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The Food Event 2014 is Los Angeles magazine’s ninth annual culinary extravaganza. The day features great chefs, culinary experts, sommeliers, plus unlimited food, wine, and spirits—all in one place. Attendees get to watch celebrity chefs in a demonstration kitchen and epicurean experts participate in panels in the Conversation Lounge. Restaurants are hand selected by the food editors of Los Angeles Magazine, and their James Beard award-winning dine editor. The Food Event is held in an incredible rural setting, Saddlerock Ranch in Malibu, home to Semler and Saddlerock wines. The ranch boasts acres and acres of natural beauty, vineyards, rolling hills, animals like llamas and zebras, and space to spread out and relax for a true escape from the city.
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Cats are notoriously well-known for their odd acts
At first, their owners appear confused and worried when they see the meow beasts posing like they are doing some weird rituals. Then, the hoo-mans get used to it and eventually fall in love with those quirky gestures. The owners cite romantically that those spooky behaviors are a shred of solid evidence that their furbabies are unique and irreplaceable.
Human beings might never catch the purry creatures’ brainwave frequencies. However, as long as they are our little angels, we are addicted to every single movement of them. We love all the facial expressions they show and embrace their dumbness and silliness as a precious part of our hearts. We are willing to let these furballs dominate our world and become the pawfect lords.
If you still wonder why we are so crazy when it comes to felines, we are excited to demonstrate a cute photo collection of “cats making funny faces” moments. Watch them, and then, you will understand!
#1 Sometimes You Find Great Things In Apple Trees Photographer Unknown Stunt Cat Unknown But A Definite Hunk
#3 Saturday Sleep In Zzzzzzz Zzzzzzz
#4 Dragon Cat
#5 Pancake Says Hi
#6 Caption This
#7 The Purr-Fect Wedding Photo!
#8 Shay Thanks For Bringing This One To My Attention. So Stinking Cute
#9 This is how you know yawns are really contagious
#10 This Is ‘Keys’. She Keeps Putting Her Paws In The Air And Nobody Knows Why
#12 This Is Biscuit
#13 I Think He Enjoyed His Kitten Soup
#14 She Had No Idea Why I Was Laughing At Her Soo Much!! The Piece Of Grass Stayed On Her Face For Almost Half An Hour Silly Baby
#15 Best Caption Wins
#16 Lola Would Like Some Attention
#18 Social distancing, hooman!
#19 Weighing Lana Before I Wormed Her, She’s Still Small Enough To Be Weighed In Kitchen Scales, Maybe I Should Have Used A Bigger Bowl, The Look On Her Face Is Priceless
#20 Her Name Is Maeve
#21 Not Sure What Disney Knows That I Don’t
#23 No Caption Needed
#24 Not Only Does One Of My Cats Make Weird Faces Rutabaga Also Sits Weird As Well
#25 Not sleepy, he’s fainting
#26 That Time I Startled Tupelo When He Was In The Box
#27 Velvet Being Cute On Her Egg Carton
#28 When You Tell Your Cat No More Cat Nip
#29 Mmmchickins Lol
#30 She Is Beauty. She Is Grace. She Is Bella Fluffy Face!
#31 He Does Not Want To Be Touched
#32 Jon Snow. He Knows Nothing
#33 What Cat Doesn’t Want A Piece Of Pizza?!?
#34 Pendalaton Wants To Know Who Is Ready For The Weekend???
#35 Hapten Is All Smiles After His Neuter Surgery
#36 Teeeefs Meezer Teefs
#38 Show Me Your Cats Licking Themselves, This Is My Daisy
#39 My Partner Caught This Picture Of Both Of Us Making A Funny Face. The Stink Gremlin Is Named Bailey. This Is His Stank Face, Much More Impressive Than Mine
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Attracting upwards of 20,000+ people in biotech, health care, venture capital and investment banking, the 38th annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference, in San Francisco, took place on January 13-16th, 2020, to pitch their companies, forge deals and discuss the future of the $3.5 trillion health sector.
I wanted to highlight a few companies in the Biotech Showcase pitch sessions which I found particularly interesting.
The first one is Anixa Biosciences, a CAR-T company, from San Jose, and led by a former venture capitalist, Dr. Amit Kumar. Anixa Biosciences has raised a total of $11.8M in funding over 6 rounds. Anixa Bio is bringing in a new program with the Cleveland Clinic, and that is a vaccine for triple negative and other types of breast cancer. It is funded by a $6 MM dollar Department of Defense (DOD) grant that will fund all the remaining pre-clinical work and two phase 1 trials. It is an academic/investigator-initiated trial. The IND is pending, and the company plans to file mid-year 2020. For this specific trial, Cleveland Clinic researchers have identified a protein called alpha-lactalbumin that is present in healthy breast tissue only when a woman is lactating and disappears when she stops nursing her child. Alpha-lactalbumin is never present on any other cell in the body. However, it does show up in many types of breast cancer, including an aggressive and deadly form of the disease known as Triple Negative Breast Cancer (TNBC).
The second one is AgeX Therapeutics from Alameda, CA, which focuses on reversing the natural cellular aging processes. As a subsidiary of BioTime, AgeX has successfully completed a $10 MM raise. In preclinical research, their proprietary platform is called induced Tissue Regeneration (iTR™), which leverages assets in pluripotency and bioinformatics, performing research in cellular immortality and regenerative biology comparing cells in the first stages of life with those in old age.
The premise behind iTR™ is that aging, and in turn diseases of old age, are due to two characteristics that are present in the cells in our body when it is first forming but that are lost with time. These two characteristics are:
- Replicative immortality of cells
- Regenerative capacity of cells
Another interesting company I met with is Navenga Therapeutics, initially out of a UCSD, and currently based in J Labs San Diego. Navenga Tx have isolated a mutation in a human’s genome where they feel no pain whatsoever. They have imitated this process by using a new gene therapy to target chronic pain, and more importantly, to tackle the opioid epidemic. Navenga’s team is led by a vibrant team of scientists, including CEO Dr. Ana Moreno, and Co-founder and CSO, Dr. Fernando Aleman.
Lastly, Acepodia out of Burlingame, CA, is a company which has raised over $33 MM in Silicon Valley to fight Antibody Cell Conjugation (ACC). With a PhD in Chemistry, from Berkeley, at the helm named Sonny Hsiao, and some pioneering CAR-T leaders in the field on their management team, such as Pat Yang (formerly of Juno Tx), Acepodia is an emerging biotechnology company developing cancer immunotherapy based on its novel ACC™ technology platform, having recently received clearance of its Investigational New Drug (IND) application from the FDA to initiate a Phase 1 clinical study of its natural killer (NK) cell therapy and lead drug candidate ACE1702 in patients with HER2-expressing solid tumors. ACE1702 is Acepodia’s lead clinical product candidate developed from the Company’s proprietary ACC™ platform. It targets human HER2-expressing solid tumors using anti-HER2 antibody conjugated oNK cells. ACE1702 has demonstrated enhanced tumor cell killing activities both in vitro and in vivo, while maintaining a favorable safety profile in GLP toxicology studies. In preclinical studies, ACE1702 has shown enhanced tumor-killing activities against HER2 IHC 1+, 2+ and 3+ human cancer cells.
One of the more interesting sessions was on the presidential election this year and the future of the biotech and pharma industries entitled “The Upcoming Election and Its Potential Impact on the Biopharma Industry.” Chaired by James Greenwood, president and CEO of BIO, the most interesting comments came from Jeremy Levin, Chairman and CEO of Ovid Therapeutics. Jeremy put some of the blame on the pharma pricing issues on the industry executives themselves, having created unbridled pricing structures to begin with, and should, therefore, responsibly repair them. He also pushed back on any accusations that a Democratic presidential win would create an arbetura for socialism or a socialist-style economy – “there will never be socialism in this country. Never,” he confided. | <urn:uuid:fb027dda-da37-486e-b4b1-808d5c2c8383> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | http://givethembreadandcircuses.com/38th-annual-j-p-morgan-healthcare-conference/ | 2023-09-23T18:40:56Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.956619 | 1,044 |
After a month away travelling around Asia sampling amazing food, I’ve come back to Sydney to a series of catastrophes that’s going to make it a lot harder to share my food experiences with everyone!
My phone was taken on the second last day of our trip, meaning that I lost photos of almost 90% of the food we ate on the trip. While K and I still have some photos of our fancier restaurant meals on the DSLR, we tended to use my iPhone to take photos of the street food we ate. So while I can tell you all about the amazing cao lau we had at the markets in Hoi An, Vietnam, I don’t have any photos to share with you!
My internet service is currently down at home, and won’t be restored probably for another two weeks. This is due to my cancellation of our previous overpriced internet service before we left on holiday, and overly optimistic expectation that our chosen new provider would be ready to rock and roll the day that we returned. This was clearly not the case!
My fridge broke down sometime in the month we were away, and while this technically shouldn’t affect my sharing of food experiences from the past month, it does make it hard for me to come up with meals including ingredients that don’t require refrigeration over the next few days! Not having a fridge or freezer in a Sydney summer where the temperature is expected to hit 43 degrees celsius tomorrow is the stuff of nightmares!
There have been some other personal catastrophes along the way (suspected deep vein thrombosis, a vandalised car windscreen, and leaking shower pipes), but as soon as everything is back on track and my run of bad luck is over, I will be sharing the food of the past month with everyone! Suffice it to say that as a basic summary:
- Best decadent meal of the trip: Waku Ghin, Singapore
- Best street food of the trip: Fish soup with hand cut noodles, Hue
- Best dessert of the trip: High tea at the Mandarin Oriental, Hong Kong
- Best day of overindulgence: in Seremban, Malaysia
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11 The Spirit and Sound of Celtic Music
What, exactly, is 'Celtic music'? People who use the term may have a vivid sense of what it means to them, yet they may conceive of it in very different ways. In this chapter, we look at what makes music 'Celtic' and what does not.
For some, Celtic music means the lively Irish dance tunes-jigs, reels, hornpipes, and the like-that form the repertoire of traditional fiddlers. For others, it is the wild sound of the Highland bagpipes. Yet others will think of Celtic music primarily as the commercial genre that has recently developed out of New Age styles, full of evocative minor-mode melodies performed on tinkling harps and wailing flutes, with the addition, perhaps, of a pure, high soprano voice in an echo chamber. Some restrict the term to Irish and Scottish music alone. Others are willing to include virtually all the traditional music of western Europe in the 'Celtic' category. Faced with such a variety of definitions, some writers have come to the conclusion that there is no such thing as Celtic music: that the very concept of Celtic music has been created by the dominant culture to include all the styles of music that have gone out of fashion at the centres of economic and cultural power but have survived in marginal, backward areas, lending them an aura of quaint exoticism.
There is indeed no doubt that this kind of pastoral fantasy about the pre-industrial world has contributed a great deal to the appeal and commercial success of Celtic music as it is marketed to the general public. Yet the term can be applied without problem to the the musical traditions passed down in Celtic communities as we have defined them in Chapter 3: communities that owe their historical identity to the use of a Celtic language.
The musical traditions found in Celtic communities are themselves extremely diverse in nature and origin. Not only do they vary from community to community, but several styles used in a single community, or even by a single musician, can contrast sharply with each other. This is to be expected, since musical traditions are not normally a static, rigidly conservative heritage, but instead constitute a medium that is highly responsive to changes in the social and cultural environment.
In traditional rural communities, music always has a distinct social function, ranging from intimate entertainment to providing an appropriate accompaniment for important public occasions such as weddings and funerals, or festivals related to the agricultural cycle. In many ways, the more public uses of music provide the community with an image of itself, the image it would like to project to the world at large.
Communities close to the centres of economic power that set cultural trends may be more acutely aware of what is fashionable and unfashionable. These communities will be the first to adopt new, 'socially approved' styles of music and discard old styles that might make their culture appear embarrassingly provincial. Areas farther away from the centre may take much longer to feel the need to adopt these new styles, or may never be exposed to them. On the other hand, even communities that are eager to be perceived as up-to-date with regard to the more public types of music performance can tolerate older styles of music if they are relegated to private contexts such as entertainment for small intimate gatherings or songs to accompany work. So the musical traditions of a single Celtic community can include many strata of different styles, each introduced at a different historical period, and each appropriate for performance in a particular social context. However, a community may also have a distinct, overarching 'taste' in musical matters that will put its stamp on the entire range of styles adopted at various times, often making the native performance of those styles recognisably different from the original models.
Characteristics of Celtic Music
Given this great diversity, is there any element we can consider to be characteristic of Celtic music as a whole? It must be admitted that there are no traits of musical style that are exclusive to the Celtic world, nor are there any defining characteristics that can be applied to all the musical traditions passed down within Celtic communities. Yet there are certain elements that are prominent enough statistically throughout Celtic musical practice that they contribute to the perception of a certain 'sound' associated with Celtic music.
For instance, there is a greater preponderance of pentatonic melodies in the Celtic world, especially in Scotland, Ireland, and, to a lesser extent, Brittany, than anywhere else in western Europe. Pentatonic scales are scales of five notes that usually avoid half-tone intervals - essentially the sound one gets by playing only the black keys on a keyboard. This type of melodic style is found over a large part of northern and eastern Asia, the native Americas, much of Africa, in classical Berber music and, as far as one can tell, in ancient Egyptian music. However, in Europe and the Middle East, it has been largely replaced by more complex scales with chromatic intervals.
The persistence of pentatonic melodies on Europe's Atlantic fringe strongly suggests that the ancient music of Ireland, Britain and the adjacent parts of the Continent-the 'Atlantic culture', as it is known to Celtic archaeology-was based on this type of scale, and that it was inherited by the later Celtic cultures of the area. Whether or not the music of the Celtic heartland in central Europe had a similar sound cannot be known for certain. Even when Celtic melodies aren't truly pentatonic, such as when sections in them contain half-tone intervals, they very often display passages where expected half-tone intervals are avoided, creating an 'open' sound that reminds one of pentatonic scales. This can be observed in at least some of the musical styles of virtually every Celtic community, with varying degrees of prominence. Therefore, it can legitimately be proposed as one unifying characteristic of Celtic musical taste that is a part of the cultural heritage of the Celtic world as a whole.
Throughout Europe, traditional folk melodies are often patterned after scales that are quite different from the major and minor scales used in the harmonically-based, diatonic system of later Western music. Some of these scales are called the 'church modes' because they served as the basis for the melodies in Gregorian chant. They were given names taken from the musical terminology of ancient Greece, although they may not at all have resembled the modes originally called by those names in ancient times.
If, using only the white keys of a keyboard:
one plays a scale:
one gets the mode called:
from C to C:
: Ionian mode (identical to the Major mode)
from D to D
from E to E:
from F to F:
from G to G:
:from A to A:
Aeolian mode or melodic (non-harmonic Minor)
from B to B
Locrian mode (hardly ever found in traditional music because of its odd structure)
Ionian and Aeolian modes are widespread in Celtic music, but Mixolydian and Dorian are also very common. A form of the Mixolydian mode is particularly associated with Highland piping. The Phrygian mode, common in the Mediterranean world, is very rare in Celtic music, being found only in Cornwall and Brittany. The Lydian mode, common in the Balkans, is virtually unknown in the Celtic world. Use of these modes in Celtic music is often characterised by passages that avoid half-tone intervals and give the melody a fleeting pentatonic sound, as we noted above.
While all these traits are indeed typical of most Celtic music, they aren't limited to the music of Celtic communities. As a rule, tunes easily cross ethnic borders wherever cultures come into contact, so we shouldn't be surprised to find 'Celtic'-sounding tunes throughout England, France, Spain, northern Italy, and Scandinavia.
Types of Music: Traditional Classifications
Before we begin exploring the different types of traditional music that have developed within the Celtic world, we might want to take a look at how native Celtic musicians themselves have considered the material they played.
Scholars of Celtica usually sort tales into cycles with common background and characters, but Irish and Welsh storytellers classified their tales according to the social function served by the telling of the story, such as wooings for weddings, and violent deaths for funerals. Similarly, musicians thought of their tunes primarily in terms of their intended effect. Irish tradition often refers to the Ábhann Tríreach or 'triple strain,' first mentioned in Cormac's Glossary (circa 9th century). This represents the three primary functions of music:
goltraí: laments, music for weeping, intended to provoke emotion and sympathy
geantraí: dance music, lively tunes, music for good feelings, creating a happy and optimistic mood
suantraí: lullabies, various kinds of slow airs, music for sleep, which calmed the emotions and promoted relaxation
Not all poor rural communities can afford sophisticated musical instruments, and only a minority of individuals can expend the time and effort to teach themselves how to play them correctly. But everyone has a voice, and even if some people are particularly appreciated for their outstanding vocal talents, most people are able to learn songs and sing them, at least for their own enjoyment. Thus vocal music gets transmitted with great ease and over long periods of time, and unfashionable styles have the opportunity to endure in more private settings.
Among the most ancient songs surviving in the Celtic repertoire are the ones associated with certain traditional activities, where they are used either to alleviate the boredom of a long, tedious task such as spinning, or to coordinate the movements of a team performing an action together, such as rowing or mowing with scythes. Notable in the latter category are the òrain luaidh or waulking songs used in the Western Isles of Scotland by groups of women as they pound - waulk - wet tweed cloth to stretch it. These songs are almost all in call-and-response form, with one person singing a line alone and all the others joining in on the next line. In keeping with the activity they accompany, such songs have a strong, heavily accented rhythm, and their melodies tend to be in the older pentatonic and church modes. The lyrics often deal with love and contemporary satire, but also preserve images of the clan life of a much earlier time, telling of intertribal warfare and piracy, and praising clan leaders. While none of them constitute a tradition quite as rich as the òrain luaidh, the other types of work songs found in Celtic communities also tend to be conservative in style.
Lullabies and milking share similar traits. Since both are intended to calm-either a restless infant, or the cow being milked-they tend to have the same slow, hypnotic swinging rhythms and simple melodies. Despite regional preferences for certain modes over others, the style of these songs is remarkably consistent throughout the Celtic regions.
Another type of Celtic vocal music that clearly has ancient roots is the formal lament. The lament has survived in Gaelic Scotland and in parts of Ireland where the native tradition of trained poets with important social roles held out the longest. At the death of an important person the poet was expected to compose a lament in the appropriate syllabic verse-form, which would be chanted according to a set melodic pattern associated with that form. Often the lament would include imitations of keening (caoineadh), the stylised lamentation performed by Irish women at wakes and funerals. Usually this consisted of a descending pentatonic melody punctuated by sudden rises of pitch and catches of breath. Some ancient laments by trained poets have survived in oral tradition, and new ones have been composed in roughly similar style.
Equally ancient is the type of mythological recitation commonly known as 'Ossianic chant'. This has survived in the southern Hebrides, but it was clearly widespread in Ireland several centuries ago, and at least one example was collected in Donegal in the 1940s.
Poems (duain) relating to the exploits of the Fianna are presented in one of two styles:
· A rapid, semi-improvisational chant on four or five notes, shaping itself according to the natural intonational patterns of the words; or
· A slow chant on a simple melody with wide intervals and a metrical pattern emphasising the structure of the verse line.
According to tradition, this chant was invented by Fionn Mac Cumhaill's son Ossian (Oisean in Scots Gaelic, Oisín in Irish) to recount the deeds of the Fianna to St. Patrick. In fact, the custom of chanting these stories may well be pre-Christian, since it appears to have had ritual connotations and it was considered particularly appropriate to perform them on Hogmanay-New Year's Eve-which in Scotland attracted to itself many of the customs of Samhain. It should also be noted that these are the only true narrative songs in the Gaelic world, since the later song tradition of Gaelic Scotland and Ireland doesn't include anything like the ballads of English and Lowland Scots tradition.
There is nothing quite like Ossianic chant among the Brythonic Celts except for the strange Breton song called Gousperoù ar Raned (The Frog Vespers) whose mysterious imagery has puzzled scholars for generations. This song is chanted in a manner reminiscent of Scottish duain, but certain structural correspondences between the Ossianic lays and older poetry associated with Arthurian motifs suggest that the Welsh, Cornish and Bretons may once have had a similar tradition.
In modern Celtic-speaking communities. there is a type of unaccompanied singing that most people identify as characteristic of their tradition, and which is used for entertainment at informal gatherings. In Irish this type of song is referred to as sean-nós ('old style'), and we will here, for the sake of convenience, apply this term generically to all such songs throughout the Celtic world.
Sean-nós songs fall into two categories, which ethnomusicologists label tempo giusto and parlando-rubato.
Tempo giusto songs, as their name implies, have to be performed in strict metre, the tunes are often-though not always-set to identifiable dance rhythms, and their subject matter tends to be light or humorous.
Parlando-rubato songs, by contrast, are performed in a slow and meditative way, in free metre with a great deal of improvisation, so as to convey the intensity of the singer's feeling. The improvisation can manifest as complex melismatic ornamentation of the base melody, especially in Ireland and, to a lesser extent, Gaelic Scotland, or as extreme variations in tempo and dynamics, especially in Wales and Brittany. Today many people who have become familiar with the highly ornamented style of Connemara tend to think of it as typical of all Irish sean-nós but, although now vanishing, there are regional Irish styles that are relatively without ornament and closer to the Welsh manner.
There has been a lot of debate concerning the origin of the melismatic ornamentation in sean-nós. Some have wanted to see in it a sign of contacts with North Africa and the Middle East, but it is more likely to have been inspired by aspects of Gregorian chant. One may note in this regard that, while secular Scots Gaelic sean-nós melodies are, as a rule, only slightly ornamented, the semi-improvisational Gaelic psalm singing characteristic of the Free Presbyterian Church is as densely ornamented as anything from Connemara. This suggests that the memory of an older form of religious music may have been revived in a new context.
These songs tend to deal with unrequited love, unhappy marriage, exiles remembering their native land, and memories of local calamities like battles, drownings, and shipwrecks. In Ireland and Gaelic Scotland, as we have seen, the songs never take a narrative form, although there is often a story behind the song. By contrast, regular ballads are quite common in Wales, the Isle of Man, and Brittany. The Welsh and Manx examples are all relatively recent and may have been composed in imitation of English models, but the Breton gwerzioù seem to be a native tradition of considerable antiquity. While few Irish sean-nós songs can be traced back farther than the 1700s, and some well-known Scots Gaelic songs date to the 1600s, the Breton ballad of Skolan, still remembered today, is directly related to the 12th-century Welsh poem Ysgolan in the 'Black Book of Carmarthen.'
Most sean-nós singing is homophonic, involving no harmony at all. Even when several singers join in on a chorus or recurring line, they all sing in unison. One major exception to this rule is the prominence of polyphonic choral singing in Wales. Today Welsh choirs are often attached to churches and include a lot of Protestant liturgical music in their repertoire, thus influencing their style. Such Welsh choirs tend to conform to classical Western standards of harmony and counterpoint in their treatment of polyphony, yet there remain traces of an older, native system of polyphonic singing. The best-known example of this is the group of carols associated with the plygain service (from Latin pulli cantus 'cock's crow') which is celebrated at dawn of Christmas Day in some parishes in north-central Wales. The harmonic settings of these carols don't follow the chordal progressions typical of the modern diatonic system. Rather they resemble types of folk harmony that are found in isolated pockets throughout Europe, such as in the Pyrenees, the Alps, a few places in northern Italy, Sardinia, Bulgaria, and Georgia. Welsh polyphony may thus have been an ancient indigenous tradition of this type localised in the mountainous country of western Britain, and it may have provided a precedent that facilitated the introduction of other types of choral singing at a later date. Some scholars have suggested that the singing of Welsh stonemasons who participated in the construction of early Gothic cathedrals on the Continent may actually have helped inspire the development of the Ars Nova style of Church polyphony in the 12th and 13th centuries.
Earliest Dance Music
The most ancient dances in the Celtic world, which have survived primarily in Brittany, are of a type intended to be performed by all the members of a community, including children and elderly people. Thus, they usually take the form of circle or line dances that avoid extreme complexity of steps and movement. They originally had a ritual function, marking out the main phases of the agricultural cycle and aiding the work of the fields magically by imitating it in a stylised fashion. This remains an explicit part of such Breton dances as the piler-lann ('furze-beater'), where the dancers' movements are meant to recall the stamping down and gathering up of furze bushes in a field being made ready for planting. While such dances are now characteristic of Brittany, the mimed harvest chant from Gaelic Scotland included in the Carmina Gadelica and the well-known Manx dance-song about the Fenodyree, the land-spirit said to help farmers in their work, are evidence that ritual dance may once have played a fundamental role in village tradition throughout the Celtic world.
Even when these line dances are not overtly tied to agricultural imagery, they often still suggest natural phenomena. For instance, the undulating arm movements of the southern Breton dances known as andro and hanter-dro are often likened to the waves of the sea. While there are broad patterns of steps and movements that are known throughout Celtic Brittany, each region has developed its own characteristic versions of them. For instance, the dañs-fisel and dañs-plinn are variations on the same basic dance rhythm from two different regions of southwestern Brittany, and when done correctly differ recognisably in tempo. Other dances that are associated with specific regions of Brittany and that have entered local tradition at different times are the kost-ar-c'hoad, the laridenn, which has both a 6-beat form and an 8-beat form, the jabadao, and the most popular of them all, the gavotenn, including the distinctive gavotenn ar menez from the Black Mountain country in the Breton interior. Today, as Bretons from many different areas come together for festivals, all of these dances have become part of the standard repertoire of the fest-noz ('night feast'), the Breton equivalent of a céilí.
The musical accompaniment for these dances was, originally, purely vocal. It would be performed by two singers in the style known as kan ha diskan ('song and countersong'). The singers alternate their lines, with an overlap between the last bar of the first singer's line and the first bar of the next line sung by the other singer. This allows them to sing at a brisk tempo for a long period of time without getting out of breath or breaking the rhythm. The texts of the songs used for this purpose are often narrative, making them ballads, not only in the modern sense but according to the original meaning of 'song for dancing' too (Latin ballare, 'to dance). While kan ha diskan remains widespread and popular, instrumental accompaniment has also become common. Since the 15th century at least a particular instrumental duo-the bombarde (a folk oboe) and the binioù-kozh (the native Breton bagpipe, which has a very high-pitched sound)-has traditionally provided accompaniment for dances. The two instruments alternate their lines, in imitation of kan ha diskan. In recent years, with the growing popularity of instrumental bands performing Irish and Scottish dance music, similar groups have been created to play Breton music for festoù-noz.
Communal circle or line dances performed to vocal accompaniment are no longer a feature of the traditions of Ireland, Scotland and Wales, where more modern dance forms involving couples and interweaving patterns have prevailed. However, there is good reason to believe that at an earlier period the dance forms characteristic of Brittany were common throughout northwestern Europe. On the Faroe Islands, for instance, where ancient customs have been preserved that have disappeared elsewhere in Scandinavia, dances of this type are well-known, suggesting that this is another isolated local survival of a tradition that was formerly widespread.
Another dance form-focusing on individual dancers rather than on the entire community, highlighting physical prowess, endurance and agility-must have existed among the early Celts, since it is characteristic of warrior societies, but no direct survivals of it can be traced in modern tradition. Nevertheless, one can easily see how certain types of Highland dancing and Irish step dancing continue to fulfill the same purpose. The sword dances of Scotland may also represent a distant echo of such a warrior tradition even if, in their modern guise, they have modeled themselves on familiar quadrille patterns. A unique sword dance from the Alps of the Dauphiné, the Bacchu-ber, with its ancient modal melody and odd stamping rhythm, is completely unlike the other dances of the area and is thought to go back to the Gallo-Roman period.
The term ceól mór ('great music') is used in traditional Highland piping to designate a certain type of musical piece that requires great skill and musicianship to perform correctly, distinguishing it from the less challenging march and dance tunes that form the rest of the piper's repertoire. We will here apply the term to all the Celtic instrumental traditions that not only require outstanding skill and sensitivity on the part of the performer, but also a sophisticated audience capable of appreciating what is being done. This is the definition of a 'classical' music tradition, which in many cultures contrasts with more accessible 'popular' styles. Pre-modern Celtic society expected elite performers to play for elite audiences, and thus developed a tradition which can legitimately be called native Celtic classical music. Despite regional variations, this tradition displays sufficient unity in concept and form that we are justified in designating all of its manifestations by a single term.
The two instruments that have been most closely associated with the native classical tradition are the harp and the bagpipes. Although neither of them originated in or is restricted to the Celtic world, they are also the two instruments that most people spontaneously think of in relation to Celtic music. It is indeed true that both were adopted by Celtic communities at an early stage and were given a prestige role in the native cultures. As a result, they became the primary focus of elite performance music.
The harp is thought to have originated in Africa, which still has the greatest variety of folk harps. It was very popular in Egypt, from where it spread to parts of the Middle East. Precisely how and when it reached the Celtic world is uncertain, but by the later Roman Empire a stringed instrument called the crotta or rhotta was considered to be the national instrument of Gaul. Since this is clearly a cognate of the Old Irish word crott, 'harp', later replaced by cruit which originally meant 'harper,' the term may indicate that the same instrument was once known on both sides of the Channel and that its use may indeed have spread to the Insular Celts from the Continent. However, it is also possible that the word originally had the generic meaning of 'stringed instrument' and could at first have designated a more ancient form of lyre or zither. Nevertheless, by the early Middle Ages the harp had come to play a central role in the cultural life of both Irish and British Celtic communities.
The type of harp favoured by professional musicians in Ireland had metal strings, and the tension required for tuning them correctly made it necessary to use very hard and heavy woods for the body of the instrument. The strings were struck with the fingernails, which harpers grew long for this purpose. The harp was held against the left shoulder, and the left hand usually played the melody while the right hand played accompanying chords, which were arpeggiated downwards, the reverse of classical harp technique.
Harpers developed a close association with the filí and provided accompaniment for the public presentation of their poems, which would be declaimed by a reacaire or trained reciter who was usually not the poet himself. Probably thanks to this association with a high status group, harpers had far greater prestige in society than other musicians and entertainers. According to the Uraicecht Becc, a mediaeval Irish law tract, the harper was the only one of them to be truly free and to be assigned a specific honour-price. Harpers were remunerated generously by their patrons, so that many of them could afford to live in some luxury.
When the native aristocracy of Ireland and Scotland was driven into exile or lost its privileges during the 17th and 18th centuries, harpers found themselves without the sophisticated audience they needed to maintain their elite musical tradition. Lacking a clear social function, they ceased to train new generations to take their place. Most of their music and lore would now be lost to us if it had not been for the curiosity and diligence of the antiquarian Edward Bunting who attended the last gathering of traditional Irish harpers in Belfast in 1792. Bunting transcribed many of the tunes and took notes on performance practices and native musical terminology.
One of Bunting's main informants was Dennis Hempson (Donncha Ó hAmhsaigh), the last surviving Irish harper to have been trained exclusively according to native professional standards. Hempson still grew his nails long to play in the traditional manner, performed only the high ancient music, and had nothing but contempt for the more modern popular tunes other harpers had resigned themselves to including in their repertoire. From Hempson, Bunting was able to acquire the last remnants of mediaeval Celtic harp lore such as the names of the instrument's individual strings, the different types of melodic ornamentation, and pieces in the old style that illustrated native ideas of musical form.
The basic form underlying all these pieces, and the Celtic classical tradition in general, is that of theme and variations. An original theme or 'ground' (urlár) is first presented unembellished, and then it undergoes a series of metrical transformations that break up the melody in several standardised ways. The 'ground' returns once all the variations have been gone through, or it may be repeated after each variation, as in a rondo.
One of Hempson's pieces, Mairseáil Uí Bhroinn ('Burns' March'), was intended to be used in training apprentice harpers. It deliberately includes examples of all the main techniques that can be used to embellish a 'ground'. This general approach to string music may be quite ancient and may represent a tradition that spread throughout Eurasia in pre-modern times. For instance, it bears a striking resemblance to the Chinese classical music for the zithers known as qin and zheng. While the use of microtonal ornamentation in Chinese music has no equivalent in Celtic tradition and gives it a quite different sound, this approach to form and even the very nature of the variation techniques applied to 'ground' themes are remarkably similar to what we find among Celtic harpers.
Harpers in Scotland and Wales followed essentially the same models as in Ireland. Since at least the 12th century Welsh harpers used Irish practices as their standard, and what we know of Welsh harping terminology makes it clear that it was derived from the Irish. By the end of the Middle Ages, however, other types of Continental harps had come to compete with the venerable metal-strung bardic harp in Britain. Gut-strung harps required less tension and could be made out of lighter woods, and thus were easier to carry around. They were played with the fingertips rather than with the nails, and as a rule were rested on the right shoulder, with the right hand playing melody and the left hand playing chords. By the 17th century the native Scottish harp (clàrsach) was of this type, as were most of the harps used in Wales. The form of the music, however, remained the same. Several Scottish manuscript collections from the 18th century contain music attributed to famous harpers of the century before, and they are very similar in style to the pieces Bunting collected from Hempson. Also, the famous ap Huw manuscript from 16th-century Wales, which preserves older harp music in an idiosyncratic notation system, clearly belongs to the same tradition.
The harp retained its prestige in Wales longer than in Ireland and Scotland, and its association with the ceremonies of the National Eisteddfod in the 19th century gave it a fresh lease on life as harpers found a new context for their performances. However, Welsh harpers tended to adopt the classical orchestral harp and to learn mainstream European techniques for playing it, as well as composing music in contemporary international style rather than basing themselves on the older native tradition. Yet one particular type of harp, the Triple Harp (telyn deires) has acquired peculiarly Welsh associations. It appears to have been invented in Italy in the 17th century. Though it is uncertain how and when it got to Wales, the triple harp has firmly implanted itself in Welsh musical culture. The instrument has three parallel rows of strings, the two outer ones tuned in unison to a major scale while the middle one provides chromatic accidentals. One of the characteristic techniques involved in playing it is to create bell-like 'echo' effects by plucking identically pitched strings from the outer rows in quick succession. The last traditional performer on this instrument was Nansi Richards, but folk musicians have shown renewed interest in the triple harp in recent times. Even as they began to be influenced by the international styles of their day, the Welsh harpers of the 18th and early 19th centuries were still remarkably true to the essence of the Celtic classical tradition. The late 18th century compositions of John Parry, for example, preserve the old theme-and-variations form, often using melodies of folk songs as the 'ground'.
One other type of Welsh traditional music associated with the harp should be mentioned here. Pennillion singing has become a popular form of Eisteddfod composition. Originally rhyming octosyllabic couplets popular in Welsh folk poetry during the late 16th and 17th centuries, pennillion singing may have evolved out of the custom of reciting poetry to harp accompaniment. The harper plays a set melody or 'ground' (llawr) while a singer uses a poetic text as the basis to improvise a completely different melody in counterpoint, which is nevertheless required to coincide with the harp's melody at certain key cadences. The harper Edward Jones' compilation Musical and Poetical Relics of the Welsh Bards, published in 1784, contains many of the tunes that are traditionally used as 'grounds' for this type of improvisation, indicating that the custom goes back at least that far. Today the improvisational element in pennillion singing has largely disappeared. The versions heard in concert involve little more than one pre-composed melody set in counterpoint to another pre-composed melody, though some performances still manage to capture the exciting quality of the old improvisational approach.
Bagpipes, the other 'Celtic' instrument, also originated in antiquity, probably in the Middle East and Egypt. They became popular in Europe at roughly the same time as the harp, and by the end of the Middle Ages existed in many different forms from Spain to Rajasthan. As discussed in the next section, the great changes in musical taste and practice that occurred during the 17th century placed the bagpipes outside the mainstream of European tradition. Apart from a brief period in the 18th century when bagpipes served as props in a 'pastoralist' fad, they survived only in out-of-the-way rural areas which included the Celtic-speaking communities. During the Middle Ages they were given a high status in the culture of the Gaelic world. They were called by the Latin name pipa, whence píob, their modern name. Bagpipes were also referred to by the native word cuisle (pipers were cuisleannaigh), which seems to have been a generic term for 'wind instrument'. It is clear that the bagpipes were the aristocracy of the wind instruments, much as the harp was among string instruments. A particularly large form of bagpipes with a loud, penetrating sound became associated with leading warrior-bands to battle and, in that role, pipers-although they never achieved quite as high a status as harpers-acquired many privileges from the clan leaders they served.
The huge Irish war-pipes and all the lore and music attached to them disappeared completely after the Flight of the Earls in 1602. However, the Highland pipes survived long enough that, even after the destruction of the clan system, they continued to be used by the Highland regiments that were accepted into the British army. Piping was taught orally through the system of canntaireachd, a language of vocables representing pitches, rhythmic figures and fingerings. While much of a piper's repertoire consisted of marches, it also included ceòl mòr, which required considerable training to perform correctly. This is still a major test of a piper's talent today. Each piece of ceòl mòr is called a piobaireachd---literally, 'piping', often Anglicised as 'pibroch.' It consists of a slow 'ground' subjected to variations as the metrical values of the notes are 'doubled' and 'tripled,' through sections called the taorluath and corluath, together with standard embellishments. The metrical changes give the impression of a speeding-up of the music, but in fact there is no change in tempo. If the piper hasn't been keeping time carefully, he will make the urlár, when it returns at the end of the piece, sound much too fast. Individual piobaireachdan have become associated with the clans of the pipers who composed them.
The structural similarities between the ceól mór of the pipes and the early harp music are so striking that many musical scholars have concluded that they represent two manifestations of a single tradition, a native Celtic understanding of sophisticated musical form, theoretically applicable to any instrument. This is supported by the fact that a famous piobaireachd has the title Cumha Crann nan Teud ('Lament for the Harp Key'), which indicates that it once belonged to the harp repertoire. There are other indications that some pieces were played indiscriminately by harpers and pipers alike. Because of the seniority of the harp tradition, it is probable that the formal basis of ceól mór was developed on the harp and was then imitated on the pipes, eventually leading to the formal codification of rules for piobaireachd performance in the early 19th century. Modern harpers like Ann Heymann have been researching the common ground between harp and pipe traditions, leading to an increased understanding and appreciation of ceól mór in the larger sense, and to a revival of the tradition itself.
Apart from the intricate and demanding pieces they call ceól mór, Highland pipers have also always played what they call ceól meadhonach ("middle music") and ceól beag ("little music"). Each type was designated according to the degree of skill and of focused audience attention they require. The latter category includes marches, and popular dance tunes that have been adapted to the pipes' tuning and register. We will here use the term ceól beag to mean all the music used to accompany the dance forms that today are in the forefront of Celtic folk tradition, although they developed for the most part within the last 350 years. Again, despite many regional particularisms, this development has been remarkably consistent throughout the Celtic world, since most Celtic communities have-albeit at different times and to varying degrees-come under the influence of the same centres of cultural diffusion.
During the later Middle Ages and the Renaissance new fashions in dance and entertainment had spread among the social elite attached to the royal and ducal courts of Europe. The new dance forms often involved paired dancers and complex interweaving patterns of movement, as well as a greater variety of dance steps. For some time there was a sharp distinction between these elite dances and the older peasant dances in the countryside.
By the end of the 16th century, however, there were great changes in the distribution of wealth, fueled in part by the opening up of the New World with its vast resources to exploit. This had given rise to a powerful middle class that didn't owe its influence to aristocratic lineage, and redefined the boundaries of elite culture. New opportunities to acquire wealth and the power that came with it produced new expectations of social mobility. This led to an increasing concern for outward signs of social status, such as the kind of clothes one wore, the kind of house one lived in, and the kinds of music one identified with in the context of public entertainment. Most cultural activities that were associated with the traditional upper classes were copied by other people as a way of expressing their social aspirations and announcing their new-found respectability. Of course, the copies weren't necessarily exact. Music and dances that had originated in aristocratic courts were adapted to local tastes and gave rise to a huge variety of new popular forms. The Celtic world, despite its marginal position, was strongly influenced by these trends. Those areas, such as Wales and Cornwall that were closest to centres of trade and industrial production absorbed the greatest amount of foreign influences. Even essentially conservative regions like western Brittany couldn't remain completely unaffected by international developments of this sort.
Virtually all the dance forms we associate with the traditional music of Ireland and Scotland today first appeared during this period. Certainly the earliest of them was the jig. Its precise origin is unknown, but it must have been in some Romance-speaking area of the Continent, since French gigue and Italian giga are both old words for "leg", a reference to the high-stepping leg movements characteristic of the dance. The familiar 6/8 dance form now known to us by this name, however, seems to have developed its modern traits in England, and spread from there to the adjacent Celtic countries, where it was fully assimilated into local tradition. The first Irish jig was published by Thomas d'Urfey in 1684, suggesting that the form had been popular in Ireland for long enough by then to have become associated with Irish dancing in general. The spread of folk music forms is hard to document with precision, since they typically have been present in an area for some time before they come to the notice of compilers of published collections. In Ireland there may also have been earlier dances in quick triple time that were eventually identified with the jig. For example, the 9/8-time slip jig is a characteristically Irish development, and there are unusual 12/8-time jigs as well. Today jigs are found in all six Celtic countries, testifying to the early spread of the form, and their tunes tend to have native melodic traits.
