 mile round trip between Toddington and Cheltenham Racecourse, including the exciting Greet Tunnel, one of the longest on a preserved railway. Pop along and see the driver in his cab. Break your journey at picturesque Winchcombe station. Special events all year;

Oxford: Renowned for its history and heritage, exquisite architecture and ancient University, Oxford sits in the heart of England, just outside the Cotswolds;

The Model Village, Bourton-on-the-Water GL54 2AF (www.theoldnewinn.co.uk/village.htm): A model of the actual village built of Cotswold stone to 1/9 scale in 1937. The River Windrush flows under Bourton’s famous bridges. The beeches, cherries and chestnuts are all in miniature. Music in the churches and of course, the model of the model;

Stratford-upon-Avon: The birthplace of William Shakespeare and home to the Royal Shakespeare Company. Set in the beautiful rural Warwickshire countryside, on the banks of the river Avon, Stratford is one of the most important tourist destinations in the UK.

Activities

Walking: Most people who visit the Cotswolds do some walking, even if it is just a stroll to the village pub! The area contains some of England’s most beautiful countryside and there are over 3,000 miles of public footpaths, to enable visitors to fully discover this rich landscape. Long distance trails in, or passing through, the Cotswolds include:

The Cotswold Way;

The Heart of England Way;

The Oxfordshire Way;

The Gloucestershire Way;

The Wardens' Way and Windrush Way;

The Macmillan Way;

The Monarchs Way;

The D'arcy Dalton Way;

The Wysis Way.

Further information and maps can be obtained from the local tourist information centres.

Cycling: The Cotswolds is criss-crossed with quiet country roads and lanes, as well as more challenging mountain biking terrain, making it perfect for all types of cycling. There are a number of places to hire bikes from, including:

Spas

Cotswold House Hotel & Spa, Chipping Campden (www.cotswoldhouse.com): Set in a converted coach house in the gardens, the Cotswold House Spa features treatment rooms, a superb hydrotherapy pool and Turkish hammam room;

Wyck Hill House Hotel & Spa, Stow-on-the-Wold (www.wyckhillhousehotel.co.uk): Six therapy rooms, including one dual room. There is also a 12-seater steam room and sauna and relaxation area;

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The front is the standard AMEN front that has AMEN left to right and I DO BELIEVE! up and down in the form of a cross. The back has the Apostles’ Creed in the shape of the cross.
This unisex shirt is heather cardinal red with white ink. The Amen cross is on the front, and the Creed is on the back.


Kare was predeceased by his first wife Nellie, he is survived by his wife Helene, his children Leena and Donna, grandchildren, great grandchildren, his sister Ingeborg, his great niece Bertine, numerous nieces and nephews in Norway and his friends Jeff and Harry.
He was born in Norway; and came to Canada in 1953. Kare really enjoyed his work at Sproat Lake Division, as well as gardening and smoking fish.
Many thanks to Dr. Lund, the ER and ICU staff for their excellent care.
A Celebration of Life will be held January 25, 2019 at 1pm – Church of Latter-Day Saints, 4815 Compton Road, Port Alberni.


“ Russia is winning ” the Ukraine crisis, or so goes the conventional account. This claim has elements of truth to it—narrowly conceived, Russia has gained much in the last year. President Putin has boldly returned control of the Crimean peninsula to Russia. He has crippled Ukraine through a new “hybrid warfare” that the West seems unable to counter. Moscow has demonstrated its resolve and resilience in the face of Western sanctions, even as President Putin has watched his domestic approval ratings skyrocket. And the Kremlin has reminded the world that Russia is determined to control its neighborhood, and that it remains a great power worthy of respect.

But Putin’s short-term victories should not blind Western policymakers to the significant costs that Russia has racked up. In particular, through its annexation of Crimea and subsequent policies, Moscow has ensured that Ukraine will no longer act as a buffer state and will instead gravitate to the West for the foreseeable future. What’s more, Russia’s security situation has continued to deteriorate amidst a series of missteps and predictable backlashes from the international community. And worst of all, the Kremlin cannot reverse its error and must instead rely on additional, costly policies in order to mitigate the fallout from its initial mistake.

From the end of the Cold War until early 2014, Ukraine acted as the quintessential buffer state. Both Russia and the West wanted to integrate the country into their respective spheres of influence, but Kiev remained independent and largely neutral.

Ukraine’s demographic make-up offers at least a partial explanation. Samuel Huntington dubbed Ukraine a “cleft country” based on its relatively even divide between pro-Western voters in the west and pro-Russian voters in the east. Indeed, this east-west divide had characterized every presidential election since the country’s independence, and it explained why control of Kiev oscillated back and forth between pro-Russian and pro-Western leaders. Thus, in 1999 and 2004, the western oblasts took Kiev, while the eastern oblasts won in 1991, 1994, and 2010.

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Most importantly, the swing of the electoral pendulum was bounded. So long as Ukraine remained a democracy, there was never any serious risk that the country would become permanently ensconced in either the Western orbit or the Russian constellation. To do so would risk alienating half the country. Thus, by default, Ukraine adopted a self-correcting policy of nonalignment. Kiev would sometimes lean toward the West, and other times toward Russia, but there was always an electoral check on permanent alignment with either geopolitical pole.

To be sure, this situation was not ideal from Moscow’s perspective. Russia had to contend with occasional turbulence in its relationship with Ukraine, as well as Kiev’s sporadic moves toward the West. The Kremlin would have much preferred the strategically superior alternative of a firmly eastern-oriented Ukraine, a throwback to the days of the Warsaw Pact. But the situation was tolerable, not least because Russia obtained some measure of strategic depth against significant encroachment by NATO and the West.