The other mainstay of modern Celtic session music, the reel, also seems to have originated in Britain as a development of one of the very many 4/4 quadrille-type country dances that became fashionable around the turn of the 18th century. One of its earliest centres of popularity was in Scotland. As the name 'reel' suggests, it was intended to be an immensely speeded-up version of such quadrille dances. This characteristic has remained attached to the Highland reel, which is still usually performed at a breakneck tempo. When reels became popular in Ireland during the later 18th and 19th centuries, they developed a variety of regional traits as they became associated with different local 'set' dances.
Another double-time country dance that appeared in the Scottish repertoire during the 18th century and became popular in the 19th was the strathspey, named after the Spey valley in the western Highlands where it was thought to have originated. Unlike the reel, the strathspey didn't spread much beyond Scotland. It is characterised by its syncopated downbeats, often referred to as the "Scotch snap".
The third most popular dance form in the modern session repertoire is the hornpipe, originally a step dance which appeared in England during the 18th century. The hornpipe became associated with sailors, since it didn't require much space to perform and thus could easily be done on a ship's deck. From this came 'The Sailor's Hornpipe', one of the oldest and most popular hornpipe melodies. By the end of the 18th century the hornpipe was well-known throughout Britain and Ireland, where it became the accompaniment for many set dances that are still popular today. The most widespread type of hornpipe melody is the 'dotted rhythm' variety, thus called because every accented crotchet in the bar takes up half of the duration of the following crotchet. Another variety, often referred to as the 'fast hornpipe,' is performed at a slightly quicker tempo and lacks this dotted rhythm. The fast hornpipe is particularly widespread in Wales and the west of England.
The spread of ballroom dancing across Europe during the 19th century brought international popularity to dances like the waltz, the polka, the mazurka, the galope, the schottische, the two-step, and many others. Some of these dances found a place in the traditions of Celtic communities, especially in areas where there was continual contact with an urban middle class. Only the waltz and the polka, however, found their way to most parts of the Celtic world, and they were set to melodies of a local character.
Introduction of the Violin
With the new dances came new instruments. From the end of the 16th century, by far the most widespread and influential new instrument was the Italian violin, called the fiddle in folk tradition. Easily portable, offering both a bright, far-carrying sound and great flexibility in dynamics and thus in expression, the fiddle was the ideal vehicle for the new musical culture of the time. It was equally appropriate for performing at an open-air dance or at an intimate gathering indoors. By the middle of the 17th century the fiddle was well-known virtually everywhere in Europe, displacing older traditional instruments even as the new dance music associated with it displaced older musical styles, including the classical tradition associated with the Celtic harp. While the demise of the harp and its lore had a lot to do with the fall of the native Celtic aristocracy who had been the harpers' patrons, considerations of fashion and public image could lead to a repudiation of the old music even in places where the native chieftains remained in power. The 17th-century Scots Gaelic poet Sìlis Nic Raghnaill na Ceapach, daughter of Gilleasbuig (Archibald) the laird of Keppoch, wrote a famous lament for her harp, which had apparently been banned from the household as too barbaric and old-fashioned. A piece by the 17th-century Scottish harper Rory Dall Morrison (Ruairidh Dall Moireasdan) is entitled Fuath nam Fidhleirean ("Hate for the Fiddlers").
If professional harpers were to go on making a living, they had to learn the new styles that their audiences wanted to hear. The blind Irish harper Turlough O'Carolan (Toirdhealbhach Ó Cearbhalláin, 1670-1738) played for Protestant landed gentry as well as for patrons of native lineage. He produced a huge number of innovative compositions that drew on a wide variety of sources, including native Irish melodies, English and Scottish folk songs, and above all the mostly Italian tunes and styles that served as the basis for the international popular music of his time.
It is true that the harpers whom Bunting heard performing at the Belfast harp festival in 1792 played far more popular music than they did any of the native classical material, even as the harp was about to vanish altogether from Irish and Scottish folk culture. And a great deal of music, lore and performance practices must have been lost with Dennis Hempson's generation. But one can exaggerate the break in continuity of the Celtic musical tradition. The Irish musicians, mostly fiddlers, who served as sources for early 19th-century music collectors like P.W. Joyce and George Petrie, had a repertoire largely composed of jigs and reels, but they also played formal laments or caoineáin that had served as 'grounds' in the old 'great music.' Clearly they still had a great deal of respect for the older tradition, and were willing to continue playing melodies associated with it, as slow airs for listening rather than as accompaniment for dancing. Many felt they had taken on the cultural role of the old harpers, even though much of the music and technical knowledge had not in fact been passed down to them.
Nevertheless, the new music offered plenty of scope for virtuoso playing and the showcasing of individual musical talent. Not only were speed and brightness of tone admired but, as had been the case in the older music, each performer was expected to embellish the melody in a semi-improvisational way, using a set of standardised ornaments like 'rolls' and 'cuts'. Different regions of the Celtic world developed different styles of ornamentation that have maintained their distinctness to this day. Foreign tunes were treated in the same manner. An English hornpipe taken into Irish tradition might preserve essentially the same melody, but it would be subjected to specific ornamentations in performance that would transform it definitely into Irish music. New melodies would also be composed to go with the foreign dance rhythms, often based on pre-existing tunes of native songs. It is possible that the skill developed by Celtic musicians at creating variations on a 'ground' melody, as required by the forms of their classical tradition, facilitated this process of adapting native types of melody to new metrical structures.
By the end of the 19th century the repertoire of traditional fiddlers in Ireland, Scotland and Wales included thousands of different tunes. Sgt. James O'Neill was a Chicago police officer who, noting that Irish traditional music was then going out of fashion in Irish and Irish-American society, was prompted to collect as many tunes as he could from immigrant fiddlers. He published over two thousand tunes in his The Music of Ireland (1903) and The Dance Music of Ireland (1907), collections that remain invaluable sources today for musicians in search of material. Brendan Breathnach's Ceol Rince na hÉireann (1923) attempted to be equally comprehensive with music collected in Ireland itself. Between 1784 and 1822, the famous Gow family of Scottish fiddlers produced a series of published tune collections, containing many of their own compositions, and these have served as the nucleus and inspiration for most later Scottish fiddle-tune collections. Nicholas Bennett's Alawon fy Ngwlad ('Tunes of my Country,' 1896) brought together some 500 tunes from the Welsh repertoire.
Although the fiddle was unquestionably the most prestigious instrument during this phase of the history of Celtic music, many other instruments were widely used. Even though some purists today make a sharp distinction between 'traditional' and 'non-traditional' instruments, such an attitude would never have occurred to most traditional musicians, who simply played any instrument that was available. Free-reed instruments like the accordion and concertina, invented in the 19th century, became instantly popular because they were portable, relatively cheap and easy to play. The banjo was taken over from the minstrel bands that were well-known throughout the English-speaking world at the turn of the century. The clarinet became a common folk instrument in parts of Brittany where it is called the treujenn kaol or 'cabbage stump,' but it didn't spread to other parts of the Celtic world. Nevertheless, there is no reason why it couldn't be used to play Irish or Scottish music. Foreign string instruments like the bouzouki and the cittern have been adopted into Celtic tradition within the last few decades.
The transverse flute is still widely played in Ireland in its original 18th-century wooden form. The tin whistle or pennywhistle, a cheap metallic version of the recorder or blockflute, was originally a children's instrument and one used to teach tunes to beginning musicians who would eventually learn an 'adult' instrument like the fiddle, but it has come to be taken seriously as a virtuoso instrument featured in national competitions.
Of all the instruments that have been played by Celtic musicians in recent tradition, the Irish uilleann pipes deserve special mention. Although, as we have noted, bagpipes ceased to be fashionable in the early modern period and survived only in out-of-the-way rural areas, their very quaintness and association with rusticity and "pastoral" themes gave them a brief spell of renewed popularity during the 18th century. At the same time an attempt was made to make them more genteel and suitable for indoor performance while preserving their characteristic droning sound. Softer reeds were used, and the flow of air into the bag was assured not by blowing through a mouthpiece but by a a bellows activated with the elbow, whence the Irish instrument's name, from uilleann, 'elbow'. Some bagpipes of this type still used in folk tradition include the Northumbrian pipes in England, the Scottish Border pipes, and the cabreta in the Auvergne, but the uilleann pipes of Ireland are by far the most complex. In their fully developed form they have three drones and three 'regulators,' small additional chanters activated with the wrist, that can provide harmonic accompaniment for the melody played on the chanter. To use all the instrument's resources fully and properly requires considerable skill and coordination, and virtuoso uilleann pipers command a great deal of respect, although their repertoire draws on essentially the same materials as that of the fiddlers, and has nothing to do with piobaireachd.
Dance music implies a strongly marked rhythm, and rhythm is readily enhanced by percussion. The most familiar drum associated with Celtic music is the Irish bodhrán, a frame drum with a goatskin head played with a wooden tipper. Its Cornish counterpart is called the kroeder kroghen ('skin sieve')-often Anglicised as 'crowdy crawn,' which suggests that it was originally a winnowing sieve that could double as a drum at need. Contemporary bodhrán players have considerably extended the range of sound they can get from their instrument, borrowing many techniques from Middle Eastern frame-drummers. In Scotland and Brittany various forms of military side drums and snare drums have been borrowed as percussion for dance bands. Another old rhythm instrument is the sheep-bone castanets, today often replaced by spoons. In communities that had middle-class pretensions, however, the most suitable accompaniment for instrumental soloists was felt to be the piano, in imitation of art-music practices. The piano was a symbol of prestige and respectability for a community that could afford to have one in a permanent dance-hall, and piano players developed a standard way of providing chordal accompaniments for Celtic folk dance tunes.
Revival of Celtic Traditional Music
It was changing ideas of what constituted middle-class respectability that eventually dismissed Celtic traditional music to the invisible underworld of lower-class culture by the beginning of the 20th century. Sentimental music-hall tunes came to be what most people thought of as 'Irish music,' and Celtic music survived publicly in only a few specialised venues, like marching pipe bands. Traditional fiddlers, however, continued to perform in rural areas, even as the folk bagpipes had survived there. Some precious recordings were made of early 20th-century virtuoso fiddlers, like Michael Coleman from Sligo. The tradition thus remained unbroken until some musicians in the latter half of the 20th century learned to look at it in a new, more appreciative way and breathed fresh life into it.
Certainly the pioneer in this process was the Irish composer Seán Ó Riada. During the 1950s he began to research both the surviving musical traditions of the Irish Gaeltachtaí, especially sean-nós singing, and the material preserved in older manuscripts, and was impressed by their sophistication and grace, so unlike the coarseness and sentimentality associated with the popular notion of Irish music at the time. He experimented with re-working this music to present it in a modern concert format, at first submitting it to classical orchestration, as in his famous soundtrack for the movie Mise Éire, but then focusing increasingly on instruments found in native folk tradition, played with native techniques. His efforts helped many people in Ireland rediscover the worth of authentic Irish traditional music. One of his most important contributions, however, was bringing together a group of young musicians to play his arrangements. Ceoltóirí Cualann, as the group was called, branched off on their own in the mid-1960s as The Chieftains, one of the most successful and influential traditional music groups in the twentieth century.
As the group included both classically-trained and traditional instrumentalists, it managed to combine multi-layered, tightly controlled arrangements reminiscent of classical chamber music with the wild improvisational quality of folk playing. This unique sound, quite new in Celtic music and yet very faithful to the spirit of the tradition, completely changed the public perception of Irish music and led many musicians to explore Gaelic heritage with a greater awareness of its distinctive traits and of the creative possibilities it presented.
The other major figure at the roots of the Celtic music revival was a young Breton musician named Alain Cochevelou, who is far better-known by his stage name, Alan Stivell. Taught to play the Celtic harp by his father Jord Cochevelou, a Breton cultural activist and a pioneer in the restoration of the native harp tradition, Alan had also been part of a bagad or pipe band, a device used by Breton activists to maintain a Celtic cultural consciousness in young people even during the difficult years when the French government officially persecuted all manifestations of Breton identity. The bagadoù had a pan-Celtic focus, playing music from all six Celtic countries, appreciating and learning from all their traditions. Having been exposed to this wealth of heritage and having absorbed so many techniques from various Celtic sources, Alan Stivell remained faithful to the pan-Celtic ideal while working primarily within the Breton tradition. In the late 1960s and early 1970s he became a sensation on the folk-music scene, first as a harp soloist and then as the leader of a group. His arrangements were daring and unabashedly modern, not shrinking from using electric rock sounds and aggressively enhanced beats, thus disarming those who dismissed everything Celtic as old-fashioned rural backwater music. This approach proved immensely successful with young audiences, and Stivell's pan-Celtic connections quickly made him famous throughout the Celtic world. Groups began to form under his influence in all the Celtic countries, treating Celtic music in an experimental, innovative manner without sacrificing the essence of the tradition.
Among the most influential of the groups that appeared during the 1970s was Planxty, which combined singing with cleverly constructed acoustic instrumental accompaniment. This became an attractive model for new groups such as Ossian in Scotland, Ar Log and Cilmeri in Wales, Bucca in Cornwall, and many others too numerous to list. A somewhat different but equally influential approach was taken by the Bothy Band, which maintained traditional acoustic styles of playing while emphasising the rhythmic drive of the tunes to an unusual degree. Other groups, like Clannad, came to borrow more and more elements from rock and jazz.
This Celtic music revival reached its peak during the 1980s, helped by a cooperative recording industry and by gigantic ongoing music festivals like those at Killarney and Lorient, which regularly feature performers from all six Celtic nations as well as Galicia and Asturies, encouraging the cross-fertilisation of traditions. Since then the number of active groups has dropped, and the mass marketing of Celtic music has brought it more and more into the New Age category, where its mellow and dreamy aspects are emphasised, catering to mainstream culture's romanticised notions of what is Celtic. More groups have also been mixing Celtic material with rock and other popular styles. It is a matter of debate, of course, whether such music represents an innovative continuation of Celtic tradition or whether it is just rock or another commercial genre with some surface Celtic elements added on. Where one draws the line will depend very much on individual tastes and perceptions. It should be noted, however, that as this music comes to be experienced more and more through urban concert halls and through recordings, it has less and less to do with the life of Celtic communities, and thus with Celtic culture. Nevertheless, and in spite of such developments, the revival is still very much alive, and in its wake more and more resources have become available to those who would want to discover and understand the rich tradition of Celtic music in all of its varied manifestations.
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Celtic tradition from both literary and folk sources makes it clear that music was thought to be a powerful medium that could, under the right circumstances, grant access to the Otherworld, or bring about the kind of inner transformation one associated with such visits.
Music and the Otherworld
In the story of the Battle of Mag Tuired, the Dagda makes his Fomorian antagonists helpless by playing the triple strain so skillfully that tears, laughter, or sleep take over their entire consciousness, banishing their original intent. In the Second Branch of the Mabinogi it is the music of the birds of Rhiannon that maintains the trance in which the survivors of the apocalyptic battle of Morddwyd Tyllion feast in the presence of the severed head of Bran the Blessed, hearing him converse with them as though he were alive. The Otherworld messenger who comes to Bran Mac Feabhail and invites him to undertake his journey to the immortal realms describes the land ruled over by Mannanán as lulled by endless choral music which maintains the enchantment of the place.
In more recent folklore, encounters with the fairies are frequently described in terms of enticing music which can lead to a suspension of the sense of time. Professional musicians who hear the music sometimes attempt to reproduce it in their own playing. Some items in the traditional repertoire, usually identified as being from the fairies, are considered to be gifts from the Otherworld. All these examples suggest that music is a link between worlds that takes the listener out of himself and changes him and that, when approached with this in mind, it becomes a sacred art. It is therefore an important component of a Celtic spiritual path.
Performing Celtic Music
How can we engage with existing Celtic musical traditions in a way that brings out what they have to offer as spiritual resources? The best way, of course, is to go from being a passive listener to becoming a performer actually working with the tradition. Since, as we mentioned, everyone has a voice, a good place to start is the purely vocal sean-nós tradition. Don't worry about what you think of the quality of your voice or the limitations of your musical talent. Your primary goal isn't to perform before a critical audience but to get an intimate understanding, through personal experience, of the process of music-making in this tradition.
As we have seen, each singer is expected to provide his own improvised embellishments to the received melody of the song. The melodies given in published song collections are usually unembellished. They are the bare skeletons on which the singer is supposed to put the flesh of a living performance by adding a considerable amount of spontaneously created ornamentation. You will want to listen to traditional singers-either live or recorded-to get a sense of the techniques used to accomplish this, and the kind of sound that is aimed at. You may also want to practice these techniques by imitating certain outstanding performances. However, slavish imitation is not the goal. One hears too many young performers do little more than provide note-for-note reproductions of some famous recorded versions of sean-nós songs. They may do an excellent job of it, and the effect may be quite pleasing, but it completely sidesteps the creative, improvisational element that is at the heart of the tradition.
The primary focus of Celtic song performance is on the music's pulse, linking it to an important theme in Celtic spirituality. Celtic ritual and mythological traditions tend to revolve around the notion of periodicity, of all things changing according to a rhythmic pattern, as winter succeeds summer, striving gives way to repose, death balances life. Music obeys this same cosmic pulse. It oscillates between poles of activity and rest, charging the melody with complex, busy ornamentation at one extreme, then balancing it with long, relaxed held notes at the other. In tempo giusto melodies the pulse will be metrically regular, while in the parlando-rubato style its duration can be varied at will, but the same complementarity of activity and repose within the pulse will apply in all cases. Study the contours of the melody you have chosen to sing to determine how this pulse will manifest within it. Get a sense of how each passage for which you will provide lavish ornamentation must lead to the plateau of a restful held note, then swing back into a phase of improvisational activity. As you do this, be aware that you're expressing an aspect of the pulse of the cosmos, that you are one with its process.
There is yet more to realising the full expressive potential of a melody, however. Before you even attempt to sing it, study the Celtic-language text of the song. Repeat the words aloud, making sure to pronounce the words correctly, and savour their sound. Much traditional Celtic poetry is deliberately alliterative, and the resulting sound-patterns are as much a part of the music of the song as the pitches and durations of the melody.
Then concentrate on feeling how this awareness of the sounds and meanings of the words would affect your treatment of the melody itself. Many sean-nós singers say they tend to give a distinctive ornamentation to those melodic passages that contain words they think are particularly significant in each line of the song. Determine for yourself where those words are, how they fit into the pulse of the melody, and what kind of improvisational treatment you will choose to give them. Only once you have integrated all these elements will your conception of the song be complete.
For musicians who are proficient at playing an instrument and wish to explore the creative and spiritual possibilities of Celtic music on that level, the same understanding of musical pulse will apply, but there will also be wider considerations of compositional form. Certainly one of the best approaches would be an in-depth exploration and practice of ceol mór, in the broader sense we have given the term. Although we have no evidence of such music being put to an explicit religious use, the feeling of intense reverence that the tradition inspired in the musicians of Dennis Hempson's generation does suggest that it was intended to give access to "higher" states than mere mundane consciousness. As such, it had some of the elements of a spiritual discipline and a sacred calling. As happens so often when we look to the roots of Celtic culture, we can turn to India for a useful model of a classical music tradition with spiritual underpinnings. This model seems all the more appropriate since it shares many stylistic traits with Celtic music, including a similar concept of ornamentation.
Typically, Indian musical development also follows a theme-and-variations pattern, though with a looser definition of 'theme.' The 'ground' consists of a particular modal sequence which is at first explored slowly, interval by interval, then turns into a recognisable melody, which undergoes a series of rhythmic variations, usually at an ever-accelerating tempo, until the piece ends with a brief restatement of the original theme. The constantly changing melodic line represents an individual experience in time, while the drone accompaniment suggests the immutable, primal sound of the Universe. When the soloist has stopped the drone goes on for a few moments, reminding us that the eternal music of the world is always there, regardless of what we focus on in the foreground. Each classical music performance, then, is a spiritual experience and is implicitly an offering to Sarasvati, the goddess of music and of all artistic creativity, and many pieces with sung texts are intended to be explicit praises of various divinities. This is not difficult to translate into a Celtic context. A musical performance can be presented as an offering to deities of poetic inspiration who are traditionally linked to harpers and to creative endeavour of all kinds, like Bríd and Lúgh. Choosing a theme and then subjecting it to a series of changes, using the traditional variation techniques of ceol mór and perhaps extending it with new ones (such as fitting the theme into various traditional dance forms, or subjecting it to completely new rhythmic patterns), then returning the theme to its original shape, can readily serve as a meditation on the cycles of transformation so evident in Celtic myths.
Music in Ritual
We have no certain knowledge of what pre-Christian ritual music sounded like. However, we do have some evidence of the development of Celtic musical tradition. From this, we can make some educated guesses as to what kinds of music would sound right in such a context, and what kinds would not. We have seen, for instance, that certain modal patterns seem to be characteristic of a more ancient heritage within Celtic music than others. We also have types of music like the formal lament and Ossianic chant, which are related to ritual and may well have pre-Christian roots, and which can thus provide a clue to the kind of sound appropriate to a ritual in Celtic tradition. Think of it this way: one of the best ways to show respect for an elder is to listen to what they have to say. Often what they want to tell you is what happened to them long ago. Sometimes they want to tell you what they learned. Other times, they just want you to laugh with them. Mostly they want you to listen. Learning lore is a way of listening to the elders who are no longer with you, of showing respect, of demonstrating that their ways and knowledge are important to you. And you may even learn from them.
Is Galician Music "Celtic"?
Anyone who spends some time in Celtic music milieus will sooner or later become aware of the alleged Celtic traditions of northwestern Spain. Musical groups from Galicia and Asturies are regularly invited to pan-Celtic music festivals. Musicians from other Celtic countries have taken an interest in their material-the Chieftains, for example, have dedicated an entire album to the music of Galicia and other parts of northern Spain. Galicia is sometimes listed as 'the seventh Celtic nation.' And yet pan-Celtic organisations like the Celtic League and the Pan-Celtic Congress have always refused to recognise Galicia as a Celtic nation on a par with the other six. Who, then, has the right of it?
Galicia, or Galiza, as it is called in the native language, does indeed have Celtic roots. As its name indicates, it was originally the tribal territory of the Gallaeci, just as their eastern neighbours, the Astures, are still remembered in the name of the province of Asturies. These areas came under Roman rule in the 2nd century BCE and were eventually assimilated into the culture of the Empire. When the Western Empire fell apart in the 5th century CE, most of northern Spain found itself under the rule of a Germanic tribe, the Suevi, who in subsequent centuries were able to fend off the Moorish tide that took over the rest of the peninsula, and thus remained integrated with Christian Europe. During the same period colonists from Britain, part of the emigration movement that also led to the settlement of Brittany, established themselves in Galicia, where they founded monasteries in the Celtic Christian tradition. However, by the end of the 7th century these ethnic religious communities had been forced back into the Roman mainstream, and the Celtic-speakers became Romance-speakers. The present-day Galician language is closely related to Portuguese.
Nevertheless, this area remained quite different from the rest of Spain, never having been under Moorish domination and thus never having absorbed the Arab elements that so strongly influenced Spanish culture elsewhere. Galicia and Asturies are, not surprisingly, much more like other parts of western Europe, like France and Britain and Ireland. During the 19th century a greater awareness of these cultural differences and a growing resentment of Castilian rule led to the birth of Galician nationalism, and to the elaboration of a Galician national mythos by writers and poets such as Manuel Murguía and Eduardo Pondal. Using traditions about Celtic settlements, and placing a huge emphasis on Lebor Gabála Érenn, which has the Gaels coming to Ireland from Spain, they created a Romantic "Celtic" identity for the Galician people. It remains an important element of the culture to this day, leading Galician writers to draw on Celtic literature for many of their themes, and bringing about a general desire for close relations with the Celtic world, fulfilled most successfully at music festivals. Galicia's piping tradition is often pointed to as proof of its Celtic connection, although, as we have seen, bagpipes were once widespread throughout rural Europe and are no indicator of a Celtic heritage.
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Eye Apatow is actually a right up-coming younger celebrity, an american Television and flick actress, and you can a daughter away from a few Movie industry superstars. The woman is probably most commonly known to own lookin about Netflix hit let you know “Love”, and also the movie “Banged Up”.
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Iris Apatow came into this world into , within the Los Banos, Ca Us; their father is known director and you will producer Judd Apatow, along with her mother is actually celebrity Leslie Mann. Judd and you will Leslie fulfilled inside 1996 when you are Judd try doing the fresh new cult motion picture “The latest Wire Guy”, and you may Leslie is actually applying for a job inside it. And here it fell crazy, and you will married for the nine June 1997.
Eye was out-of Caucasian ancestry. Their father originated in good Jewish Ashkenazi friends, primarily from Russia and you may Latvia, and her mother is of Irish, German, and you may Finnish ancestry.
The Apatow friends transferred to Nyc, which is where Judd was created, and you will where Eye spent a part of their lifestyle, nonetheless after gone back to Ca, in which Iris attended the personal preparatory Crossroads College regarding Arts and Sciences, prior to and this she is actually most likely homeschooled. She has just went to their prom evening, because this woman is matriculating afterwards within the 2021, and documented this new agreements for it on her Instagram and TikTok accounts.
She’s not spoken in public places regarding their coming arrangements, whether she will enroll towards an effective college, otherwise concentrate on the lady acting profession.
Expanding up with this lady mothers in the movie industry, it comes because no wonder one to nothing Eye already been acting during the a highly early age. This lady first towards the-screen looks was in identical movies their mom got opportunities within the, first and foremost to tackle Pete’s daughter Charlotte on the intimate funny “Kicked Up” which showed up in the 2007. Judd delivered they, and you may one another Leslie and you may Maude played inside it. Next motion picture she was working in is actually the new funny “Funny Someone” during 2009, in which the lady mother played.
Eye next got a break off pretending, also it was not until 2012 whenever she starred in another flick, ”This is exactly 40”. The woman mother got a leading role in it, Iris played Ingrid, and you may Judd composed, led, and you may introduced which film too. Judd spoke regarding making this motion picture, proclaiming that nothing Iris is a funny wizard.
Iris got other break out of pretending, until several years later on inside the 2016 when she voiced Coconut Dairy, Grape and you will Berry Good Candies about move comedy ”Sausage Class”. In the same seasons San Diego best hookup apps, she appeared in the newest Netflix Tv struck let you know ”Love” you to the woman father delivered, to try out Arya Hopkins; this was the original project Iris are working in instead her brother Maude.
In 2017 she appeared in the brand new short film ”Spendtime Castle: Sonora”, to try out Emily, opposite Finn Wolfhard (most popular for the significantly applauded hit inform you ”Stranger Something” and you can a smash hit headache flick ”It”). This short flick was a musical films having a track because of the Finn’s ring, and you can was his first test on creating and you may pointing.
Iris’s community remains in early level, but the woman is become vitally applauded for every single part the woman is had very much.
Broadening upwards since a child away from Movie industry celebs generated both Eye and her sister really defensive of the individual lives.
not, Eye has arrived away just like the a member of the fresh new LGBTQ+ community. She grabbed so you can Instagram within the 2020 and you may shared an image of Naya Rivera, regarding the caption where Iris thanked Naya to have enabling the lady come to terms with the lady sex.
The public cannot know anything from the Iris’s previous romantic relationships, or if the woman is even had any; evidently she is already single.
Since one member of an earlier age group, Iris’s expanding upwards was indivisible regarding social network. She is really effective into Instagram and has now had a free account on you to community for quite some time, even though up until she is actually thirteen years old, itaccount was being handled by the this lady parents. She is come handling they for her own since that time features gathered nearly half a million supporters.
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Iris possess a funnel to the YouTube, which have 140,000 followers. Currently, the newest station include just around three films, all of which was basically published during the 2017, and all sorts of them generate-right up lessons.
She along with her cousin prefer to laugh the dad, and often article awkward films and you may images out of your on their social media. Often, jokingly, she calls him Hollywood Dick.
Iris appears to be close friends having Finn Wolfhard, because they follow one another into social network and work together extremely tend to. She actually is in addition to nearest and dearest which have Olivia Rodrigo, an early singer rising.
Inside 2018 Eye and you will Maude went along to a beneficial Chanel and NRCD (Sheer Resources and Defense Council) celebratory food due to their mommy. In the a job interview for us Journal Leslie discussed the way the three of them like spending time together, as well as how preparing for the function ran.
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Apparently Maude looks a lot more like its dad, but Iris carries a bold similarity in order to this lady mother Leslie. Iris try 5ft7ins (170 cm) extreme and you can weighs in at as much as 110lbs (50kgs), that have vital statistics out of 32-26-32.
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Iris’s fundamental income source could have been pretending, along with her online really worth could have been projected in excess of $250,100 at the time of .
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if 1 is added to another 1, then we can get something different – a 2. 2 has a different character than 1..
It might be argued that similarly, when we put red with yellow, an orange comes out. A colour with its own character that is independent from the yellow and red. It needs not to have a constant reference to either colours for being itself. A bit like 1.9 that isn’t entirely 2 – though nearly 2 – and therefore is in constant reference to 1..
These ways of creativity, ways that create through processes of utilising propositions – IFs – towards outcomes, is via, or from, calculations of quantities. Even in the case of colours – which I think could be said re sounds, genes and other materials – the focus is on calculation of outcomes. The fact that there ARE outcomes, that differ from the calculative ingredients, make for creative processes.
Hence the focus on the outcome which seems to resolve the propositions. If 1 and 1 then we get something different, a 2.
The interesting element in my mind here is that such calculative processes, when note A played with note G at the same time, will create a different sound that could transcend the A and G, like 2 does to 1+1 and orange to yellow and red. This kind of creativity, with the focus on quantities and relational calculative qualities – ie if 2+2 is 4 and 4 is more than 1, then X might be, as well as have, more than Y.
At least in a conflated way that sounds logical. (eg, rich people deserve their higher quality of life because of their quantities.)
This kind of processes that produce and focus on the transformed, doing stuff for getting some other things which were the intent, seems to miss possibly other kinds of creativities and at the same time deny them.
Ofcourse, we have more pre-outcomes focused processes which emphasis Ways of getting desired outcomes – eg 1.5+0.5 is 2 as well as 502-500, and so on. And indeed, these processes at getting 2 alter some of 2’s qualities. (like nicking 2 pounds will have a different effect upon the person than earning it, or receiving it as a gift, etc. The effects might come to light over time and in the way the person – and/or context – might perceive itself and each other. However, it seems fair to say that the 2 pounds’ character can be argued to be of different qualities.)
However, how about simply the sense of stuff like 1 + 1? It sounds stupid or absurd to consider just on its own because it is made with a resolution in mind. However, say when we get into paying VAT, when a person that earns 100 a second and one that earns 0.1 a second, will pay the same amount of tax – eg, 20% of value – then we get into justifications of such activities via the logic of 1 + 1. We don’t earn the same amount, but why would I need to pay more just because my 1 + 1 is bigger than yours?
Indeed, when we get into the logic of sizable organisations – the kind of bodies that are too large to fail* – then the Size of the numbers involved alters the very Nature of the Operation. If we keep adding 1 + 1 the operation has different qualities to 111 + 111, etc. The 111 contains the 1 – or any element under it – eg 110 – and because of that size of effect, can seem to be too big to fail. If 111 wasn’t here anymore, it might affect all the numbers it is made up of, they might go as well.
..and this kind of if-then argument can be done precisely when calculative creativity is all the rage in culture.
When the focus alters to the process, it seems that as the case with size, the Nature of creativity alters as well.
*In that context it might be curious to note that despite their size, States are NOT TOO big to fail. Indeed, this might be a hole in the process of my thinking, and I hope it can be opened up by others. However, the reason(?) am going over it, is that beside the power relations questions, there might be a codependency question of power too. eg, a Relative small state is not too large to fail because others, in the realms of state powers, are larger – and they are the ones that can not fail. However, in the realms of profit and money earning based organisations, while a high street shop can fail, the bank that profited from its fail – can not in itself fall. (am talking about thought processes and their own logics, rather than attempting to justify. Perhaps a truth without a reconcilliation..)
The focus on pre outcome process shows, I think, that indeed such process have their own nature. A nature of 1+1 that is in and of itself both independent from 1 and 1, as well as independent from a 2.. In that way, the calculative creativity is missing something that is either an ingredient of, or beyond – the questions of quantity and quality.
Perhaps we have here an operative creativity?
A process that focuses on the creation of operations – rather than their quantities nor qualities.
The operation of 1 + 1? A ThenLess operation. It is an operation of senses, of being, of creating a sense of being rather than creativity through outcomes other than its own being.
The sense operates knowing not a then. It can not perform because it known no cause nor outcome to calculate and perform with, for or to. The sense is full of indifferent wonder. A wonder that is fuelled by an inevitable demise. Hence when we sense, its a bit like surfing waves in a rather quick succession?
Am I arguing here that sensations do not perform but operate? Can it be that the very operation of sensations – creates the sensations? I think possibly yes.
Sensing green? sensing green? sensing green? Sensing greeN? Sensssing Green? SensinGGreen? (Oh! here comes a sound of A minor..) Sensing Green as an A minor? Sensing A mirror as green? Sensing green A-minor? The sense of green, at any rate is not there any more.
Can it do a come back?
However that will be in a different time – by definition.
Ok. Since the sense lives via propagation over time rather than propagation of object/s or entities, perhaps time is a constitutional element in this language?
The 1 + 1 creates a 2 and both loses itself in 2 and gains new life there.
1 + 1 between 1 and 1 and 2, propagates itself through possibilities that time offers.
The if/then are focused on time rather than a transformation of the operation. Instead of 1 + 1 is transformed to 2, there is 1 + 1 that rolls on through time as long as time allows.
The sense, in this way can be said to Be very childish. It can not propagate other than by peing dependent on time and links with other senses that might be of beats that do not smash it to pieces.
Yes, this view is very much like that of the religious, in my view. Perhaps that is one of the hard things about it to accept. For me. In me. Am being Ify about these thoughts.
However, it seems that perhaps there is a radical difference with the religious. The difference of being. While the religious lives as senses that fancy themselves over others, and in constant awareness of possible demise, the fear induces violence. The propagation of repetitions, ceremonies, stories, habits, mannerisms, with fear, anxiety and a constant threat of violence.
However, the senses do not have to be imagined as such.
I think the religious is missing the element of allowing the senses to evolve. Mainly to die and take time to take them, but without that evolution is dead too..
therefore, instead of the language of restraint, fear, anxiety, tampered wonder, shame and violence, it seems that here a different language is attempting to be formed. An abstarct one. One that can live as an abstract, need tot be transformed into something else to gain its vitality.
Like the sense of 2 in the abstract language of numbers. Like the sound of A in the latin oriented alphabet. The sense of, for example, wondrous, or uselessness, or wonderousUselessness – are indeed abstracts. Abstracts rather than abstractions that while pointing at possible other elements – eg the wonder of gaps in pavements, as 2 may point at two letters, and two letters eg E and B might point to a term “BE” – they are independent of these specific instances.
Blue can be blue of sky (instance) or of a toe nail – yet it can be as itself. This is not re Perfect Blueness, its just a sense of being blueness that, as an abstract can evolve too precisely because it isn’t something particular, Precisely because it is an abstract.
Unlike Blue though, and because of the religious link, I think to be sure of the possible radical difference, this language has to be able to operate in physicality that requires minimal investment of material resources. A bit like numbers, in that way. I can do a 2 just like that. Blue, as a colour is slightly different.
A from the sense of abundanceness might seem appropriate for a wave such as:
A if ^^^^ ?
However, at times this seems insufficient because the same A is also an A of Apple, and the A of if A + B = X, etc..
The 2 for example, in its physicality, is better than the roman || kind of thing because it makes it distinguishable as its own entity.
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on 08MAY2009 from Art
Many wonderful things about the first night's show. Van definitely came to play.
Fantastic first set.. From Caravan forward, he hit it out of the park.
AW set was fine.. overshadowed by the great first set.
on 08MAY2009 from Boom
the sound was stellar...the Orpheum is a great old theatre...from what I could tell not a bad seat in the house unless you are far left facing the stage due to 15 musicians on stage...they are spread from one end to the other in the stage.
Highlights last night were Help Me...great jazzy-blues intro plus Van signing with the harmonica mic...at time playing and growling at the same time. Also a beautiful Sweet Thing with the transition into Burning Ground..he threw the MF down.
There were a few times I thought the band would burst into flames they were playing with such intensity. It was a great long-long-long-long-long-rise ride to a town called Paradise along the ancient highway last night.
on 08MAY2009 from Michael
So it's come to this... Perhaps the closing ceremonies on one of the most meaningful Van tours in Van fan history. Starting out just months ago right here in the great LA where an electrified crowd bore witness to the mystical and revered Astral Weeks cover to cover live like never before.
On the road to NY and London for shows that built show after show rolling back to Vans fav of San Francisco this past weekend and now here we are back where it all started for a trio of perported closing ceremonies.
IF that's the case... How sad for us all and for legions of fans everywhere that haven't been able to transcend ...
I believe we've transcended... In fact I know we have and what a journey that really shouldn't end.
Van, we know you read these so consider the greater part of the US and many European countries that haven't borne witness yet and even though the soon to be released video will share that magical November night--- put us all on railway carriage charms and continue this adventure into the mystic. Please.
if you are near an airport get a ticket and be on this train before it pulls out of the station for what may be the last time...
on 08MAY2009 from wkoon68
The first set was pure dynamite, as good as I have heard Van ever do, equal at least to the last Wiltern show. The band (can a "band" have two cellos?) was outstanding, truly outstanding. The second part of the evening Astral Weeks was to my ears very flabby and flat. No encore.
on 09MAY2009 from Live Daily (Phil Gallo)
Rather than taking a victory lap to celebrate his reclamation of his earliest masterpiece, "Astral Weeks," Van Morrison [ tickets ] is digging deeper into the 40-year-old album's maze of openings, lush walkways and scenic vistas. His performance Thursday on the first of three nights at the Orpheum Theater, about eight miles from where he recorded "Astral Weeks Live at the Hollywood Bowl" in November, found the Belfast Cowboy engaged and caring, not just about the material, but the dynamics of the presentation as well.
Veteran acts have found anniversaries provide an excellent marketing hook to revisit classic works that, for a multitude of reasons, never were heard live. Most notably, Brian Wilson did it with "Pet Sounds" and The Zombies with "Odessey & Oracle," but in Morrison's case it's a return to his earliest solo experiment. "Astral Weeks" is a gateway for him to reconnect with a portion of his past that has not been rehashed over and over. The concert is an exploration of his open-ended melange of jazz, blues, folk and beat poetry in the manner in which it was created.
The openness of "Astral Weeks," released in 1968 but never followed up with a tour, would influence "Moondance" and some future albums, but the expansiveness of the material, the lyrics presented as incantations and the striking interplay between acoustic rhythm guitar and upright bass would never be repeated so thoroughly.
For the Hollywood Bowl shows, Morrison went for a nearly identical re-creation of the album, and the resulting live album, released on Listen to the Lion Records, confirms the reports that Morrison put on a show for the ages on those nights.
The second go-round opens the doors for Morrison to expand a bit, find spots to growl, repeat a few more phrases or let the music linger while the violist or one of the guitarists stretches out for a few bars. "Slim Slow Slider," with the previously unrecorded "I Start Breaking Down" added as a coda, was the third song in the set and the first one Morrison attacked with vigor. The band followed his signals impeccably, rising and dropping out when he thrust his arm through the air, allowing the song to unfold rather than drape, his mumbles, whispers and shouts marrying perfectly with the ambling melody. He followed with a deliciously emphatic "Sweet Thing" and an elegant "Cyprus Avenue," complete with harpsichord.
"Astral Weeks" was performed with the same 10-member band that appears on the new album, with the guitarist from the initial session, Jay Berliner, seated up front alongside Morrison.
The group expands to 14 in the first half of the show and on the finale, "Listen to the Lion." While it's only three extra musicians, it ensures that "Listen to the Lion" has a climatic push; the music swells and informs the audience that this has been a journey, not one that makes a whole lot of sense lyrically, but one that concludes on a peak with majestic views. It's visceral and enthralling.
The finale provides a contrast to the rest of "Astral Weeks" as well, enhancing the perception that Morrison is relishing the depth of field being explored. We've all felt bands driving through their material; this is rare instance of an act burrowing underground. The layering of instruments, the counterpoint and contrasts--Morrison's jazz sensibilities are intact. He has ensured that there is an airiness to the music, that Miles Davis quality wherein the notes not played can be just as significant as the ones that are.
The performance's 12-song first half, which had its pluses and minuses, shared many of the qualities of the last several Morrison tours, in which he brings together instruments from his jazz band (assembled in 2003 for "What's Wrong With this Picture?") country unit ("Pay the Devil" in 2006) and R&B-and-then-some act (last year's "Keep It Simple").
The larger ensemble dipped into a bag of obscurities--"Northern Muse Solid Ground" from 1982's "Beautiful Vision," "Troubadours" from 1979s' "Into the Music" and "Queen of the Slipstream" from 1987's "Poetic Champions Compose"--in addition to several of his classics. "Caravan" received a "Last Waltz"-inspired treatment; "Moondance" continues to be performed in a swing band style; and despite "Wild Night" and "And It Stoned Me" making it into the set, both were given half-baked performances.
Morrison was prodding his band in the early-going, and it paid off with a passionate reading of the 50-year-old pop classic "It's All in the Game." Evening closed with the inevitable "Gloria," but he shook things up a bit by having the band play another gem from his days in Them, "Mystic Eyes," during the intro.
on 08MAY2009 from Hollywood Reporter (Erik Pedersen)
There is no shortage of Van Morrison songs on classic rock radio, but they don't come from "Astral Weeks." His landmark 1968 album slung meandering melodies over iconoclastic music while thumbing a nose at traditional structure.
So when he and a 14-piece band re-created it during the first of three nights at the sadly underused Orpheum in downtown Los Angeles, the song cycle was allowed to drift, breathe and evolve. And Morrison -- notorious for his occasional indifference onstage -- appeared to be relishing it.
A rock veteran playing a classic album live in its entirety remains a welcome trend in the iPod Age, and "Astral Weeks" is a prime candidate for the treatment. Recorded in two days with a handful of jazzy session players, its songs have a deliberate randomness; some end abruptly, as if Morrison had been making them up as he went along and just decided he was done.
The album was never a hit with the public -- a fact reflected by plenty of empty seats (a $350 top ticket price didn't help). And he had played it in full during a two-night stand at the Hollywood Bowl in November that spawned a live album and DVD, the latter of which streets May 19.
But "Astral Weeks" is revered by its faithful, and the live setting allowed Morrison to look back on it with the wisdom of years. He tinkered with not only its sound but also the track list. It was as if he felt he was perfecting what he'd started as a 22-year-old four decades earlier.
The show began with a career-spanning hour of songs that ranged from pleasant to stirring but was light on radio hits; even "Moondance" was given an extra-jazzy arrangement. Morrison alternated on piano, sax, guitar and harmonica as the band conjured swing, country, Irish folk, '40s and '50s pop and any number of other genres.
All rumpled cool in his shades, hat and leather jacket, the 63-year-old Belfast native unleashed that singular voice that melds so many musical styles. His calculated mumble,slur and trademark phrasing -- has he sung any song exactly the same way twice? -- frayed into a scat here and a soulful shout there. All the while he quarterbacked the sprawling, ultratight band that encompassed too many instruments to name, including many generally dissociated from rock.
After a break, an offstage voice announced, "Ladies and gentlemen, 'Astral Weeks.' " As it began, several in the audience were heard shushing talkers.
The pliable songs were written for embellishment and experimentation, and the band -- including a four-piece string section and two percussionists -- went with Morrison's stream-of-consciousness vocal vibe. The breezy beauty of "Beside You" fairly oozed from the stage. "Sweet Thing" was simply riveting, with flute, fiddle and upright bass making it shimmer as the star sang about the one with the champagne eyes and saint-like smile.
As he readied to wrap the hourlong "Astral Weeks" set with the cherished epic "Madame George," Morrison broke the fourth wall. He said cryptically and without explanation, "I didn't really look at this from the point of view of a comedy album before, but ... ."
And he trailed off.
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HOW TO HANDLE WHEN YOU'RE PROVOKED?
Learn from Politicians, how to be civil despite feeling angry. They must work with one another to accomplish anything in government. In fact, you might never suspect the depth of their true feelings, listening them address bitter rivals as "esteemed colleagues."
Put your anger to work
Anytime you are provoked, it should wake you up and make you work harder.
Give others a benefit of doubt. When someone appears to ignore what you have said, consider that he/she might be ill or hard of hearing.
Dont let pride get in the way
Ego and anger go hand in hand. If you succumb to one it is bad. Succumbing to both is like 1+1=11
Look behind the anger
You have to look beyond the immediate words. When a child performs poorly, isn't our anger directed to teachers as we put the blame on them. Yet they are sensitive to our grief.
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I wanted the tank to be automatically agitated and heated. And I wanted it to make inspection of the PCB while etching to be easy so I could tell when to remove the PCB. With that established I bought a sheet of 4mm plexiglass, some silicone sealant, a 300W adjustable water heater with a temperature range suitable for the etchant, a thermometer with a plastic coated sensor that could be submerged in the etchant without disappearing at a molecular level, some PVC hose, some angled hose fittings, and some furniture feet pads. And I dug out an old aquarium air pump that I had floating around already.
First I cut all the plexiglass pieces needed to build a tall vertical tank with a base plate for stability. The original plan was to glue it all together with the silicone sealant. But holding the pieces together while the sealant cured turned out to be tricky. So I figured I would try to tack it together by temporarily melting the plexiglass with acetone. Ant that turned out to work way better than I had anticipated. So I ended up gluing the hole tank together with acetone. It seemed to be very strong and completely water tight. Even though I could find no leaks while testing the tank I added a small seam of silicon sealant to each joint just in case.
To glue the plexiglass together I first smoothed the cut edges by sanding them, and then held them together while applying acetone using a dispenser syringe with a 0.21mm ID needle. Luckily the dispenser syringes I have seems to be pretty resistant to acetone.
The acetone quickly wicked into the seam and dissolved the outer surface of each part causing them to fuse together. Then after a few seconds enough acetone had evaporated that I could let go of the parts without anything falling apart. After the acetone had completely evaporated the two pieces almost seemed like they where one. Had I knew up front how well this worked I would have put a bit more work into making the edges smooth.The most level edges made really nice joints that looked like it had been molded that way. Those that was a bit rougher (most of them) had lots of air bubbles trapped in them. But not to the extent that it would cause any leaks. I also started out with another syringe that had a short much thicker plastic nozzle, and that lead to a bit of spilled acetone on the plastic. That lead to a rough surface that in some areas would turn white when getting wet. But none of this flaws affects the performance of the tank, so I didn’t bother starting over from scratch when I had it all figured out. The tank has been in used and constantly filled with etchant for two years now, and are still going strong.
After mounting the bottom plate and the four side plates I made a lid for the top. The top of the tank is covered by tree pieces of plexiglass. One just big enough to drill a hole for the water heater and one smaller piece with holes for an air hose and the temperature sensor wire. Those two pieces are permanently glued to the top of the tank after drilling the mentioned holes.
The removable lid is made from a larger piece of plexiglass with two small plexiglass “rails” glued to the bottom. The rails are placed so that they fit closely into the tank, and they extend slightly outside one edge of the lid so they will grab under one of the fixed pieces of the top when the lid is put in place.
Now the tank can be heated by inserting the temperature controlled water heater through the large hole in the top. The heater I used looks just like the usual aquarium heater. But at 300W it is a bit more powerful than most aquarium heaters. And it has a thermostat that can be set to more than 70°C. Which I guess would make a well cooked fish soup out of an aquarium, but is perfect for an etch tank. The optimal temperature for the etchant I use is 60°C, which is easily attained with a little tuning of the heater thermostat. To make it easier to tune the termostate I also installed a thermometer in the tank. I found one made for aquariums that have a fully plastic coated sensor. To be able to make the sensor wire fit as closely as possible I opened the main unit of the thermometer and desoldered the sensor wire. Then I threaded it through the hole in the tank top from the inside and soldered it back into the thermometer.To agitate the tank I first joined two pieces of PVC hose with a 90° plastic fitting. One short piece just long enough to reach across the bottom of the tank, and one longer that would exit the top of the tank and be hooked to an air pump. The shorter fully submerged hose had a lot of tiny holes drilled along it’s full length, and the end was plugged, before it was glued to a piece of plexiglass to make sure it stayed straight. By pumping air down the hoses air bubbles would form along the whole bottom of the tank and help circulate the etchant and remove the small oxygen bubbles that is produced when etching from the PCB.
This setup had a couple of flaws. At first it seemed to work fine. But after a few weeks the hose loosened from the plexiglass and started to buckle a bit. The plastic had apparently reacted with the etchant in some way and now had a slightly sticky surface. After a few more weeks the plastic fitting had a catastrophic failure and broke in two. I guess the plastic used in that one had become a bit to intimate with the etchant as well. So I plan to make a plexiglass box with holes drilled at the top for bubble generation and a larger hole in one end for the air hose. The plexiglass does not seem to mind being in contact with the etchant. But right now I just use a long silicone hose that curves in the corner and have holes drilled along the part that follow the bottom of the tank. It works in a pinch, but is not perfect.
Whenever the tank is filled with etchant I keep it inside another big plastic container. When the air pump is running without the lid on it will cause a little splatter around the tank. By keeping it inside another container this cause less problems. And it makes it all a lot safer if the tank should catastrophically fail or accidentally topple over.
In addition to the slight issues with the air bubble system, there is one more thing still missing. And that is a simple and efficient way to hold the PCB while etching. Until now I have drilled a small hole in two of the corners of the PCB and tied a plastic fish line between each hole and a small plastic rod that I then place across the top of the tank. This is not ideal since it don’t provide any support for the bottom of the PCB. So it tend to flop around a bit due to the bubbles. This is not a big issue though, as it does not seem to affect the performance in any adverse way. But it also prevent me from putting the lid on while etching, so splattering becomes a problem.
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This past weekend was ITP’s annual winter show, which marks the end of our Fall semester. I decided not to submit any of my own work because the incredibly slick Yale Evelev of Luaka Bop made my Gamelan Orchestra an offer we could not refuse: to play four amazing nights at The Stone, John Zorn’s well regarded experimental and avant-garde performance space.
Yale went to Indonesia for the first time in 1979 and was struck by the casual ambience of gamelan and wayang kulit performances in the villages of Java. “…The audience and the performers were on the same level and interspersed,” Yale explained. “It was magical for me hearing these sonorities up close without the distance of a stage and the normal formalities of a western concert.” He wanted to recreate this experience by pairing us with some amazing acts, one of which I have been following for quite some time.
I first discovered Lucky Dragons, the band/art-collective consisting of Luke Fischbeck and Sarah Rara, while researching fabric capacitive sensors for a touch-sensitive curtain. I was directed to their “Make a Baby” project and became hooked on their music. Lucky Dragons often require their audience to touch each other in order to complete a circuit, creating electronic sound with their interaction. This basic model effectively translates a pure human-to-human experience to the digital world.
I once again found myself next to the big gong and directly front and center to their performance. Lucky Dragons tuned their electronic instruments to our metallophones’ pentatonic scale, often blending seamlessly to our music but adding their own sonic signatures as well. After the concert, I gave Sarah Rara our big gong’s offering of flowers. She was reluctant at first, because she had heard the gongs don’t like to share. I explained our gong was very giving and that the wilted flowers would end up in the trash otherwise. She accepted them.
Before the shows at The Stone, I found myself with something I haven’t had in several months — free time. It was great because I had so many things to catch up on, but I ended up spending most of it passed out in bed. My final projects were time-sensitive and site-specific, a combination which led to pure exhaustion.
My Big Screens project, presenting a 12.5 foot deep pool in the lobby of a Frank Gehry building, went well. It was accepted as one of the videos to play in rotation at the IAC, which is great news, except now we have to multiply our 11,520 by 1,080 resolution video to 12,000 by 1,200 resolution, a real rendering nightmare.
My other big project, creating a musical instrument for the 10th annual ITP New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME) show at Cameo Gallery, did not go as smoothly because the venue was completely packed. Three performers followed the beat of four musical loops from different genres, broadcast over FM radio. The pants I wore were embedded with piezo discs, allowing me to amplify the more subtle noise of the pants’ fabric. Some of them unfortunately broke in the middle of the set, but we trudged through anyway. Thanks to the strong performers I collaborated with, Michell J. Cardona and Johann Diedrick, the show was a total blast.
But now comes the hard question of what to do next. I can follow up on the pants project for my thesis as a case study of implementing new technologies to traditional ethnic folk theatre. On the other end of the spectrum, my gamelan orchestra is relying on me to ensure new technologies won’t interfere with their classical music, especially for our upcoming Javanese Wayang Kulit (shadow puppet theatre) show on March 16, 2012 at Asia Society. I am grateful for the break between semesters to digest what I’ve learned. Hopefully by January won’t be regurgitating false notions about new media and the traditional arts, but rather gestating a novel model for the two to co-exist. For now, I am happy to simply reflect on the amazing year I have had. There are greater things to come. But they can wait. | <urn:uuid:04b2f385-e994-403c-ae2e-406a09a18084> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | http://magazine.art21.org/2011/12/21/open-enrollment-the-pool-the-pants-and-the-performance/ | 2023-09-23T18:43:38Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.967397 | 892 |
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(Note to our non-American readers: today we celebrate Columbus Day in the USA. Had he sailed in the service of his homeland, the Republic of Genoa, the language of much of the New World would be Italian instead of Spanish. An interesting detail is that he never acknowledged that he had found a new continent.)
If Columbus had not carried some shoots of sugar cane from the Canary Islands to the West Indies on his second voyage, somebody else would have, eventually.
(Sugar cane, a grass, is native to some Pacific Islands, but it spread to India and then around the warm parts of the world. Sugar is good.)
The West Indies proved to be a good place to grow sugarcane. Once the natives were wiped out in hard labor on the Spanish and French cane plantations, importing slaves from Africa was economically sensible if morally indefensible. Thus began the slave trade to the New World and, eventually, the cane/molasses/rum/slave circuit.
We visited Columbus' nice house on Grand Canaria in Las Palmas last fall. By sailing ship, of all things. It is still a nice big handsome house.
Cane is still grown to some extent on the Canaries, and they are proud of their rum, Arehucas.
The first slaves were brought from Ireland, but with their fair complexions they could not handle the tropical climate, so over time were replaced by African slaves, although African slaves cost much more than Irish slaves.
We do not have it here in Canada. I know the day is controversial as Columbus was involved in the slave trade. However, he was a man of his times. In future years, we will be criticized for not at first, endorsing gay marriage, or the legalization of Marijuana.
Therefore, as compensation, the U.S. must strive to make the descendants of those slave's lives far better than it would be if they still lived in their ancestral homeland. Then their forebearers can take comfort in knowing their sacrifice was not for nothing.
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President Joe Biden begins the general election venture year within a rally inside Maryland on Aug. twenty five. (Danielle Age. Gaines/Maryland Things)
Chairman Biden’s choice to help you forgive as much as $20 online title loans South Dakota,100 inside the outstanding college loans keeps reignited discussion over the commitments from taxpayers, students in addition to their group so you can suffer a “discover now, pay after” system that has been for some a path to indentured obligation rather than a portal to help you stretched chance.
It has in addition opened yet another ideological split within our nation over the experience of the fresh haves and then have-nots to your an education pathway one to shifts all of a sudden shortly after senior high school as to what we while the a culture really worth and purchase in order to what we with each other valorize since the an individual investment decision. You are on their once you walk off you to highschool graduation phase, though i let you know that what you do 2nd usually shape a life of money, reputation and you may regard.
Talking about important things to address. And it’s really fair to ask if or not Biden’s obligations forgiveness plan tend to help to fix the underlying factors that cause inequities within our large training program. But I’ve figured new arguments up against Biden’s package, tend to waged from the those of my many years exactly who preferred a personal debt-100 % free college education, can sound specious and you may uncaring in comparison to the experience of a creation ensnared into the a great predatory credit design you to definitely glamorized pros and you may camouflaged will set you back.
These types of observations depend on personal sense. Basic, once the a school scholar just who benefited off substantial federal and state educational funding. Following, decades later on, as a member of Oregon’s advanced schooling board and you may sofa out of brand new state’s Advanced schooling Complimentary Fee, in which we wrestled constantly to your circumstances regarding access and affordability.
I was a portion of the work to grow brand new reach regarding this new Oregon Chance Give program and you will finalized into the later on to help with the fresh new state’s college end needs, hence committed to getting 80% your kids round the society college or university and you may school end traces because of the 2025 – an increase objective at which we have now recoil as the due date means.
The challenge with the Options Grant extension was it absolutely was ill-timed, arriving at maturity merely if the state budget is actually credit crunch. The challenge with our 80% college completion goal was that it never ever grabbed under consideration new amount of money called for not only from taxpayers, but on the hard-forced functioning moms and dads and you will young people whoever benefits might be needed to achieve it. Additionally the larger issue is these particular or any other software was indeed obligated to pursue an enthusiastic speeding up prices contour you to far outpaced the newest growth of county profits and loved ones revenues.
Thus, yes, advanced schooling is simply too costly. And although financing and you can grants can make it faster therefore to have men and women deemed economically desperate or particularly worthwhile, they are able to plus perpetuate an enthusiastic unsustainable cost model that must transform if we believe our own rhetoric. One rhetoric continues to tout the necessity of degree shortly after higher college or university. It keeps devolved toward a beneficial pus-established experience, if this shall be generating all the way down-cost and much more available choice for example distance education and around three-12 months routes so you can five-season grade.
As often happens to treatments that tackle just one bit of a complicated situation, we’re hearing of several arguments to help you Biden’s plan. Here are three.
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Training reformers lament financing forgiveness does nothing but slow down higher ed’s reckoning with fiscal specifics – even if that’s not the mission; the goal is actually rescue of these really strained by the a programmatic incapacity.
Rules wonks obsess over simply how much this will benefit an already enduring portion of the middle-class – some thing do not worry about with regards to paying for twelfth grade.
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Hungarian Women’s Lobby was established in 3rd October, 2003 in Budapest. Currently HWL has 19 member organisations from all over Hungary. In 12 October, 2003 HWL became the Hungarian national coordinator organisation of the European Women’s Lobby.
WHO WE ARE
The Hungarian Women’s Lobby, established in 2003, is an umbrella organisation dedicated to advocating for the women’s human rights agenda as laid down by international norms. The Hungarian Women’s Lobby recruits, unites and represents the interests of Hungarian women’s organisations with a gender equality and human rights-based agenda, particularly those that advocate for the rights and equal opportunities of women. The Hungarian Women’s Lobby (HWL) is the Hungarian member organisation of the European Women’s Lobby (EWL), the largest gender equality-oriented umbrella organisation in the EU with more than 2500 member organisations. As such, the Hungarian Women’s Lobby represents the national women’s organisations’ agendas internationally, while at the same time it takes up, represents and campaigns for gender equality issues that are relevant Europe-wide and concern Hungary as well.
OUR MAIN OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES
The Hungarian Women’s Lobby intends to strengthen the capacity of its member organisations to promote women’s human rights, to mainstream women’s human rights into other non-governmental organisations’ and institutions’ work, to monitor national legal and policy changes, and to raise professional and public awareness on gender equality at national and international level. The specific fields of activities and objectives of the organisation are the following:
- Internal capacity development and coalition building: strengthening of and networking among member organisations of the Hungarian Women’s Lobby through capacity development, elaboration of strategic planning, and mainstreaming knowledge on women’s human rights into the work of member organisations while eliciting knowledge from member organisations based on their work experience.
- External capacity development and coalition building: building pro-active, sustainable, strategic partnerships at regional levels with the involvement of key (mainstream) actors outside the HWL membership, by organizing regional training and capacity building seminars for key organisations and networks.
- Policy monitoring: monitoring of and reporting on the implementation of international human rights obligations at a national level, development of policy analysis and recommendations, especially – but not limited to – by using UN CEDAW reporting mechanisms.
- Professional awareness-raising: raising awareness of different professionals by translating and disseminating EWL policy documents on gender issues, and disseminating national policy analyses and recommendations as well.
- Public awareness-raising: raising public awareness about the meaning and importance of gender equality by using and adapting the communication tools and methods of the EWL, by building partnership with media organisations and journalist professionals and organising media training courses, by lectures for university students and by social media campaigns on gender equality.
SOME OF OUR PROJECTS TO DATE
- HWL compiled a Shadow report on the implementation of the UN CEDAW Convention in 2007.
- HWL developed training materials and held training courses for government officials on gender mainstreaming in 2009.
- HWL was the national partner in the 2010 “Global Media Monitoring Project”, monitoring the news media from a gender equality perspective.
- HWL implemented the national component of the following EWL campaigns: “Who Cares?” campaign on care policies (2006), the “50/50 Campaign on Parity Democracy” (2008-2009), the campaign on the Maternity Leave Directive (2009-2010), and the campaign “Together for a Europe Free of Prostitution” (2010-2011). HWL also participated in the awareness-raising events of the 16 Days of Activism against Violence against Women.
- HWL has been a member of the national “KERET” Coalition against Sexual Violence against Women since 2009.
- HWL delegated experts to the task forces/working groups of the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) and the EWL Observatory on Violence against Women.
- In 2011, HWL together with EWL organized an international conference entitled “Roma Women in Focus”, where a policy paper was launched on Roma women in East-Central Europe.
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Research published over the past decade has shown that children are better equipped to deal with an emergency if they have been active participants in disaster resilience and education programs. “This study is designed to evaluate the extent that education can equip children and families to prepare, respond and recover more effectively from some unanticipated event, including its potential flow-on effects for the larger community,” Professor Ronan said.
Professor Ronan is leading the building best practice in child-centred disaster risk reduction study, which also involves researchers from RMIT, Monash and Massey universities, Risk Frontiers and Save the Children Australia. The project will carry out research on current policy, practices and evaluation frameworks. In building on research conducted in Australia, New Zealand and other countries, the research will also increase the attention given to children and their families’ needs in disasters.
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Athletes as role models essay. Athletes As Role Models 2022-10-16
Athletes as role models essay
Athletes are often considered role models for young people because they are highly visible and widely admired. Many people look up to athletes and try to emulate their behavior and attitudes. While this can be a positive influence, it is important to remember that athletes are human and may not always be the best role models.
On the positive side, athletes can serve as role models in several ways. They may demonstrate hard work and dedication to their craft, which can inspire others to pursue their own goals with determination and perseverance. They may also display strong character and integrity in their personal lives, which can serve as an example for others to follow. In addition, athletes can use their platform to advocate for important causes and inspire social change.
However, it is also important to recognize that athletes are not perfect and may not always make the best decisions. Some athletes have been involved in scandals or made poor choices that have damaged their reputation and undermined their role as role models. In these cases, it is important for young people to remember that no one is perfect and that it is okay to make mistakes as long as you learn from them and strive to do better in the future.
Ultimately, while athletes can be positive role models, it is important for young people to look to a variety of sources for inspiration and guidance. This can include family members, teachers, mentors, and other respected figures in their community. By seeking out diverse role models and considering multiple perspectives, young people can develop a well-rounded sense of what it means to be a good person and make positive contributions to the world.
Athletes as Role Models Essay
It is thought from some people that those athletics did not choose to be role models and they were not prepared to be a role model and they may do not ever wanted to be a role model, as its not their responsibility however they carry even a major part of it and also the Given the number of poor examples of sportsmanship ,sponsors on display in the media today, the responsibility for finding models of desirable behaviors and attitudes rests heavily on the shoulders of those involved in the youth environment. Similarly, many entertainers they too are morally unclean. But, when we think about that percentage in number terms, meaning that 30 out of 200 parents at an event could display bad behavior, it becomes very concerning. Share this: Facebook Facebook logo Twitter Twitter logo Reddit Reddit logo LinkedIn LinkedIn logo WhatsApp WhatsApp logo First Draft: Athletes as Role Models Sports and athletic games is a very popular way of entertainment that has played a major role in people life and since the first years of man existence. However the idea of role model is not common for all youth some just wanted to learn and not to take those as role models the good role model encourages people and teenagers to believe that they can get their goal and be a living example however.
Athletes and Entertainers as Role Models
She inspired many females to go out and start playing hard and working hard to be good. It would be different if Mo Vaughn got accused of something. In middle school, I met my other friends Jacob, Tyler, and Brandon. I did not hear one mention of that in the news. If they do something that is not acceptable, what example will it set for the children and young adults of this generation? In fact, in 1995 Sports Illustrated for Kids did a survey for kids who were ages 7 through 12 about who their role model was. Fans that look up to Owens see his actions and it causes them to act the same way.
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In recent years, athletics have been looked upon as equally, if not more, important than school itself. Sports Figures and Celebrities According to a recent study done by the European Physical Education Review 2005 , only a small percentage of those high school students chose a sports figure as their role model. Now, that drug have been banned in physical sports, athletes have stopped doing them. I also had soccer practice on weekday evenings and games Saturday mornings. He referred that he is like most of normal people who want to play a fair game for his team and have his own personal life. Their words are repeated and broadcasted throughoutthe world and their faces have appeared on the front of cereal boxes.
Athletes as Role Models
What does that say about our society? Steroid and protein supplements and the injections which used by those to increase their performance has high health risk is now used by high school seniors, a direct correlation to the mammoth statistics by superstars who cheated the game. The term violence is defined as physical assualt based on total disregard for the well being of. So that research is to show importance of having positive athletic role models in society and the influence they have on and off the field. He went to visit a child who was very sick in the hospital. Perhaps parents and teachers can be good role models. Already in ancient Rome, it all started with gladiators. It is a vast generalization to lump all athletes into the same category and call them role models.
Athletes As Role Models
Many break bones, or injure themselves beyond the point of repair. During the conversation the child said that he wanted Ruth to hit a homerun for him in the next game. To start off, 78% of athletes are either bankrupt or in financial trouble two years into retirement. Throughout the history of sports some players have made some terrific influences on fans. Jackie Robinson for example broke the color barrier in baseball, and gave new hope to black athletes everywhere. His story impacted myself and caused a change for the good in my athletic and academic… Sport Celebrities Essay Sports is one of the main subjects that mass media has to do with, which is why it is possible for individual athletes from any field to distinguish themselves from the crowd and become well-known.
Role Of Athletes As Role Models
The field of sports agents has grown since then into an. Some football players have been portrayed as nice guys on the field, but in reality, these players are very violent on the field. They are people who others imitate, emulate or look to for guidance. The Negative Impact Of Competitive Sports On Children 1262 Words 6 Pages Children experience more harmful negative impacts, rather than beneficial positive ones, such as being at a constant risk of severe injury, wanting to opt out of sports early, and being under high levels of stress and anxiety. These athletes have a rather divine lifestyle; with the money they are paid for making it to the professional level. . This question continues to permeate conversations from the board rooms to locker rooms; to street corners and beyond.
Athletes As A Role Model
Women athletes have been getting more prominent recently. Many athletes sacrifice school in order to be successful because the draw, competition, and demand for athletes has dramatically grown. In fact, I feel the opposite is true. They show us that even though you can be one of the best at a sport on the field, you still have to be a good person off the field. In other words, irrespective of gender and age, people have the tendency to identify… Definition Essay: The Importance Of Sports In Our Culture We are proud of our success in sports because it mentally empowers us. There are numerous children in the world that are homeless and abused. A hero or role model could be anyone that you want it to be.
Argumentative Essay: Pro Athletes As Role Models
Look at Jack Nicholson, who was caught driving while heavily intoxicated; he only had to pay a very small fee. A good role model accepts their role in society, and several professional athletes make great role models. Due to circumstances of modern life, and less physical activity of the human person as a result of the development. Moreover, entertainers and athletes usually do not have a satisfying, nor life-long career. Professional athletes: role models for good or evil? Sure enough the next game Ruth pointed to where he was going to hit the ball and crushed the ball out of the park. | <urn:uuid:33e979da-7f52-48fd-b21d-ca286f9f5fb5> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | http://opportunities.alumdev.columbia.edu/athletes-as-role-models-essay.php | 2023-09-23T18:11:14Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.977228 | 1,687 |
Calculate the degree of unsaturation: the answer is 1. The molecule can have a carbon-carbon double bond, a carbonyl, or a ring.
If you have a double bond and an oxygen in the molecule, always look for a carbonyl, because carbonyl bands are strong and easy to find. Sure enough, the band at 1713 indicates a carbonyl. Another prominent band is the characteristic wide O-H stretch at about 3150; this band looks more like a carboxylic acid O-H stretch than an alcohol O-H stretch (see example 3 for IRs of alcohols). C-O stretches show up from 1320-1000.
In the NMR, since we suspect a carboxylic acid, look for a broad singlet in the region 10-13.2 ppm.
Indeed, the broad peak at 11.8 indicates a carboxylic acid proton: -CO2H.
The triplet at 1 ppm corresponds to a methyl group next to a methylene (-CH2-) group; the sextet at 1.7 ppm is a methylene group next to a total of 5 hydrogens; the triplet at 2.3 ppm is a methylene group next to a methylene group. Therefore, it looks like the molecule is straight-chain:
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On 23rd April we celebrate World Book Day in more than one hundred countries around the world. On World Book Day people buy books and read stories.
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"Mechi" <firstname.lastname@example.org> wrote in message
I have a dialog based application. It always exits with 20 - though i
think it should exit with 0.
In a dialog application, you typically show the dialog in
InitInstance(), wait for the DoModal() call to return, then return FALSE
from InitInstance() so your app closes without starting a message pump.
Because you do not override ExitInstance() (and it is not even called)
in this scenario, you don't have the ability to set a proper return
code. Essentially the return code is garbage depending on the last
message pumped, I believe.
Bottom line is if you care about the return code, you can't call
DoModal() in InitInstance() like this. Instead you need to start a
message pump so that ExitInstance is called. This typically means
showing a CMainFrame (perhaps with no menu bar, toolbar, or status bar)
containing a CFormView of your original dialog.
The only thread that is opened is the
GUI/dialog itself. I open and then immediately (afte GUI is
displayed) close the application.
int nResponse = dlg.DoModal();
I call (just to be able to catch the error):
int err = theApp.ExitInstance();
err returns = 20.
I don't know how CWinApp::ExitInstance() determines it's return value,
but it doesn't really matter because there is no way for you to then set
this value to the return value of your app.
I traced into thrdcore.cpp, below.
MSG* AFXAPI AfxGetCurrentMessage()
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There is obviously a thread wtill running - as I saw in the Thread
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How do I ensure that the GUI thread closes before the application
It does. But you haven't returned from CCamelotSampleApp::InitInstance()
yet when you look at the call stack; you are looking too early.
target. CWinApp is derived from CWinThread, and when InitInstance
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the wParam from that message.
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There will be a vocal workshop on Saturday 9th September 2023 taken by Sarah Trevers and supported by Kieran.
There is always time to find that –You too can sing,
but you just don’t know it yet!
If interested, you are welcome to join us at our weekly Thursday practices starting at 7 pm at the Radcliffe on Trent Methodist Church, Shelford Road.
We also run occasional singing courses and workshops for newcomers to gain a more formal introduction to Choir singing and for our own members to revise the basics. You will be surprised at what you can achieve with a little training and guidance!
Further advice can be obtained by contacting our Media Officer, Bill Hill, whose Phone No is: 07972 013614.
Each participant at workshops will have a mentor from the same vocal group (Tenor 1, Tenor 2, Baritone or Bass) to ease them into the routine, guide and help answer any questions and arrange transport if needed.
At such courses you and our choir will be learning a number of new songs and newcomers will have their own group sessions as well as joint sessions with the main choir, so that everyone is learning from the same starting point. You will learn how to sing, how to breathe, basic music notation, new songs and the many health benefits of singing as well as the fellowship that is engendered within the choir’s social activities.
You will be taught by our Musical Director Deborah Davies, together with Associate Musical Director Kieran Seymour.
The 2020 course resulted in 12 new members joining the Choir, most of whom had not sung before. The course was followed, on 7th March, by a mini-concert performed by the Choir, old and new, in front of friends and families and raised £380 for Prostate Cancer Research:-
We are a well-established charity organisation that sings for pleasure and to raise money for others. We have sung globally and extensively in the UK, but there is no obligation to perform in public if you just wish to enjoy singing for singing’s sake.
If you have any questions or want more information about the Choir or future workshops, please join us at Thursday practices or contact via the contact page on this site. Otherwise, talk to one of our members during a concert interval or afterwards and we will answer your immediate questions. OR visit our Facebook site: ROTMVC. OR you can contact us via email: email@example.com
In 2018 another such training event was held on Saturday, March 17th at Lutterell Hall, West Bridgford where these photos were taken.
On that occasion we were happy to welcome 10 visitors who braved the very inclement (snowy) weather; The above photos and the following para, from our Media Officer, Bill Hill, gives a flavour of this event:-
The 2018 Singing Workshop, held in West Bridgford, was an interesting experience for existing choir members and new attendees. Throughout the day (warmly ensconced in the Lutterell Hall whilst the snow swirled around the streets outside), we were shown how current research evidence supports the assertion that singing has many health benefits as well as being a welcome social gathering. Following the science, exercises were undertaken to raise awareness of rhythm, harmony and melody. After the audience practised several songs to put this into practice, a demonstration of the choir’s capabilities with a small set of the choir’s large repertoire was provided, before we all set out again into the cold and snowy afternoon.
WHAT IS THE POINT OF SINGING?
Singing strengthens the immune system, it’s a workout, improving aerobic capacity and general stamina. It improves posture and helps with sleep whilst strengthening throat and palate muscles to help stop snoring! Natural anti-depressant endorphins are released which make you feel uplifted and happy. It lowers stress levels as it releases stored muscle tension and decreases the levels of stress hormone Cortisol to your bloodstream. Singing improves mental alertness as improved circulation and an oxygenated blood stream allow more oxygen to reach the brain improving concentration and memory. It widens your circle of friends and the bonds you form singing with others can be profound since there’s a level of trust and concentration involved. Also a good chance for a natter!
Singing boosts your confidence making it easier to engage with others with poise and good presentation skills. It broadens communication skills improving the ability to appreciate other singers and boosts musical appreciation as understanding grows.
IS IT FOR YOU?
Yes; a win-win situation! So to gain these advantages why not join your choir, The Radcliffe on Trent Male Voice Choir, rehearsing once a week and benefit from all there above? All for less than the cost of a gym? Where wellbeing is concerned, it’s no coincidence that countries like Sweden and Denmark, in the top ten of the happiest countries on the planet, have the most choirs per capita!
“That’s all very well”, we hear you say, “but I have no voice, no confidence, and can’t read music”. Well, reading music is not essential, confidence increases with training and you’ll be taught techniques and exercises helping you follow the music and learn pieces. If you want to try but worry about not “making the grade” contact us for a chat via the website.
The Radcliffe on Trent Male Voice Choir meets Thursdays at 7.00 pm in the Methodist Church on Shelford Road. Get in touch for more details or just turn up!
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THE GOSPEL OF SAINT LUKE
According to the Church historian Eusebius St Luke was born in Antioch, Syria. He was a gentile by birth and a physician by profession. He was well educated in Greek culture. According to a legend of the sixth century he was also a painter. He was one of the earliest converts to the faith and later became the missionary companion of St Paul whom he accompanied on part of the second and third missionary journeys and attended during the Caesarean and Roman captivities. The Gospel is therefore an account of the life of Jesus as seen through the eyes of St Paul. The Gospel was written before the destruction of Jerusalem, 70A.D., for it does not refer to the fulfilment of Christ’s prophecy. Since the Acts of the Apostles, also attributed to Luke, closes its narrative with the year 63 or 64A.D., the Gospel of St Luke, his first book, must have been written prior to 63A.D.
Luke, of all the Gospels, gives us the fullest life-story of Jesus. The Gospel is part one of a two-part history of Christian beginnings: Luke/Acts. Both parts are dedicated to the same man, the Roman Theophilus and both are written for the same reason, to show God working out his purpose in the life and work of Jesus and his followers. The Gospel is carefully compiled from reliable, first-hand sources. Luke is not simply a biographer. His overriding concern is to get at the truth of what happened in Palestine in the critical years of Jesus’ lifetime. His Gospel shows Jesus as the Saviour of all: his coming, a world event. In Luke we have the clearest picture of Jesus the human being. His selection of stories reflects his own warm interest in people, especially the sick and helpless, the poor, women, children, the social outcasts. The Gospel is full of joy, as the love of God transforms human lives. Whereas Matthew was writing for the Jews and Mark was writing on behalf of St Peter, Luke is writing on behalf of St Paul. His style is that of a cultured, educated man with a wide vocabulary. He writes from an historical basis, naming kings, emperors and officials. Luke worked with Mark and knew him well. He uses 65 per cent of the same material, reproducing some of it almost word for word but, in addition, he draws on eye-witness accounts and spoken reports of actual events. He also uses material found in Matthew but not in Mark.
1. As the number of Jesus’ followers grew, and Christian groups sprang up in many places after Jesus’ death, it soon became apparent that the stories and teaching of Jesus which were circulating by word of mouth must be written
down. Luke commences his Gospel using language similar to classical Greek. He states his purpose and the sources of his information. ‘…things that have been fulfilled among us,’ refers to Old Testament prophecies now fully accomplished. Luke 1:1.
2. ‘…handed down to us….’ In Luke’s case handed down mainly by St Paul though he would almost certainly have had contact with others who had eye-witness contact with Jesus. Luke 1:2.
3. ‘……carefully investigated….’ Luke’s account is exact in historical detail. It has an orderly arrangement that is generally chronological. Luke states his purpose ‘….so that your Excellency (Theophilus) may learn how well founded the teaching is that you have received.’ (Theophilus, whose name means ‘one who loves God’, is thought to have been Luke’s patron and probably a Roman official or at least of high position and wealth.) Luke 1:4.
The Birth of John the Baptist Foretold.
4. Luke’s detailed explanation leading to the birth of John the Baptist and Jesus make us wonder whether, at some point, Luke met and talked with Mary who would have been able to give him accurate information. Luke 1:5‑7.
5. Zechariah was of the priestly line of Abijah (1 Chronicles 24:10.) His wife Elizabeth was from the line of Aaron (1 Chronicles 6:49.). They were childless which in Jewish society was considered a disgrace – as if it were directly caused by God. The priests did duty by rota and on this occasion when it was Zechariah’s duty he was drawn by lot to enter the most Holy Place and burn incense. (Entering the Holy Place was a great privilege. Because it was ‘by lot’ some might never obtain the privilege.) As he was in the Holy Place the Angel Gabriel, the same who was to appear to Mary, appeared to him to tell him that his wife is to bear a son who must be named ‘John’ which means ‘Yahweh is gracious’. Luke tells us that Zechariah was ‘overcome with fear.’ (Luke often mentions religious ‘fear’ and ‘awe.’).
Zechariah’s disbelief is understandable. He and Elizabeth are both elderly and past the time for having children. Moreover Zechariah is told that their son “will be great in the sight of the Lord.” From the words of the Angel Gabriel it seems that their son will live as a Nazirite (Numbers 6:1-21.) As a priest Zechariah should have had great faith, but he doubts. So he is struck dumb. Luke 1:8-22.
6. Despite being dumb we read that ‘When his time of service was completed he returned home.’ His disability was not a cause for him to abandon his duty. Elizabeth becomes pregnant and ‘for five months remained in seclusion’. (Some readings tell us that this ‘seclusion’ was ‘in joy, devotion and gratitude that the Lord had taken away her childlessness’. But also, by relating to the words of Gabriel to Mary Verse 36 ‘Even Elizabeth your relative………….is in her sixth month’, it connects the timing of the two appearances of Gabriel to Elizabeth and Mary. Here we find an example of Luke’s care in the information contained in his Gospel.) Luke 1:23-25.
7. Six months after Elizabeth’s conception the Angel Gabriel appears to the virgin Mary. Luke gives the most complete and beautiful account of the Annunciation. Gabriel greets Mary: “Rejoice, you who enjoy God’s favour! The Lord is with you.” The Angel Gabriel continues “You will be with child and give birth to a son, and you must name him Jesus.” Mary’s reply “How will this come about since I have no knowledge of man?” indicates her perpetual virginity. If she and Joseph were intending to have children then the question was unnecessary. After Gabriel’s answer to Mary’s question we almost feel the tension as the whole of creation awaits Mary’s response. When it comes it fulfils all that was expected: “You see before you the Lord’s servant, let it happen to me as you have said.” (Also see Page 5 Paragraph 4). Luke 1:26 ‑38.
The Visitation and Magnificat.
8. Gabriel had told Mary of Elizabeth’s pregnancy. Mary hurries to be with Elizabeth. Knowing her relative’s age she knew that she would need help with her pregnancy and with preparation for the birth. At their meeting the two women are joined by the Holy Spirit who makes clear to Elizabeth that Mary is the answer to the prophecy ‘the virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son…..’ (Isaiah 7:14). Elizabeth greets Mary with the words: “Blessed art thou among women” and continues “and blessed is the fruit of thy womb!” Luke has four songs in his Gospel and the first one is Mary’s ‘Magnificat’. (The word Magnificat comes from the Vulgate translation where the first word is Magnificat which means ‘glorifies’. Mary’s Magnificat bears a resemblance to Hannah’s prayer [1 Samuel 2:1-10]. Mary would know the Old Testament and probably based her prayer of ‘glory’ on that of Hannah which is known as the ‘Magnificat of the Old Testament.’ Gabriel had told Mary that Elizabeth was “in her sixth month” and the Bible tells us ‘Mary stayed with Elizabeth for about three months.’ We are not specifically told that Mary was with Elizabeth at the birth of her baby but it would seem unlikely that Mary would leave until the birth had taken place.) Luke 1:39-56.