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Then came the Maidan revolution. Moscow saw a repeat of the 2004 Orange Revolution , where pro-Russian Yanukovych had “won” a rigged presidential election, only to have the results annulled by the Ukrainian Supreme Court acting under popular pressure. In the second round of balloting, Yanukovych had gone on to lose to pro-Western candidate Viktor Yushchenko by a substantial margin, sealing Russia’s “defeat.” (Never mind that the pendulum swung back in 2010, when President Yushchenko and other pro-Western candidates lost the presidential election to a revitalized Yanukovych.) Wanting to avoid Part II of the Orange Revolution, the Kremlin saw an opportunity to reclaim the Crimean peninsula in late February 2014.

This was a mistake. By annexing Crimea, President Putin thrust what remained of Ukraine into the arms of the West for the foreseeable future. First, the annexation disrupted the country’s delicate electoral balance. Before, control of Kiev vacillated back and forth between roughly even blocs of pro-Western and pro-Russian voters. But by taking Crimea, Russia annexed not only the peninsula, but also more than a million largely pro-Russian eligible voters.

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In the past, these voters had helped maintain the electoral equilibrium underlying the country’s policy of nonalignment. In 2010, for example, Yanukovych edged out the pro-Western Yulia Tymoshenko by 887,909 votes. Crimea overwhelmingly supported Yanukovych, casting 639,529 more votes for him than his rival. Without those votes, Yanukovych’s margin of victory would have been vanishingly narrow—only 92,119 votes in a country of almost 45 million . And if one had subtracted out the votes from the now separatist-controlled Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts as well, then Tymoshenko would have won with 3,299,982 more votes than her rival—almost four times her opponent’s actual margin of victory in 2010.

Ukrainian nationalism has waxed and waned over the years, but nothing unites a group of individuals as much as a perceived external threat. Moscow’s moves guaranteed that Ukraine would unite around its independent national identity and identify less and less with its imperious eastern neighbor. Polls bear witness to this increasingly virulent anti-Russian nationalism. In 2011, about 80 percent of Ukrainians had a favorable opinion of Russia, but by last summer, that statistic had plunged to a mere 35 percent. As the impasse continues, Ukrainians continue to downgrade their views of Russia, not only in the western part of the country—never that friendly to Moscow to begin with—but also in the east—the normally dependable, pro-Russian stronghold.

Ukrainian electoral politics will be driven for a long time to come by the combination of the loss of a significant pro-Russian voter bloc and this new nationalism. Kiev has moved with unprecedented speed to solidify an enduring relationship with the European Union and NATO. Prior to 2014, the Kremlin would have seen this burgeoning relationship as a strategic nightmare because of its calamitous consequences for Russia’s security dilemma. On December 23, 2014, the Ukrainian Parliament officially repealed the country’s nonaligned status, citing a litany of complaints against its overbearing eastern neighbor.

A Bear Trap of Its Own Making

Since the Crimean annexation, Russia has compounded its strategy quandary. First, it has accentuated the electoral problem by underwriting the Luhansk and Donetsk separatists. Like Moscow’s seizure of Crimea, the separatist movement saps the pro-Russian electorate of critical votes and helps guarantee a pro-Western leader in Kiev.

Second, Moscow has also kneecapped itself through a series of policies that play well on the domestic news, but seem shortsighted from a tactical perspective. For example, in response to Western sanctions, the Kremlin effectively decided to sanction itself by banning food imports from the West. This policy has aggravated Russia’s economic predicament by stoking inflation, an outcome that should have surprised no one but the descendent of a Soviet central planner.

Likewise, Russia’s economic warfare may be misfiring as well. By threatening to cut off natural gas and continuing to fuel Ukraine’s separatist conflict, Russia has sent Ukraine’s economy into free fall. Predictably, though, this state of affairs has only strengthened Ukraine’s dependence on the West. Now, President Petro Poroshenko is on the cusp of receiving a $17.5-billion loan from the IMF, which would replace a $17-billion loan announced last April. Once again, Russia’s moves are driving Ukraine into the arms of Washington and its allies.

These tactical errors have been worsened by the entirely foreseeable economic, security and diplomatic consequences of Russia’s actions.

Much has already been said about Putin’s string of economic miscalculations, but it is worth stressing the extent of the damage exacted by Western sanctions acting in conjunction with a drop in oil prices and Russia’s deeper structural problems. As Dmitri Trenin notes :

Russia’s GDP is likely to contract by 5 to 7 percent, inflation may rise to 15 to 20 percent, unemployment climb to 7 percent, and the capital flight reach $130 billion on top of $150 billion in 2014. Since last summer, the ruble has already lost nearly half its value against the major currencies.

And of course, the Russian fisc is being further strained by the enormous cost of financing the absorption and reconstruction of the Crimean “ money pit .” As a result, Trenin predicts, “[t]his year promises to be the most difficult for Russia since the beginning of the new century.”


The original monastery was built in 1491, but over the centuries the buildings have changed a lot.
During centuries hermit monks lived in complete isolation behind their thick walls. But in the late 1700’s, during French revolution, the monks where chased away by the Frenchies and their possessions where destroyed or sold. The French army used the buildings as barracks and an ammo depot. Due to an explosion of ammunition a large part of the monastery was destroyed. The army left the monastery to decay. Early 1800 the church was demolished. Recent archaeological excavations show the foundations of what used to be the church.
After a century of decay, in the 1920ies, an other religious order of monks bought the ruins the old monastery. And after a few years of renovation, the monastery was used as a school and study house (including a library) for new monks. The monastery was finally abandoned in 2004 and has been empty ever since. Future plans speak of adding buildings, but this will be difficult because the monastery and it’s surroundings are protected heritage.