The Baptist’s Circumcision and Zechariah’s Song.
9. Eight days after Elizabeth has given birth the baby is to be circumcised as prescribed by the law (Genesis 17:12) and given a name. Relatives and neighbours expect the baby to be named after his father which was the custom. But Zechariah must have already communicated to Elizabeth that the angel had told him to name the baby ‘John’ (The name, derived from the Hebrew, means ‘The Lord is gracious.’) Elizabeth tells everyone that the baby will be named John. Unbelieving, they get Zechariah to agree which he does and immediately his tongue is loosened and, filled with the Holy Spirit, he speaks the prophecy (the second of Luke’s songs ‘Praise Be’ which translate in the Latin Vulgate as Benedictus. Whereas Mary’s Magnificat is a Psalm, the Benedictus is a prophecy.) Luke 1:57-79.
10. John’s parents probably died when he was young so he went into the desert and lived an austere life there hence preparing himself for his ministry. Luke 1:80.
The Birth of Jesus.
11. Of the three synoptic Gospels Luke’s gives the most complete story of the birth of Jesus: the reason for the journey to Bethlehem, the inability to find lodgings, the stable, the manger, the cloths, the shepherds. (All the more reason for thinking that Luke must, at some time, have talked to Mary who would have conveyed this detailed knowledge to him. Matthew’s Gospel shows us the genealogy of Christ which, ‘of the House of David’ necessitated the journey to Bethlehem. [See Page 4 Paragraph 1]. Mary was also of the house of David. We do not know whether women also had to register under Caesar Augustus’ decree but women 12 years and older were required to pay poll tax so therefore we can assume that they also had to register.) Even if this were not the case Mary would have been aware of the Old Testament prophecy (Michah 5:2) and that Jesus was to be born in Bethlehem, so she would have travelled there with Joseph. The word ‘firstborn’ was used to designate the first child and it does not mean or presume other children. (See Page 5 Paragraph 4). Luke 2:1-12.
The Gloria in Excelsis Deo.
12. Luke’s third ‘song’ is that of the angels who have told the shepherds of the birth of Jesus. (The words ‘Gloria in Excelsis Deo’ are taken from the Latin Vulgate for ‘Glory to God in the Highest Heaven.’) Luke 2:13-14.
The Visit of the Shepherds.
13. Luke recording the visit of the shepherds and the fact that Mary ‘treasured up all these things and pondered them in her heart’ are surely more reasons for believing that Mary and Luke must have met and talked. Luke 2:15-20.
14. On the eighth day the baby is circumcised and named Jesus, (which is the Greek form of Joshua which means ‘The Lord Saves’). Luke 2:21.
The Presentation In the Temple and Nunc Dimittis.
15. Once more Joseph and Mary conform to the law of Moses by taking Jesus to the Temple for the time of purification (See Leviticus 12:2-8). Jesus is consecrated to the Lord and a sacrifice is offered. (The sacrifice should be a ‘year old lamb’ and ‘a young pigeon or dove.’ But provision is made for those who cannot afford a lamb in which case they must offer two pigeons or two doves. If the child was the first male of the family then he belonged to Yahweh [which is the Hebrew name for God in the Old Testament], and his parents had to buy him back by paying five shekels to the Temple.) In the Temple they are met by Simeon (whose name means ‘God has heard’) which leads to Luke’s fourth song, the ‘Nunc Dimittis’. (The words come from the Latin Vulgate translation of ‘…….now dismiss’.) The words ‘…in the sight of the nations’, verse 31 – emphasise the truth that salvation was for gentiles as well as Jews. As a gentile himself Luke was anxious to make the point! Luke 2:22-32.
“A Sword Will Pierce Your Soul.”
16. Simeon blesses Mary and Joseph and prophesies that Jesus “is destined to cause the falling and rising of many…..” (Christ will raise up those who believe in him but will be a stumbling block for those who disbelieve). Simeon says “and a sword will pierce your soul too”. (The word ‘too’ indicates that Mary, as well as Jesus, would suffer deep anguish – the first reference in the Gospel to Christ’s suffering and death.) Luke 2:33-35.
The Prophetess, Anna.
17. The elderly prophetess, Anna (whose names means ‘Grace – Favour’) praises God for the baby Jesus: as in the Old Testament Hannah had praised God for the baby Samuel (That is the Old Testament Magnificat. 1 Samuel 2:1-10). ‘…..deliverance of Jerusalem’ – that is from where Jesus’ salvation will spread. Luke 2:36-38.
The Visit of the Magi.
18. Luke’s Gospel does not tell us about Magi or of the flight into Egypt but tells us that the Holy Family returned to Nazareth where Jesus ‘became strong; he was filled with wisdom, and the grace of God was upon him.’ Luke 2:39-40.
The Finding in the Temple.
19. The Finding in the Temple: (Annual attendance by adult males of the three feasts: Passover, Pentecost/Weeks and Tabernacles was commanded by law. [See Deuteronomy 16:16]. Distance prevented many from attending all three, but most Jews tried to attend the Passover. At the age of twelve Jewish boys underwent preparation for adult status. This visit to Jerusalem was therefore a special one for Jesus. Joseph and Mary had travelled a full day before missing Jesus. The three days: one day travelling from Jerusalem, one day travelling back and a day searching. Perhaps the ‘three days’ also prefigure the events of Easter.) Luke’s writing leads up to the first of Jesus’ words “Why were you searching for me? Did you not know that I must be about my Father’s business?” Jesus affirms, in Joseph’s presence that God is his Father. Jesus’ relationship to God takes precedence over his relationship to Joseph and Mary. The verse concludes ‘Jesus went to Nazareth….was obedient to them……….and grew in wisdom and stature and in favour with God and men.’ Luke 2:41-52.
The Proclamation of John the Baptist.
20. Luke takes care in describing exactly who was in power when John the Baptist commenced his ministry. He gives six names, four Roman and two Hebrew. Then a quotation from the Old Testament: Isaiah 40:3-5 ‘A voice of one calling in the desert, ‘all mankind will see God’s salvation.’ ‘all mankind’, God’s salvation was to be made known to both Jews and gentiles – a major theme of Luke’s Gospel. Luke 3:1-6.
21. Luke records the Baptist’s words as Matthew had done – “you brood of vipers. Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?” (This is probably a reference to the destruction of Jerusalem and the final judgement.) Luke continues ‘…every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire’, a symbol of final judgement. Luke 3:7-9.
22. Of the three synoptic gospels only Luke records the conversation between the Baptist and those who questioned him. The people obviously had a high regard for the Baptist’s advice which is to be echoed in the words of Jesus during his ministry. “A man with two tunics ……share with him who has none, the same with food. Tax collectors must not collect more than they are required to. Soldiers should not extort money or accuse people falsely and should be content with their pay.” (From the Baptist’s words we can determine those things which were the most common faults among the people, tax collectors and soldiers.) Luke 3:10-14.
23. The people were anxiously awaiting the coming of the one who would save them. They thought that John the Baptist may be the Messiah. (Their expectation of the long awaited Messiah was someone who, like Judas Machabees, would take up the sword and rid Israel of its Roman oppressors.) Although the Baptist didn’t come up to their expectations in that regard they nevertheless thought he might be the Messiah due to his exceptional holiness and baptising. Luke 3:15.
24. John corrects their misconception and tells them that there is one following him “whose sandals I am not worthy to untie. He will baptise you with the Holy Spirit and with fire.” (Fulfilled at Pentecost and with Judgement.) Luke 3:16.
25. John continues: “His winnowing fork is in his hand…….” Many Jews thought that only the pagans would be judged and punished when the Messiah came. John declares that judgement will come on all who do not repent – including Jews. Luke 3:17-18.
26. John was not afraid to tell the truth and he spoke out against the illegal marriage of Herod Antipas to his brother’s wife, Herodias. (Leviticus 18:16). Herod has John arrested and locked up. Luke 3:19-20.
The Baptism of Jesus.
27. Luke records Jesus’ Baptism by John after the arrest which has to be chronologically incorrect. But only Luke mentions that while he was being baptised‘ [Jesus] was praying’. (Jesus in prayer is one of the special themes of Luke’s Gospel.) All three synoptic Gospels declare that ‘The heavens opened and the Holy Spirit descended [on Jesus] and a voice came from heaven’ Luke 3:21-22.
The Ancestry of Jesus.
28. Luke’s gospel now commences on Jesus’ ministry and starts with his genealogy. There are several differences between Luke’s list and that of Matthew. (Matthew 1:1-17). Matthew begins with Abraham (the father of the
Jewish people) while Luke traces the line in the reverse order and goes back to Adam, showing Jesus relationship with the whole human race. From Abraham to David the genealogies of Matthew and Luke are almost the same, but from David on they are different. Some scholars suggest that this is because Matthew traces the legal descent of the house of David using only heirs to the throne, while Luke traces the complete line of Joseph to David. A more likely explanation, however, is that Matthew follows the line of Joseph (Jesus’ legal father), while Luke emphasises that of Mary (Jesus’ blood relative.) Although tracing a genealogy through the mother’s side was unusual, so was the virgin birth. Luke’s words that Jesus was the son of Joseph ‘as it was thought’ brings to mind his explicit virgin birth statement (Luke 1:34-35), and suggests the importance of Mary in Jesus’ genealogy. Luke 3:23-38.
The Temptation in the Desert.
29. As Jesus goes into the desert to commence his fast he is ‘full of the Holy Spirit’. It is the Spirit which will be his sustaining power during his fast and temptation. Luke has the temptations in a different order and has different descriptions from Matthew. Luke mentions only one stone to turn into bread – Jesus answer is taken from Deuteronomy 8:3 ‘…man does not live by bread alone’. When Jesus is shown all the kingdoms of the world he quotes from Deuteronomy 6:13 ‘Worship the Lord your God and serve him only.’ Jesus is taken to Jerusalem and the devil, in suggesting that Jesus ‘throw himself down’, quotes from Psalm 91:11-12. ‘For he will command his angels…..so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.’ In response Jesus quotes from Deuteronomy 6:16 ‘Do not put the Lord your God to the test.’ Luke 4:1 ‑12.
Jesus Defeats the Devil.
30. ‘……the devil………left him until an opportune time.’ (Time was always opportune with the devil and it is certain that he never missed a chance. We know of the occasion when Jesus had to reprimand Peter with the words “get thee behind me, Satan!” But surely, from the devil’s point of view, the most ‘opportune time’ was when Judas Iscariot succumbed to the temptation to betray Jesus.) Luke 4-13.
Jesus Commences His Ministry.
31. The news about Jesus spreads and he teaches in the synagogues and ‘everyone glorified him.’ (This is a favourite theme of Luke, the people admiring and praising Jesus.) In Nazareth, the town where he had been brought up, he taught in the synagogue. He quoted from Isaiah 61:1-2, ‘The Spirit of the Lord is on me…..to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favour.’ After he had finished reading he told the people “Today this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing.” “This is Joseph’s son surely?” they said and their admiration turns to one of animosity. Then Jesus quoted two occasions when God’s help was given to non-Israelites. (1 Kings 17:1-15; 2 Kings 5:1-14.) Telling these stories reflects Luke’s special concern for gentiles. Jesus’ point is that when Israel rejected God’s messenger of redemption, God sent him to the gentiles – and so it will be again if they refuse to accept Jesus. Luke 4:14-27.
Jesus at Nazareth.
32. The people were furious at Jesus’ words and made to throw him down a cliff ‘but he walked right through the crowd and went on his way.’ (Perhaps it was a miraculous escape based on the fact that ’his time had not yet come’. Because the people thought that they knew Jesus, “Isn’t this Joseph’s son?”, they did not have faith. Without their faith Jesus could not heal.) Luke 4:28 ‑30.
The Cure of Demoniac.
33. In contrast to Nazareth Jesus goes to Capernaum and heals many. The people were amazed by both his teaching and his authority. An evil spirit shouts at Jesus “…….…...I know who you are – the Holy One of God!” “Be quiet!” Jesus said sternly. “Come out of him!” All the people were amazed. Luke 4:31-37.
34. Up to this point in Luke’s Gospel none of the Apostles have been named. But Luke now mentions Jesus going to Peter’s house and healing his mother-in-law who ‘got up at once and began to wait on them’. (Being a physician Luke tells us that Peter’s mother-in-law had a ‘high fever’. But, mentioning this occurrence before introducing Peter as an apostle, makes it apparent that Luke is not necessarily presenting us with a chronological order of events.) Luke 4:38-39.
35. ‘When the sun was setting.’ The reason for those words is that the Sabbath finished at sunset, 6.00p.m. According to the tradition of the elders, Jews could not travel more than a third of a mile or carry a burden. So, on the Sabbath, it was as ‘….the sun was setting’ that people would be able to come to Jesus. All are healed ‘who had various kinds of sickness,…..’. Demons came out of people shouting “You are the Son of God!” ‘But [Jesus] rebuked them and would not allow them to speak, because they knew he was the Christ.’ Luke 4:40-41.
36. Jesus was always going to solitary places where he could pray. Eventually his apostles and the people got to know of his favourite places and they would go and find him. They want him to stay but he tells them “I must preach the good news of the kingdom of God to other towns also, because that is why I was sent.” Luke 4:42-44.
The First Apostles are Chosen.
37. Now Luke introduces the Apostles. (Matthew’s and Mark’s name for the stretch of water is ‘the Sea of Galilee.’ John sometimes calls it ‘the Sea of Tiberias.’ Luke calls it ‘the lake of Gennesaret.’) It is by this lake that Jesus meets ‘the fishermen.’ He gets into Simon’s boat, pulls out a little from the shore, ‘sat down’ and taught the people. ‘Sitting down’ was the usual position for teaching. Hence Luke mentions it specifically. (Recording a period of
teaching and miracles before the call of the first disciples was to make their unhesitating response less surprising.) Luke 5:1-3.
Peter is Chosen.
38. At Jesus’ suggestion Peter lets down his nets and catches such a large number of fish that they have to call their partners in another boat to help them. Peter realises the miracle which has taken place and says “Go away from me, Lord: I am a sinful man!” He does not feel worthy to be near Jesus. Peter and his partners James and John, the sons of Zebedee, were astonished by the catch they had made. But Jesus tells Peter “…..from now on you will catch men.” ‘So they pulled their boats up on shore and followed him.’ Luke 5:4-11.
The Cure of a Leper.
39. A man with a skin-disease pleads with Jesus for healing. Jesus did the ‘unthinkable’: he touched the man (Leviticus 13:2-3 & Numbers 5:1-3) ‘immediately the leprosy left him.’ Jesus told him to tell no-one but go and show himself to the priest and offer the sacrifice Moses commanded (Leviticus 14:2-23). Jesus is always telling those he heals to “tell no-one.” (Out of compassion he wanted to heal everyone but he didn’t want the healing to cover up his verbal teachings which were the most important part of his three year ministry. He was also worried that his healing would encourage the people to come and take him by force and make him their king. That was not why he had come on earth and he must not allow it to happen. Nevertheless the more he asked people not to tell of their healing the more they shouted with joy that their faith had been rewarded.) Luke 5:12-14.
Healing and Prayer.
40. News of the leper’s healing soon spread and more people come and are ‘healed of their sicknesses.’ Again Luke tells that Jesus ‘often withdrew to lonely places and prayed.’ (Can we doubt that the prayer and the healing are an integral part of each other? Without the ‘prayer’ the ‘healing’ could not take place.) Luke 5:15-16.
41. Now, for the first time, Luke mentions the Pharisees. They had heard of Jesus and had come ‘from every village of Galilee and from Judea and Jerusalem’ to see for themselves. (They were teachers in the synagogues and, in the eyes of the people, were self appointed guardians of the law. They considered the interpretation and regulations handed down by tradition to be virtually as authoritative as scripture. This included the Corban [See Page 48 Paragraph 46] and the six hundred and thirteen precepts which virtually controlled the lives of the people. Jesus had no time for these self-imposed laws and was continually clashing with the Pharisees.) Jesus is teaching and Luke mentions ‘and the power of the Lord was present for him to heal the sick.’ The room where Jesus was teaching was crowded so a paralytic is lowered down through the roof. Jesus recognises the faith of the
paralytic and says, “Friend, your sins are forgiven you.” The Pharisees take offence at this. They say “Who can forgive sins but God alone?” Jesus knows their thoughts and, to show that he had the power to both heal and forgive, he said to the man, “….take your mat and go home.” The man got up and went home ‘praising God.’ Luke 5:17-26.
The Call of Levi.
42. Jesus saw Levi at his tax collecting booth and said “Follow me.” This man is Matthew as mentioned in Matthew’s own Gospel (Matthew 9:9) and as mentioned in Mark’s Gospel (Mark 2:14-17). Tax collectors who collected for the Romans, were especially detested for helping the pagan conqueror and for frequently defrauding their own people. Levi was probably his real name and Matthew his apostolic name. (That Jesus should choose such a person was feeding into the hands of his detractors. It gave them every excuse to denounce him to the people who would certainly be mystified by such a choice. But Jesus could see through into people’s hearts and souls and he knew the real worth of Matthew.) Luke 5:27-28.
Jesus Eats with Sinners in Levi’s House.
43. To add fuel to the fire Jesus attends a great banquet arranged by Matthew attended by a large crowd of tax collectors. We can imagine the delight of the Pharisees seeing Jesus mixing with such a crowd. It would surely bring his downfall. But when they question Jesus he has a ready answer. He has not come to treat the healthy but to treat the sick: not to call the righteous, but to call sinners to repentance. Luke 5:29-32.
Discussion of Fasting.
44. The Pharisees question him further. They compare the Baptist’s disciples who fast and pray with Jesus’ disciples who eat and drink. Jesus’ answer is that his disciples do not fast while he, ‘the bridegroom’, is with them. But when he is taken from them, then they will fast. Luke 5:33-35.
‘New Patch – New Wine.’
45. The ‘new patch’ and the ‘new wine’ are represented by Jesus who cannot be confined in the old forms. But by the words ‘………nobody who has been drinking old wine wants new,’ “The old is good”. Jesus was indicating the reluctance of some people to change from their traditional religious ways. Luke 5:36-39.
Picking Corn on the Sabbath.
46. The Pharisees continue to shadow Jesus watching for anything which they can use against him and his teachings. Their moment came when they saw the disciples pick ears of corn on a Sabbath and rub them to get at the grain.(There was nothing wrong in what they did: See Deuteronomy 23:25.) But to the Pharisees it was a violation of the Sabbath because ‘reaping’ was one of the thirty-nine categories of work prohibited on the Sabbath. They confront Jesus with this misdemeanour. Jesus reminds them that King David,
when he felt hungry, entered the tabernacle of Yahweh with his companions and they ate the ‘bread of the Presence’ (1 Samuel 21:6 see also Exodus 25:30). Jesus told them “The Son of Man is master of the Sabbath.” Or, in other words, Jesus has authority to overrule laws concerning the Sabbath, particularly as interpreted by the Pharisees. Luke 6:1-5.
Curing a Man with a Withered Hand on the Sabbath.
47. But the Pharisees were too jealous of their Sabbath to let Jesus get away with that answer. Their chance to try again came when Jesus was teaching on the Sabbath and a man approached him with a withered hand. They watched Jesus closely to see whether he would effect a cure on the Sabbath. But Jesus knew their thoughts and he told the man to stand up in front of all the assembled. Then, looking around, he asked them, “I put it to you, is it permitted on the Sabbath to do good or to do evil: to save life, or to destroy it?” No-one answered, so Jesus cured the man’s hand. Despite their silence at Jesus’ question the Pharisees were furious because Jesus had broken their Sabbath laws. So they started to plan what they might do to Jesus. Luke 6:6-11.
The Twelve are Chosen.
48. After spending the night on a mountain in prayer Jesus chooses his Apostles. (To Jews and Greeks the word ‘apostle’ meant ‘someone sent’. The word was later translated by Christians to mean ‘missionaries’.) By now a group of men were following Jesus and listening to his ministry. One day Jesus brought them all together and chose twelve who he called ‘Apostles’. They were: 1 Simon (also named Peter), 2 Peter’s brother Andrew, 3 James, 4 John, 5 Philip, 6 Bartholomew, 7 Matthew, 8 Thomas, 9 James the son of Alphaeus, 10 Simon who was called the Zealot, 11 Judas son of James and 12 Judas Iscariot. Luke 6:12-16.
The Crowds Follow Jesus.
49. Luke’s explanation of Jesus stopped ‘at a piece of level ground’ might mean on a plateau which will then agree with Matthew who says ‘he went up on a mountainside.’ Crowds of people had come to be healed. Some people only need to touch him ‘because power was coming from him………’ Luke 6:17-19.
The Sermon of the Mount.
50. The chosen apostles and the disciples would have seen Jesus healing and heard his teachings but, in order to be able to respond to the challenges of the Pharisees, they needed to have a greater understanding of who was to benefit from Jesus’ teachings. So, Luke’s record of the Sermon on the Mount commences with the words ‘Fixing his eyes on his disciples, he said………….’ Luke’s record of ‘The Sermon’ is much shorter than Matthew’s but Mark doesn’t mention it at all, though both Luke and Mark use other opportunities in their Gospels to quote the words spoken on that occasion. (Luke leaves out material about the Law which would not interest non-Jewish readers.) But only Luke gives the point-by-point negative answers to the Beatitudes. Hence ‘Blessed are you who are poor’ (Luke 6:20) is countered by: ‘But alas to you who are rich’ (Luke 6:24) and likewise with the other Beatitudes. Luke 6:20-26.
Love Your Enemies.
51. Jesus rejects the Old Testament teaching of ‘eye for eye, tooth for tooth’ (Exodus 21:24) and instead teaches ‘Love your enemies, and do good to those who hate you……..’ There is no credit to be had from loving those who love you. ‘Even sinners do that.’ ‘….lend to [your enemies] without any hope of return. You will have a great reward……...’ Luke 6:27-36.
Take the Splinter Out of Your Own Eye.
52. We must not judge, we must not condemn. “Take the log out of our own eye first, and then you will see clearly enough to take out the splinter in your brother’s eye.” Luke 6:37-42.
Warning Against False Prophets.
53. The discourse on trees and their fruits is a warning against false prophets. By their fruits you will know them. Luke 6:43-45.
The True Disciple.
54. If we hear the word of God and act on it we will have a firm foundation and our faith will not be shaken. But it we do not listen and our faith is weak then any disturbance will find us unready for the spiritual battle and we will be lost. Luke 6:46-49.
Cure of the Centurion’s Servant. “Lord I Am Not Worthy…….”
55. The Sermon on the Mount is over and Jesus returns to Capernaum. He is met by some elders of the Jews who, on behalf of a Roman Centurion, tell Jesus that a valued servant of the Centurion is sick and about to die. They ask Jesus to go with them to heal the servant. (This story tells us that Jesus’ fame must have spread far and wide. It also tells us that not all the Jewish elders were against Jesus.) As they approach the Centurion’s house he sends friends to say the words which we repeat before receiving the Eucharist: “Lord, I am not worthy………….” Jesus was ‘amazed’. “I tell you, not even in Israel have I found faith as great as this.” The Centurion’s ‘great faith’ is rewarded and his servant is healed. Luke 7:1-10.
The Widow’s Son is Restored to Life.
56. Jesus’ next healing is carried out because of his great compassion for a widow who is burying her only son. (Even today the village of Nain is very small and probably hasn’t altered much since the time of Jesus.) The whole village would have turned out to support the widow. Jesus said to the woman “Don’t cry.” He then touched the coffin and said “Young man, I say to you, get up!” (The coffin would have been an open one as was the Jewish custom.) ‘The dead boy sat up……..and Jesus gave him back to his mother.’ This was
the first of three occasions when Jesus raised someone from the dead, the others being Jairus’ daughter (Luke 8:40-56) and Lazarus (John 11:38-44). Luke 7:11-17.
The Baptist’s Question.
57. John the Baptist sent two of his disciples to ask Jesus “Are you the one who is to come…….? (Perhaps the men were expecting a straight “Yes”. But Jesus was always reluctant to state the truth of that claim. He knew that if he did so then the people would take him by force and make him king. That was not the way which God the Father wanted His Son to perform his ministry.) Jesus tells the men to go back and tell John what they have seen……‘the blind see again, the lame walk, those suffering from virulent skin-diseases are cured, the deaf hear, the dead are raised to life, the good news is proclaimed to the poor…’.. (It could be that John already knew that Jesus was the Christ and he sent his disciples so that they could find out for themselves and transfer their allegiance to Jesus.) Luke 7:18-22.
58. The words of verse 23 ‘and blessed is anyone who does not find me a cause of falling’, are referring to the cures which Jesus had performed. These cures might challenge our ideas of how God works. John the Baptist’s preconceived idea might have been of a vengeful God whereas Jesus’ God is one of mercy. Luke 7:23.
Christ’s Witness Concerning John.
59. Jesus tells the crowd that the Baptist is the answer to the prophecy:- ‘Look I am going to send my messenger in front of you, to prepare your way before you.’ Malachi 3:1 ‘the least in the kingdom of God is greater than he.’ This can be explained by fact that the humble child, though the least, is regarded by God as even greater than John the Baptist. Luke 7:24-28.
60. John’s baptism must have been widely accepted. The people, even tax collectors, accept Jesus’ words: because they had been baptised by John they accepted that Jesus’ words came from God. The Pharisees had not accepted John’s baptism, neither did they accept Jesus’ word. Luke 7:29-30.
61. Jesus compares the people to the words:- ‘We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; ‘We sang a dirge and you did not cry.’ Flutes were played at weddings. That refers to Jesus. Dirges were played at funerals. That refers to John the Baptist. Luke 7:31-32.
62. The Baptist came fasting and they said he was a demon. Jesus came eating and drinking and they said he was a glutton and a drunkard. But the wise would see that both John and Jesus were godly despite their differences. Luke 7:33-35.
The Penitent Woman.
63. The Pharisees would try anything to catch Jesus out and one of them invited him to a dinner. During the meal a woman of ill-repute comes into the room and covers Jesus’ feet with perfume and kisses. The Pharisees said to
themselves, “If he was a prophet he would know what kind of woman she is.” Jesus knew their thoughts and asked them which of two men whose debts were cancelled would love the most. They answered “The one who had the bigger debt cancelled.” Jesus tells them that the woman, by her actions, had loved much, therefore her sins are forgiven. (Jesus’ forgiveness was not because of her actions or even because of her love but due to her faith.) Luke 7:36-50.
The Women Accompany Jesus.
64. Jesus sets off with the twelve going from village to village ’proclaiming the good news of the kingdom of God.’ Several holy women went with them to support them. These included Mary Magdalene, Joanna the wife of Chuza who was the manager of Herod Antipas’ household, Susanna (of whom nothing more is known) and many others. These would be women who had private means and would be able to supply Jesus and the apostles and disciples with food and other living requirements. (One wonders how Joanna came to follow Jesus. His fame must have spread far and wide. Both she and Mary Magdalene were to be at the tomb on the morning of the resurrection. Also amongst the crowds following Jesus were the Pharisees, always looking for a way to trap Jesus: to catch him out in something he might say. It is surprising that they never seemed to come to realise that Jesus was always able to read their thoughts. He knew, before they spoke, the traps they were setting for him.) Luke 8:1-3.
The Parable of the Sower.
65. Now Jesus starts to use parables. The parable of the seed which fell on pathways, rock, among thorns or on good soil is explained to the disciples by Jesus. That which fell on good soil represents those ‘who hear the word, retain it, and by persevering produce a crop.’ Luke 8:4-15.
Parable of the Lamp.
66. The story of the lamp is to instruct the disciples that the truths of salvation which he has privately explained to them, must be made known to the whole world. Hearing without understanding the word leads to total loss of hearing. Luke 8:16-18.
Jesus and His Brethren.
67. “Your mother and brothers are standing outside wanting to see you.” Jesus’ reply was meant to shock! “My mother and brothers are those who hear God’s word and put it into practice.” Jesus was using the opportunity to emphasise that everyone must listen to his teaching. The bond between those who respond to God is stronger even than family ties. (The word ‘brother’ was used to indicate cousins of the same family. Mary was ever a virgin. See Page 5 Paragraph 4.) Luke 8:19-21.
Jesus Calms the Storm.
68. Crossing the lake Jesus sleeps while a storm almost overwhelms the boat. (That he can sleep under such conditions shows his complete ‘faith and trust’ in his Father.) When the disciples wake him he chides them for their lack of faith. But when the storm obeys him the disciples are in a state of awe. (Jesus must have wanted to leave the disciples in no doubt as to who he was – The Messiah.) Luke 8:22-25.
The Gerasene Demoniac.
69. On stepping ashore Jesus is met by a demoniac. (Matthew mentions two demoniacs. Mark and Luke mention only one. Differences such as this indicate a possible misunderstanding when the story has been conveyed. They also indicate a lack of collusion when writing their Gospels. Also see Page 12 Paragraph 34.) The Demons would rather be sent into the pigs than be returned to their rightful abode, Hell. Afterwards the man who had been possessed was found to be sitting at the feet of Jesus like a disciple. Rather than being awed by the healing the local people are frightened and ask Jesus to leave, though the man who had been healed wanted to stay with Jesus. But Jesus told him to return home and tell how much God had done for him. (This is contrary to Jesus’ words to others he had healed: ‘Tell no-one’. The answer to this apparent anomaly is that as pigs were involved this was not a Jewish district, so there was no danger of interference with Jesus’ ministry.) Luke 8:26-37
The Woman with a Haemorrhage and Jairus’ Daughter.
70. Jesus returns across the lake and is approached by Jairus, a ruler of the synagogue. (The rulers were responsible for conducting services, selecting participants and maintaining order.) He obviously had a great faith and trusted Jesus’ ability to heal. His twelve year old daughter is at the point of death. He pleads with Jesus for help. Luke 8:38-42.
“Who Touched Me?”
71. As they make their way to Jairus’ house Jesus asks “Who touched me?” Peter couldn’t understand the question as the people were crowding around and pressing against Jesus. But Jesus answered, “Someone touched me; I felt that power had gone out from me.” A woman suffering from a haemorrhage had touched Jesus and her faith had been rewarded. Now she came forward trembling with fear. But Jesus speaks to her and calls her “Daughter”. (This tender address is used no-where else in Jesus’ recorded words.) Luke 8:43-48.
“Give Her Something to Eat.”
72. Before they reach Jairus’ house someone comes saying that his daughter has died. But Jesus tells Jarius not to be afraid but believe, and she will be healed. In all his healings, belief - ‘faith’ – was always necessary or the healing could not take place. In this case the father’s faith was needed. As they enter Jarius’ house the mourners and musicians were wailing and lamenting. It might seem impossible for these traditional mourners to have gathered so quickly but we do not know how long Jarius had been searching for Jesus or how far they had to travel to get to the house. Jesus is laughed to scorn when he says that the child only sleeps but when he took her by the hand ‘her spirit returned’ and she stood up. In a practical gesture Jesus tells them to give the girl something to eat. Jesus asks the parents ‘not to tell anyone what had happened’. Luke 8:49-56.
The Twelve are Sent Out.
73. The twelve are sent out with the gifts to ‘drive out demons’, ‘cure diseases’ and ‘preach the kingdom of God.’ They were to forgo the usual extra tunic or provisions which would only be an encumbrance. Instead they were to rely on whatever hospitality they were offered. Luke 9:1-4.
“Shake the Dust Off our Feet.”
74. If they were not made welcome they must ‘shake the dust off their feet’, a sign of repudiation for their rejection of God’s message. Luke 9:5-6.
Herod and Jesus.
75. Luke’s Gospel does not give details of John the Baptist’s death but mentions Herod being confused into thinking that Jesus is the Baptist come back from the dead. Herod obviously had a high regard for the Baptist and, after the beheading, may have spent many sleepless nights worrying. Now Herod hears of Jesus and the many miracle cures. He wonders whether Jesus is John come back from the dead. ‘And he tried to see him.’ (He did eventually get to see him – on Good Friday when Pontius Pilate sent Jesus to him.) Luke 9:7-9.
The Return of the Apostles. The Feeding Of the Five Thousand.
76. The apostles return from their healing and preaching. No doubt they wanted to tell Jesus all that had happened. So they withdrew to a place which they thought would be quiet. But the crowds were not to be outdone and soon discovered the ‘quiet place’. By the afternoon the apostles became concerned that the large crowd needed feeding and asked Jesus to send them away to obtain food. (Luke tells us that ‘About five thousand men were there.’) But Jesus had other plans. From five loaves and two fish Jesus miraculously feeds them all and afterwards twelve baskets full of scraps are collected. (Bread was regarded by Jews as a gift from God, and it was required that scraps be picked up. Apart from Jesus’ Resurrection this is the only miracle contained in all four Gospels.) Luke 9:10-17.
“Who Do You Say I Am?”
77. When Jesus asks his disciples “Who do the crowds say I am?” the reply he receives is the same which Herod also believed: that he was John the Baptist, Elijah or one of the prophets come back to life. Then Jesus asks, “Who do you say I am?” and Peter answers on behalf of all the disciples, “The Christ of God.” Once again Jesus warned his disciples not to tell anyone. (It was necessary that Jesus complete his teaching. If the people knew he was the long awaited Messiah his crucial schedule would be interrupted by premature reactions.) Luke 9:18-21.
First Prophecy of the Passion. “Get Thee Behind Me Satan!”
78. Jesus also chose this moment to tell his disciples of his suffering and death, but also of his rising from the dead on the third day. (Luke doesn’t record Peter’s outburst to which Jesus replied, “Get thee behind me Satan.” Perhaps, Paul, who was Luke’s source of information, felt that Peter had already paid a high price for that and other indiscretions.) Jesus continues to tell the disciples that to follow him they must be prepared to “take up their cross daily.” (Those from Galilee knew what ‘the cross’ meant, for hundreds of men had been executed by that means in their region.) Luke 9:22-23.
The Condition of Following Christ.
79. Jesus continues: “Anyone who wants to save his life will lose it…” (This saying of Jesus is found in all four gospels and in two Gospels more than once: Matthew 10:38-39 & 16:24-25. Mark 8:35. Luke 14:26-27 & 17:33 and, in a slightly different form in John 12:25. No other saying of Jesus is given such emphasis.) “What benefit is it to anyone to win the whole world and forfeit or lose his very self?” Luke 9:24-25.
80. Jesus continues: “If anyone is ashamed of me or my words, the Son of Man will be ashamed of him.” (A person who is more concerned about his own adulterous and sinful way of life than about following and pleasing Christ will have no part in God’s kingdom.) Luke 9:26.
81. For an interpretation of 9:27 “I tell you the truth………………….before they see the kingdom of God.” see Page 21 Paragraph 82. Luke 9:27.
82. The ‘Transfiguration’ enabled Peter, James and John to see Jesus glorified. (The mountain is not named in the Gospels but has always been assumed to have been Mount Tabor. A much more likely mountain is Mount Hermon which is much nearer to Caesarea Philippi where the last scene took place.) Moses’ work had been completed by Joshua, Elijah’s by Elisha [which is another form of Joshua]. They now speak to Jesus [whose Hebrew name was Joshua] about the ‘exodus’ he was about to accomplish by which he would deliver his people from the bondage of sin and bring to fulfilment the work of both Moses and Elijah. Peter’s usual exuberance is evident. The occasion demands silence but Peter speaks out: ‘He did not know what he what saying’. Luke 9:28-33.
“This is My Son the Chosen One.”
83. The three apostles hear a voice proclaiming, “This is my son, the Chosen One, listen to him.” (Matthew’s and Mark’s version say that Jesus told the three disciples not to tell anyone what they had seen.) Luke’s version states, ‘The disciples kept this to themselves, and told no-one at that time what they
had seen.’ (We might question why, on this and other occasions, Jesus chose certain apostles to witness events. Perhaps the ones he chose were the ones he could trust ‘not to tell anyone’ and that was important to enable him to complete his ministry.) Luke 9:34-36.
The Epileptic Demoniac.
84. Down from the mountain a large crowd greets them and a man pleads with Jesus to help his son who is possessed by a spirit. The disciples had tried to drive it out but had failed. Jesus rebukes the demon and it leaves the boy. (For the reason why the disciples could not drive out the demon see Page 51 Paragraph 62.) Luke 9:37-42.
Second Prophecy of the Passion.
85. Once again Jesus tells of his betrayal and death. ‘But they did not understand what this meant. It was hidden from them, so that they did not grasp it, and they were afraid to ask him about it.’ Luke 9:43-45.
Who is the Greatest?
86. The disciples argue as to which of them would be the greatest. Jesus teaches them to be like little children: “he who is least among you all – he is the greatest.” (A person will become great as he sincerely and unpretentiously looks away from self to revere God.) Luke 9:46-48.
On Using the Name of Jesus.
87. John tells Jesus that they have stopped a man who was driving out demons in the name of Jesus. John is told: “You must not stop him: anyone who is not against you is for you.” Luke 9:49-50.
Jesus Sets Out For Jerusalem.
88. Luke records that “Jesus resolutely set out for Jerusalem.” Whilst this was not the visit which would result in his death it was the start of his final ministry which would ultimately lead to his death and Luke emphasises this. Luke 9:51.
The Inhospitable Samaritan Village.
89. To ease the journey Jesus sends ahead to a Samaritan village ‘to get things ready’. But the Samaritans, knowing that Jesus and his followers were on their way to Jerusalem, were not prepared to welcome them. (The Samaritans were descendants of foreign settlers imported into that region by the Assyrians towards the end of the eighth century B.C. and gradually fused with the Israelite peasants left there. They had their own temple on Mount Gerizim and to them Gerizim was the legitimate place for worship, not Jerusalem). James and John, who were known as ‘the Sons of Thunder’, ask Jesus to “call down fire from heaven” to destroy the Samaritans [as Elijah had done. See 2 Kings 1:9-16] but Jesus, ever full of love, rebukes James and John and they ‘went to another village.’ Luke 9:52-56.
Hardships of Apostolic Calling.
90. A man (Matthew calls him ‘A teacher of the law’) tells Jesus, “I will follow you wherever you go.” Jesus’ words “foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head” indicate to the man the risky, unsettled, itinerant way of life which will be expected of him if he follows Jesus. Jesus tells another man “Follow me.” The man asks to first go and bury his father. (Jesus’ reply, suggesting that the man should follow without returning to bury his father, stresses the radical demands of his discipleship, since the Jews placed great importance on the duty of children to bury their parents. But, in this instance, it is possible that the man’s father was not dead, or the man would have been already occupied with the burial. The man is therefore wanting to wait until his father’s death, which could be years away, before following Jesus.) Another wants to go and say goodbye to his family. Jesus refers to the ploughman who must not look back or the new furrow becomes twisted. Luke 9:57-62.
Jesus Sends Out the Seventy-Two.
91. Jesus sends out seventy-two disciples as he had done with the twelve. (Luke 9:1-5.) They were sent out ‘two by two’ (only Mark records that the twelve were also sent out ‘two by two’). Jesus’ instructions indicate an urgency. They must not be encumbered with money-bags, luggage of extra sandals. They must not waste time by stopping and greeting people on the way (exchanging lengthy greetings was customary). They must not waste time moving around trying to improve their lodgings. Luke 10:1-7.
Advice to the Seventy-Two.
92. The seventy-two are told to ‘heal the sick’ and how to treat towns which do not make them welcome. ‘…it will be more bearable on that day (Judgement Day) for Sodom than for that town.’ (Although Sodom was so sinful that God destroyed it [Genesis 19:24-28] the people who heard the message of Jesus and his disciples were even more accountable, because they had the gospel of the kingdom preached to them.) Luke 10:8-12.
Praise and Woe.
93. Jesus praises Tyre and Sidon for having accepted his teachings. But woe to Korazin, Bethsaida and Capernaum who did not accept. Anyone who rejects Jesus rejects the Father who sent him. Luke 10:13-16.
The Seventy-Two Return.
94. The seventy-two return to tell Jesus “Lord, even the demons submit to us in your name.” Jesus tells them “do not rejoice that the spirits submit to you, but that your names are written in heaven.” (Man’s salvation is more important than the power to overcome the evil one.) Luke 10:17-20.
The Privilege of the Disciples.
95. Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, praises the Father and tells the disciples that they are blessed, for prophets and kings wanted to see and hear what they are seeing and hearing. Luke 10:21-24.
The Parable of the Good Samaritan.
96. Jesus’ answer to a teacher of the law (someone well versed in scripture) who asked the question, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?” leads to the beautiful story of the Good Samaritan. (Jews viewed Samaritans as half-breeds, both physically and spiritually. Jews and Samaritans practised open hostility to each other. Which makes Jesus parable the more poignant. Love must transcend any natural inclinations.) The end of the parable left the teacher with only one answer as to who had been a ‘neighbour’ to the man who had fallen into the hands of robbers. “Go and do the same yourself.” is Jesus’ command. Luke 10:25-37.
Martha and Mary.
97. Jesus has to lovingly reprimand Martha who wants her sister Mary to help her with preparations for the meal. Mary is sitting at Jesus feet listening to his every word. Jesus defends her pointing out that “Mary has chosen what is better.” (Surely Martha is a figurehead for all of us who get our priorities wrong.) Luke 10:38-42.
The Our Father.
98. Jesus teaches the disciples the ‘Our Father.’ (The prayer is similar to Matthew 6:9-13 where it is part of the Sermon on the Mount. Six petitions are included in the prayer as given in the Sermon on the Mount by Matthew [combining the last two into one], whereas five appear in the prayer of Luke.) Luke 11:1-4.
Persistence in Prayer.
99. Verses 5 to 13 encourage us to continue to ask, even when it seems that our prayers of petition have been ignored. We must be bold and persistent in our prayers. Luke 11:5-13.
Jesus and Beelzelbul.
100. Jesus had just driven out a demon when some in the crowd ask ‘for a sign’. The sign had just been shown to them but they would not recognise it. Once again ‘Jesus knew their thoughts…..’ and replied accordingly. Luke 11:14-23.
101. For an explanation of Luke 11:24-26 see Page 17 Paragraph 63. Luke 11:24.26.
The Truly Blessed.
102. Jesus always encourages his listeners to hear the word of God rather than any other alternative. Even when a woman refers to his mother, Mary. Luke 11:27-28.
The Sign of Jonah
103. Jesus’ mention of Jonah is a reference to himself being three days in the grave before his resurrection. He draws a comparison between himself and the Queen of Sheba and Jonah. If the Queen of Sheba responded positively to the wisdom of Solomon and the men of Nineveh to the preaching of Jonah, how much more should the people of Jesus’ day have responded to the ministry of Jesus, who is infinitely greater than Solomon or Jonah. Luke 11:29-32.
104. Jesus’ words about ‘a lamp put in a place where it will be hidden’ is a reference to his preaching. He had publicly exhibited the light of the gospel
for all to see, but the Jews requested more spectacular signs. Luke 11:33-36.
Jesus Verbally Attacks Pharisees and Lawyers During a Meal.
105. Jesus is invited to eat with Pharisees. They undoubtedly wanted to hear what he had to say and he certainly didn’t disappoint them. He pronounces on the ‘six woes’. 1. ‘Woe to you Pharisees, because you give God a tenth (Leviticus 27:30) of your mint, rue and all other kinds of herbs but you neglect justice and the love of God.’ 2. ‘Woe to you Pharisees, because you love the most important seats…….’ 3. ‘Woe to you because you are like unmarked graves which men walk over without knowing it.’ (The Jews whitewashed their tombs so that no one would accidentally touch them and be defiled [Numbers 19:16]. Just as touching a grave resulted in ceremonial uncleanness, so listening to the Pharisees’ false teachings could lead to moral uncleanness.) 4. ‘Woe to you because you load people with burdens……..’ (They made extra burdens for the people to follow whilst inventing ways for themselves to circumvent them.) 5. ‘Woe to you because you build tombs for the prophets, and it was your forefathers who killed them.’ (Outwardly the Jews appeared to honour the prophets………..but inwardly they rejected the Christ the prophets had announced.) 6. ‘Woe to you experts in the law, because you have taken away the key to knowledge.’ (The very persons who should have opened the people’s minds obscured their understanding by faulty interpretation and an erroneous system of theology.) Luke 11:37-54.
Open and Fearless Speech.
106. Luke describes the large crowd: ‘many thousands had gathered, so much that they were trampling on one another’. Jesus speaks to his disciples and refers to ‘the yeast of the Pharisees,’ (See Page 49 Paragraph 54.) Jesus also said ‘Fear him who, after the killing of the body, has the power to throw you into hell.’ (The Greek word for Hell is ‘Gehenna’ not to be confused with ‘Hades’ which is the general name for the place of the dead.) Jesus continues, “Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies?” (In Roman money two pennies would be two assarius, a very small sum of money.) “Yet not one
of them is forgotten by God.” (This mention of ‘birds and God’ is comforting to those who love animals and is a warning to those who show cruelty to animals.) Luke 12:1-7.
Blaspheming Against the Holy Spirit.
107. “………..anyone who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven.” (See Page 16 Paragraph 60.) Luke 12:8-12.
On Hoarding Possessions.
108. A man asks Jesus to tell his brother to divide his inheritance with him. (Deuteronomy 21:17 gave the general rule that an elder son received double a younger one’s portion. Disputes were normally settled by rabbis.) The man making the request is being selfish and materialistic and had not been listening to Jesus’ words. Luke 12:13-15.
Parable of the Man who Builds Bigger Barns.
109. To emphasise the dangers of materialism Jesus tells the parable of the rich man who built large barns to store his grain but that very night his life will be demanded of him. We must be ‘rich towards God.’ Luke 12:16-21.
“Do Not Worry.”
110. “Do not worry.” [See Page 11 Paragraph 28.] (In Matthew this is part of The Sermon on the Mount. But in Luke it appears that Jesus is speaking only to the disciples.) Luke 12:22-34.
On Being Ready.
111. Luke tells the story of ‘watchfulness’ but without mentioning the ‘virgins’ which was Matthew’s way of telling the story. The message remains ‘You must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour you do not expect him.’ Luke 12:35-40.
Peter asks “What about Us?”
112. Usually Jesus spoke in parables for the people but used a more direct approach or the disciples. Peter asks whether the parable of the ‘watchfulness’ was only intended for the disciples. Jesus’ explanation indicates that the apostles represent the steward but the lesson of the parable is for everyone. Luke 12:41-48.
Jesus and His Passion.
113. Jesus mentions ‘bringing fire on the earth’. The fire he is referring to is the ‘fire’ of ‘judgement’ and ‘division’. The ‘baptism’ he refers to is his suffering on the cross. Luke 12:49-50.
114. (For an explanation of Chapter 12 verses 51-53 see Page 14 Paragraph 46.) Luke 12:51-53.
On Reading the Signs of the Times.
115. Jesus compares the ability of the people to recognise the changing weather with their inability to recognise their spiritual crisis. Luke 12:54-56.
Do Not Rely on the Pharisees.
116. Jesus tells the people to make their own judgements and not rely on the Pharisees. They must reconcile themselves to God before it is too late. Otherwise retribution will have to be made. The words, “I tell you, you will not get out until you have paid the last penny” refer to purgatory. Luke 12:57-59.
An Incident Involving Galileans Who Were Killed.
117. An incident, otherwise unknown, had taken place in the Temple. Some Galileans must have seriously contravened a Roman regulation and Pilate had had them killed and their blood would have mixed with the blood for sacrifices. Jesus points out that those who were slain are no worse than everyone else who will not repent. Jesus also refers to a tragedy when a tower had collapsed and killed eighteen people. Those killed were no more guilty than all others in Jerusalem who will not repent. (In those days when a calamity happened it was considered that those killed must have been very sinful. Jesus refutes that theory.) Luke 13:1-5.
The Parable of the Fig Tree.
118. The Fig Tree in the parable is probably symbolic of the Jewish nation. ‘Three years’ being an ample time to get things right. Luke 13:6-9.
Jesus Cures a Woman on the Sabbath.
119. Jesus is criticised for curing a woman on the Sabbath. He defends his action; “You hypocrites! Doesn’t each of you on the Sabbath untie his ox or donkey from the stall and lead it out to give it water? Then should not this woman, a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has kept bound for eighteen long years, be set free on the Sabbath day……?” His opponents were humiliated. Luke 13:10-17.
The Parable of the Mustard Seed.
120. The parable of the Mustard Seed can be interpreted as the kingdom of God having small beginnings with Jesus and his twelve apostles but it will grow to come to its true greatness and power. Luke 13:18-19.
The Parable of the Yeast.
121. The kingdom of God will work its way through the world as will the yeast worked into the dough. Luke 13:20-21.
“Many Will Leave it Too Late.”
122. Jesus travels around teaching as he goes. He is asked whether only a few will be saved. His answer suggests that many will leave it too late. Luke 13:22-30.
Herod the Fox.
123. Jesus is in Parea which was under Herod’s jurisdiction. Some Pharisees tell Jesus to “leave this place” as Herod is wanting to kill him. Their aim was to get Jesus out of their district. Jesus’ reply indicates that he had no fear. He knows that it will be in Jerusalem where he will die. He continues with a lament over Jerusalem. Luke 13:31-35.
Taking the Lowest Place.
124. Jesus is attending a meal at the house of a Pharisee. He would have been invited as an apparent act of courtesy but to try and find something to use against him. Once again he deals with the problem of ‘healing on the Sabbath’. The Pharisees have no answer to Jesus’ sensible approach to Sabbath healing. At the same event he notices that some have picked the best places at table and speaks the parable of ‘taking the lowest place’. “For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.” Luke 14:1-11.
Invite the Poor. They Cannot Repay You.
125. Jesus’ approach to ‘invitations’ is very true! You invite someone and they invite you back……… But if you invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind, you will be blessed. They cannot repay you but you will be repaid at the resurrection. Luke 14:12-14.
Invited Guests Make Excuses.
126. Associating ‘the Kingdom to Come’ with a large banquet was a common idea. So Jesus’ parable of the banquet where guests made excuses for not attending would have been understood in that way. Eventually, in order to fill his banquet with guests, the sick, the poor, the crippled and the lame are brought in. But none of those who were originally invited would taste the banquet. Luke 14:15-24.
Renouncing All That One Holds Dear.
127. If we are to follow Jesus we must love him more than our immediate family. We must love him more than we love ourselves. To follow Jesus we must be prepared to accept the crosses which come our way and not complain at them or try to rid ourselves of them. Luke 14:25-27.
128. When following Jesus we must not make a blind naïve commitment but one which, like the man building the tower, estimates the cost, or, in the case of Jesus, considers what is expected to be a follower. Luke 14:28-30.
129. To follow Jesus we must be prepared to ‘give up everything’. Luke 14:31-33.
On Loss of Enthusiasm in a Disciple.
130. The distinctive mark of discipleship typified by pure salt is allegiance to Jesus and the Gospel. (Impure salt could lose its taste.) Luke 14:34-35.
The Shepherd and the Lost Sheep.
131. As tax collectors and sinners surrounded Jesus to hear his words, again the Pharisees criticise Jesus: “This man welcomes sinners, and eats with them.” Jesus, knowing their thoughts told the story of the shepherd and the lost sheep. The parable showed the love of Jesus for sinners as opposed to the exclusiveness of the Pharisees. Luke 15:1-7.
Parables of The Lost Coin, The Prodigal Son and The Shrewd Manager.
132. Luke’s Gospel used more of Jesus’ parables than Matthew and Mark. The Lost Coin, the Prodigal Son and the Shrewd Manager are three such parables. The first two are a further lesson in caring for that which has been lost and for never giving up on love. The third is more complex. In discounting the debts the manager was making the debtors under obligation to himself. But it was not necessarily stealing from his master. The manager may have been reducing the interest payments to what they should have been before he previously enhanced them in order to make his commission (an acceptable way of making his salary). By so doing he would both satisfy his master, please the debtors and gain their good favour. All-in-all very shrewd! But it is the manager’s astuteness which is being commended not his possible dishonesty. Luke 15:8-32 & 16:1-8.
The Right Use of Money.
133. After the parable of the Shrewd Manager Jesus continues his discourse saying that whoever can be trusted with little can also be trusted with much. Faithfulness is not determined by the amount entrusted but by the character of the person who uses it. The Pharisees who heard this sneered at Jesus who, knowing their hearts, said to them, “You are the ones who justify yourselves in the eyes of men. For what is highly esteemed in human eyes is loathsome in the sight of God.” Luke 16:9-15.
The Kingdom Stored.
134. Since John the Baptist the good news of the kingdom of God is being preached and ‘everyone is forcing their way into it.’ (The real meaning of this
statement is unknown but it may refer to the earnestness with which people were responding to Jesus’ teachings.) Luke 16:16.
The Law Remains.
135. The law, which Jesus is teaching, is less likely to disappear than for heaven and earth to disappear. Luke 16:17.
136. Luke’s statement on divorce compares with Mark’s version. (To compare all three synoptic versions see this verse of Luke: Matthew Page 10 Paragraph 25: and Mark Page 52 Paragraph 70.) Luke 16:18.
The Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus.
137. The parable of the rich man and Lazarus is the only one where Jesus gave a name to one of the characters. The words, “they will not be convinced even if someone rises from the dead” might have been Jesus’ way of foretelling the raising of Lazarus, hence the use of the name, or of his own resurrection. Luke 16:19-31.
On Leading Others Astray.
138. Sin will always be with us but it is worse if we lead others into sin. Especially if the ‘others’ are ‘little ones’. (By ‘little ones’ can be meant either young in faith or young in age.) Luke 17:1-2.
139. We must be ever watchful against sin. But we must also be ever forgiving of others who sin. When Jesus told the apostles that they must forgive their brother seven times a day and then, if necessary, seven times more they said “[Lord], increase our faith.” Jesus told them that if they had true faith as small as a mustard seed they would be able to tell a mulberry tree to uproot itself and plant itself in the sea and it would obey. Like 17:3-6.
140. Jesus explains to the apostles that they must be like servants who work all day and then prepare their master’s meal before feeding themselves. Luke 17:7-10.
Jesus Cures Ten Lepers.
141. Jesus cures ten lepers but only one returns to thank him and he was a Samaritan, a foreigner to the Jews. Jesus’ words to the Samaritan “Rise and go; your faith has made you well” may indicate that he had received salvation in addition to the physical healing which all ten had received. Luke 17:11-19.
The coming of the Kingdom of God.
142. The Pharisees ask Jesus when the Kingdom of God will come. Jesus tells them that no amount of calculation can fix the time of Christ’s return in judgement. When it comes it will be plain for all to see – it will not be a secret. Before this can happen Jesus must suffer and be rejected. But when it happens the world will be caught unprepared as it was by the flood. Or as it was in Sodom when the people were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building when fire and sulphur rained down and destroyed them all. Jesus is asked, “Where will this happen?” Jesus answers that these things will take place wherever there are people to whom the event pertains. (Also see Matthew Pages 30 & 31 Paragraphs 121, 122, 123, 124, 125 & 126.) Luke 17:20-37.
The Unscrupulous judge and the Importunate Widow.
143. The parable of the persistent widow tells us all that we must persist in prayer. Like the seemingly ‘uncaring judge’ God will bring about justice for those who cry out to him day and night. But Jesus finishes his remarks with a word of warning. “However, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?” (This warning gives the definite impression that there will be a period of spiritual decline and persecution – a time that will require perseverance such as the widow demonstrated.) Luke 18:1-8.
The Pharisee and Tax Collector.
144. The parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector is a clear lesson of pride and humility. The Pharisee gives himself away by declaring, “I give a tenth of all I get” when he is meant to give a tenth of what he ‘earns’! A typical Pharisee of the time, he was cheating the tithe by giving of what he ‘acquired’ and not of what he earned. Luke 18:9-14.
“Let the Children Come to Me.”
145. The disciples were probably being solicitous towards Jesus when they tried to stop mothers bringing the children to him. But Jesus uses the occasion to teach that to reach the Kingdom of God we must be like little children. Luke 18:15-17.
Th Rich Aristocrat.
146. (For an explanation of the story of the Rich Ruler, the Eye of the Needle and Peter’s plea see Page 53 Paragraphs 73, 74, 75 & 76). Luke 18:18 ‑ 30.
Third Prophecy of the Passion.
147. Jesus speaks privately to the apostles and tells them that they are going to Jerusalem and of all that will happen to him. They did not understand. It was as if Jesus’ words were hidden from their minds. Luke 18:31-34.
Entering Jericho and Bartimaeus the Blind Man.
148. A blind man, named by Mark as Bartimaeus, shouts to Jesus asking to be cured. (Matthew mentions two blind men. See page 25 paragraph 104). Those around him rebuke him for shouting but Jesus asks for the man to be brought to him. The man is healed and is told “…your faith has saved you.” The man follows Jesus praising God. Luke 18:35-43.
149. Once again Jesus risks the scorn of the Pharisees by staying at the house of the tax collector, Zacchaeus. In fact Jesus had insisted that he stay there: “I must stay at your house.” Zacchaeus is moved by the courtesy shown to him and repents saying that he will give half of his possessions to the poor and if he has cheated anyone will pay back four times. (That is a most extreme payment required under the law in the case of theft. Exodus 22:1. 2 Samuel 12:6.) Luke 19:1-10.
Parable of the Ten Talents.
150. The Parable of the Ten Minas is similar to Matthew’s parable of the Ten Talents except that in Matthew’s version the servants are given different amounts whereas in Luke they are all given the same amount. The amount given to each servant would be about three months’ wages. The lesson is that those who seek spiritual gain for themselves and others will become richer in faith. Those who squander what is given to them will become impoverished, losing even what they have. “…those enemies who did not want me for their king, bring them here and execute them in my presence.” may be a reference to Jerusalem’s destruction in 70A.D. Luke 19:11-27.
The Messiah Enters Jerusalem.
151. Jesus prepares to enter Jerusalem fully aware of all that is ahead of him. He sends two disciples to fetch a colt/donkey. He rides the donkey thereby creating a similar situation to when Solomon was taken to be anointed as king. (1 Kings 1:33.) Jesus is therefore following the kingship to sit on David’s throne. The prophecy of (Zechariah 9:9 ) is also fulfilled. Luke 19:28-36.
Jesus Defends his Disciples for Acclaiming Him.
152. The disciples shout out in joy:
“Blessed is he who is coming
as King in name of the Lord!” (Psalm 118:26.)
“Peace in heaven and glory in the
highest heavens!” (Ezekiel 3:12))
at which some Pharisees tell Jesus to rebuke them. Jesus replies, “I tell
you, if these keep silence, the stones will cry out.” Luke 19:37-40.
Lament Over Jerusalem.
153. Jesus weeps over Jerusalem and prophesies the destruction of the city.
“…..your enemies will build an embankment…” In 70 A.D. the Romans
built an embankment to besiege the city. Jesus’ final words regarding
the destruction are “……because you did not recognise the time of
God’s coming to you.” (God came to the Jews in the name of Jesus; if
they had recognised him, the awful happenings of 70A.D. would have
been avoided.) Luke 19:41‑44.
Jesus Clears the Temple of Traders.
154. Luke has Jesus driving the traders out of the Temple on the same day he entered the city. Mark states that this happened the day after the Triumphal Entry. (See Page 56/57 Paragraphs 87 & 88.) Luke 19:45-48.
“By What Authority Do you Do These Things?”
155. The chief priests and teachers of the law question Jesus about where his authority comes from for his teaching. Jesus asks his own question (See Page 26 Paragraph 109). Luke 20-1-8.
The Parable of the Tenants.
156. The Parable of the Tenants, where eventually the owner’s son is killed by the tenants is a clear representation of Jesus Christ. God the Father sends his Son and we, the tenants, by our sins, kill him. The people who heard the parable said, “May this never be!” Luke 20:9-16.
The Stone the Builders Rejected has become the corner stone.
157. Jesus quotes from Psalm 118:22: “The stone the builders rejected has become the corner stone,” and then from Isaiah 8:14-15: “a stone that causes men to stumble and a rock which makes them fall: Many of them will stumble; they will fall and be broken.” The teachers of the law and the chief priests looked for a way to arrest Jesus. They knew he was speaking against them. Luke 20:17-19.
Paying Tribute to Caesar.
158. The Pharisees and the Herodians, who would not normally have much time for each other, join forces to try and trap Jesus. They will ask Jesus whether it is correct to pay taxes to Caesar. If he answers “Yes” then the people will disown him for disloyalty. If he says “No” then the Herodians will denounce him to Pilate. It is a trap which cannot fail! But Jesus knows the evil of their intent and asks to see a denarius. “Whose portrait and inscription are on it?” he asks. “Caesar’s” they reply. Jesus says “Then give to Caesar what is Caesar’s and to God what is God’s.” They had been unable to trap him and, astonished by his answer, they became silent. Luke 20:20-26.
The Resurrection of the Dead.
159. It was the Sadducees’ turn to try and trap Jesus. They don’t believe in the resurrection and try to make their point by asking about supposedly impossible relationships. Jesus tells them that at the resurrection people will neither marry nor be given in marriage: “They will be like angels”. There is a resurrection: to a life where there is no sexual union or procreation because there is no death. After this no-one dared ask him any more questions. Luke 20:27-40.
Christ Son of David and Lord of David.
160. Jesus refers to the saying that ‘the Christ is the Son of David.’ David had declared:
“The Lord declared to my Lord:
take your seat at my right hand
till I have made your enemies
your footstool.” Psalm 110:1.
David calls him ‘Lord’. How then can he be his son? Luke 20:41-44.
The Scribes Condemned by Jesus.
161. Jesus didn’t speak behind people’s backs. ‘While all the people were listening’ he berated the teachers of the law for walking around in flowing robes, having the most important places in the synagogues and places of honour at banquets. (They took advantage of defenceless groups by fraud and schemes for selfish gain.) They will be severely punished. (The higher the esteem of men the more severe the demands of true justice.) Luke 20:45 ‑47.
The Widow’s Mite.
162. Jesus could see everything – into the hearts of people and into their poverty. So he could tell that the woman giving a few small coins to the temple treasury was more charitable than those who gave from the abundance of their wealth. Luke 21:1-4.
Discourse on the Destruction of Jerusalem.
163. For an explanation of Chapter 21 Verses 5-28 see Page 60 Paragraph 104. Luke 21:5-36.
Be On the Alert.
164. Jesus continues to teach in the temple during the daytime and go to the Mount of Olives to spend the night. (There is no report of Jesus ever having spent the night in Jerusalem.) Luke 21:37-38.
Satan Entered Into Judas.
165. Luke tells us that ‘Satan entered into Judas’. (This expression is used twice – once before Judas went to the chief priests and offered to betray Jesus and secondly during the last supper. Thus the Gospel depicts Satan’s
control over Judas. Why? Perhaps Judas was expecting a ‘Saviour’ who would be like the Machabees and who would ‘take up the sword’ to rid the Jewish nation of their Roman invaders. But Jesus was a man of peace. Judas seemed to have been unable to recognise that.) The chief priests’ problem was that they dare not arrest Jesus when he was surrounded by crowds as they would rebel and cause a scene. Judas agreed to hand Jesus over to them when no crowd was present. Luke 22:1-6.
Preparation for the Passover.
166. The circumstances leading up to the Passover meal are in themselves strange. Firstly Jesus and his apostles appear to have celebrated the Passover a day before everyone else. The answer is that the Pharisees and Sadducees had different ways of working out when the Passover should be held. In that particular year the Pharisees held the Passover on the Thursday as did Jesus and his apostles. But in that same year the Sadducees, who made up most of the Sanhedrin, who pronounced the death penalty on Jesus, celebrated the Passover the next day. So we read in John, ‘to avoid uncleanness they did not enter the palace.’ (John 18:28) Those who ‘did not enter’ would be Sadducees. Jesus sent Peter and John to ‘make preparations for….the Passover’. He tells them that “they will meet a man carrying a jar of water.” (That, in itself, would have been unusual as carrying water was normally women’s work.) But why this secrecy? Why didn’t he announce to everyone where the Passover would be held? Perhaps because, knowing Judas’ intention, and the ‘upper room’ being a convenient place for Jesus to be apprehended, Jesus did not want the peace of the first Eucharist to be disturbed. Luke 22:7-13.
The Passover and Institution of The Eucharist.
167. The Passover is celebrated and Jesus institutes the Sacrament of the Eucharist. Jesus mentions his betrayal and the apostles discuss among themselves which of them it might be. At this point, in Luke’s Gospel, comes the dispute amongst the apostles as to which of them is the greatest. (In Mark’s Gospel this happens much earlier in Jesus’ ministry. Mark 9:34). Peter affirms his loyalty to Jesus: “Lord I am ready to go with you to prison and to death.” Jesus tells him of his soon to come denial: “Before the cock crows…………” Luke 22:14-34.
A Time of Crisis.
168. Jesus explains to the apostles that a new time is coming for them. Previously, he had sent them out, vulnerable, without purse, bag or sandals (Luke 9:3). But now they will have to be prepared to defend themselves. Luke 22:35-38.
The Garden of Gethsemane.
169. Jesus and the apostles leave the upper room and make their way to the Mount of Olives. Jesus would often go to pray there and Judas was aware of it. Jesus tells the apostles to pray that they may not fall into temptation. Then
commences his agony in the garden – ‘An angel from heaven appeared to him and strengthened him.’ Luke 22:39-43.
His Sweat was Like Drops of Blood.
170. ‘…….and his sweat was like drops of blood falling on the ground.’ (Haematidrosis, the actual mingling of blood and sweat in cases of extreme
anguish.) Jesus finds his apostles asleep. (The wine of the Passover meal would have made them very sleepy and when Jesus needed them most, they were not able to stay awake.) Luke 22:44-46.
The Kiss of Judas.
171. Judas leads the crowd who have come to arrest Jesus. As he approaches to kiss Jesus the apostles’ immediate reaction is to fight. The high priest’s servant has his ear cut off but Jesus heals it and declares, “That is enough!” Jesus asks why they have come to arrest him with swords and clubs when he was in the Temple every day and they did not lay a hand on him. Then he says, “But this is your hour – when darkness reigns.” The darkness is when ‘the power of evil’ will do its worst to defeat God’s plan. Luke 22:47-53.
Jesus Taken to Annas.
172. Luke’s Gospel doesn’t mention the apostles deserting Jesus but tells of Peter following at a distance. Jesus is taken to the house of the high priest. This position was often passed down from father to son and at that time the high priest was Caiaphas. But his father-in-law, Annas, still had a lot of power and it was to him that Jesus was first taken. Luke 22:54.
Peter Thrice Denial and the Cock Crows.
173. Peter denies Jesus three times and then the cock crows. ‘And he went out and wept bitterly.’ (One wonders why, even at that point, he didn’t own up to being one of Jesus’ followers. But it was too late. He had disowned the man he knew was the Son of God. It would take time and Jesus’ forgiveness to heal the deep wound which he had inflicted on himself. The same wounds which we inflict on ourselves when we sin.) Jesus is beaten, blindfolded and insulted. Luke 22:55-65.
Jesus Asked “Are You the Christ?” He Replies “I am.”
174. Early the next morning Jesus is taken before the council of the elders, the Sanhedrin. They ask him, “If you are the Christ…..tell us.” Jesus tells the truth: “You are right in saying I am.” The Sanhedrin take this true statement to be Jesus’ death warrant. Luke 22:66-71.
Jesus Before Pilate.
175. Jesus is taken to Pilate.The Sanhedrin lie to him firstly by saying that Jesus is subverting the nation and secondly by saying that Jesus opposes paying taxes to Caesar. Pilate questions Jesus and tells the chief priests that he can find no fault in him. The Sanhedrin insist that Jesus is stirring up trouble and mention that he comes from Galilee. This suits Pilate who sends Jesus to Herod, who happened to be in Jerusalem at that time. Galilee comes under Herod’s jurisdiction and Pilate hoped to get rid of the problem and let Herod deal with it. Herod had heard of Jesus and was hoping to see him perform a miracle. But he was to be disappointed. Jesus was silent and made no response to anything which was said to him. So after Herod and his soldiers had mocked Jesus he was sent back to Pilate. Luke 23:1-12.
176. Pilate was probably not pleased to have the problem back for him to deal with, though from that day he and Herod became friends whereas previously they had been enemies. Pilate continues to defend Jesus saying that he can find no basis for the charges against him. He offers to punish Jesus and release him. (Punish him when he could find no fault in him? Those were the brutal times they lived in.) Luke 23:13-17.
177. The chief priests will have none of it and encourage the crowd to cry out “Crucify him.” And they asked for the release of Barabbas who was in prison for the serious crime of insurrection and murder. Luke 23:18-21.
Pilate Grants the Wishes of the Crowd.
178. Pilate is not happy with the way things are going. He can see that the chief priests are exciting the crowd and encouraging them and he is well aware that Jesus has been brought to him out of envy. Once again he tries to obtain Jesus’ release but the crowds continue to shout “Crucify him”, so he decided to grant their demand. Luke 23:22-25.
Jesus Carries His Cross.
179. Jesus carries his cross to Calvary but becomes so weak that Simon from Cyrene is bullied into helping him. (This gives us an insight into living under the occupation of the Romans.) Jesus speaks to the women who are ‘wailing for him’. His words predict the terrible suffering to befall Jerusalem in only forty years’ time when the Romans besiege it and completely destroy the temple. Jesus quotes from Hosea:
“they will say to the mountains, “Fall
and to the hills “Cover us!” Hosea 10:8.
Jesus’ words: “For if men do these things when the tree is green, what will happen when it is dry?” can be interpreted as: ‘If they treat the Messiah this way, what will be their plight when he is withdrawn from them? When he was being crucified Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.” What Jesus meant was, “They do not know who they are doing this to.” Then they cast lots for his clothing (Psalm 22:18).
Luke 3:26 -34.
Jesus is Mocked.
180. Those watching sneered at him and the soldiers mocked him and offered him wine vinegar. Over his cross was written, ‘This is the King of the Jews.’ One of the criminals crucified with him said “Aren’t you the Christ? Save yourself and us!” (Matthew and Mark say that both criminals berated Jesus.) But Luke tells us that one of the criminals asked for Jesus’ help which Jesus mercifully gave. A possible answer is that initially both criminals berated Jesus, but, as death drew nearer, one of them saw the majesty of Jesus’ crucifixion and realised that this was a holy man. The possible thoughts of the criminals need considering. The eve of the Feast of the Passover seems an unlikely time for crucifixion, but to get rid of Jesus it was considered necessary. Were the two criminals not due to be crucified till later and resented Jesus having brought their time forward? They probably both envied Barabbas. Why hadn’t they been the one chosen to be freed? Luke 23:35-43.
181. Luke describes the moment when Jesus died – darkness – the sun stopped shining - the veil of the temple was rent in two (an earthquake?) – an awful scene. Jesus called out with a loud voice. That in itself was miraculous. The weight of the body pressing on the lungs made breathing very difficult. To ‘cry out in a loud voice’ was almost impossible. Jesus died. (How long was Jesus on the cross? For an explanation see Page 65 Paragraph 120. Also see Page 125 Paragraph 89 regarding crucifixion versus stoning.) Luke 23:44-46.
“Truly This Was an Upright Man.”
182. The Roman Centurion who had witnessed Jesus’ death ‘…..praised God and said, “Truly, this was an upright man.” (Matthew and Mark report the Centurion’s words as, “In truth this man was the Son of God.”) Luke 23:47.
The Crowds Went Away Beating Their Breasts.
183. Those who had gone along to watch ‘beat their breasts and went away.’ ‘But those who knew him………………stood at a distance watching these things.’ Luke 23:48-49.
184. Joseph of Arimathea takes the body of Jesus and places it in a rock tomb. All was done so that resting on the Sabbath could be obeyed. Luke 23:50:56.
The Empty Tomb.
185. ‘On the first day of the week…....’ (Sunday, the first day of the Jewish week, began at sunset on Saturday) ‘……..the women took spices they had prepared and went to the tomb.’ The stone was rolled away and the tomb was empty. Two angels appear and the women, though frightened, realise that this is something supernatural and bow their faces to the ground. They are told “Why do you look for the living among the dead? He is not here; he has risen!” The angel repeats Jesus’ words that he must suffer, die and, on the third day, rise again. The women remembered his words. Luke 24:1-8.
Peter at the Tomb.
186. They go back to tell the others but they are all ‘doubting Thomas’ and refuse to believe ‘because their words seemed like nonsense.’ Peter went to the tomb and found all as the women had said ‘and he went away, wondering to himself what had happened.’ Luke 24:9-12.
On the Road to Emmaus.
187. The story of the two disciples on the road to Emmaus is wonderful. I only wish we had the full text of all that Jesus said to Cleopas and his companion! All we know is: ‘And beginning with Moses and the prophets he explained to them what was said in all the Scriptures concerning himself.’ As he broke the bread their eyes were opened, they recognised him, ‘and he disappeared from their sight.’ They return to Jerusalem and as they are telling their story to the disciples Jesus appears among them and says, “Peace be with you.” Luke 24:13-36.
Jesus Appears to the Apostles.
188. They are all frightened. They think they are seeing a ghost. Jesus shows them his hands and his feet and, to prove that he is human and not a ghost, asks for something to eat. He opened their minds, as he had done to
the disciples on the road to Emmaus, so that they could understand the scriptures and continued ‘…….repentance and forgiveness of sins will be preached in Christ’s name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.’ Luke 24:37 ‑48.
Last Instruction to the Apostles.
189. Jesus tells the apostles to “stay in the city” and promises to send what his Father had promised so they may be clothed with power from on high. Luke 24:49.
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Public health encompasses many different disciplines and areas of study, including epidemiology, biostatistics, vaccinology and immunology, program planning and evaluation, policy and health care management. Public health, at its core, is about the prevention of disease and limiting the impact of the disease once it has occurred. Public health has gained critical importance now more than ever as the world continues to try to slow the spread of COVID-19. It is not only the most vital intervention in reducing the number of cases, but also to lessen the burden on the health care system. Since the COVID-19 pandemic started, there has been a need of better preparation as there can be another global pandemic in the future, and this is where a dedicated Public Health cadre is very important.
Although India has made considerable progress in public health in recent past in terms of decrease in infant mortality rates, under-five mortality rates, and maternal mortality ratios, all sensitive indicators of health system performance. Yet, the country’s health system continues to face many challenges, now mainly in the form of emerging diseases and their better control. An important feature contributing to improved health outcomes not only in the developed world but also across select states in India is the presence of a dedicated, efficient and adequately resourced public health cadre. With professionally trained public health professionals/ community medicine specialists and often the support of robust public health regulations, these cadres have contributed to improved health, environmental, and developmental outcomes.
Evidences for the need of a public health cadre
Developed Countries have made vigorous efforts to invest in public health. For over hundreds of years, this commitment to population health in the form of strengthened departments of public health with separate budgets has helped protect its people from exposure to disease, environmental threats, and helped to increase life expectancy. In 2016, Ebola outbreak raised concerns about the poor preparedness of Public health systems globally. Now COVID-19 has altogether exposed the weaknesses of the Public Health structure across the world including our country India.
There are evidences that the countries with well-established Public health systems have better outcomes of the COVID-19 pandemic and emphasize on the need of strong public health services that go beyond health establishments. Public health cadre has more relevance in times of pandemic like COVID-19, as it allows more service providers to screen and treat a greater number of patients, and patients who may have been infected with the virus no longer have to travel to the hospital or the service providers for evaluation. Even the Board of Governors issued Telemedicine Practice Guidelines in midst of the COVID-19 pandemic to avoid movement of people and crowding of healthcare establishments.
Moreover, from well-trained Public Health experts (MPH, MD Community Medicine specialists) in independent and locally accountable public health teams within local authorities to the robust engagement of community-level workers, these institutional arrangements for public health delivery have made a significant effect in improving community health outcomes. The structure of public health in India, where health is a state subject is haphazard. Although, public health interventions are delivered by various functionaries from the auxiliary staff to higher administrative levels, except few states (Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra) these are not organized in a separate/dedicated systematically trained public health cadre. In addition, the absence of a comprehensive Public Health Act in most states means that health officials lack the regulatory authority and powers to enforce public health legislation adequately. The lack of a separate public health directorate further compromises their independence, effectiveness, and efficiency.
Scenario and status of public health cadre in India and outside
The state of Tamil Nadu is running with this cadre system since before independence and acting illustrious in higher than country average in various fields, like as immunization coverage, maternal and child health as well as disaster management. Similarly, Maharashtra has a stratified cadre system for public health medical officers. In Odisha, there has been a recent systematic human resource reform with the partial fulfilment of cadre-based system introduction at the block level and above. It is already in place since 2017 and the Odisha model has gained its popularity and momentum. Different other states like Chhattisgarh, Arunachal Pradesh, Bihar and UP are in progress at various levels. In West Bengal, proclaiming ‘The Calcutta Declaration’ on public health December 1999 demands for need-based and scientific cadre structure with rationality at various levels is there awaiting implementation.
As China and India are the two most populous neighbours experiencing very close post-independence ages, comparability in the health sector can be drawn. Following Soviet Union’s public health delivery model, China implemented a countrywide organized bottom-up health care delivery initially targeting the rural villages and urban poor providing basic preventive, curative and referral services. For this, they trained pre-existing ‘village doctors’ who were given basic as well as skill-based training. Thus over years designated public health cadres were created who are still working to bring about the country’s wonderful health success story. Public health services in Sri Lanka since September 2011 have delineated population-wise human resource availability.
Health workforce in Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) countries enjoy a much amicable working ambiance like as, determining their employment conditions, clear salary scales, top-up incentives over salaries, etc. Among these countries, Costa Rica and Jamaica have been able to develop designated health cadres at the PHC level to reach vulnerable populations effectively. In Uruguay and Columbia education on health has become more accessible which has been complemented by high salaried placement. These countries have also focused on workplace safety, promotion of health, and promoting satisfactory working conditions which have shown results in form of low attrition and better health care services.
Routine healthcare services
As we have seen that COVID-19 pandemic has led to disruption of routine healthcare delivery services in the country, with the closure of routine outpatient departments, immunization clinics, antenatal services, and other services because the health systems are overwhelmed and both direct mortality from a pandemic and indirect mortality from other vaccine-preventable and treatable diseases increase dramatically. Past experience from the 2014–2015 Ebola outbreak suggested that the increased number of deaths by measles, malaria, AIDS, and tuberculosis were due to the failure of health system and that exceeded the deaths from Ebola outbreak alone.
Moreover, surveillance data in India shows recurring outbreaks of gastrointestinal disorders, hemorrhagic dengue fever, as well as large-scale outbreaks of malaria and point toward compromised public health measures. This pandemic has again shown the inability of our health establishments to cater to infection prevention and control guidelines at workplaces because of the profile and design of the establishments. Design and creation of public facilities that ensure the health and well-being of inhabitants maintaining the standards of ventilation, lighting are essential need to be constructed adhering to public health norms.
The most important counter move that emerged out of the COVID-19 pandemic was flattening the curve to ensure that surge capacity during an outbreak does not overwhelm the healthcare system. To save lives it is essential that prompt actions be taken during outbreaks and for that readiness of mechanisms and lines of action well beforehand will facilitate the same. Even if medical countermeasures are available, the diseases remain a threat for many of the world’s populations, either because of the rapidly evolving nature or because equitable access to effective public health measures is difficult. Although there seem to be many reasons for limited access to vaccines, production capacity does not meet the demand explosive outbreaks exhaust the available vaccines, or the absence of vaccine during first wave, but the most important thing which was lacking was surely the absence of robust Public health structure.
Our Health system lack protocols to ensure a smooth exchange of information and cooperation between health establishments, regional entities, and health authorities for maintenance of the supply chain on a demand basis and most important dealing with infodemics (misinformation). An overall Emergency Response Plan to coordinate the hospital's overall emergency response was lacking. Protocols should be handy for other essential services as laboratory, food, water, and electricity supply so that indirect mortality can be taken care of.
Most of the COVID-19 SOPs and guidelines were developed using a very low-quality method of Guidelines by Expert consensus. The most sophisticated way of developing guidelines that require Evidence Synthesis (Denovo Guidelines) using systemic review of the primary research was ignored because of the lack of experts from the relevant fields in the committees forming these guidelines and SOPs. During the COVID-19 pandemic, no standard treatment protocols were followed and many therapies and drugs were used even after finding them ineffective or having no proven benefits in multicentric clinical trials, thus exposing the patients to unnecessary side effects and drug interactions.
Traditionally during the coronavirus crisis, the government of India and state governments resorted to a standard practice of setting up committees and taskforces comprising mainly of bureaucratic and political loyalties. Most states have appointed current and retired bureaucrats, eminent clinicians, some scientists, and generalists to their panels who have advised cocktails of different prophylactic measures and who have very little or no experience in handling outbreaks. Delhi government constituted a state-level task force comprising 34 members under the Chief Minister, which in turn recommended the establishment of 11 District Task forces headed by District Magistrates. Only Kerala and Tamil Nadu stand out as the ones that had the right mix of experts and implementers because of the better-designed Public Health system developed in response to two Nipah outbreaks. On the contrary, in the USA the Epidemiologist Anthony Fauci who guided six presidents including the USA on HIV, Ebola, and Zika, and now COVID-19 was at the helm of affairs, and his role in advising the government and communicating to the public was appreciated throughout the world.
Role of public health professionals in covid-19 era
· Emergency preparedness and response (e.g. data collection and reporting)
· Capacity building activities through exchange of information.