TRIALE is a research institute for experimental design, cultural techniques and knowledge transfer.
The institute is based in an abandoned agricultural complex in an isolated region of the Austrian alps.
Triale offers a series of workshops and lectures to become a plug-in institute for Universities and students of various fields.


SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Joe Thornton’s contributions to the San Jose Sharks in last year’s playoff series against Vegas were limited to pregame warmups and leadership.
After being hampered by knee injuries the past two postseasons, Thornton is healthy to start the playoffs this year for the first time since leading the Sharks on a run to the Stanley Cup Final in 2016. San Jose opens the first round Wednesday night against the Golden Knights in a rematch of a second-round series won by Vegas in six games last year.
Thornton missed the first two games of the 2017 playoffs before returning to play the final four of a first-round loss despite having a torn ACL in his left knee. He then missed the entire postseason with a torn ACL in his right knee last year.
The 39-year-old Thornton enters the postseason playing his best hockey of the season, with his 33 points since Jan. 7 ranking third on the team in that span.
Thornton’s play has given the Sharks three top centers, along with Logan Couture and Tomas Hertl, after being thin down the middle last year. While the top two lines get most of the attention from the opposition, Thornton has created consistent offense with wingers Kevin Labanc and Marcus Sorensen.
A healthy Thornton isn’t going to be the only difference when these teams meet in the playoffs for a second straight year. The Sharks also added star defenseman Erik Karlsson in a trade before the season and another skilled forward at the trade deadline in Gustav Nyquist.
The Golden Knights added an entirely new second line that is talented enough to be the top group on many teams. Vegas signed Paul Stastny as a free agent in July, acquired Max Pacioretty in a deal with Montreal in September and then got the big piece that sparked the season at the trade deadline with a deal for Mark Stone.
KARLSSON’S HEALTH: Karlsson missed 17 games with his second groin injury of the season before returning with some rust for the regular-season finale. San Jose hopes he can shake that rust quickly and get the team back to the form it had in December and January before the first injury happened and the Sharks were playing as well as anyone. Coach Peter DeBoer called Karlsson a critical piece who helps on both ends of the ice.
IN BLOOM: Perhaps the biggest difference in last year’s series was the play of Vegas goalie Marc-Andre Fleury, who had two shutouts and a .935 save percentage in the series. Fleury missed nearly three weeks late this season with a lower-body injury and allowed eight goals in two losses after returning. But he has shown the ability to carry a team in the playoffs in the past.
PLAYOFF JONES: Sharks goalie Martin Jones heads into the postseason with the lowest save percentage of any starting goalie in the playoffs. But ever since arriving in San Jose before the 2015-16 season, Jones has been better in the playoffs than the regular season. His .926 career save percentage in the playoffs ranks sixth best in NHL history among goalies with at least 40 starts. He has allowed two or fewer goals in nearly two-thirds of his postseason starts.
FOURTH-LINE GRINDERS: Both teams have plenty of skill up front but the Golden Knights can bring an element of physicality with the fourth line featuring Ryan Reaves and Williams Carrier. Reaves led the league with 305 hits, while Carrier ranked fourth with 277. The Sharks will answer with enforcer Micheal Haley on the fourth line to start the series but could switch to Joonas Donskoi later. Donskoi, who was on the top line last postseason, has no goals in his last 34 games.


For 2018 vehicle models, only 15 vehicles across every car company received the IIHS Top Safety Pick + rating. More 2018 vehicles received the recognition of the Top Safety Pick rating. However, only the best of the best models received the Top Safety Pick + designation. Therefore, Toyota is proud to announce that the 2018 Toyota Camry was one of those chosen few. Out of the 15 cars selected, the 2018 Camry was also only 1 of 3 in the midsize car category.
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Officers who followed a car zig-zagging down a Des Moines street before it crashed were surprised to find a 10-year-old boy at the wheel with his 7-year-old brother riding shotgun.
A 911 caller alerted police to a reckless driver a little before 8:30 a.m. Monday. Officers who spotted the car turned on their flashing lights while following it, but the curb-to-curb excursion didn’t end until the minor crash. Police say neither of the boys was hurt.
Sgt. Paul Parizek says the boys apparently were just out on a joy ride, and were heading nowhere in particular.