· Assessment and surveillance (e.g. testing and tracing capacity).
· Communications (e.g. awareness generation)
· Policy development, implementation and enforcement.
· Community partnership development.
Manpower for public health cadre
A specialized workforce (Public Health specialists/Community Medicine specialists) is needed, with the capacity to generate evidence, analyze and immediately come up with solutions to public health problems. National Health Policy 2017 is built on the theme explicitly which proposes the creation of a public health management cadre in all states. Moreover, there is a need to have expertise in epidemiology, environment, demography, statistics, entomology, vaccinology and immunology, program planning and evaluation, policy, and health care management.
The training of epidemiology is currently provided as a part of preventive and social medicine (community medicine) training program to undergraduate students in MBBS curriculum, for providing basic knowledge of public healthcare delivery system of the country, essential to make competent primary care physicians. Master's Degree (MD) in Community Medicine with training in epidemiology, disease surveillance, health systems, health programs, and public health laws is offered in the post-graduation program. The students are additionally trained in research on public health problems and to take up leadership roles in the public healthcare delivery system.
So, the learnings from COVID-19 have provided some important observations for exploring the feasibility of establishing Public health cadre:
· While health departments have faced numerous challenges during COVID-19, the roots of these problems are institutional siloes, poor funding in health, ambiguities over authority, and neglected hospital infrastructure, and poor use of the Public health workforce.
· Policymakers lack various tools to achieve alignment on the public health mandate and public health governance, from accreditation programs to frameworks outlining the minimum services and capabilities of the health department.
During COVID-19 Health department provided data reporting, testing, contact tracing, quarantine/Isolation), but the challenges they encountered were barriers to exchanging information, operational siloes, lack of disaggregated data, and insufficient capacity and training that were indicative of poor design and a lack of investment in the public health system. States with separate public health cadres have a fair amount of success in COVID-19 mitigation and control.
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Video poker is a widely known term for a kind of slot machine where you play poker at. Video Poker is essentially the classic card game poker. However, playing video poker is generally against a machine. Despite the apparent simplicity, it is worth knowing the rules. At least expect most machines’ payments between 95 and 100%.In the video poker begins again everything using. If they did use it, you get 5 cards. This is called a poker hand. To get a better hand, you can switch all 5 cards now maximum.
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The card values in video poker
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Discussion in 'Religion' started by Magical Realist, Nov 11, 2013.
Did he force her to have sex with him? If so that's rape.
Only if you're a criminal.
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I said before . I was born and lived in Europe and in South America . your personal analysis might be fair for a society raised in USA in the 1900 to present , and your mind is far away from the way I perceive life .
Come on guy you are like infinite series..
About criminals during Governor Rayan"s administration in Illinois at one time they released about 90 person for not enough evidence or some related , This is specially in cases were people who don't speak English people depend on public defender and many of them are just interested to rush through and put the case to rest.
Right. And there's plenty of movies that show murders. You still go to jail for murder even if you watched the movie before you killed the person. Why? Because it's illegal.
Those people go to jail too.
Domestic violence ought not be tolerated...period. We may joke about it, but it is very serious business. Husbands, wives and children should not be beating on each other in the cause of righteousness.
Look I am not advocating for violence I said that before . But What happen within the family that is nobodies business The government does supports the family , now if someone in the family chooses not to be part of the family then they invite the government and that is how is done here ( by not pressing charges )
We had over 100 apartment and there all sorts of incidences in families , If things would be as you guy portray the law and the enforcement tho government would broke .You are forgetting also with in the family violence the is some love also were one forgives the other .
Children should be correct if necessary that does not mean in permanent physical harm , thing should be done in a kind way
If there's violence, you bet it's other people's business. Gone are the days you can beat (or rape) your wife and tell the cops "she deserved it." Doesn't matter what excuse you use - it's "for Jesus" or it's because women are irrational or because it's "just what men do."
So if you saw a man beating his wife (or his child) you'd do nothing to intervene? You wouldn't step in or call the cops?
I mentioned in # 68 I am not advocating violence , but your attitude is as if I am beating my wife and killing my kids which are bigger and stronger then myself.
I do support that children have to be corrected if necessary with a belt I don't need government interference , and the government messed up one of my boys in the military training.
Since you are so concerned about punishment . why is the government punishes us with all sort of useless laws so as to make easy to take away our earning.
No. I am disagreeing with your suggestion that it's OK to ""restrain them by force until you can reason with them." I am disagreeing with your suggestion that "what happen within the family that is nobodies business." I am disagreeing with the group that claims it's OK to spank your wife. I am disagreeing with your implication that if you see domestic violence, you should just let it happen.
No one claimed "you are killing your kids."
Are you really equating domestic violence with taxes?
So you admit to abusing your wife?
Tell me, how often do you feel the need to physically force your wife to the ground and restrain her with force until she does what you want her to do?
Considering you just admitted to physically abusing your wife, and you are supposedly a god fearing man, and a secular society views domestic abuse to be illegal and immoral, I must ask, to whom are you appealing to here?
How is one a wife?
Obedient? Perhaps you should buy yourself a trained dog instead?
How should a mother teach her daughter to be a wife to an abusive dickwad like you?
Should the mother teach the daughter how to hide the bruises that men like you will leave on her if she isn't obedient?
I think the greater majority of men would feel revulsion at imagining marrying a child.
Forcing your wife to the ground and using physical force to restrain her as you described does make her a battered woman.
Are you suggesting that you were raised to physically abuse your wife?
Domestic violence is a crime. If you commit a crime (and you have by your own admittance), you are a criminal and that is very much the State's business.
Men who beat their wives often profess to love their wives as well. Forcing someone to live in absolute fear and obedience and failure to comply results in physical abuse, such as what you did to your wife, is a crime.
How do you physically abuse someone kindly?
You have admitted to physically assaulting your wife if she does not do as you say and to beating your children with a belt.
You are an abuser and thus, violent by nature. Whether you advocate violence is beside the point. You are a domestic abuser.
I don't care where you're from. A wife beater is a wife beater no matter what flag he salutes.
Let me make straighten between spanking and restraining . Spanking to me means you lay your hand physically upon somebody . Restrain is you are not permitting somebody lay his or her hand upon you,
Now you or me comming into mixing domestic violence wit tax . I wanted make an example of government encroaching in citizen life , but it twisting into something else.
Unless the people took a vote - then it's called democracy.
You are absolutely right , I rule my house with iron fist.
Yes , yes that is me I am a wife beater
Now the forum jury, condemns me , based on their expert understanding and wisdom.
Have you eve been beaten by your man, Have you ever raised your hands to hit your man ?
You can choose to leave to avoid them "lay your hand upon you." If you choose to stay and "restrain them by force" then expect to go to jail.
At this point I really don't care if you believe me. That's the law, and it's a good one. Again, there are plenty of societies where violence towards women is still tolerated; feel free to choose one if you find such laws intolerable.
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The car magnet is nowadays the most popular thing among people. As the food truck and other taxis and car drivers apply the car magnet Melbourne to attract the maximum number of people. As these cars with car magnets in Melbourne is roaming in different streets so that a maximum number of people can view the ads and approach them. The car magnet Melbourne is used by small organizations for advertisements or new business launches. Some of them use it for hiring new employees for the customers.
This was the time when people wanted to go on outdoors. Attracting people with outdoor signs in Melbourne is considered the best strategy to approach the maximum number of consumers. These outdoor signs in Melbourne are used by both small and late industries. The outdoor signs in Melbourne are not only limited to industries but also we can see them in small shops. These outdoor signs Melbourne also placed on schools to tell the audience that it is an educational institute, shop, or any other park or market. The shop signs Melbourne are there so that by reading the name the related customer can purchase the desired object. These shop signs Melbourne indicated which type of material is kept inside it. The cloth shop has a shop sign with a cloth while the book shop contains data related to books. The A frames outdoor signs are more popular among the organization as A frames are double-sided signage. These A-frames are placed on the road corners so each individual can see the advertisement.
Outdoor banners Melbourne are used to show different announcements. This announcement can contain information related to the new launch, and change of the business name. Opening ceremony and many more. This outdoor banner Melbourne consists of hard plastic on which all the important data has been pasted. Outdoor banners in Melbourne also have different types. Some are simple banners while some are known as the pull up banners. The pull up banner printing Melbourne work in the same way as a simple banner work. The difference is all about the style and structure. The pull up banner printing in Melbourne is done after selecting the most aesthetic work related to the organization’s product or brand. After that best graphic designing was implemented and with the best computer technology all the data was printed on large sheets. | <urn:uuid:0e2dcdfa-4523-4f52-95d2-86f41e860c59> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | http://shannonfoundation.org/usage-of-banners/ | 2023-09-23T18:48:41Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.964551 | 515 |
A Slow & Mindful Summer in Tuscany (sold out!)
25 - 30 June 2020 (5 nights / 6 days) - from € 1.200,-Book this retreat
'a practice of gratitude and a celebration of abundance'
- 5 nights / 6 days
- 25 - 30 June 2020
Join us for a 6 day immersive SLOW ESCAPE in sunny Tuscany.
Wake up to the breathtaking views of the Apuan Mountains, enjoy a moment of silence in a meditation practice - and then join us in a gathering around the breakfast table with delicious seasonal food and a steaming hot espresso, before starting our day.
There will be time to unwind, to relax, to recover from your busy life and to just be. As will there be time to experience 'La Dolce Vita' as only the Italians do. As we practice gratitude and having a curious and present mind in our mindfulness and meditation sessions, we also celebrate abundance. The Summer season calls for it! The days are warm and the extra hours of sunlight gives us the energy to fully celebrate life in all it’s beauty and experience the adventures that are waiting for us. It is also the season and region to fully engage your senses. Intense colors and sounds of nature, fragrances and tastes of the best seasonal produce. It’s just a matter of making ourselves available to the abundance that surrounds us.
A glimpse of the program:
We will visit a local cheese farm and a small family-run winery and taste some of the best wines the region has to offer. Visiting local small-scale producers is one of the best ways to discover the true essence of this beautiful region. And because food might very well be called the glue in human connection we will be learning how to make our own fresh pasta and focaccia, from recipes that were passed on for generations. Guaranteed for some fun and laughter in la cucina!
A day trip to Portovenere, an idyllic town also known as the 6th town of the Cinque Terre, is also on our program. We’ll go for a beautiful scenic walk along the coast and take a plunge in the ocean at a beautiful beach. We will be in nature, have a picnic and learn about indigenous flowers and herbs, about their use and medicinal purpose with a local guide.
These are just a few examples of the experiences awaiting us. But you needn’t worry; our days will be filled with as much empty space as unique and slow travel experiences. Because we believe in balance. ‘SLOW’ will be the red thread throughout this retreat.
Mindfulness classes will be part of this immersive experience. While I will teach you how to focus on the breath and how to gain full conscious awareness, you will start to notice a relief from stress. You will learn the tools to build a daily meditation practice. It will help gain clarity of the mind and give you a new perspective on how to live a happier and more balanced life.
For our stay we have chosen a beautiful, authentic and ancient Tuscan stone house, La Concia. It’s situated in the cozy town of Codiponte, amidst olive groves and with breathtaking views. It will be the perfect backdrop for all the beauty this region has to offer. At night the scenery turns to magic as we gather around the table for delicious meals and share stories while the fireflies come out and light up the sky. And of course there will be food...lot’s of food! Davide, our host, will be cooking healthy, seasonal, fresh and mostly organic Italian food.
Joining one of our retreats can turn out to be an empowering and life changing journey that will leave you inspired, energized and with a great sense of inner peace. This might be the step you need to start living a more purposeful life and finally lead you towards manifesting your biggest dreams.
Read about our previous Slow Escape in Tuscany here!
Airfare, transportation to + from airport, personal shopping or meals/drinks outside of the retreat activities, travel insurance (highly recommended). Nearest airports are Pisa and Genua.
What you will take home after the retreat:
30% deposit due at registration and when your participation is confirmed by Slow Escapes.
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MSC Renews “Get Onboard for Children”
More than $3.7 Million Donated By Guests
Starting in 2009, MSC Cruises' collaboration with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has contributed $3.7 million for a “Get on Board for Children” initiative, thanks to the generosity of MSC Cruises’ guests.
The funds, donated onboard 12 MSC Cruises ships, go to UNICEF in Brazil to combat poverty and inequality; they help ensure children in 126 vulnerable communities of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo achieve access to a quality education.
In addition, on January 1, 2014, a new life-saving partnership between MSC Cruises and UNICEF began.
The aim is to provide malnourished children with Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Foods (RUTF) – such as Plumpy’Nut, a peanut-based paste for the treatment of severe malnutrition, in developing countries and in countries affected by crisis situations.
MSC Cruises said that malnutrition and famine claim the lives of over a million children every year and stunt the physical and mental development of many more. Severe acute malnutrition has traditionally required hospitalization.
However RUTFs can be eaten straight from a sachet or small, disposable bag.
Because they can be given to children without being mixed in water, they can work in any situation, at home and without medical supervision.
“Around three sachets a day for four to six weeks can put a child out of harm’s way and with the generosity of our onboard guests, we will do our best to save and improve as many lives as possible,” says Gianni Onorato, CEO, MSC Cruises.
“MSC Cruises believes that global leadership brings increased responsibility towards the physical and human environments in which it operates, and as such we are proud to have strengthened our partnership with UNICEF," Onorato added. "Together, we can make a difference.”
By donating just US $1.50 to “Get on Board for Children”, MSC guests can help buy three meals of Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food. A full treatment to save a child’s life in four to six weeks costs approximately $56.
”We are delighted with our long-standing partnership with MSC Cruises. It makes a significant contribution to improving living conditions for thousands of children,” said Elsbeth Müller, Executive Director of UNICEF Switzerland. “We are impressed that MSC passengers donate over a dollar to UNICEF at check-out. Their donation helps ensure that children grow up healthily and have a promising future. Thank you very much for this great commitment.”
In addition to donations received from guests, MSC Cruises will also organize educational activities for children on board, raising awareness about UNICEF’s work and children’s needs around the world.
MSC Cruises is a privately-held, family-owned, Italian cruise line; its MSC Divina sails year-round from PortMiami. For more information, visit www.msccruisesusa.com.
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Today we hear about one of the truly magnificent women of the Gospel. She was a Canaanite (part of the pagans who surrounded Israel) and she had one goal: the healing of her daughter who was gripped by a demon. When Jesus passed thru her territory, she pled her case with him. The disciples wanted to stop her, even Jesus seemed to brush her aside. "It is not right to take the food of the children and give it to the dogs."
Here is where we see her true greatness. She could have been discouraged, she could have been sidetracked by a seeming offense and said: "Don't call me a dog." But the word "dog" admits a positive as well as negative sense, like in English we speak for example about a "lucky dog." So she took it in the best sense and said,
"Yes, Lord, but even the dogs eat the crumbs which fall from their master's table."
And she received from Jesus his highest praise: "Woman, your faith is great!" And he healed her daughter.
Jesus always saw beyond the surface. He knows what is in the heart of each one of us. He sees us not as focus groups, but as persons.
A couple weeks ago a national study tried to lump Catholic women together in a group. The Guttmacher study of some 1000 women who had abortions, said 29% of the abortions were procured by Catholic women. And then they attempted to make a connection between that statistic and the Church's teaching on birth control.
However they downplayed some facts from their own study. A woman who describes herself as religious, that is who practices her faith, whether Protestant or Catholic, is only 1/4, 25% as likely to seek an abortion as the average. There is a big difference between a cultural Catholic and a practicing Catholic.
To use a personal comparison: I might sometimes say I am a "Croatian" because my mom's parents came from that country, but if I meet a real Croatian, I recognize a huge difference.
It is similar between someone who calls themselves "Catholic" and the one who is living and breathing their faith. Now, we don't reject a cultural Catholic, in fact, we're glad they acknowledge their baptism, but we want them to return to the full practice of their faith, start attending Mass, that makes all the difference.
A deep relation to Jesus through the Church he founded is what we offer. As he did for the daughter of the Canaanite, Jesus can free us. Jesus did not come to condemn, but to save. That applies even in the case of abortion. Some people have heard that abortion is one of the very few sins that incurs automatic excommunication. That is to underscore its seriousness--the taking of an innocent human life. However, you must also know the priest has authority to lift that excommunication in the sacrament of confession. What is more, in that sacrament Jesus gives not only his forgiveness but deep healing.
Since my return from Peru, I have seen how many of our young people, men as well as women, need that healing. Obviously not just for abortion, but a range of sins which affect our souls as was the case of that young woman gripped by a demon. Last month I announced that Fr. Peterson & I would be looking for better times to offer that sacrament. There is something in the bulletin this week about that.
I am encouraged by the way young people are coming to Jesus and his Church. We've seen some good signs right in our parish. Colin Sexton, our parish youth minister, brought back a great report from their experience in Tijuana, Mexico, as well as other youth activities. On a younger level I am happy to report that this year Holy Family school will be opening with our highest enrollment since 1980. I believe that same response will be matched in our C.C.D. or religious education program. Fr Peterson and I will be deeply involved in both programs. Our goal is not to form cultural Catholics, but ones who live & breathe & practice their faith. Who know Jesus, his saving, healing power.
Part of the orientation we want to give to our young people is an understanding of their sexuality. Why God created us male and female. Our society is in deep trouble because we have lost that orientation. The terrible plague of abortion which I referred to is one symptom. But I want to be clear. The solution to abortion is not more birth control. In that same Guttmacher study 57% of the women who had abortions were using birth control in the month before they got pregnant.
Those of us who are older can remember when the birth control pill was first introduced in the late 50's. It was presented as the solution to all our biggest problems: overpopulation, unwanted pregnancies, abortions, child abuse, large unhappy families, and above all marital tension between husband and wife. After 35 years years of massive use of the birth control pill and other forms of artificial contraception, I believe we are ready to ask: Is birth control really the solution or is it the problem?
An amazing article came out last month in U.S. News and World Report, not exactly a Catholic magazine. Lionel Tiger who is an evolutionary anthropologist asked why there has been so much family breakdown, male irresponsibility, single parents and abortion since the 1960's. He says the main reason is the massive use of the birth control pill.
There is an alternative. I had the opportunity to take the Creighton University course on Natural Family planning which they offer for doctors, nurse, clergy and NFP practitioners. There have been tremendous advances in Natural Family Planning since the 60s. I hope to say more about that in the future and certainly to share it with our engaged couples and any young married couples. I have also contacted some doctors, women gynecologists right here in Seattle who are willing to work with couples on using natural methods.
When I was in Peru I worked with a married couple and an obstetrician to teach Natural Family Planning. Some 100 couples participated. Also we offered a class for young adults, singles, who wanted to be Instructors or Promoters. Not only young women, but young men attended. Of course the boys could not keep a personal chart as the girls could. So they asked their moms if they could do a chart for them. The course lasted six months and when it was over I asked one of the boys what he had learned. He said to me, "Father, I learned respect for women."
That is what our society needs--and that is what Natural Family Planning promotes. I am convinced that Jesus Christ and the teachings of the Church he founded are the solution to the problems of our society--and our own deepest personal needs.
Like the Canaanite woman we come to Jesus with our needs, with the needs of those we love. If we had her humility, we would also hear Jesus loving words, "Your faith is great. Your prayer is granted."
Natural Family Planning at the Mary Bloom Center in Peru
From Archives (for Twentieth Ordinary Sunday, Year A):
Seapadre Homilies: Cycle A, Cycle B, Cycle C
my bulletin column
Parish Picture Album
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This small garden with roses is a wonderful example of the creation of beauty in a small space.
This photograph was taken in May of 2012, and the clematis as well as many of the roses were in full bloom. Not, in late June, the clematis are bloomed out, as are most of the roses until August. The rose of sharon, “Blushing Bride,” is, however, blooming prolifically in the heat. I’ll try to get over to photograph the rose of sharon later this week or over the weekend.
A partial listing of roses seen blooming in this small garden would include:
The owner of this garden is beginning to look into ways to alter the landscaping to be water smart. The owner wants to keep it beautiful, but perhaps replace some of the plants requiring the most water with colorful plants that might require less water here in the desert, a desert in the midst of severe drought.
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1922 - 2004
Ed Sr. , Ed Jr. (with Justin), Vince, Carrie and Jane
My Uncle Vincent
by Eddie Ciletti
This didn't start out as a memorial, just a few simple
memories triggered by one small record, a tribute to the effect two men
had on my life, my interests and career choices. In fact, this page
was first posted in December 1999 after I had the opportunity to test a
piece of equipment designed to remove noise from audio recordings.
While updating it with the sad news of Vince's passing, on 7th June'04,
I found an email he sent to me in March 2000 along with an Instant Message
conversation from Easter'04. Both are now included below. I
saw Vince in October'03 having travelled east for the Audio Engineering
Convention, taking advantage of that time to see my family.
My dad and my uncle Vince both worked for Philco, a Philadelphia-based
consumer electronics manufacturer. Vince built his own Public Address
system while in high school, circa 1938-1942. Rumor has it that his
soldering iron was heated in the home furnace. Of course a lot of
this rubbed off on me. I remember Vince playing Louis Armstrong's
"Hello Dolly" on his home-made Hi-Fi. I have the Craftsmen tuner
from that rig and it still works!
I met a few of his friends several years ago. I
think they were surprised to hear that vacuum tubes were still being used
in audio gear. They had a few good stories about the challenges of
building tube equipment, such as televisions, back in the fifties.
My first record player was a 45rpm RCA "Victrola" that
plugged into the back of our TV set. Whenever my father changed tubes
and capacitors, he often asked me to "get out of his light!" We never
owned a new TV because he always managed to find a set that was "fixable."
I rescued our first color set from the neighbor's trash.
I always found the grooves of phonograph records very
alluring, especially those that were not mass produced. I wanted
a record cutter so badly that I nearly ruined the artifact you are about
to hear, by playing it over and over again and by trying to cut new grooves
in the blank spaces. I found this piece of treasure in my grandmother’s
basement. (My father would take me to see what old 78’s he or his brothers
and sisters might have left behind.) It was there that I discovered a 5-inch
disk, recorded at 78 RPM, stuffed in a cardboard "mailer" dated 1942.
Like most recordable disks, the surface is made from Acetate,
which is easily cut with a special stylus and can withstand numerous playings.
Unlike "professional" Acetates, the center of this sandwich is not aluminum
but thick paper. Over the years, the paper absorbed moisture causing it
to swell and crack the Acetate coating. I was lucky enough to record it
before it became unplayable. What you are about to hear cleaned up pretty
well considering the condition.
According to the disc, The Pepsi-Cola company brought
a portable disc recorder to US training centers, where young soldiers were
being prepared for the Second World War. I got an email (below) from
Vince in 2000 regarding a positive wartime experience after the Battle
of the Bulge.
My uncle Vincent passed away at 5:30pm on Monday 7 June
2004 after 80 years of life. He was not a chatty man, so I never
got all the answers I wanted, but he was always curious and inquisitive.
He will be missed.
28.8 Real Audio version
56k Real Audio version
6:12:19 PM EST
I forgot to tell you that
in January 1945 I received a furlough to Paris when my outfit returned
from the Battle of the Bulge. I saw the Glen Miller Band led by the drummer
Ray McKinley with Sgt Johnny Desmond as the vocalist.
Here's a question I never
got answered. What is meant when an AM radio station states it is broadcasting
in AM Stereo? What radio produces both channels of the stereo audio?
Here are a few sample Instant Messages I had with Vince...
hello vince! how's your PC running
had it tuned up by CompUSA. Also doubled the memory and installed a CD
burner. PC is working great
hey, that's great news!
pictures fo our visit are at the following link
thanks for the jazz disk.
did you like it?
I was very lucky to work with such fine musicians
I think the piano player reminds me a bit of Eddie heywood
glad there are still those people who make good music.
the piano player is actually very young 30~35
again for everything. Bye
Thu Apr 01 15:17:39 2004
edaudio: hello Vince. How are you?
Vjciletti84div: I'm okay considering my age.
edaudio: Good Answer! Please say hello to
Carrie for us.
Vjciletti84div: Same to you and yours. Have a
edaudio: you also!
Vjciletti84div: Bye. Getting ready for dinner.
Session Close (Vjciletti84div): Thu Apr 01 15:30:23 2004
by Carolyn Ciletti
Dad was a proud father and grandfather, a faithful
provider, staunch supporter, a willing teacher, a loving husband and soulmate
Dad was proud of all his children and their accomplishments
as well as his own. A butcher’s son who was the first to graduate
college from his family and pursued his career as an electrical engineer
and project manager. His work ethic required long hours and many
times reheated dinners. He had high expectations for himself and
continually challenged us to be the best we could be.
He worked hard to provide his family financial stability.
He provided us a very comfortable lifestyle, the opportunity to go to college,
and helped us buy our first car.
Dad was our greatest supporter. He respected
us in all our decisions even those he thought might not be in our best
interest. He was always available to help, from our broken down cars, electrical
problems, leaky faucets, sickness, divorce, careers and anything else 5
kids could possibly get into. Just ask and his toolbox would be at
your doorstep, not just the wrenches and screwdrivers but the tools of
all his life experiences. As a child, you thought he could solve
anything, as an adult you learned how much he was there for you.
Dad taught by example that family came first;
a loving bond, always to be supported and respected; never to be taken
for granted. He taught us the importance of traditions and helped
us understand how to do the right thing. He was the perfect role
model for integrity and honestly. He taught us simpler things to: how to
ride a bike, fish for crabs, bat a ball, golf, watch baseball & football,
dig for clams on the beach, fix cars, eat a dripping ice cream, twill our
pasta, polish shoes, behave in a restaurant and pickup the check.
But more than anything he taught us to love and support each other.
Dad was a strong, quiet, private and serious person
outwardly. He was loving and sensitive person underneath.
Dad was a man of few words and when he spoke you listened. Maybe
someone can tell me why a man who was not fond of conversation always answered
the telephone. Usually within 1 to 2 minutes you were talking to
Mom. Mom knew everything but Dad was always in the know.
As a kid I always wondered when they found the time to talk.
Dad never played favorites, we all got “No” equally; but in all fairness,
we got “yes” a lot more.
You can’t talk about Dad with mentioning Mom.
They were soulmates for over 60 years. A very special love; a very
special life together. I have no idea how they did it especially
with all the challenges we provided them, but perhaps their dueling sarcasm
helped a lot. Our house especially as we grew older was full of
“the needle”, as dad would call it. Sarcastic and loving jabs at
one another. Mom and Dad were the professional needlers; of course
Dad thought Mom was the best at it. Many times I remember thinking….
Oh, there they go again. Dad was the man of the house but everyone
knew that Mom was the boss especially in her kitchen.
Beyond his family, Dad loved pasta with Mom’s homemade
gravy, pizziola, any kind of dessert, his vacations at the shore, Phillies
and Eagles especially when they were winning, watching TV especially, news,
sports, movies and the Sopranos. He wasn’t very fond of vegetables
especially squash, my Mom’s ritual of vacuuming the kitchen after dinner
or new flower beds or trees in the yard since that meant more time cutting
and trimming the grass. He was very meticulous about the grass.
He was also extremely proud of his military service
and continued to keep in touch with his friends in the 26th special service
and 84th infantry division. He was heroic in wartime, a fighter until the
end and my hero in life.
We will miss seeing him in the family room in the lounge
chair watching TV, at the dinner table, waking up to the breakfast table
he set at 11 o’clock the night before, the roses he sent, the quarters
he collected, him saying “what have you got” when he answered the phone,
golfing with him, and so much more.
Dad will live on forever in our memories and we will
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In those days, when again a great crowd had gathered, and they had nothing to eat, he called his disciples to him and said to them, “I have compassion on the crowd, because they have been with me now three days and have nothing to eat. And if I send them away hungry to their … Continue reading "Book of Mark – Compassion For The Crowd"
And his ears were opened, his tongue was released, and he spoke plainly. And Jesus charged them to tell no one. But the more he charged them, the more zealously they proclaimed it. And they were astonished beyond measure, saying, “He has done all things well. He even makes the deaf hear and the mute … Continue reading "Book of Mark – The Deaf and Mute Healed"
Then he returned from the region of Tyre and went through Sidon to the Sea of Galilee, in the region of the Decapolis. And they brought to him a man who was deaf and had a speech impediment, and they begged him to lay his hand on him. And taking him aside from the crowd … Continue reading "Book of Mark – The Deaf and Mute"
And he said to her, “Let the children be fed first, for it is not right to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs.” But she answered him, “Yes, Lord; yet even the dogs under the table eat the children’s crumbs.” And he said to her, “For this statement you may go … Continue reading "Book of Mark – Mercy For The Gentiles"
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And he called the people to him again and said to them, “Hear me, all of you, and understand: There is nothing outside a person that by going into him can defile him, but the things that come out of a person are what defile him.” And when he had entered the house and left … Continue reading "Book of Mark – What Defiles a Person"
And he said to them, “You have a fine way of rejecting the commandment of God in order to establish your tradition! For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother’; and, ‘Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.’ But you say, ‘If a man tells his father or his mother, “Whatever you would … Continue reading "Book of Mark – Commandment vs Tradition"
And the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, “Why do your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with defiled hands?” And he said to them, “Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, “‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from … Continue reading "Book of Mark – Jesus Rebuked The Pharisees"
Now when the Pharisees gathered to him, with some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem, they saw that some of his disciples ate with hands that were defiled, that is, unwashed. (For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they wash their hands properly, holding to the tradition of the … Continue reading "Book of Mark – Eating Bread with Unclean Hands"
Christian comic strip based on the Gospel of mark. Follow the feats of Jesus in this amazing story!
Why the Gospel of Mark?
I’d like to tell a story of someone and for all i know, there is no greater someone other than Jesus. We might think that we know who Jesus is, some of us think he is a good teacher, a lunatic, a fiction, a good person, God, son of god but that’s not necessarily who he is or a complete picture of who he is. That’s why, let’s dig deeper into the book of Mark, I hope this will pique your interest to know more about who Jesus is and whether his existence has any impact to our life or not. Feel free to start a discussion in the comment box.
What can you do:
Leave a comment, my hope is that people will discuss about who Jesus is, our faith is not a blind faith, God gave us reason for a reason, we’re invited to discern the truth, and if God is the truth, what do we do?
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While people are predicting gloom and doom for broker-dealers when the new fiduciary rule goes into effect, there is a certain brand of broker-dealers that aren’t going to be in panic mode.
A few weeks back, I meet a broker-dealer who was certainly far from hitting the panic button as his company prepares for the new rule. Why was he so calm? It helped that he didn’t sell any proprietary products. He figured as long as he papered the process and made sure everything fell under the best interest contract, he would be fine. He was amazed as to how many broker-dealers are just going to close off certain lines of business to customers to qualify under the new rule, but he noted that was a consequence of selling your own product and its going to be very hard to justify that in such a litigious environment.
The broker-dealers who are going to suffer the most are those with large lines of proprietary products such as mutual funds and insurance products. It’s going to be extremely hard to claim in court that your own products were in the best interest of the clients if there are similar products on the market that are a better fit. So, some broker-dealers are calm before the storm because they are only selling other people’s products. | <urn:uuid:949986b9-5c28-4a98-890f-b4d08d158878> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | http://that401ksite.com/2016/12/28/some-broker-dealers-arent-in-a-panic-and-there-is-one-reason-why/ | 2023-09-23T18:24:17Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.989898 | 273 |
Black Lives Matter is more than what you think
Black people are 2.5 times more likely to be shot and killed by police. They are also five times more likely than whites to be shot while unarmed.
There are many misconceptions that follow Black Lives Matter. From the meaning of their name to the false rhetoric of violence and exclusion, the movement for change has often been criticized and misunderstood.
All Lives Matter is a fine statement, but saying it in response to the Black Lives Matter movement sends a clear message that you do not acknowledge the problem. Black Lives Matter doesn’t place black people ahead of other races — it just points out the group that is going through racial injustice with law enforcement.
Another common, and wrong, argument is that they are selfish hooligans or thugs inciting a race war.
A long time has passed since the riots after the 2014 shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. Even then, there was much unrest and anger among minorities in the nation.
The often-vilified Black Lives Matter movement has become better organized, oriented toward peaceful demonstrations and has a clearer message.
People are not throwing Molotov cocktails, looting businesses or turning cars over. It is just men, women and children holding signs that express their anger toward the current state of the country.
Like any group or person out there, Black Lives Matter is not perfect. To say, however, that it appeals to racism, or is racist itself, is something only a person like the former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani would say (and he did.)
On top of that, Giuliani blamed police shooting black people on bad parenting and made us all remember why the people of New York became fed up with him.
Philando Castile, Tamir Rice, Alton Sterling, Eric Garner and Oscar Grant. These names will probably evoke either sadness, anger or excuses to why each one deserved his fate. If it’s the latter, you are part of the problem.
These men — and a 12-year-old — were killed on the streets. No judge. No jury. Just an executioner.
Eric Garner was not provoking the officers and later pleaded that he couldn’t breathe, but he was killed on the street like a dog in front of pedestrians. He was a very large man and did seem upset, but he didn’t deserve a death sentence via a chokehold.
It seems difficult for police and those who condemn the Black Lives Matter movement to point out that a person in blue did not perform their job.
A few bad apples who hate black people don’t represent the entire police force. Acknowledging and firing the officers who have shown a history of racial bias will only save citizens rather than make us lose faith in law enforcement.
Another big misconception people have with Black Lives Matter is that its supporters are against all police and, usually, all whites.
I’m also mourning the five officers in Dallas that were killed protecting the protesters and their constitutional rights. No way can we survive and maintain our society without the presence of law enforcement.
I believe the movement is more than a group for black people. It is for people who want law enforcement to be held accountable for their actions and to a higher standard than they currently are, especially with minorities.
This is a movement that calls upon everyone — not just blacks and not just ordinary citizens — to stand together and raise their voices against injustice.
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The city of Knoxville, realizing not everyone can maintain a backyard compost, is piloting a new composting program for residents and downtown restaurants.
Food scraps can now be collected for compost at the Old City Recycling Center at 227 Willow Ave.
Residents must take a “dos and don’ts” composting quiz through the city’s website to receive a combination to unlock the bins.
What is compost, and what’s accepted?
Only fruits, vegetables, coffee grounds, paper coffee filters, eggshells and nut shells can be accepted at this time, according to a city news release.
Composting naturally helps turn organic matter, like food scraps, into fertilizer. This is a more eco-friendly process than disposing in landfills, where food scraps can produce the greenhouse gas methane and contribute to climate change.
Where do food scraps go?
Full bins of compost material will go to BattleField Farm, a local nonprofit that will break down the materials in a composter built by South Knoxville’s City Possum Farm and funded by the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation.
A team will transport the food scraps to BattleField Farm every Monday, according to the city.
“This project responds to demands in our community to limit the amount of waste sent to our landfills and reduce our greenhouse gas emissions,” Patience Melnik, the city’s waste and resources manager, said in the release.
BattleField Farm’s mission:Alleviate food deserts that are ‘slowly killing’ so many
How should I store food scraps?
For those new to composting, the city suggests keeping a sealed container for food scraps on the kitchen counter or beneath the sink.
A five-gallon bucket also can be used for those who produce a lot of food waste. If placed outside, the bucket should be sealed to avoid pests and odors.
Added challenge for urban restaurants
Properly disposing of trash also can be a challenge for restaurants in the city’s core.
“Our ordinance states that you have to be responsible for your own trash,” Chad Weth, the city’s public services director, previously told Knox News. “Well, what if you’re completely landlocked? Where does your trash go? And that happens a lot downtown.”
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KARACHI: The former government registered political opponents in false cases, Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah said on Thursday.
Murad Ali Shah, an accused in Nooriabad Power Project reference, was talking to media here after attending the court hearing.
He said that the next date of the case hearing has been fixed at July 07. “Who will be made accountable of these cases of political victimization,” he asked. “It is a false case, which is loss of time and money,” he said.
Sindh chief minister commenting on the recent amendment in the NAB law, said that it has been amended as per the instructions of the high court and supreme court.
He advised the President to follow the Parliament and not the whims of an individual. “If the President not signed the legislation, it will become a law on the 10th day,” Sindh CM said.
Sindh chief minister Murad Ali Shah is facing charges of abusing his power to pay for energy-related projects in the province, according to references submitted by NAB.
It claims billions of dollars worth of public funds were misappropriated to Nooriabad Power Company and Sindh Transmission and Dispatch Company.
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It is a identified fact that generally travelling creates a lot of possibilities of fun and growth. Regarding to this reality we would like to organize a long trips to diverse European cities exactly where we can see exciting places.
In many cases we would certainly like to do this specific task in non-expensive way. Are there today any alternatives for realizing such wish without spending a lot of cash?
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Especially they are paying consideration to Poland. This is the country which covers a lot of fascinating places and sight that we should obligatory see. The most interesting proposal inside this land is for sure Warsaw tourist guide. It is a metropolis with very long and famous tradition. What is also crucial, the city was completely reorganized after second world war because of many destructions. On the other hand, on the market we may easily find various agencies that are arranging a sightseeing Warsaw by all interesting places. Naturally it will be connected with bigger expense, however that sort of choice is appreciable.
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Istanbul, the historical heart of Turkey, sees many a beautiful thing — the Galata Tower, Topkapi Palace, and more recently, Hong Kong’s up-and-coming actress and model, Jenn Tse! Though good things come in twos, great things come in threes, like Jenn’s three nights at The House Hotel Bosphorus. Jenn exclusively lets us in on her favourite finds as a first-timer in Istanbul.
Turkey in three words?
Bridges! They’re everywhere. Culture, and mosaic, which go hand in hand.
Why stay at The House Hotel Bosphorus?
Basically it was the number one place every single one of my friends suggested. It was hard for me to leave the Penthouse Suite during the day, the view overlooking the city is just gorgeous! And when you’re there, you need to have the carrot cake at The House Café, as well as their apple martini.
When in Istanbul…
Eat a greasy kebab (of course) and take a trip to the Blue Mosque. There’s a cool restaurant named Lucca which became one of my favourite spots for dinner, and I’d recommend staying on to party after you’ve wined and dined. Technically that’s four things…
For the foodies – what’s worth the hype?
Two restaurants I discovered that are simply amazing: Fistik Kebap for their cheese pita, lahmacun (a savoury snack, think crispy-crust pizza with fresh green toppings and meat), and lamb kebab, and Rumeli Balıkçısı for delicious seafood. You’ll find a yogurt drink called ayran almost everywhere. Try it!
Travel tips for first-timers?
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I just updated our list of Washington breweries and brewpubs. By my reckoning, there are now 217 active breweries in the state. When people ask me how many breweries we have in Washington, I always say that it is a nebulous number and changes all the time. What’s more, it depend on how you count. I am pretty comfortable saying 217. Well, at this moment anyway. Below I list the most recent additions to our list of Washington breweries.
According to the Washington State Liquor Control Board, there are 244 breweries in Washington, but that list includes breweries which have not yet begun to brew, never have brewed, or never will brew. It also includes businesses that produce kombucha, which is brewed but is not beer. My list, on the other hand, only includes those businesses that actually produce beer. Some of them may produce a very small amount of beer, but they’re licensed and pay taxes on what they brew.
Where Does Washington Rank?
In terms of total number of breweries and breweries per capita, where do we rank? Last time the Brewers Association published those kinds of numbers was 2012. California was the only state that had more breweries than Washington. Regarding number of breweries per capita, Washington ranked 8th behind much less populous states like Montana and Vermont. Of course, back in 2012 Washington only had 158 breweries according to the Brewers Association.
Let’s put things into perspective. Last week I reported that there are now 2,722 breweries in the USA (read it). The state of Washington represents about 2 percent of the nation’s population, but we are home to about 8 percent of the nation’s breweries. In 2013, nearly 400 new breweries opened in the USA. By my count, 25 new breweries opened in Washington over the past few months.
Craft beer is no longer our little secret. We’ve been drinking the stuff and supporting our local craft beer industry for more than 30 years. The nation is finally waking up and joining the party, but nowhere in America is the proliferation of craft beer more evident than right here in Washington. We are still leaders.
Check out our Washington Breweries and Brewpubs page.
Have I missed anyone? Here are the recent additions:
BAD JIMMY’S BREWING – SEATTLE
BARNSTORMER BREWING – CARSON
BIG BLOCK BREWING – SAMMAMISH
BOG WATER BREWING CO. – WESTPORT
BURDICK BREWERY – SEATTLE
BURWOOD BREWING COMPANY
COLOCKUM CRAFT BREWING – KITTITAS
DIAMOND KNOT BREWPUB – MOUNTLAKE TERRACE
FIVE DONS BREWING – LONGVIEW
HAAS INNOVATIONS BREWING – YAKIMA
LOWERCASE BREWING – SEATTLE
MIDDLETON BREWING – EVERETT
MILL CITY BREW WERKS – CAMAS
MT. PILCHUCK BREWERY – SNOHOMISH
NEW SCHOOL BREWING – RICHLAND
NORTH JETTY BREWING – SEAVIEW
NOSDUNK BREWING COMPANY
OLD ROCK BREWERY – DUVALL
RIVER TIME BREWING – DARRINGTON
SALISH SEA BREWING – EDMONDS
STOUP BREWING – SEATTLE
TEN PIN BREWING – MOSES LAKE
WADDELL’S BREWPUB AND GRILLE – SPOKANE
WET HEAD BREWERY – AUBURN
YAKIMA HOPS & BREW SUPPLY – YAKIMA
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WESTWOOD – In a press conference today, The Westwood Enabler announced that Satan has acquired the student-run paper. The paper, looking for funds, held an auction for the right to be its owner. The bidders included Voldemort, Darth Vader, and Judas Iscariot amongst others.
“Ultimately, it was Satan who offered the most cash to keep us afloat,” says newly recruited reporter Lucifer Ofhell. “The paper may now change to reflect the interests of the owner, but humor is still at the forefront of this business.”
The club, which has been up and running since Winter Quarter, recently found itself lacking in funds after Editor-in-Chief Luke Moran invested the club’s entire savings into a panini press and sandwich supplies.
“We thought the panini press was an investment, one that could be used for fundraising,” Ofhell explains, “but we just ended up eating all the sandwiches instead.” Moran was contacted for comment, but was found burying himself in shame and unable to talk.
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There once was a time when businesses – and the brands they owned – were meant primarily to make money. “Single bottom line” is the expression that denotes an exclusive focus on profit and shareholder value. In the last decade especially, new concepts like “Triple bottom line” have emerged, which relate to financial, environmental and social impacts. Or, stakeholder value.
A few weeks ago, we had a speaker at Wunderkind U., our monthly teaching and learning seminar for bright young advertising minds, named Aaron Nemoy. As an experienced and shrewd brand manager who has led award-winning campaigns for brands like Campbell’s Soup and Kraft, he delivered an outstanding presentation on how to write a creative brief. And in his conception of a good creative brief, he included a section called “Brand Purpose”. This is a relatively new development in marketing, because in the early 2000’s, creative briefs for campaigns simply didn’t contain a section for “Purpose”.
What did he mean by “Brand Purpose”? It poses the question: What purpose does this brand fulfill in people’s lives? What meaningful role does it have? This is a very 21st Century question, and one that indicates we are living in a different era.
Many years ago, in the middle of the 20th Century, the great psychologist Abraham Maslow, of the famed “Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs”, posited that above the top of his pyramid, where he had previously placed “self actualization”, there was actually another drive: “self-transcendence”. Self-transcendence is exactly that, the act of going beyond one’s individual interests, including the need to self-express or self-actualize, to addressing the needs of the community, one’s nation, the world at large – even the planet. One of the most famous examples of this is Bono, who spent his early career getting rich, building his reputation, and becoming one of the world’s most admired artists. Later on, he went well beyond his own interests to devoting his time and energy to causes that affect our civilization. Self-transcendence.
Just as a human being needs to have a sense of purpose — we are purpose-driven creatures — so does a brand. And in the 21st Century, a brand with no purpose other than to make money for its corporation and its shareholders, is a brand without a soul. And therefore, it’s a brand that won’t last. The younger generations of adults and youth today are demanding brand purpose, some kind of meaning or real contribution built into the proposition, not just as an afterthought.
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About Your Blood Pressure
Blood pressure is the pressure of blood in the arteries as the heart pumps it around the body. The arteries are little elastic tubes which expand and stretch as blood is pumped through them. These arteries relax in between the heart beats.
The blood flow and blood pressure surge each time the heart contracts. The peak pressure is called the systolic pressure. The pressure falls as the heart relaxes to refill. This lower pressure is called the diastolic pressure. When blood pressure is taken, both of these measurements are recorded.
The first (or top) measurement is the systolic (see graphic on the left), and the second (or bottom) measurement is the diastolic (see graphic on the right).
Blood pressure can be influenced by several factors, some of which are outside our control, such as race, genetic factors and age. There are, however, some controllable factors such as obesity, activity level, stress and a number of dietary factors.
Blood pressure varies from moment to moment. It can change depending on whether you are standing, sitting or lying down. Other things that can affect it include exercise, anxiety, eating, the time of the day and many other factors.
Often the first time a patient sees a new doctor, their blood pressure will be raised, but as they get to know the doctor better, and feel more at ease, the readings will, on average, be lower. All of which leads us to ask...
What is Normal Blood Pressure?
The average systolic reading is 120 or less. The average diastolic reading is 80 or less. However, the occasional reading greater than 140/90 does not necessarily mean that you have High Blood Pressure. However, it is advised that you visit your doctor for it to be checked out.
Because of this variation in blood pressure, it is essential that blood pressure is measured on more than one occasion to get the best assessment of an individual's average blood pressure. In some cases doctors may suggest that the individual uses one of the digital machines to monitor their own blood pressure in the relaxed atmosphere of their own homes.
Prolonged high blood pressure damages blood vessels and organs in the body. Conditions most closely linked with high blood pressure include:-
- Coronary heart disease (including angina pectoris, myocardial infarction and sudden death)
- Kidney failure
- Heart failure.
What can we do about High Blood Pressure?
Firstly, see your medical advisor, follow the advice given, then include the following in your treatment.
- Cut down your salt intake. Westerners use too much salt. Forget the take-aways, add minimal salt to your cooking to maintain its flavour and remove the salt cellar from the table.
- Increase your potassium intake, by increasing the fruits and vegetables in your diet.
- Watch your weight. By sensible eating and exercise, get down to the recommended weight for your height, and your correct waist:hip ratio (see the section on weight management). Being overweight is one of the leading causes of high blood pressure.
- Cut the alcohol. Three or more alcoholic drinks (males) can produce a risk factor of high blood pressure up to three times greater than in non-drinkers. The higher the consumption, the greater the risk.
(Source: "Heart Health Resource Manual" by the National Heart Foundation of Australia.)
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September 1st, 2012
I teach wild mushrooms hunting for a living. Someone once asked me what qualifies someone to be an expert mushroom hunter. I said, “the fact that you’re still alive.” Here’s the secret to expert mushroom hunting.
The secret to expert mushroom hunting can be summed up in one word: ASK. Ask and you shall receive. Another word for asking is education. Education means one person learning from another instead of learning the hard way. Because on one hot August day in 2012, that’s exactly what happened.
They say you get what you pay for. They also say that if a deal is too good to be true, it probably isn’t.
For fifteen years, I picked and sold wild mushrooms to over 75 restaurants; about five hundred pounds a year. My price was usually $16 a pound. On that day, I got a phone call from a fellow forager. Three restaurants had bought mushrooms for $4 a pound from someone who said they were “chicken of the forest.”
Two hours later, a more experienced forager showed up to ply his wares. He recognized the mushrooms as being what are known as jack-o-lanterns (I’ll explain why below).
Meanwhile, a chef at one of the other restaurants took two bites and promptly checked himself into the hospital, thinking he was having a heart attack. Jack-o-lanterns aren’t deadly; they just make you wish you were dead.
Yesterday, all my toadstools seemed so far away. Now it looks as though they’re here to stay…
When foraging goes mainstream, it can be a free-for-all. In our flagging economy, there are more and more inexperienced people trying their hand at selling — and eating — wild mushrooms.
In the long run, that’s a good thing. It fosters regional food security and builds a sustainable local economy. But the road back to community self-reliance is bound to be bumpy, for as the French say, “only those who do nothing make no mistakes.”
There is a common saying in Southern Africa, kabusha takolelwe bowa, literally, “the one who asks is the one who does not get poisoned by a mushroom.” This phrase is well-known in Zambia; it’s a lot like “a stitch in time saves nine.”
I know about stitches. My dad would often quote Napolean: “dress me slow; I’m in a hurry.” We didn’t dress him, but we often addressed him in a hurry. One time I raced my brother to the front door. I won; I still have the scar over my left eye to prove it.
I’m not known for patience, yet wild mushrooms are not fast food. Unless you want a jack in the box, speed is not the best attribute. They say there are old mycologists and bold mycologists, but no old bold mycologists. And so mushroom hunting for me is a spiritual practice. It’s about slowing down and appreciating what I already have, such as just being alive.
Truth be told, I got into wild foods not because they are beautiful or beneficial but because they are FREE. They were somethin for nothin. My mom remembers my post-college years of garage sailing, dumpster diving, and curbside cruising. She still innocently calls foraging “scavenging.”
For me, a better word for foraging would be “scrounging.” It’s true that with foraging/scavenging/scrounging, you can’t beat the prices. But one lesson I’ve had to learn over and over is that just because something is free doesn’t mean you want it. After all, they say every mushroom is edible — once.
Like Brendan Behan says, “the big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.” You may not need to hear this as much as I do, but there’s no sense in bargain hunting (or skirt-chasing) if you kill yourself in the process. And the way to avoid taking a dirt nap is to consult with others. Like Plautus cautions, “none are wise enough alone.”
In our exceptionally fungophobic society, one or two serious blunders could spoil the fun/gi for all of us. To protect yourself and the livelihood of a growing number of professional foragers, either:
- only buy from known, reputable sources OR
- only buy mushrooms you can positively identify yourself OR
- check with someone knowledgeable before you eat or serve mushrooms you don’t know.
To illustrate how to grow old hunting mushrooms, here is the story of the tempting toadstools.
These days, I rarely get to go out and pick mushrooms to sell. I mostly just teach and manage a foraging team, which means I mostly sit at the computer. So far, that’s the cost of semi-fame.
I was dutifully sloshing through email when I got the kind of message that causes traffic violations:
There is a 10 foot stretch of large, bright orange mushrooms growing on the side of [a certain dirt road]. They are huge and seem to keep growing each day. Are they edible? I am not planning to eat them, but if you are interested in seeing them, they are there.
In case you’re wondering what she’s talking about, so was I. Less than a week before, I had gotten a similar lead, this time with a photo:
I have a large, bright orange fungus, circular and about a foot across, many layers like a cabbage opening up…
This guy didn’t want to eat his either, and it was in his yard, so I could wait until the next day. We chatted for a bit, then I took this photo. Why am I smiling? Partly because five minutes later, I made one phone call and sold it for $150.
It was chicken of the woods, the mushroom that those two restaurants thought they were getting for $4 a pound. And this was a small one. The year before, I had sold a slightly above-average sized one for $750.
This time, it wasn’t so easy. This was one of the prettiest, most impressive mushrooms I’d seen in a while. It really belonged on display. In the twenty feet between my car and the restaurant, a woman stopped me for a photo.
I also sold mushrooms to the restaurant next door, so I decided to at least stop in there. After all, it was my last chance to show off my email-order trophy bride. They ended up setting up a wild foods dinner event with me the following month.
This is all to say that when I got the message without a photo, I committed the forager’s cardinal sin: I had great expectations. After all, this lead was coming from a former student. Granted, she had only attended a class for kids. But kids, as most of the world knows, are actually the best mushroom hunters. They’re rarely distracted by wanting to sell — or eat — their finds.
I sure was. I was out the door within the hour. I’ve lived in Asheville seventeen years, and a close friend (who I poisoned once with chicken of the woods, but that’s another story) used to live on that same road. Her old house, in fact, was just yards away from this dream mushroom, so I knew exactly where I was going. Or so I thought.
I drove up and down the road three times. Not a fungus in sight.
As so often happens, I was either too late or the directions I had insisted on being exact were not so much. As I headed back home, I was needing to practice either forgiveness or nonattachment; I wasn’t sure which.
Fortunately, my consolation prize came soon afterwards: on my way home, I stopped by my kousa dogwood patch. I found six pounds of berries, the first of the season. Not wild, not even feral, but still free, kousa berries are one of my favorite foods. Having grown up in Miami, they remind me of flan (a.k.a., caramel custard). My neighbor had brought one over the day before, so now I knew they were out, and I had gotten there just in time. Ask and I shall receive!
That’s when I got the call. The forager who had pointed out the jack-o-lanterns had called a colleague, and he called me. Word got out quickly, and further mishaps were averted.
That’s the power of communication and cooperation. Both are key aspects of community, which is the key to survival, both for individuals and the species. Remember, the one who asks…
An hour later, I heard back from my informant. She had gone back to the spot that she had sent me to. Every mushroom had been picked. And based on images I had sent her, she was sure they weren’t chicken of the woods. They were jack-o-lanterns.
The next day, I heard from another colleague, a local botany professor. He had gotten a message around noon the previous day. It was from a friend, a ranger on The Blue Ridge Parkway, asking him to identify the mushrooms in this photo. Joe immediately recognized them as jack-o-lanterns. The ranger replied,
Good to know we didn’t harvest any, but someone else just left with a basketful. Sucks to be him.
It sucks to be us! When one person makes a mistake like this, the consequences hurt us all, starting with whoever eats the mushrooms and ending with regulations outlawing wild foods.
The spot I was at is about five miles from the parkway. Did the same person pick both patches? If so, I nominate him for Asheville’s Most Wanted.
This isn’t the first time someone beat me to the munch. Many years ago, back when my mushroom hunting business was, to my knowledge, the only one east of the Rockies, I found a log full of mushrooms I couldn’t identify. There are, after all, 3,000 varieties in my area, one of the most diverse on the planet. I left them there while I found out what they were, but when I came back, they were gone. That night, a former student asked me to identify some mushrooms. You can guess the rest. Fortunately, that time they were edible.
Here, on the other hand, is one of my oldest students in a lovely patch of jack-o-lanterns, just outside the VA Hospital (how convenient). They are actually being researched for cancer. And they’re good to dye with (that’s D-Y-E). And by the way, they’re called “jack-o-lanterns,” not just “pumpkin mushrooms,” because they glow in the dark. I once, on a new moon, took out a writer from The New York Times who flew down just to see them. They’re lovely, spooky, green in the gills, and they’ll make you that way if you eat them.
In fifteen years of selling and teaching, the one mistake I hear about 90% of the time involves jack-o-lanterns: people mistaking them not for chicken of the woods, but for chanterelles. At a glance, especially from a distance, that’s understandable. Here are chanterelles growing right near jack-o-lanters (the “jacks” are by the basket).
Without looking at the underside, it can be hard to tell the difference, even close up. Is this a “chicken” or a “jack?” I can’t tell. I’d have to get to the bottom of it to get to the bottom of it. That said, I’m going to show you a “chant” and a “jack” side by side, but only after a considerable caveat.
Do NOT try to learn these mushrooms from these pictures. Do NOT try to teach yourself foraging. In law, they say “the person who is their own attorney has a fool for a client.” This is even more true of mushrooms. The only good field guide has two legs.
You do not have to pay me or anyone else to learn foraging. You can join The Asheville Mushroom Club or for a nominal fee or their email group for free. If you live elsewhere in North America, you can join one or more of many other local clubs. If you live anywhere else, you’re probably not reading this because your own parents already taught you how to mushroom hunt. In fact, they probably didn’t: nobody had to “teach” you your vegetables; the learning comes naturally.
In the photo on the right, the edible mushroom that someone beat me to can be seen on the bottom left, along with “the gut wrencher” to the right of it. This is the most commonly eaten toxic mushroom in North America, and even I once served it. To hear how that happened, see “How to not pass up a parasol, and how not to.”
One time, someone called me to make sure they were about to eat chanterelles, not jack-o-lanterns. She asked. After a long list of questions, I said,
“By the way, did you check to see if it glows in the dark?”
“Oh yes,” she said.
“Why didn’t you tell me that before?”
“You didn’t ask!”
There are only two mushrooms in North America that glow in the dark. The other is Panellus stipticus. It’s not rare: I know a path in Celo, NC that in August is lit up with them. But it’s very small. Honey mushrooms cause the wood they are to glow in the dark; that’s what they call “foxfire.” But for northern fungal phosphoresce, that’s about it.
I know one chef who called me AFTER he and his wife had eaten jack-o-lanterns. Another well-known Asheville chef, as I was told years later by his former sous chef (now head chef at another restaurant), decided that he didn’t want to pay for wild mushrooms anymore. So he went and gathered some and served them that night. The next day, there were thirty messages on his machine. You know why.
I have nothing against chefs learning to gather their own mushrooms. The key word is “learning.” I trained all the chefs at Zambra and now I can rarely sell to them anymore. But you need a minimal amount of knowledge. With that, mistakes like the above can be avoided easily.
Wild mushrooms are not “too dangerous to mess with.” They are eaten regularly in most of the world. For more about that, see “Why don’t I just be normal and stay away from wild mushrooms?” Apparently, the impending collapse of industrial civilization has stimulated a return to self-sufficiency. It’s “back to the garden” for most of us, and that’s a good thing. Mushroom hunting can be a great way to make money, save money, get exercise, enjoy nature, and much more.
I like the fact that more people are foraging for food and profit; otherwise, I wouldn’t be bragging about my windfalls. It was bound to happen sooner or later; it’s only natural. The question is, what is our re-learning curve going to be?
We don’t need to slam the brakes on mushroom hunting; we just need to slow down. Admittedly that’s not easy, especially for me. My “I BRAKE FOR MUSHROOMS” bumper sticker is way too small.
Safety comes from slowing down, paying attention, and asking for directions. It starts with education: with knowing, not avoiding, nature. For years now, I’ve been advocating for the establishment of a mushroom marketplace, staffed by experts, and a wild foods public education program to go with it.
As the author of Mushrooms: Poisons and Panaceas explains:
Some agencies are proposing the certification of commercial pickers to ensure their competence in differentiating toxic from edible mushrooms. Because the current incidence of poisoning is so low, it will be difficult to prove regulatory efficacy, but it would make all of us feel better that we are doing something positive.
On the other hand, an educated public might be a far more effective tool in “policing” egregious behavior. Imagine a general public that clearly knew the dozen or so edible mushrooms and was able to hold markets and chefs accountable. An hour of food safety instruction in schools might benefit the public a great deal more than the billions of dollars spent on regulations…
These attempts at regulation and licensing appear to be bureaucratic efforts with no basis in science or land-use policy. We should be encouraging and teaching the general public these ancient foraging skills—a positive way to ensure that we all continue to value the remaining public lands…
Instead of diluting our efforts on the issue of commercial selling and arcane, confusing regulations, let’s focus on the knottier and larger issue of habitat protection. Add to that a solid dose of natural history education in our schools. Nothing is as powerful as a scientifically literate public.
Denis Benjamin, “Should the harvesting and selling of wild mushrooms be regulated?,” FUNGI, Spring 2011
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Nothing is more fascinating than standing in front of a beautifully crafted work of creativity. Whether it is a sculpture, painting or digital craftsmanship, looking at it gives you a sense of relaxation. A fine piece of artwork can transport you to a different era and takes your mind off from your daily routine. The United States has some of the world’s most refined art galleries that house some of the world’s most renowned works of creativity. From the works of Leonardo Da Vinci to Roy Lichtenstein, these galleries represent every artistic era and medium all over the country.
Here is a list of top 5 creative galleries in the USA that proudly hosts some of the world’s finest arts in 2019.
Top 5 Art Galleries in the United States
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Located adjacent to New York City’s Central Park, the Metropolitan Museum of Art is the country’s largest museum. It houses over 2 million pieces of art that are curated from various parts of Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. This wonderful center of creativity is expanding continuously and in March 2016, revamped the Whitney Space to add the new Met Breuer, a new hall of the Met housing some of the most exclusive contemporary creative collections.
Some of their collections include – The Egyptian Collection featuring the Temple of Dendur, an authentic temple from 15 B.C. The Complete Vermeer Collection, Couture designed by Chanel, Balenciaga, and Laurent.
There is an entrance fee of $25 for adults, $17 for seniors, $12 for students as well as a donation-based system for the residents of New York state.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Museum of Fine Arts boasts of more than 450,000 works of creative compilation making it one of the largest museums of not only Boston, Massachusetts but also the United States. It houses some of the finest works of creativity including Egyptian, American craft, etc. Since Boston is close to the city of Nagoya, the museum’s Japanese Art Collection is the largest in the entire country. It hosts the United States’ most comprehensive section of Japanese craft and pottery work outside of Japan.
Few of the must-see works include – The painting of Paul Revere by John Singleton Copley, Copley’s Watson and the Shark, painting of George Washington by Gilbert Stewart, and the works of Gauguin, Monet, etc.
If you’re a lover of music, then don’t miss the museum’s collection of more than 1,100 musical instruments which ranges from the medieval times to modern ones to wind up your tour of this amazing center of creativity.
The entrance fee of this center is $25 per adult, $23 per senior as well as per student.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia
The Philadelphia Museum of Art is the center of creativity for both old and new alike and houses one of the biggest collections of the country’s artworks discovered throughout the USA. It has acquired significant artworks of Manet, Cezanne, Marisso, and Duchamp. This always-bustling art center houses more than 220,000 pieces of artworks including sophisticated Persian and Turkish rugs and is the home to one of the most-visited collections of Rodin Sculptures.
The museum also hosts several shows throughout the year such as the Creative Africa exhibit that attracts fashionistas as well as young art enthusiasts all over the world. Few of the must-see artworks including the Creative Africa exhibition, Paul Cezanne’s Monte Sainte-Victoire, Edouard Manet’s basket of Fruit, AMOR Sculpture, etc.
The entry fee is $20 for general and an extra $6 for Rodin sculpture collection.
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
This museum is located at Midtown Manhattan in New York City and features a wide range of collection of modern artworks and organizes small exhibitions of overseas collections in its beautiful white abstract setting. It hosts some of the 20th centuries most renowned portraits by famous artists including Van Gogh, Rousseau, Picasso, and Pollock. The center also has a restaurant named The Modern within its premises which is open only for the center’s patrons and is one of the Michelin-starred restaurants in New York City.
Few of the must-see works include the incredible Starry Night painting by Vincent Van Gogh, Henry Rousseau's The Sleeping Gypsy, Jackson Pollock’s Number 31, Jasper John’s Flag, Campbell soup Cans by Andy Warhol, Adele Bloch Bauer II by Gustav Klimt, etc.
The center offers free admission every Friday 4 to 8 pm excluding the crowds.
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
The main highlights of this wonderful center of artistry are the Impressionist and Post-Impressionist craftworks. It is the second-largest museum in the United States and is famous for a comprehensive collection of artistic works, including the American, Afro-American, and Antique Asian craftworks along with furniture from the 20th century.
Few of the center's must-see artworks include A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte by Georges Seurat, which is one an exclusive piece in the center’s vast collection. Apart from that, they have numerous paintings from various notable artists such as Monet, Manet, Cezanne, Cassatt, Renoir, etc. You can also look for Grant Wood’s American Gothic in its American works. For Monet lovers, the center hosts one of the largest collections of Monet paintings in the country.
The entry fee is $14 in general but offers free entry every Thursday from 5 to 8 pm for the residents of Chicago and Illinois.
These are the top 5 art galleries of the USA which hosts some of the world’s finest and rarest pieces of art that attract a huge number of creative aficionados every year. These galleries also host several exhibitions where they showcase some of their exclusive collections as well as some overseas artworks.
However, the list is not extensive and all 55 states in the country boast numerous galleries of creativity both large and small where you will also get to witness some of the greatest works of artists both past and present. Don’t miss to visit them.
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Instead, I will be working three days a week at Kitchen Conservatory in St. Louis. I've taken a few classes at this small cooking school/chef's store, and I've always thought that I would love working there. When the opportunity arose, I jumped at it and was hired by the owner (Thanks again, Anne!).
I am so excited about this new job! Really, I am damned nearly giddy over it! So much, in fact, that I don't even mind the 9-5 hours (my first 9-5 job in...well...ever!), the 30-45 minute drive during rush hour, or the hours on my feet (my chiropractor is gonna love me)! Seriously! I love it! And, I am not being sarcastic! (Note my overuse of exclamation marks if you don't believe me!)
Monday was my first day, and I mostly learned how to operate the computers and process orders. It seemed like a pretty slow day, customer-wise. I spent most of the day yesterday pricing and putting away merchandise. I reorganized a few things, too, (like a shelf of cake pans) which I loved...being that I'm a bit OCD and all. I will be working Saturdays, too, and I am looking forward to busier days. Imagine that!
It was actually fun for me to open a shipment of new stuff and help find a place to put it all. The new stuff is from a company called Bambu. Their products are all made from bamboo, a renewable resource, including a set of disposable dishes that are better for the environment than standard paper plates (they decompose quicker). They're sturdier and more attractive, too! Kitchen Conservatory now carries those as well as baskets, platters, salad bowls, spoons, spatulas, and utensil holders. It's cool stuff!
Anyway, when I got home Monday evening, I wanted to make something simple for dinner. I had some iceberg lettuce and grape tomatoes on the verge of expiration in the fridge (along with a small hunk of gorgonzola leftover from those tartlettes), so I decided to put together a classic wedge salad of crispy bacon, lettuce, tomato, and homemade bleu cheese dressing (a first for me).
What do you do if you don't have a recipe for bleu cheese dressing? You wing it! I just crumbled up the cheese in a bowl, added a couple spoonfuls of mayo, stirred in a few splashes of heavy cream, and seasoned with black pepper and garlic powder.
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While you slept, Levi, you missed the game I watched on TV tonight, in which David Wells had to run from first to third (but, alas, didn’t end up making it to home).
Oh, yeah, Jay Payton climbed the wall in the 5th to prevent Barry Bonds from going down in history as the first person to hit a home run in Petco Park, and the Padres came back to tie in the 9th and then came back to win in the 10th, both times on Sean Burroughs singles.
Also, in the top of the 1st, the Giants announcers were making fun of the scoreboard that was listing the count as 5 strikes and 3 balls. Then they realized it was the pitch count scoreboard. I would obviously have rather watched the game with the Padres announcers, and DirecTV usually goes with the home team version of the games in their Extra Innings package…but only when the home team is on a regional sports network that DirecTV carries. The Padres are on a cable-only network. | <urn:uuid:d4c03076-a148-477a-be32-0af3e8cd2fca> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | http://www.baseballrelated.com/2004/04/petco-from-the-get-go/ | 2023-09-23T16:46:20Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.98275 | 217 |
Painting by Belynda Wilson Thomas
It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver. Mahatma Gandhi
Health is our greatest wealth, without health how will we enjoy anything else? Hippocrates said, “All disease begins in the gut.” It’s a cute little saying that trips off our tongue, but how much do we take it as truth?
When we can’t put the cookie bag away is that us, or our gut buddies, the ones that aren’t so friendly, the ones that cause problems and get our system out of sync? Fasting, I am reading is good for our gut health. What if when we don’t feed our gut buddies they do better? It seems our bodies will look after the good ones, and the bad ones die off during a fast. There are many good YouTube videos on fasting and one I listen to is Dr. Pradip Jamnadas.
Why I started listening is concern over diabetic drugs and how much harm they do. Do we have a better way to control our blood sugar by controlling what and how we eat? Do we have access to natural foods that populate our gut with good bacteria like yogurt, kimchi, sauerkraut, cheese, cream of tartar (made from fermenting grapes), and Kombucha to mention a few?
One of the challenges we all have is keeping our gut healthy. It might be more of a challenge for some than others, but for all of us, it might be something to consider when our body isn’t acting quite right.
We might think reversing some of our health problems is beyond us, but if we listen to videos about health or read books about health there is a lot of information being shared. Many are sharing and want us to buy supplements that may or may not improve our health. But, most of them improved their health before they created the supplements, so if we can do what they did in the beginning perhaps we can have the same outcome.
Even with conditions such as psoriasis, I’m reading, there is at least a gut health connection in some cases. As we get older gut health becomes a bigger and bigger issue, but if we can keep our gut healthy or at least healthier can we avoid some of the ravages of age, as Dr. Gundry put it, “Die young at a ripe old age?”
What we think and what we eat, combined together, make what we are, physically and mentally. Edgar Cayce
I’ve struggled with Candida and mentioned it to my doctor years ago when he looked at me like he had no clue what I was talking about. In 2016 I took an Epsom salt bath every night for six weeks and drank an elixir of cream of tartar, baking soda, Epsom salt, and apple cider vinegar when my sinus pain was so bad I could hardly stand it. The sinus pain went away and hasn’t come back.
In 2019 I started making Kombucha and drink it almost every day. Gut health is never fixed and forget about it. We have to be vigilant throughout our lives. Yesterday, I started the cream of tartar elixir again because I want to recommend it to someone and want to make sure I could tell them I tried it again and felt it didn’t do any harm.
Last year I made a honey, garlic, lemon, and ginger potion and that didn’t work for me at all, I think because of the honey. We will have to be willing to experiment to find what works for us. Just because something works for someone doesn’t mean it will work for everyone. I was introduced to molasses in Kombucha but when I added it to mine I didn’t think that worked for me either.
Staying healthy might be one of our biggest challenges, but if it is, we can be sure no one else will do it. Drugs may help some symptoms but are they getting to the source of the problem? We need to be willing to experiment in our own lives with practices to improve our health, and some have been around long enough like fasting and fermented foods that we aren’t taking a risk at all. We are doing what the healthiest people throughout history have done.
If we are going to change our lives for the better, is there a better time to start than now? What if we get a snowball effect of better and better health? What if part of living right, is eating right, and we choose to make things better or worse every time we put something in our mouth?
You are what you eat, you are what you think, you are what you believe. Michael Ryan
Don’t focus on how much you eat. Focus on what you eat. Unknown
The food you eat can be either the safest most powerful form of medicine or the slowest form of poison. Ann Wigmore
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09/06/23 NSW RF/IRB
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SSAA NSW Rimfire BR and IRB, to be hosted at Newcastle Branch
|Friday||10/06/2023||Light Rimfire Group||8.00am 50/100|
|Saturday||11/06/2023||Heavy Rimfire Group||8.00am 50/100|
|Sunday||12/06/2023||IRB (Day 1)||8.00am 50|
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7.00am weigh-in all days.
Entry Fee $60 per day, Juniors $30 per day.
Nominations must be received by 03 June 2023.
Late entries may or may not be accepted and if accepted a late fee of $10 will apply, and you will not be able to share flags or equipment.
You must have your current membership card and shooters licence
Range Facilities: Club house, toilets, showers and BBQ. Camping on Range permitted (please advise beforehand)
Free: Breakfast, Lunch, Coffee, Tea and Biscuits
Dinner will be available for a small fee
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It was a Happy Saturday when I decided to document this Port.
We hadn’t had much to do this day. All of the chores were done and since it’s winter, we couldn’t go outside. I truly can’t wait till spring!
I had recently bought a bottle of 2009 King Coal from Sunfish Cellars in St Paul. Chris and I along with Dave had made the journey to St. Paul for a light snack in the wine bar and to pick up my special order bottle.
The Wine Bar at Sunfish Cellars is very nice. They have a pretty good wine list and the appetizers and sandwiches are priced right! We enjoyed a small pizza that was on special that day, and Chris and I also shared a Caprese sandwich. Dave enjoyed a Reuben. After a glass of wine and lunch we headed over to the liquor store to have a look around and pick up my wine.
As we wandered around we found Dave by the port section. We began talking to one of the staff members and Chris decided to buy a bottle of Burmester White Porto. I forget the gentleman’s name but he explained that he is a fan of Gin and Tonic. He likes to have a glass the first nice day of spring. However, the recommendation he was about to tell us has become his new spring favorite!
He says to take a shot or so of the Burmester White Port. Add tonic water with a sliced Lemon. I guess it does sound pretty darn good and refreshing on a warm day.
Along with Dave, we decided give the White Port a quick try.
The white port is pale with an Amber Green Hue.
The white port was very aromatic in out little glass. We could smell Brandy and Citrus fruit.
Sweet as you would suspect. Medium bodied and the acidity was flabby. The tannins were week and soft and it was quite flavorful. There was no dominant fruit flavor. It just tasted a little fruity. You could feel the light tannins on the roof of your mouth while the finish was long and slightly bitter.
I would not recommend this as a sipping port. I do plan on trying it again with a touch of Tonic and a sliced Lemon as suggested on a hot spring day. I guess another blog and hopefully the recommendation will be great!
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Case Damascus Knives
Can you help me understand all of these Damascus knives I keep seeing? They look gorgeous, but are they just for looks? Would one of these make for a good all-around knife?
Well, that’s a complicated question. First, let’s do a little freshening up on what exactly “Damascus steel” is. Damascus, Wootz, and patternweld are all names given to different types of steels and blades. Basically, the idea is that two or more steel alloys are forged/cast together through various methods to give the wavy artistic pattern that comes from such a layering process. Unfortunately, the technique for making both Damascus and Wootz steel has been lost to the centuries. Anyone claiming to be making authentic Wootz/Damascus these days is delusional. Or lying . . .
Traditional dagger cut from wootz ingot
99.9999% of the layered and forged steel these days is either san-mai or pattern welded (mokume and mosaic are a different thing all together.) San-mai steel is very common in Japanese knives, and it’s literally just a sandwich of 3 sheets of steel. Two outer stainless steels and a harder stainless or carbon steel core make up the cross section of a San-mai blade. No folding is done on a San-mai blade because the goal is to have a hard, protected edge that’s fused to the stainless steel but not mixed with it.
The other type of pattern-welded steel is the so called “Damascus steel”. Originally used in middle eastern sword making, the method has been lost since about the 16th century. The art form has resurfaced, though, and in 1973 bladesmith William F. Moran unveiled his “Damascus knives” at the Knifemakers’ Guild Show. Ever since then modern pattern-welded steel blades have been called “Damascus knives”.
You asked what they are used for. Well…the process of choosing steel for a Damascus blade is important. Many makers choose 2-5 alloys that play nicely together and make for a beautiful pattern. Once the knife is forged or ground to shape, the waves of steel alloy will meet at the edge and you can change the cutting performance of the blade by tweaking the alloy and its heat treat process.
210mm gyuto stainless damascus with 19c27 core, wenge handle
For instance Devin Thomas is a master Damascus maker. He forges every billet himself and has the process down to a science. Devin makes all-stainless Damascus, high contrast, double high carbon, and many, many exotic patterns. When he uses AEB-L and 304 together, it’s obvious that some of the stronger qualities of AEB-L will be watered down by the softer 304. But remember — forged together in a blade, differing alloys present at the blade’s edge can make for a micro-serration surface, aiding in sawing or slicing actions. | <urn:uuid:7d28acce-7a39-4d57-be0d-db9779adde15> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | http://www.bndknives.com/CaseKnives/case-damascus-knives | 2023-09-23T16:31:45Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.92863 | 646 |
Mashing and sparging in plastic buckets of one form or another has become so universal that the method I am going to discuss might seem like something new. However, it is more or less the way beer had been made since time immemorial. Until that is, a certain very popular book on home brewing appeared.
Kettle mashing, as I call it, has some advantages and some disadvantages over the now "traditional" plastic bucket method and until one understands both approaches, a commitment to one or the other can lead to a good deal of unnecessary frustration.
Kettle mashing is simply using a kettle with an appropriate secreening device and spigot to "cook" the mash in and once the mashing is complete, the same kettle becomes the lauter tun. After sparging in the lauter tun, the kettle is used for boiling and if it has a close fitting cover, can be used as the primary fermenter.
The most fundamental advantage of the approach is the ease with which the transition from extract to all grain can be made. The only new requirement is a straining device in the kettle already used for boiling extract beer. The investment required to "give it a try", is quite minimal and if you decide you don't like the program, you end up with a great brew kettle that sports a spigot that won't get clogged up with hops and specialty grains.
The other advantages are a bit more technical and I will point them out when we get to them.
The key to the system is the screening device and the spigot for the kettle. The first one I made was to be used in conjunction with an overlaying false bottom. The false bottom was a stainless steel plate the size of the kettle bottom with a zillion holes laboriously punched into it. It created no end of problems on the very first batch. Mash got under it and scorching was just about impossible to control. So in disgust, I pulled it out, continued the mash and assumed a disaster was at hand.
Much to my incredulous delight, when I opened the spigot, the wort ran clear after less than a cup of turbid runnoff. I have since made about 30 batches using only the screen device and get very consistent and respectable extract yields.
We will begin the discussion, by describing the screening device and spigot that is installed in the brew kettle. The first one I made was made from galvanized pipe fittings and window screen, installed in a 32 qt enameled canning kettle.
The current version is all brass, copper and stainless installed on two stainless kettles, a ten gallon for mashing and fermenting and a sixteen gallon for boiling. Having two kettles allows one to be prepared for the next operation while the other is doing its thing.
Fig. 1 shows an exploded view of the spigot and strainer. The strainer is simply a 2 x 6 inch piece of screen, rolled into a six inch tube and clamped to the copper tube. The last half inch is bent over itself to seal it off. The copper tube has a slight bend in it to allow it to be rotated so that the end is right on the bottom leaving almost no wort behind. It is easily removed for cleaning.
The spigot passes through a clearance hole drilled in the kettle and is retained by the female connector and a washer to take up the treads and make a tight fit.
All the parts are available at a good hardware store. For those not inclined to hunt down the parts, a complete kit is available from the author.
Once the spigot/strainer device is installed in the brew kettle, you are ready for the plunge. If you are shopping for a kettle, my only advice is the bigger the better. I consider the 32 qt canner about the minimum for a 5 gal batch.
The following procedure is intended only as a starting point that I know works well enough to assure a successful, first, all-grain experience. I do not want to get into endless discussions about the pros and cons of the procedure at this time nor do I even claim that I brew beer this way. There are an infinite number of variations that could be fodder for future articles but the object of this one is to introduce the approach and brew a simple batch of all grain beer.
The first step is to dump 8 lbs of crushed pale malt into the kettle. Don't forget the screen! Add 3 gallons of warm tap water and mix thoroughly.
Apply heat and raise temp to 155F. Stir frequently to avoid caramelizing and to distribute the heat. Hold this temp for 30 minutes by adding heat and stirring as necessary.
After 30 mins at 155F, crank up the heat and continue stirring until 178F is reached. This step is known as "mashout" and is difficult or impossible to do with the plastic bucket approach. It is my opinion that it eliminates one source of a common problem with first all grain batches known as a "set mash.
Hold this temp for 10 minsutes, then turn off the heat and let it rest while heating water to a boil on another burner. Use a pan that holds at least two quarts of water.
The level of wort in the kettle should be about an inch above the grain when it settles. Lay a small bowl on top of the grain to distribute the sparging water and minimize the disturbance of the grain.
Open the spigot just a trickle and run the wort into a cup until it runs clear. Pour the turbid runoff back into the kettle. With this setup, it will run clear after a few ounces. Again, as comparison, it sometimes takes gallons with the other system and this must be recycled back into the mash till it does run clear.
The object of sparging is to extract as much sugar from the grain as possible. The longer it takes, the more efficient the extraction. Adjust the outflow so that it takes at lest 10 mins to fill a gallon jug. Pour the boiling water into the bowl as available or necessary to keep about an inch of water over the grain. The availability of boiling water will probably be the limiting factor on sparge rate.
Most brewers will tell you that the sparge water should not exceed 170F but if you use boiling water in this system, the average temp will be far below 170F and you will be lucky to keep it above 150F. You can fiddle on your next batch. Trust my on the first.
The first runoff should be about 1.080 and you quit when it gets below 1.010. The total blend will produce 6 to 7 gallons at about 1.035 which, after boiling will yield 5 to 6 gals at 1.040. Collect the wort in gallon jugs or five gallon plastic buckets (can't get away from them).
When the wort is collected, dump the spent grain on the compost pile and rinse out the kettle. I always save a few pounds in freezer containers for beer bread. The seven gallons of wort will barely fit into the kettle for the boil so it is best to bring a smaller portion to a boil initially to avoid boilover. After evaporating some and getting the boil under contro, the rest can be added. A minimal one hour boil will evaporate about a gallon so you can play with the volumes in various ways. You can increase the gravity by more boiling or boil less and have more beer.
Add half of your hops as soon as boiling begins. Save one forth for the end and the remainder at regular intervals during the boil. If you need a suggestion, try 1.5 oz of Chinook for your first batch.
If you hold the chilled wort in a carboy or gallon jugs, you can clean out the kettle and use it again as the primary fermenter if the lid fits well. Just boil a cup of water in it with the lid on for about 5 minutes to sterilize it.
The kettle seems to be universally available for about $35 and the rest of the stuff can be had for under $20, making it a pretty inexpensive system.
So, that's what kettle mashing is all about. Try it, you may like it.
1. Brass "air cock", 1/8" male pipe thread at one end, bibb spout at the other and lever on top.
2. Brass "female connector", 1/8" female pipe thread at one end, 3/8" copper tubing compression fitting at other end.
3. 6" length of 3/8" copper tubing flared at one end and bent so the end rests on bottom.
4. 4 X 6 inch screen (window, brass, copper or ss) rolled into tube and clamped to flared end of copper tube. (flare prevents it from falling off at inconvenient times)
All it takes is a 3/8" hole in your kettle, near the bottom. If you run a 1/8" pipe tap into the hole, you can screw on the air cock and it will not leak. However, as most kettles are too thin to provide enough threads for a safe and permanent fit, I modify the fittings by rethreading the aircock and connector with STRAIGHT pipe threads. This allows the connector to be screwed on to the aircock in such a way that you achieve a snug fit by compression instead of relying on the tapered pipe threads.