In her early work, Duckworth and colleagues devised empirical measures of grit and self-control in both children and adults and established their predictive validity for a number of dimensions of success. They found that these traits predict objectively measured success outcomes, even when controlling for cognitive ability. For example, in prospective longitudinal studies, grit predicts final ranking at the Scripps National Spelling Bee, persistence at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, and graduation from Chicago public high schools over and beyond standardized achievement test scores; likewise, self-control predicts report card grades and improvements in report card grades over time better than measured intelligence.
More recently, in pioneering research showing that children can learn and practice strategies for internalizing self-control, Duckworth has turned intuitions about self-regulation into scientifically informed, highly practical approaches to teaching and learning. Currently working to develop interventions that foster self-control in children and carry out her research in real-world situations, Duckworth is providing an alternative to the focus on cognitive skills now dominant in American education practice and contributing significantly to a reevaluation of education policies in the United States.
Angela Duckworth received an A.B. (1992) from Harvard College, an M.Sc. (1996) from the University of Oxford, and a Ph.D. (2006) from the University of Pennsylvania. She taught math and science at the high school level before joining the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania in 2007, where she is an associate professor in the Department of Psychology. Her articles have appeared in such publications as PNAS, the Journal of Educational Psychology, Psychological Science, and the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
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Attorney; Assistant Professor at University of New Hampshire; Poet; Editor, Best American Experimental Writing; Editor, Metamodern Studies.
Poets Amaranth Borsuk and Andy Fitch recently released a fantastic collaborative book entitled As We Know. Published by Subito Press and distributed by Small Press Distribution, As We Know is a masterpiece of cross-genre exploration by two artists at the top of their game -- and already well-known for challenging generic boundaries. A two-page excerpt from As We Know also found its way into the inaugural edition of Best American Experimental Writing, where its striking use of the page (its backdrop is a single page from a day planner) and erasure techniques caused it to stand out even among the varied and often visually dramatic experiments of that publication.
Recently I had a chance to chat with the authors about the project and its associated reading tour, so I've included below two videos of the work in performance, an artist's statement released with the book, and bios for both artists. I can't recommend As We Know enough to anyone interested in writing across genres, or sufficiently praise these two literary artists for the courageously innovative work they do on that score.
One note regarding the videos: I'd recommend watching each one twice, once with subtitles off and once with them on (you can turn subtitles on using the "cc" button at the bottom of the YouTube player). Getting both experiences in quick succession only enhances what's already an uncommonly striking visual and aural performance.
As We Know attempts to intervene into the gendered history of editorial intervention as it has played out in the famous cases of figures such as Dorothy Wordsworth and Emily Dickinson.
Rather than eliding tensions around ownership and authorship implicit in much collaborative work, this book foregrounds such tensions by engaging in erasure poetics, which by nature involves the active silencing of an established or canonical text. Yet while erasure often pits a 'subversive' contemporary author against his/her well-known predecessor, Borsuk and Fitch have chosen to reposition erasure at the origins of (rather than in response to) a published work. Here, Borsuk has taken Fitch's private summer diary and reshaped 60 passages (formatted as daily agenda entries) into a poetic confessional that inserts her own voice into the narrative. Struck-through and whited-out text play with and against one another on the page, sometimes appearing to represent a single voice and at other times competing voices. This struggle plays out through a surreal travelogue that progresses from New York, to the speaker's unspecified childhood 'home,' to Berlin.
Embracing Roland Barthes' call for a 'corrected banality,' the resulting manuscript presents the most unmediated-seeming idiom -- the diurnal, journalistic record -- as itself the consequence of both methodical and whimsical extraction. Nonfiction subjectivity emerges as the product of, not just the source for, erasure poetics. As in Barthes' own elided memoirs, the resulting work calls into question exactly who we are and what we know.
Amaranth Borsuk is the author of Handiwork (Slope Editions, 2012), and, with Brad Bouse, Between Page and Screen (Siglio Press, 2012). Abra, a collaboration with Kate Durbin forthcoming from 1913 Press, recently received an NEA-sponsored Expanded Artists' Books grant from the Center for Book and Paper Arts at Columbia College Chicago and will be issued in 2014 as an artist's book and iPad app created by Ian Hatcher. Amaranth teaches in the MFA in Creative Writing and Poetics at The University of Washington, Bothell.
Andy Fitch is most recently the author of Sixty Morning Walks and Sixty Morning Talks, both published by Ugly Duckling Presse. With Cristiana Baik, he is currently assembling the Letter Machine Book of Interviews. He also has a collaborative book forthcoming from 1913 Press. He edits Essay Press and teaches in the University of Wyoming's MFA program.


Mara Wilson Is Not on Board for 'Mrs. Doubtfire' Sequel but What About the Rest of the Cast?
By Aly Semigran
They're his goddamn kids, too, but it seems like the youngest of the Hillard kids won't be taking part in the recently-announced Mrs. Doubtfire sequel. The always-delightful and candid Mara Wilson, who played precocious youngster Natalie in the hit 1993 comedy, responded to the news on Twitter by letting fans know she has no interested in appearing in the follow-up, nor has she been asked.
"For the record, no, I do not have anything to do with the Mrs. Doubtfire sequel, nor will I," Wilson wrote. She later added, "Sequels generally suck unless they were planned as part of a trilogy or series. I think Doubtfire ended where it needed to end." Hard to argue with her there, no matter how you feel about this sequel.
The 26-year-old former child actress, who has given up acting and has since become a writer and playwright, tweeted "I'm glad I had the chance to be in it, and I'm proud of what we did, but I don't see how we could do it again." She later noted, "There are many, many reasons I don't want to be in Mrs. Doubtfire 2. But they haven't even asked me (yet), so no need to worry." Wilson later elaborated, "They haven't asked me to be in it, and I think it would be weird if they did! I don't act much and am not a cute little kid anymore."
But it seems like the most fervent Mrs. Doubtfire sequel supporters won't let up on Wilson. When one follower asked her "Why would you turn down a multi million dollar payday?" Wilson responded with, "A) It wouldn't be that much, 2) I have some standards."
So there you have it, you definitely won't see little Natty Hillard all grown up for the Mrs. Doubtfire sequel, at least not played by the person who originated the role.
But what about the rest of the cast? What's the likelihood they'll be asked and/or return? What's amoebic dysentery?
Images: Twitter; Getty Images


Putin, Obama agree: Everyone into the briar patch!

Since reading 1984 as an adolescent, I’ve remained perpetually amazed at George Orwell’s prescience. The Edward Snowden/Glenn Greenwald surveillance state strip-tease has recently focused attention on one aspect of that predictive acumen, but “we have always been at war with Eastasia” is returning to the fore due to the … “situation” … with Ukraine, Crimea and Russia

The most recent development on that front as I write this column — quite possibly to be superseded by other news before press time — is the “suspension” of Russia from the G-8 Group. As conflicting opinions fill the air, I’d like to offer the simplest plausible explanation for what we’re seeing:

Oligarchs, the American ones at least as much as their Russian counterparts and probably more so, pine for the return of the Cold War.

Most of us regular people don’t, of course. We who are over 40 or so remember what it was like to live under the constant threat of nuclear annihilation should the standoff between two “superpowers” break loose in a big way.

But for the American oligarchy — better-known as the “military industrial complex” — which rose to dominate the US economy and political milieu in and immediately after World War II, there’s just not as much easy money or unquestioned power in being “the world’s sole remaining superpower.”

They need a big foil to keep their racket going. Penny-ante stuff like terrorism comes with lower profit margins. The big money is in nuclear weapons, expensive aircraft, that kind of thing — the stuff you use to fight foes with at least theoretical parity in military might. And let’s face it, “Iran as a nuclear threat” just doesn’t pass the laugh test as justification for those kinds of projects.

The American oligarchy needs a big enemy to justify the trillion dollars a year or so it rakes in domestically from American taxpayers (plus whatever it makes on foreign arms sales and so forth). An enemy with a large population, a real industrial base, a commanding position in its region. An enemy known, at least in the last century or so, to harbor expansionist ambitions and to represent a tough nut to crack in all-out war.

In a word, the American oligarchy needs Russia.

And what does Vladimir Putin need? Well, he needs an excuse to get back to being the Big Bad Bear. Like the US, Russia and its satellites, suzerainties and allies tend to solidify into a formidable, authoritarian monolith in the face of external threat, but that monolith commences fraying at the edges and falling apart should peace perchance break out. As with America’s oligarchy, Russia’s (in most cases the same faces as during the Soviet era, or their heirs) needs that external threat to keep the gravy train rolling.

The very best enemy ever, the Nazis, went inconveniently missing after oh, 1945 or so (Russia Today’s efforts grow some from scratch in Kiev notwithstanding). So on to the next best enemy: America.

It’s like the tale of B’rer Bear and B’rer Rabbit, only with two B’rer Bears, each begging the other not to throw him into the briar patch while secretly hoping that’s where they’ll both end up. Everybody wins! Well, at least both sets of oligarchs win. The rest of us, not so much.

Thomas L. Knapp, the Baltic Review Guest Author, is director and senior news analyst at the William Lloyd Garrison Center for Libertarian Advocacy Journalism (thegarrisoncenter.org). He lives and works in north central Florida.


Prior to UNF: Played two seasons at the University of South Florida (2003-04, 2004-05) ... posted an 11-6 singles record and a 4-5 doubles mark with the Bulls as a freshman, playing at the Nos. 5 and 6 singles positions and the No. 3 doubles spot ... posted victories over players from Kentucky, UCF, Miami and Clemson ... USF finished 11-9 overall in 2003-04 ... posted a 7-7 mark in singles as a sophomore playing at the bottom three positions and a 1-7 mark in doubles at the Nos. 2 and 3 positions.
Juniors: Graduated from Colegio Domingo Sarmiento, Buenos Aires in 2001 ... won bronze medal in Team Junior National Championship 1999 ... finished No. 2 junior doubles (1999) and No. 1 in junior singles (1999) in Argentina ... finalist at the Junior Argentina Open in 2001 ... has practiced with top professional players such as Tommy Haas, Serena Williams, Monica Seles, Guillermo Coria.
Personal: Born Feb. 28, 1984, in Buenos Aires, Argentina ... son of Mauricio Sigal and Patricia Brener ... has a younger brother, Julian, and a younger sister, Nicole ... majoring in management.


The Centre for the Development of Christian Ministry @ Trinity Theological College (TTC) which organises courses to equip Christians for lifelong learning, personal growth and ministry will be offering two evening courses from September to November 2016.
This is an historical survey of the Reformation. The course traces the circumstances that gave rise to the Reformation and the different religious, political and cultural forces that coalesced in birthing the Protestant church. It will examine the lives and legacies of some of the prominent reformers and the implications of Karl Barth's comment that "the church is always to be reformed" (Ecclesia semper reformanda est) for our present times.
Instructor: Rev. Dr. Andrew Peh is a faculty of Trinity Theological College and lectures in the area of mission and mission history. He is an alumni of the college (TTC) and Asbury Theological Seminary and his interests are in the history of Christianity in Asia and mission trends in the 21st century. He also serves in the Chinese Annual Conference of the Methodist Church in Singapore as a diaconal minister appointed to Charis Methodist Church.
Various ethical issues challenge Christians today: some as a result of the increased sophistication and pervasiveness of technology, others are dilemmas which arise because Christian values are at variance with the world’s. Since these issues are often contentious and divisive, Christians need to develop a theological framework so as to be able to be salt and light in society, with a posture of humility and grace articulating the Christian view. This course will give us the opportunity and to grow in this knowledge and develop these skills.
Instructor: Dr. Kwa Kiem Kiok teaches at East Asia School of Theology in the areas of Intercultural Studies as well as ethics. She has worked in both para-church organisations as well as her home church, Trinity Methodist Church. When she's not working, she enjoys listening to classical music and reading detective novels.
For more information, please visit www.ttc.edu.sg or contact Esther Lee at telephone +65 67613624 or Email cdcm@ttc.edu.sg. To register, click here.


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The Old Cause

September 16, 2014

Remembering the proponents of the Old Republic.

I have read a good deal of all that Murray Rothbard has written. Not everything. He has thousands of articles and essays and commentaries that have been published, so few can claim that they have read every word. But I have read the books, including the Libertarian Forum. I constantly go back for a refresher to his economic material, to verify some obscure position on political theory, or to gain new insight from his historical perspectives, especially on the Fed. When I want to spur some writing creativity, I will pick up his collection of articles The Irrepressible Rothbard and enjoy myself immensely.

But there is one book out them all that I have read three times, simply because it is ever-impactful for me. Every conservative, though they may not like “Mr. Libertarian” very much, ought to read his Betrayal of the American Right. This book, along with Justin Raimondo’s Reclaiming the American Right, speak of an American Right — the Old Right — that is distinct from the post World War II New Right. It is distinct, and it long ago died.

Today, the New Right, which might be called the Barry Goldwater right or perhaps National Review Conservatism, is juxtaposed to the actually leftist neo-conservatism of Irving Kristol and ole Norman Podhoretz. Thus we are told that to be a True Conservative is to reject the moderate-centrist (neocon) Republicans and hoist up the flag of Reagan, who, of course, was Goldwater reincarnate. False dichotomy: here we have the choice between the (50′s) New Right and the (70′s) neo-conservativism.

What about the Old Right?

What about the pre-Buckley Right that stood up to the foreign interventionism of Roosevelt and Truman?

Rothbard wrote the following of the Old Right:

If we know what the Old Right was against [namely, foreign interventionism], what were they for? In general terms, they were for a restoration of the liberty of the Old Republic, of a government strictly limited to the defense of the rights of private property. In the concrete, as in the case of any broad coalition, there were differences of opinion within this overall framework. But we can boil down those differences to this question: how much of existing government would you repeal? How far would you roll government back?

The minimum demand which almost all Old Rightists agreed on, which virtually defined the Old Right, was total abolition of the New Deal, the whole kit and kaboodle of the welfare state, the Wagner Act, the Social Security Act, going off gold in 1933, and all the rest. Beyond that, there were charming disagreements. Some would stop at repealing the New Deal. Others would press on, to abolition of Woodrow Wilson’s New Freedom, including the Federal Reserve System and especially that mighty instrument of tyranny, the income tax and the Internal Revenue Service.

Compare this to Bill Buckley, initiator of the New Right, who, during the height of Cold War central planning propaganda, opined that “we have to accept Big Government for the duration—for neither an offensive nor a defensive war can be waged . . . except through the instrument of a totalitarian bureaucracy within our shores.” And, as Rothbard wrote, “Buckley concluded that we must all support ‘the extensive and productive tax laws that are needed to support a vigorous anti-Communist foreign policy,’ as well as ‘large armies and air forces, atomic energy, central intelligence, war production boards and the attendant centralization of power in Washington—even with Truman at the reins of it all.’” Buckley, who was far better before his National Review years, spawned a flavor of rightism that was of a different flavor than its individualistic, even radical, predecessor. The Old Right was anti-communism, but the New Right was only against communism in foreign countries. If the Old bravely opposed what Garet Garret termed “a revolution within the form,” that is, a socialistic trend in the United States government, the New ignored it completely. (One thinks of Frank Chodorov, who, during the red-baiting years answered the question of how to get rid of communists who snuck into the American government. Contrary to the New Rightists who wanted to seek out and replace the communists, Chodorov replied: “Easy. Just abolish the jobs.” No government positions, no communists will fill them.)

What was the background of the Old Right? Briefly, it must be noted that there are several meanings of the word conservative. For instance, there is cultural conservatism in which traditional values and ethics are praised while the presence of the State and political theory is simply absent from the conversation. Or, there is political conservatism which may teach that what presently stands in society should be protected, by the strong arm and will of the State. Further, one might point to a distinction between historically developed laws (such as English common law) and the Kingdom which, in order to protect its power and prestige, ignores these laws. Thus leading to a distinction between institutions and laws.

This latter distinction is vital, and rarely considered. For instance, in his Politically Incorrect Guide to American History, the outstanding Tom Woods points out that the American secessionists in 1776 were “conservative.” But how could they be conservative if there existed Tories who were loyal to the throne in Britain? Were not the Tories conservative in wanting to maintain the political status quo? And Murray Rothbard, emphasizing their revolutionary political philosophy in his massive tome of early American history, calls them radicals. So what were they? Radicals or conservatives? The answer is both, and the solution is to employ the distinction between institution and common tradition. Whereas the British King sought to betray the property rights, via taxation and other means, of the colonists, the colonists objected that the King was breaching what had long been English law. The colonists, in this sense were conservative, especially when one considers the socialistic revolutionaries of France. But in another sense they were radicals, for they wanted complete and final separation from the throne. They did not seek to preserve the present arrangement. In short, the radical conservatives of the colonies thought that “whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends [securing rights], it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government.”

Now, to be clear, the context of the times in the United States during the 18th and 19th century caused the limited government folks, the radical decentralists, to refrain from referring to themselves as “conservatives.” For to be a conservative in their mind was to support the imperialistic British King, that bastion of tyranny. In their minds they were liberals –classical liberals, who sought to be free from the chains of improper government. The reader is undoubtedly aware of the fact that liberal was not always a euphemism for a socialist. It once meant something similar to its etymological root: to be liberated. That is, to be liberated from the oppressive State, not Marx’s exploitive capitalist.

But socialist theory is a historical reality and soon liberalism was taken over and abused, much like what happens to every word that is adopted by political movements. The Progressives during the early 20th century referred to themselves as liberals. All who opposed the Progressive revolution and sought to defend American individualism and capitalistic radicalism were smeared as “conservative.” Rothbard informs:

Before that, knowledgeable libertarians had hated the word [conservative], and with good reason; for weren’t the conservatives the ancient enemy, the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Tory and reactionary suppressors of individual liberty, the ancient champions of the Old Order of Throne-and-Altar against which the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century liberals had fought so valiantly? And so the older classical-liberals and individualists resisted the term bitterly: Ludwig von Mises, a classical liberal, scorned the term; …and when Frank Chodorov was called a “conservative” in the pages of National Review, he wrote an outraged letter declaring, “As for me, I will punch anyone who calls me a conservative in the nose. I am a radical.”

Before the Progressive revolution, before the word “liberal” was ruthlessly murdered, it was actually the liberal who

bitterly opposed the emergence of Big Government in twentieth-century America, a government allied with Big Business in a network of special privilege, a government dictating the personal drinking habits of the citizenry and repressing civil liberties, a government that had enlisted as a junior partner to British imperialism to push around nations across the globe. The individualists were opposed to this burgeoning of State monopoly, opposed to imperialism and militarism and foreign wars, opposed to the Western-imposed Versailles Treaty and League of Nations….

But as Franklin Roosevelt came to power, the Progressives and their supporters, applying “liberal” to themselves so as to attract the masses and posture themselves in an attractive light, dismissed the libertarians, the committed and dedicated capitalistic classical liberals, as conservatives and members of the right. The Progressive vision of a State-initiated New World became the “liberal” view and those who opposed it were smeared as reactionaries. Suddenly the radicals were placed in the odd category of conservative. Thus, it is important to know that this Old Right collection of anti-New Dealers and Non-interventionists were forced into the label as the conservative and liberal categories experienced a Grand Swap. Whereas in Europe conservative meant that one defended the Ancien Regime and liberal meant that he was a challenger to it, as were the American colonists, in 20th century America the labels were backwards.

The Old Right had a cause that has been long forgotten in this country: radical decentralization of politics and no foreign entanglements. The Old Right opposed a growing Washington in a consistent and philosophical way that is fundamentally unique compared to the nationalistic New Right. The Old Right was principled and dogmatic. The New Right was compromising and “pragmatic” (always a dangerous component of the power hungry politician). If the New Right emphasizes the importance of preserving the strength of the national government, especially against more local dissenters, it is the Old Right that praises dissension and nullification and constant challenges to the Central State. If the New Right desires nationalized power under the guise of unity and collective security, it is the Old Right that rejects nationalized power as a protection racket, a simple and deceitful excuse for political control.

As Tom Woods says in his introduction to Rothbard’s Betrayal:

Old Right members of Congress like Howard Buffett argued, to the cheers of Rothbard, that the cause of freedom in the world was to be advanced by the force of American example rather than by the force of arms, and that American interventionism would play into the hands of Soviet propaganda that portrayed the U.S. as a self-interested imperialist rather than a disinterested advocate for mankind.

What we laughingly call the “conservative movement” today has little incentive to remind people of the skeptics of interven- tionism to be found among conservative Republicans in the Truman years. In these pages Rothbard makes a compelling case that the Right’s embrace of global interventionism was not inevitable, but was instead the result of contingent factors: the deaths of key representatives of the Old Right at particularly inauspicious moments, the organizational skill of the opposition, and internal difficulties within Old Right institutions.

Under the beware-those-guys-over-there-ism philosophy of modern conservatism, we have forgotten that the most dangerous government is the one that presently sits over us. Despite the utopian claim that the federal government protects our freedom, the opposite is the case. Don’t fear the Soviet Union as did Buckley. And don’t fear Iran as do the mainstream conservatives.

If you are conservative, embrace the Old Right. Embrace the defenders of the Old Republic. Remember the Old Cause: fear domestic tyranny first and don’t trade liberty for security.

C.Jay Engel
Editor and creator of The Reformed Libertarian. Spends his day as an investment advisor and helping people with their financial strategies. Living in Northern California with his wife, he writes on everything from politics to theology and from culture to economic theory. You can send an email to reformedlibertarian@gmail.com


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Eduardo Paniagua (born 1952 in Madrid, Spain) is a Spanish architect and musician, specializing in medieval Spanish music.
Between 1966 and 1983, he was a member of the group Atrium Musicae de Madrid, led by his older brother Gregorio, playing wind instruments and percussion. More recently he has been a founding member of the groups Cálamus and Hoquetus which specialize in the music of Al-Andalus (Arabic Andalusia).
In 1994, he created the group Música Antigua to perform and record the Cantigas de Santa Maria. In the same year he also founded the group Ibn Báya Ensemble together with the oud player Omar Metioui, for the performance and recording of Andalusian music. Other regular collaborators include Moroccan singers Said Belcadi, Mohammed El-Arabi Serghini, and the Algerian oud player Salim Fergani.
Paniagua also founded and currently manages the record label Pneuma through which he has published a number of his own recordings. Some of the recordings are reissues of earlier Sony Hispánica recordings, or compilations from other Pneuma recordings.
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A brain stroke, also known by the term ‘brain attack’, strikes when there is a hindrance in the circulation of the blood to the brain. When the brain cells do not receive the required amount of oxygen because of decrease in the blood flow, they get damaged and eventually die. This leads to a brain stroke.
80% of the strokes that people suffer from are due to the blockage of a blood vessel in the brain or neck. This is called an Ischemic stroke. This type of ischemic stroke may result because of three conditions- thrombosis, embolism and stenosis. Bleeding in the brain may result in a stroke which is called the Hemorrhagic stroke.
numbness of body parts or one whole side of the body and trouble with eyesight and movement.
If you happen to suffer from these symptoms then an immediate consultation with an experienced neurologist is recommended.
It is essential that a patient who has suffered a stroke receives treatment within 3 hours of the initial symptoms. For diagnosis of the stroke several tests can be performed. A couple of tests among these are done to diagnose – physical examination, blood tests, CT scan, MRI scan, carotid ultrasound, cerebral angiogram and echocardiogram.
A stroke can have a drastic effect on a person’s physical and mental health. It may lead to mental depression which may affect a person’s overall lifestyle. Physically a stroke can result in paralysis, severe pain in body parts, trouble while controlling emotions and irregular bladder and bowel movements.
To avoid a brain stroke it is essential that you control your lifestyle to a certain extent. The best way to prevent is to lead an active and healthy life. Make sure that you do not indulge in illicit drugs or develop a habit of smoking. This can have a severe effect on your arteries and blood vessels. Have a balanced diet and exercise regularly. Sleep healthy and keep you weight in check. These simple tips will definitely help you to avoid a stroke.
As the two kinds of strokes are caused because of different reasons, their treatment too is different.
To treat an ischemic stroke an aspirin can be given and if it is an emergency then a Tissue Plasminogen Activator (TPA) injection can be given to the patient. A catheter can also be used to remove the clot, blocking the blood flow to the brain.
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First Rabbit vibe, still getting used to it!

I would say buy this on sale, if you must buy it. I got it for around $45, and feel it was worth it. However, I do not think I would feel the same if I had to pay full price for the toy. A fun little piece though, and I am glad I picked it up. If noise bothers you, do not even think about getting this.

Published:
December 16, 2013

Pros:

Nice to look at, nice combination of pleasure between the rabbit and the rotating balls, good size

Cons:

Noisy, The Rabbit might not fit your clit/opening as well as it did mine

This is great for just as a normal dildo with the added bonus of clit stimulation, providing you can get it to align with yours. I did not have much of an issue but it does feel like you need to be in the right position to enjoy this toy. It's apparently waterproof too, but I have yet to take it in the shower, this toy may be too hard to use while standing, personally! Overall, I like it and hope I can get used to the loudness of the motor.

This is made out of silicone. It's nice in texture, does not smell or taste strange -- or really at all.

In the middle of the shaft there are these rotating balls underneath the silicone skin, that can rotate in either direction or not at all depending on what you choose. The balls are concealed by a nice ribbed silicone texture. Silicone in general feels a bit slick/sticky after use/washing.

The bunny ears are soft and flexible like the bunny itself but you cannot move it to better accommodate your clit.

I was a little weary of the size of this thing, as I'm quite small at times, but with a little lubrication there were no issues. It takes 4 AAA batteries, which seems like a lot but this is pretty powerful toy, and I can sure see why now!

It's a decent size in length, really nice and average, and bit too wide in girth but once I am warmed up it seems fine. It is not an easy toy to store unless you have dedicated storage, I think. I will have to find something to put it in because it is quite large and a bright color so unless I stash it in a drawer or a box somewhere, it is fairly noticeable. Good for someone who has used average sized toys or has been with average sized men.

One of my main complaints is that the only vibrating part is the rabbit itself, and the rest of it does not vibrate. The main shaft does have these rotating balls underneath the silicone, which is really interesting feeling, but I was having trouble with how much noise the motor makes when the balls are spinning. It feels good, but the noise, even inside me, is really loud and distracting. Luckily you do not have to use this feature if you choose not to. I hope I can adjust to the noise of it, otherwise I will just avoid that feature if I would like to keep using it.

The controls are pretty confusing at first, and if you want to change a setting in the middle of playing your first couple times you'll need to either look at what you're pressing or guess and wildly press buttons till it starts doing what you want. However, this is coming from someone who has only owned one plain boring vibe with one setting... so, take that how you will.

The packaging was alright. It was in one of those impossible blister packs that you need scissors and razorblade to open and still manage to cut yourself on the hard plastic before getting your toy out. The instructions were easy enough to follow for battery insertion.

Overall, I think it's a good toy, and will spark a new interest in me for more exciting toys and more adventurous ones. This feels very complex compared to what I have been using all these years, but I think it will be nice for getting to know myself and my body in a more complex sexual manner.

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We all have unique strengths, interests and capabilities. Our personalities, passions and aspirations are as diverse as the way we look. Thankfully today we can personalize everything from pizza toppings to phone contracts. However, in many parts of the world education is lagging behind with a one-model-fits-all approach. Let’s take a closer look at why personalized learning is important from the very start.
Personalized learning enables the most important step in growth and development, self-awareness. I must first understand where I am at right now as a learner. What am I good at and what do I need to be better in? In doing so, I become aware of my individual learning strengths and weaknesses. Moreover, I can now identify the ways in which I learn best. Do I prefer sitting in silence and reading, to project work with peers, or a mixture of both? Following self-evaluation, I can decide where I want to go from here, which will be my learning goal. Then I can harness my strengths and improve my weaknesses to reach this goal.
Learning happens most organically when we like what we learn. Say for example, I’m super interested in all things space related. I’m passionate about space exploration and aspire to become an astronaut one day. This means I’m intrinsically motivated to learn more about this topic, without someone else making me do so. Personalized learning taps into the intrinsic motivation of individual learners. It’s crucial to encourage younger children in particular, to pick and learn about topics they like most. Furthermore, it is possible to integrate and teach core subjects such as mathematics, physical education or language under umbrella themes that kids find interesting. Through personalized learning we can nurture a passion for learning from a young age.
By learning what you like, the way you like, you will start to develop knowledge and skills necessary for everyday life. You become resourceful by independently searching for new information and asking for help from others when needed. More importantly, you will begin to appreciate and enjoy the level of work, practice and dedication that goes into learning. In other words personalized learning helps us to learn how to learn.
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Tropical Cyclone WIPHA-13 can have a low humanitarian impact based on the maximum sustained wind speed, exposed population and vulnerability.
Landslides from typhoon kill 29 islandersSat, 19 Oct 2013 16:34:00 +0200.
THE death toll from a typhoon that triggered massive landslides on a Japanese island has risen to 29, as islanders prepared for more severe weather.
Japan typhoon death toll rises to 29Sat, 19 Oct 2013 16:04:00 +0200.
The death toll from a typhoon that triggered massive landslides on a Japanese island rose to 29 on Saturday, as officials advised residents to take shelter in anticipation of more heavy rain.
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Two inferior, but interesting sequels (Damien-Omen II and The Final Conflict) followed in 1978 and 1981, along with a not-so-good fourth Omen in 1991.