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Hello Mr Bumble B,
I hope you are well and good. I could not really find your real name so I hope you won't mind me calling you Mr Bumble B.
My name is Christine, and I am writing to you from Malaysia (a small country wedged between Thailand and Singapore). Before I had bought my Brompton bike, I read so many reviews and blogs on which folding bike is best for my use. In the end, the Brompton won out amongst all.
Thank you for writing all your stories about your rides and Brompton mods. Perhaps one day, I will be brave enough to fly to London with my bike and join you and your friends for a ride.
My bike is the 2013 model and I must say, the pedals are working real well, plus it feels solid. I hope your newly installed pedals will last you for all your riding adventures.
May I enquire if you should happen to know of any good shops selling the Brompton bags in London? I'm planning on using them for traveling work & would like your recommendations since you obviously do commute a lot with your bike.
I'm still slowly paying off my bike but it has been really fun riding it for my work & short trips. It is blogs like yours which makes me happy I purchased mine, knowing that it is sturdy and dependable over the years. Looking forward to growing old with my bike & traveling everywhere with it.
Keep blogging and ride safe!
@RaeRaeMars: @BromptonBumbleB we saw you rocking the bumble bee blazer and socks at Ascot this evening! Awesome gear. #MLR14
Hi Sir I was having a dam good read of your blog last night. I'm going over to Ripon tomoz in North Yorkshire. But outside York station I'm gonna pop into Cycle heaven and have another look at a brompton. I'm dammed tempted I figure I'll need a 6 speed effort for where I am based in Doncaster with some of the hills...
Mr BumbleBFirstly congratulations on your second Richmond to Oxford ride with the London Brompton Club, I follow BumbleB from a great distance, namely Australia. My name is Rex Phillips and I live in St Agnes a suburb of Adelaide, South Australia. BumbleB and My Orange Brompton are compulsory viewing each day to learn about your travels, enjoy photographic descriptions and how and why the different applications are made to your Brompton and relevant riding gear. I to am a proud Brompton owner, 2012 PR6 main frame British Racing Green extremities in Black with a Brooks B17 saddle with a Son hub dynamo. A Brompton in Adelaide is very rare, including mine there may be three and I am yet to see another one. We have no dealer in Adelaide and our closest dealership is in St Kilda Melbourne over 700km away so I emailed Brompton and they agreed for Bicycle Express in Adelaide to order on my behalf. I am 70 years old and have always been a cyclist owning six bikes and still have three, a Peugeot PY10E 1978 , Avanti hybrid 24 speed, and now the Brompton. The Peugeot was used on rides of over 200km from Adelaide to Victor Harbor and return, Adelaide to Goolwa. My rides today are mainly hills riding generally 20 to 84km, we live where the hills begin. My Brompton was purchased to take on our holidays with our camper van to enable me to maintain my fitness level while we are away as we travel all over Australia and have at times been away for three months. Two years ago when staying at Swan Hill I pinched a nerve and could hardly walk and spent hours in the swimming pool trying to gain improvement, a similar situation happened when I was on the farm years ago and found riding a bike soon fixed the problem, enter the Brompton.I did heaps of research as I wanted a folding bike as a bike on the back of a car or van over here can get covered in dust and grime. Comparing the folding bike market a Brompton was the only answer and it is BRILLIANT and can easily cause me to be the centre of attention, which at my age is not a bad thing. Your site is excellent and I lock on every day hoping for something new.Owning a Brompton is specialKind Regards
Well done on the ride. Been reading your blog for a little while now whilst my own Brompton is on order. It has been inspiring reading as I am of a larger stature and am looking forward to some riding round east Kent once I have the bike in mid October. | <urn:uuid:0f814214-1344-4008-95ca-f98c8d99bbf5> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | http://www.bromptonbumbleb.com/p/testimonials.html | 2023-09-23T18:12:53Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.95344 | 990 |
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When it comes to full-time work, our union contract is very clear: Kroger can’t cut our hours during holiday weeks unless we agree to it in advance. Back in 2013, Local 400 members caught Kroger cheating full-time associates out of their holiday pay by scheduling them fewer hours on weeks with holidays, in violation of our union contract.
The violations occurred during holiday weeks from Independence Day 2013 through New Year’s Day 2015. Some associates were cheated out of more than $1,200 in lost pay.
Kroger refused to pay up, so we took our case to a neutral arbitrator and asked him to order Kroger to pay. Although Kroger threw up delay after delay, we never gave up. Finally, our persistence has paid off. This week, Kroger began mailing out back pay checks. And because they took so long to pay us what we are owed, Kroger has to pay interest as well.
All told, Kroger will pay eligible current, former and retired full-time associates over $300,000 in back pay plus interest!
Without a union, that money would be lost to us. But, thanks to the Kroger associates who made sure that our union contract was enforced, we are able to fight for and win every penny of the money that we have earned.
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With regards to dating, here are not a great amount of labels also labeled as Fits. But is Suits a good fit to you? Better, when you’re trying address you to question, you have got a few different alternatives. One-you can travel to the Fits critiques observe what the masters have to say. Otherwise two-you might snag a match free trial and look some thing aside for your self.
And therefore of those alternatives is the better method of getting a good an excellent feel towards the condition? We recommend one another. Investigate comment, right after which run the comment (for free) because of the features you have made into Meets free trial. If in case you find out you to definitely Meets is not the most useful fit for you (which is ok), we’ve got and additionally integrated certain links less than to other great 100 % free examples, to help you very choose the best relationship software to you personally.
Let’s speak today on which you have made towards https://datingmentor.org/escort/miramar/ Suits 100 % free demo, everything aren’t getting, how to get registered, or any other Match choices you are shopping for. As well, we’re going to discuss the brand new step 3-time demo Meets added for the 2022.
Prior to we have heading, in the event, i Recommend checking out a number of the large-high quality options you will find detailed for your requirements below.
What you get Along with your Fits Trial offer
- Capability to look for single people near you by interest, years, and you can demographics
- Use the swipe-style such as for example or forget about function to examine american singles in your area
- Build your profile, publish the photo, as well as have prepared in the event you decide to upgrade your membership
- You can aquire the capacity to content one of the better matches 100% free (perhaps not in public places printed, however, we’ve viewed at random given out to suit trial offer membership holders
- With regards to the most recent offer the website keeps real time, you may also gain access to a step three-time otherwise seven-time demonstration where you are able to post messages some other players. From our observance, it isn’t really available, but may feel sometimes.
- Additionally have the capability to test out the advantages to see if this site is a good matches or otherwise not getting what you are finding.
- Until there’s a no cost demo campaign powering during the time your subscribe (you’ll be able to work through the web link given), you simply will not manage to upload messages versus upgrading. Note: It offers changed specific to the reduced step three-date demo hence we protection less than.
- Within the same issues once we merely stated, you also will not to able to learn the fresh new texts sent to you because of the most other professionals if you do not go up so you can a paid account. Note: Understand lower than for the majority of info on how it offers changed getting the original three days of membership.
Matches Adds 3 Big date Free trial
Best into the 2022, it appears like Match provides additional good 3-date demonstration solution in addition established totally free membership choice. In basic 3 days of your Match free trial, you’ll in reality change texts and you can collaborate as if you are a having to pay associate. Although this is very, understand that it will take some one over a great day to get to a primary message, so you might not rating as much utility using this sure-enough. That said, it can of course supply the ultimate opportunity to try keeps and find out if Suits is the best fit for you.
Since the 3-time trial offer ends, you’ll revert returning to the fundamental free trial offer account intricate inside the the rest of this post.
The latest Match free trial offer is actually free – they will not secret you towards searching for a credit card through the indication right up instance various other internet manage. The fresh new sign-up are quite simple and only requires a number of items of suggestions to manufacture a free account. Immediately after causing your free Suits account, you are scrolling adorable single people within minutes . Through the link we offered, you can immediately become credited towards minimal free trial offer first off looking around.
What you get On Suits free trial
Trial offer levels obtain the ability to perform a number of different look products, for example common browse, contrary look, therefore the capability to conserve queries. That is a nice solution to find who’s for sale in your area, and when the standard and kind away from members should be your preference.
What’s sweet is that really men and women on the Match has pictures up thus you aren’t appearing blind. I tried several looks doing other cities inside our condition, and numerous single people emerged in just about any search. Some internet dating apps blur aside member’s images if you don’t up-date, making this a nice touching.
At exactly the same time, this new Match trial offer will get the capacity to build your character and upload images. If you do propose to revise so you’re able to a premium membership, this can be a nice way of getting one out of the way ahead of time using.
What you Do not get
It is important to just remember that , dating sites including Fits are companies, so they need to fees getting what things to hold the bulbs towards and keep giving great properties. Unless of course there was an alternative promotion running individually through the web site, you’re not gonna be able to publish texts otherwise comprehend messages within the Match free trial offer.
Bummer? Yes, but that is a standard. If they provided your this type of efficiency, then there’d end up being no chance so that they can return and you may remain providing qualities.
The length of time ‘s the Fits Free trial offer?
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Cannabis concentrated dating is very in right now. You can find 21 million Bing hits for “cannabis and dating,” cannabis-friendly services that are dating provided by coaches like Molly Peckler, if you’re technologically inclined — there’s a software for the. A few, in reality.
Within the chronilogical age of cellular phones, it seems sensible that singles would require a way that is streamlined find potential lovers with comparable passions. You’ve ever dated someone who wasn’t, you’re familiar with the occasional frustration of navigating that interaction if you’re a cannabis consumer and. It’s wise they can share their herbal indulgences that one might want to find a partner with whom.
To see I tried out three cannabis dating apps: High There, 420 Singles, and 420 Friends whether they live up to the hype. I’ve been periodically on Tinder for a couple of years now, making sure that was my primary foundation for contrast.
App Review: Tall There
This is the very best of the three we tested. The software is clean and streamlined that is pretty. There’s a section called “Joints” where you could see and communicate with articles from other users, follow trending hashtags, and upload your very own updates and images. It reminds me of Twitter for the reason that method, plus it’s the absolute most of good use networking function of this software. Like Tinder (and a lot of other dating apps at this stage) it offers the swipe left/right option whenever profiles that are viewing. It shows the user’s picture, title, distance away from you, and their choices. Each individual has three places where they could share their present requirements:
That is all pretty helpful information for finding individuals to sesh with, but does not provide me personally much to continue when it comes to just just exactly how they’d work away as a partner. One might argue that even main-stream dating apps encounter the same issue, but i will be some of those stubborn those who won’t swipe right on a blank profile regardless of how sexy the images. That High is loved by me There supplies the option of filtering distance, sex, and choices. Being a woman that is bisexual I’m specially grateful you could pick “men and women” as a choice.
App Review: 420 Singles
This application is really a bit clunky. It seems more 2007 than 2017. The finding choices are limited by three choices: age, distance, and sex. The sex filter calls for you to definitely choose men or women ( maybe perhaps not both), that was disappointing. Additionally, none among these choices stopped me personally from getting an influx of great interest from individuals who lived in other states, which may seem like a waste of our time since we can’t well sesh together if you’re in new york. We also found lots of perform pages even with I’d swiped kept on it, presumably due to a number that is low of in my own geographical area.
App Review: 420 Friends
This website reminds me a lot more of OkCupid than Tinder. There’s a feature that is browse you can observe usernames and images, then click to their pages to find out more. The profile features with this one were the very best of the 3. The profile that is basic area for a headline, about me personally, about my match, hobbies, and also an initial date concept, that will be unique and interesting. There’s also an area to pick just just what you’re searching for: age, sex, and relationship design. During the last two, it is a checkbox system, in order to choose all that apply.
You can even share details that are physicalheight, eye color, locks color, physical stature), along with faith, language, training, an such like. It is positively the app that is best for producing a comprehensive profile. Unfortuitously, we swiped close to a number of profiles, matched a number of those, and received the following (presumably canned) message in reaction to all or any of them: “Great profile. Let’s talk!” Seeing five of the communications in a line in my own inbox caused me personally to make a vaguely disappointed scrunchy face. Like OkCupid, there’s a feature that is tinder-style Spark (extremely clever) where you are able to have the swipe right/left experience if you’d would rather judge entirely on appearance.
Actually, I happened to be a bit underwhelmed by my cannabis dating app experience. I do believe it’s fairly easy to possess success that is dating some of these apps, however it will need a while and energy. The biggest issue that i could see could be the limited size of an individual base for just about any of the apps plus the significant quantity of dispensaries and vendors marketing their products or solutions or services through individual pages. Tall there clearly was definitely the champion in my opinion, but also that application probably won’t stick to my phone for considerably longer. I’m hopelessly picky, also on main-stream apps that are dating. Plus, I tend to have better luck meeting cannabis-friendly people in person because I live in a medical (and now recreational) state and an area that hosts a lot of events. If you’re in a place that rarely (or never) hosts events though, these apps might be just what you will need to find sweet stoner love. | <urn:uuid:4dfdef9d-dccc-466d-b48e-d4dddfa3a34f> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | http://www.cougousse.fr/2021/05/the-best-dating-that-is-420-friendly-and-apps-3/ | 2023-09-23T17:58:22Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.960135 | 1,252 |
By C. Todd Lopez
WASHINGTON (Feb. 03, 2014) -- Soldiers who are victims of sexual assault are showing more willingness to report crimes against them, a sign that there is growing confidence in the Army's commitment to investigating such crimes and providing support to victims, according to Army leaders.
Secretary of the Army John M. McHugh spoke about preventing sexual assault, his top priority, Jan. 28, at an Army Sexual Harassment/Assault Response and Prevention conference at Joint Base Andrews, just outside Washington, D.C.
The secretary outlined both his concerns -- and the Army's growing list of accomplishments -- to the more than 300 officers and senior enlisted personnel in attendance at the event aimed at promoting the Army's effort to curb sexual assault in the ranks.
McHugh cited findings from the Army's provost marshal general that found the number of reports of violent sexual crimes in the Army has increased over the last three years. A greater willingness to report may be the result of a victim's trust in their leadership, unit, and the Army, representing a shift in Army culture.
"Victims feel as though they not only can come forward, they should come forward ... and they know they won't be victimized a second time by a leader who doesn't care, who doesn't believe them, who doesn't take them seriously," McHugh said. "And they won't be harassed when they go back to the unit by other Soldiers for blowing the whistle on someone. I think we have made great progress down that path. I think our efforts are working."
As evidence of that, McHugh noted that many of those reports -- nearly 40 percent -- involve incidents that happened in years past. That, he said, is a likely indication that the increase in reporting is not necessarily an increase in crime, but rather a new willingness of Soldiers to open up to their leadership about having been victimized.
"That, I think, is such a clear signal that those who have been assaulted do trust you, that you are making an effort, that you are changing the culture," he told those in attendance.
In fiscal year 2012, the Army had a prosecution rate of 56 percent for founded rape allegations in which the Army had jurisdiction over the offender. This resulted in a conviction rate of 78 percent for those rape cases tried to findings. These rates are significantly higher than those in the civilian community.
Additionally, the Army's special victim investigation course is a DOD best practice, he said, and the Army has trained military special investigators and prosecutors "not just for ourselves, for the Army, but across all services."
The service has also assigned full-time Army civilians and Soldiers as sexual assault response coordinators, known as SARCs and victim advocates at brigade-level units. And he said the Army is making sure that those positions are filled by qualified individuals who have both the passion for the work, as well as the expertise to do it correctly.
"[We are] ensuring that those who serve in such a position of trust are the right people," he said. "Making sure that commanders don't just take who happens to be available, but pick those who are truly qualified and able to serve."
The Army also recently created the special victim counsel program that ensures victims get an Army lawyer dedicated to them, to advocate on their behalf and to help them navigate the complexities of the criminal justice system while perpetrators of the crimes against them are prosecuted. There are 81 special victim counsels now trained across the Army.
"We also ensure now that we initiate separation or elimination proceedings, and prohibit overseas assignment for Soldiers who are convicted of sexual assault, where the convictions don't result, for whatever reason, in a punitive discharge or dismissal," he said.
And Soldiers recently found changes to the evaluation and reporting system that takes into account their own efforts to foster a "climate of dignity and respect, and most importantly how those officers and NCOs are adhering, or not, to our SHARP program," the secretary said.
Despite the encouraging news, McHugh cautioned attendees that they need to be more vigilant in ensuring that resources are available to victims of sexual assault. The Army Secretary reported that a study by the Army Audit Agency found that only 73 percent of calls designed to test the victim support network were answered successfully. Examples of failures included voicemails that were not returned, unanswered phones, disconnected numbers, and numbers on websites that were incorrect.
"That is outrageous," McHugh said. "This isn't a failure of a website, or a number or the phone company. This is a failure of leadership. I don't know how we can make it any clearer to those in charge who are commanders. It cannot and it will not be tolerated. Every time a victim reaches out, we have got to be there. We have to provide the help that we say is available."
Chief of Staff of the Army Gen. Ray Odierno said "this is about leadership accountability and development. We need to change the culture and train our young leaders. The communication aspect of this is also vital; we need to continue to relay the importance of this issue to our formations. We need to continue to take care of our victims; empower them to feel comfortable and trust their chain of command to do the right thing. We need to be aware and actively seeking to prevent individuals from committing these acts against our own brothers and sisters in arms."
Sgt. Maj. of the Army Raymond F. Chandler III, in an interview with Defense Media Activity broadcasters at the conference, said that fixing the problem of sexual assault in the Army starts with leadership that will follow through and demonstrate to Soldiers that there are repercussions for those who fail to respect their fellow Soldiers.
"Solders want leaders to take action," he said. "If the Army tells Soldiers to treat each other with dignity and respect, that sexual assault and sexual harassment are inappropriate and intolerable in the Army, they want to know that action is being taken."
He said Soldiers want to see that perpetrators are being dealt with.
"We have got to do a better job of that, more widely publicize that information," Chandler said, noting that it could be done with using names. "We can tell our formations that a person in our organization was investigated for an alleged sexual assault, was found guilty, and this is the result. If Soldiers understand that, that leadership is taking action, it is a deterrent."
He said Soldiers want to see that perpetrators are held accountable.
Chandler also said that Army training regarding the Army position on sexual assault must move beyond classroom learning, and must become a matter of regular interaction between the most junior Soldiers and the first leader in their chain of command.
"There are places where large group sessions work," Chandler said, "especially when you are introducing a new program or policy. But I think that small group instruction, which facilitates dialogue amongst a group of peers is important. I think the most effective training is going to happen between the sergeant and the Soldiers they lead, because they are going to see those individuals on a day-in and day-out basis. And the leader can then check and adjust what he has taught them in order to individualize the training to the person they are trying to teach. I think that is the most effective way."
He also said vignettes, real stories with real outcomes about victims and perpetrators of sexual assault, are also a powerful tool for teaching Soldiers.
While there are many resources across the Army for educational material on a myriad of subjects, Chandler cited the Center for the Army Profession and Ethic as an excellent starting point for material on both sexual assault and other ethics and Army professional material.
"It's a tremendous website that is very user friendly, that any person can go to and get a complete lesson plan and the training material to help our Soldiers learn and grow," he said. "It even has the instructor guide as to what you are supposed to say and when. I challenge anyone to go take a look at these stories, personalize that Soldier as your brother or sister, and to learn from that and become a proactive member and go and make change." | <urn:uuid:3c85441d-5db6-4867-84fd-66cd23989716> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | http://www.ctlopez.com/story/?story=20140203_9005&h=McHugh-Signals-indicate-culture-changing-on-sexual-assault-leaders-must-embrace-trust | 2023-09-23T18:08:09Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.978144 | 1,664 |
By C. Todd Lopez
WASHINGTON (July 14, 2021) -- China -- along with the United States and partners -- are all hoping to come out on top when it comes to the mastery and application of artificial intelligence. But the Defense Department and its partners don't just aim to be masters of AI, they aim to do it ethically, said the secretary of defense.
"China's leaders have made clear they intend to be globally dominant in AI by the year 2030," Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III said during remarks to the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence. "Beijing already talks about using AI for a range of missions -- from surveillance to cyberattacks to autonomous weapons."
The U.S. military has its sights on the same target, Austin said. But its approach is going to be different.
"In the AI realm as in many others, we understand that China is our pacing challenge," he said. "We're going to compete to win, but we're going to do it the right way. We're not going to cut corners on safety, security or ethics. And our watchwords are 'responsibility' and 'results.' And we don't believe for a minute that we have to sacrifice one for the other."
The department's "responsible AI" effort, Austin said, is at the center of ensuring the DOD does AI the right way.
"Responsible AI is the place where cutting-edge tech meets timeless values. You see, we don't believe that we need to choose between them, and we don't believe doing so would work," he said. "Our use of AI must reinforce our democratic values, protect our rights, ensure our safety, and defend our privacy."
The Defense Department's use of AI, Austin said, will enhance its military operations, which is why those efforts are being pursued.
"But nothing is going to change America's commitment to the laws of war and the principles of our democracy," he said.
Right now in the department, Austin said, there are more than 600 efforts underway to enhance the nation's defense using artificial intelligence.
"[That is] significantly more than just a year ago," he said. "And that includes the Artificial Intelligence and Data Acceleration initiative, which brings AI to bear on operational data."
Also included there is Project Salus, which began in March 2020 in partnership with the National Guard, Austin said. Project Salus used artificial intelligence to help predict shortages for things like water, medicine and supplies used in the COVID fight.
Also included in the current AI efforts is the Pathfinder Project, which Austin said is an algorithm-driven system to help the department better detect airborne threats by using AI to fuse data from military, commercial and government sensors in real time.
Increasing the department's AI capability and providing tools to better enable warfighters will mean getting the right people on board to make it happen, Austin said. That's not just civilian experts on the topic; it means service members, as well, he said.
Austin said DOD is going to have to do a lot better at recruiting, training and retaining talented people -- which are often young people -- who can lead the department into and through the AI revolution. "That means creating new career paths and new incentives. And it means including tech skills as a part of basic-training programs."
Emerging technologies, he said, are going to be at the center of the department's strategic development, Austin said, and the department must overcome its ingrained culture of risk aversion.
"We need to smarten up our sluggish pace of acquisition," he said. "And we need to more vigorously recruit talented people and not scare them away. In today's world, in today's department, innovation cannot be an afterthought. It is the ballgame.'' | <urn:uuid:9adac26a-e50c-4715-9e30-b04adf98fce7> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | http://www.ctlopez.com/story/?story=20210714_4684&h=Ethics-Key-to-AI-Development-Austin-Says | 2023-09-23T18:32:57Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.971773 | 777 |
I have created a new smoothie that I am enjoying having for breakfast—and sometimes also for dessert! I call it the chocolate covered cherry smoothie. It is really really tasty, and also pretty dang healthy! Here are the ingredients:
1/2 frozen banana (peel and wrap bananas before freezing!)
1 heaping cup frozen cherries
1 heaping tablespoon cocoa powder
2 heaping tablespoons almond butter
splash of almond extract
splash of vanilla extract
about 3/4 cup almond milk
Blend until smooth, then enjoy!
Brad helped me arrange a picture of the ingredients in the smoothie below, and then below that is the finished product. The ingredient picture has almond butter, banana, and cocoa powder on a plate with a glass of frozen cherries, the almond and vanilla extracts, a jug of almond milk, a tub of cocoa powder, and a glass of almond milk surrounding it. The picture of the smoothie shows a light red smoothie in a clear glass mason jar with a pink silicone straw sticking out of it. Yum! | <urn:uuid:6bca6596-128d-40bc-9f48-c9b14b7ff938> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | http://www.doctorv.xyz/2021/02/24/chocolate-covered-cherry-smoothie/ | 2023-09-23T19:02:17Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.913341 | 222 |
The set got off to a shaky start, as inconsistent monitor levels had the members struggling to hear each other, with Buckle having difficulty harmonizing during "Mr. Magic." After some adjustments, the band rallied behind "Give It All to Me," having lived in the Carouser's tunes long enough now that they've become staples. The older Black Belt numbers benefitted from being reworked as well. "Imaginary Plane" has always been my least favorite Majorleans song, but for this go-round, they slowed it down, allowing me to hear just how deep the pocket of rhythm section Bongers & Brooks goes. By the time they'd reached the end of "What I Mean" five songs in, the confidence was visible, Nicky shaking his narrow hips as the crowd clapped for more. "Once the pendulum starts swinging, it doesn't stop," Francis acknowledged. "Not in those jeans!" came a teasing rebuttal from a crowdmember. Trading out his Rickenbacker electric for a Gibson acoustic, Nicky led the band on a duo of Carouser's ditties, "Under the Spell" and "Sunrise Mary," the latter of which was greeted with knowing cheers from the audience.
Almost as big of a surprise as the new lighting on the walls, but entirely more welcome, was the second live performance ever of "Lonesome Seaside Driving School." Written while driving along the southern coast of France, the introspective and atmospheric ballad stood proudly amid the band's rockers. Having pulled it off without a hitch, Nicky warned the people, "It's all biscuits in your mouth from here on out, so be ready." He held onto the Gibson for a terrific "Under Ma Wheels" before returning to the Rick on "Tattoo." Chris sustained the song's final note to give Francis enough leeway to slap on a capo for their frequent closer and time-tested crowd-pleaser "Never Had Enough." While it definitely sucks about the sconces, fortunately the Mercury Lounge will always be about the music, first and foremost.
THE MAJORLEANS - 12.07.16 - MERCURY LOUNGE (53 minutes)
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Hendry on Gold Japan, China, Eurozone and Euro. Einhorn on Quantitative Easing. Both say stuff I have said repeatedly on these pages.
Why the Fed is at its limits by Einhorn. He is right, but we seem destined for a process that will deliver QE until the Matrix collapases. Where is Neo when we need him? Oh yeah wrong movie. Cue the hologram (Help me Ben Bernake you are our only hope!)
Einhorn holds it Buffet does not.(I am with Einhorn long term - Buffet Short term)
A friend send me this note about the Fed's intent regarding QE2 and my view that the Fed may be purposely trying to generate moderate inflation.
"QE2 was announced in November 2010.
At that time CPI-U was running considerably under 2.0% and had declined from January 2010:
Given the example of 1937-1938 U.S. recession, I can understand the intent as being avoiding deflationary expectations or entrenchment of "too low" inflation expectations while accepting inflation risk - or even as being outright mechanical monetary stimulus (versus expectations management)."
I think he has a point, I checked the inflation calculator (his link) from start of 2010 to October 2010 (0.93%) and August (and September) 2010 to October 2010 (0.18%) so inflation was trending lower at the time. I like my friends choice of words in the characterization.
That said, here is what David Einhorn, a prominent hedge fund manager, of Greenlight Capital recently said on the issue of inflation. He is skeptical of the inflation numbers the Fed looks at and whether they are reliable indicators of what is actually happening.
"The official basket excludes most healthcare costs, which go up fast and includes a huge weighting for OER, which is a cost economists calculate, but no one actually pays. Notably, OER did not rise quickly during the housing bubble, but continues to suppress inflation in the housing bust. Finally, they exclude food and energy, because they are supposedly volatile -- and we wouldn't want that. Never mind that the CRB, which is mostly food and energy inputs has roughly doubled over the last few years."
Einhorn was responding to this post on "why we fear deflation".
"So, there is an asymmetric risk in monetary policy right now. The massive injection of base money raises the tail risk of high inflation down the road –which we know how to tame- but monetary abstinence presents the tail risk of a deflationary spiral, which central bankers do not know how to reliably reverse. " That's what my friend said.
As I said in an earlier post, "In a world where the Fed creates a problem by being too accommodative, their response to the problem is being historically accommodative, and the new big ideas (NGDP targeting and QE) are "The FED should be even more accommodative" - well this is “Inception”."
I would point out, that when the Fed was looking at their macro numbers they failed to recognize a credit bubble forming and failed to see the bubble in the housing markets(or at least the implications) and campaigned in favour of leverage restrictions being eased for FIs and against controls on the OTC market. In other words, at most of the key points of leverage to prevent the current crisis the Fed failed to act or acted counter to society's long term interests. Instead of raising rates and provoking a recession to cool the housing bubble they stood by and watched. Now we are supposed to accept their analysis that extreme extreme extreme monetary stimulus is necessary. Meh.
I still disagree with QE2, still think it was unnecessary given the problems in the banking sector had been contained. I acknowledge though that based on the numbers at the time, it may have been more of a judgement call than I had previously allowed.
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Set #9 - Sparky's Fireworks Emporium
What's a tourist trap without a fireworks dealer just watering at the mouth to sell to
the out-of-state crowd? A blazing cluster of brightly-painted fireworks stores has
always been a reliable benchmark, suggesting that I'm getting close to the state line. The
underlying idea, as codified into various state laws, has always struck me as a little
disingenuous: "Buy all of these pretty, sparkly things you want from our state's fine
dealers, but please, Please, PLEASE use them some place else!"
I've never really understood the appeal of the sorts of fireworks these places sell,
but lots of people seem to enjoy them. And besides, it makes for a colorful billboard
which provides a bit of color to offset the Roche Motel billboard.
It's also a natural companion to the Mystery Place billboard.
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If you have more than one line or data set in your figure, they has to be named somehow. I’m not a big fan of a legend but prefer to put the names directly to the corresponding curves. That makes it easier for the reader. But as an author of the figure you have to find space to place the labels in the figure, and it could be that you have to rotate the labels to stick them to the lines.
Figure 1 shows the theoretical curves of photon flux density dependent on the photon energy for different characteristic tail state energies E0. E0 is an indicator for disorder in a crystalline system. To reduce the amount of trail and error for placing the E0 labels, we get the rotation directly from the data by fitting a linear function to the corresponding part of the data.
It is a little bit tricky, because we have a logarithmic y-axis. This can be handled by applying the logarithm to the y data by
log($2) and than do the linear fiting.
f(x) = a*x+b fit [1.30:1.34] [*:*] f(x) 'PL_spectrum_mu_1.0eV_E0_05meV_300K.dat' \ u 1:(log($2)) via a,b
The first bracket is the range on the x-axis and the second sets the corresponding y range to auto. After we have the value of the slope we convert it to a rotation in degree with the
r() function and set our label.
set label 2 '5 meV' at 1.38,4e9 rotate by r(a) center tc ls 1
The conversion to rotation is the most tricky part, because it depends on the range of your axes and the ratio between them. it would be trivial if both axes would go from, for example 1:10 and are equal in length in the figure. Otherwise we have to correct for the ranges and ratio.
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The hidden façade of digital transformation
We’ve spotted for you : The real strategic issue is not about jumping on the digital band wagon, it’s about true innovation.
The challenge facing companies is to adapt to a new era, and to change their organization, management, their relationship with consumers and the way they deliver value. We’re not just talking about digital transformation, but real change.
Confusion around this new way of thinking
Companies have for a long time swept the subject under the rug, due to a misunderstanding, cumbersome organizational systems or fear of change.
- A webmaster is hired and put in the basement and a digital agency is underpaid (or overpaid) to make a nice site;
- The intern is asked to put the TV or magazine ad on line …
- A company invests to make a video, create a Facebook page, an Instagram account or develop an app that is often useless;
- An e-commerce site is launched because others are doing the same
These examples are perhaps a little exaggerated, but in the majority of companies everything digital is regarded as a separate entity.
This new world in which we live is obviously full of different technologies and new tools but it is much more than that:
- It’s an interconnected world, where everyone and all things will soon be linked to the internet
- It’s a transparent and open world where everyone knows everything, where
people make comparisons and express their opinions
- It’s a more demanding worldwhere everyone knows what is best and wants to have access to it
- It’s a world of tribes where people do, see or consume in the same way as those with whom they share interests and values
- It’s a world of permanent challenges
- It’s a faster and unstableworld where change is continuous
Companies that are a step ahead are not the ones “digitalizing” by putting into place new tools, but those that have understood that in this new world the rules of the game have changed.
In a constantly changing world, the mission of a company remains the same: a business is there to satisfy people’s needs.
However, two observations have to be taken into account to position ourselves in our modern world:
- Digital tools allow for new innovations to respond to our needs more efficiently
- The pace and the origin of these innovations have changed dramatically.
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- A taxi service still seems to meet our need to go from A to B, but Uber has created a new service that will satisfy this need in a better way.
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- Netflix, originally an online DVD rental company, quickly repositioned itself as a streaming platform (when high-speed connections made this possible) before evolving again to become a leader in entertainment (notably thanks to the avant-garde use of the data collected on its platform).
So how can companies make radical changes in the best possible way?
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New tools have become indispensable: digital marketing, UX, Big Data, connected objects, block chain, mobility, robotics, hubs…
Real change can only come from the top, based on a committed desire from management to make significant changes.
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Melissa is the owner and creative mind behind iKneadLove, a full service, from-scratch bakery. After running another bakery for almost four years, she was ready to move out on her own and, as such, iKneadLove was born on June 18th 2013.
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First, I want to show you the definition of the word ‘peer’ from Wiktionary. The one in the Oxford Dictionary is similar.
I think this definition is very clear and explains very well what a ‘peer’ is. I consider most of my colleagues and friends peers despite their actual title or degree. I can walk up to anyone of them and ask them for advice or to review something I did and wrote (and vice versa, of course). ‘Look, is this understandable? How did I present the data or the experimental setup? Is something missing? Can you please check language and spelling? …’ I think, you get the idea.
After reviewing they will come back to me and we will discuss their suggestions, critics, remarks, and other comments. We are both open in this discussion and its outcome, simply because no one depends on the other one. It does not matter if I do not accept everything (or anything at all). My peer does not insist of taking over everything (or anything at all). Sometimes really nice and new ideas can rise from such a discussion, which improve the work (‘Did you think of using this for …?’). We both meet at eye level, true peers, because we know each other – background, experience, oppinions, point-of-views on certain things, etc. We know these things, because we are able to find out, since we know who the other person is. We can talk to each other. We can look up work we did before. Etc.
Sometimes my peer-reviewer asks why I did a particular thing in this particular way. I will explain. We discuss. In the end, my reviewer could take along something new from the discussion, as well. Not surprising, since both of us are peers, this whole process provides equal opportunities (learning, improving, …) for both of us.
Now, let us switch to the so-called blind ‘peer’-review process of most journals out there. I send the manuscript to an editor of a journal I want to publish in (indirectly over some very static webpage, but still). In the end the manuscript is forwarded to some reviewers, I do not know. I maybe can assume that the editor at least selected one of the five demanded suggested reviewers – but who knows? Not me, for sure.
While I as applicant (well, suppliant) try to make an effort in writing a nice cover letter, I can hardly expect any salutation or even complete sentences from my reviewers. Do not know if it is my German background or just me, but such things offend and insult me. It shows (to me) that a person does not care at all, because the person has not to. Being harsh, aggressive, ‘bitchy’, insulting, cynical, ironical, sarcastic? No problem on this side.
Suppliantly, I tolerate and accept remarks, comments, critics, and point-of-views without (great) discussion. On top, I will thank(!) the reviewers for their comments and suggestions. I – as others – just take the line of least resistance, the primrose path for scientific publishing.
There was this one reviewer who told me and my co-author not to invent words such as programmatically. I felt young and rebellious. I wanted to send him a free copy of the Oxford Dictionary, but couldn’t – I did not know who the reviewer #3 was. I changed the sentence(s) and avoided to ‘invent’ words. End of rebellion.
Of course, I know that these reviewers are my scientific peers. Well, actually. I do not know. People and Wikipedia tell me that. I cannot check or review the professional expertise of my reviewers.
The reviewers, however, can check. They have my name and the power of Google, Scifinder, or ISI Web of Knowledge/Science. They can look up my work and see my expertise (or the lack of). This can change their opinion on my manuscript or the way they formulate their comments. I have to guess.
Do I assume the reviewer has a broad but general knowledge in this field but is a novice to this particular technique we are describing in our manuscript? Could insult the reviewer, if I start to explain simple things to him. Do I really want to talk about vocabulary (see above) with the reviewer? Could insult him, if a German tries to explain English to a native speaker. Also, a simple comment could mean something completely different depending if the person is an expert or novice to this field. Misunderstanding could annoy the reviewer. Commenting on reviewers comments is like gambling.
Now, may I ask you, my dear reader, where exactly this is ‘peer’-reviewing?
- Do not get me wrong: There were some really good suggestions in every review-round. Sometimes they changed a great portion of the manuscript and improved the overall work. But don’t reviewers deserve credit for this?
- I do not consider reviewers ‘gatekeepers’ as some people do. In the end, it is the editor’s decision. The editor could completely ignore the reviews and let the manuscript pass (or not). Editor’s decision. Editor’s responsibility. Editor’s gatekeeper.
- Of course, the main thing is that the system works and there are absolutely no flaws. I mean, could you instantly bring up a single case of fraud? On top, the quality output of ‘peer’-reviewing speaks for itself! Especially, in the most reputable journals, right? RIGHT? | <urn:uuid:a62f81de-5e4b-4b0c-bee0-5eced7513e0e> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | http://www.indianalytics.de/?p=622 | 2023-09-23T18:40:06Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.9631 | 1,177 |
The Age-Defying Benefits of Exercise
by Jacqueline Yau
Damn. I forgot my mom’s gym membership card at home. Of course, this occurs to me right after I cross the threshold of the YMCA in Palo Alto. New person at the front desk—a tough-looking, square Eastern European woman in a track suit. I name her “Olga.” Should I jog back home for the card? I turn and peek outside through the double glass doors. The descending rain clouds have already snuffed out the last rays of the setting sun. A brunette soccer mom in sweats with a bouncy son in tow approaches the entrance from the outside and pulls open the glass door. A rush of cold and damp air blasts me back. I step sideways into the still warm and dry area of the gym. No contest. I’m staying.
While I debate what to do, a tall, buff African-American man, wearing a YMCA tracksuit, probably a trainer, joins Olga at the reception desk. He turns his back to her and concentrates on paperwork. How hard can this get? Light impersonation at most. I’d once passed as my Iranian-American friend at her parents’ swim club in Virginia and I didn’t even know her family’s last name. Compared to that, this will be a cinch. I’ll just give my mom’s address and after they verify her membership, in I’ll go. Easy. Right. My heart hammers against my ribs. I wipe my suddenly moist palms down my running tights. My conscience makes an unwelcome appearance reminding me that had I taken the straight and narrow path and driven to my own gym, only ten minutes farther away, I wouldn’t have to run the front desk gauntlet now.
But the demon in me thumbs its nose at my conscience. I straighten my shoulders, tuck away my stray hairs under my wick-away ball cap and walk with purpose up to the L-shaped desk.
“Hi. I forgot my membership card today. Can I just give you my address? I’ve done that before.”
After a pause, Olga agrees in a heavy Russian accent and types my address into the computer database as I rattle it off. Not wanting to linger any longer than necessary, I turn to enter the gym and make my escape. “Wait,” she barks out, “How old are you?”
My heart starts pistoning like a racecar. Who needs a Stairmaster? What does she see on the monitor? I gave my mom’s name and address correctly. I stammer, “40…45?” My tongue trips on the last word. I try to keep a straight face but I know I’m toast. The game’s up. The YMCA gym bouncers are going to storm out any time at the call of this squat, tough, Russian grandma and throw me out of the gym. She squints her eyes and looks suspiciously at me. I don’t blame her as I look young even for my age at 35, let alone a decade older than my age.
“When’s your birthday?” Olga demands.
I can’t believe she hasn’t yet called me out for being a liar. At the same time how can she ask me, a woman, my age? I blurt out the only thing ricocheting in my brain, “November 22, 1947,” my mom’s birthday.
I can’t help the involuntary widening of my eyes as I speak. Even I don’t believe me. There’s a pause. Olga leans in for a closer look and I will myself to stand still. I hold my breath. Even the heavily muscled, African-American trainer stops his admin work with my statement. He glances over and I tense up. He and the Russian terrier are about to rip me apart. I can see it in their eyes.
“You look fabulous!” he gushes. “You really look fantastic for your age! You look amaaaaazing for 57.” He stuns both Olga and me into silence. I know better than to stick around. I mumble my thanks, grab a sweat towel, and walk away quickly as he continues to heap compliments on my gene pool and smooth and unwrinkled skin.
I practically run down the hallway and into the exercise machine area. I shove my stuff into a cubbyhole and jump onto the nearest Stairmaster. I’m determined to make the most of my workout and hope to outlast Olga’s shift at the front desk. I don’t want to confront her twice in one night.
Midway into my workout, the black trainer enters the workout area. He spots me and smiles and waves. He saunters over to the trainers’ corner and talks to a trainer who looks like an All-American with white gleaming teeth, athletic build, and square jaw. Through my peripheral vision, I see my new admirer pointing at me. Ah, oh. Trouble. I’m doomed. No opportunity to slink away unnoticed. I finish my hill workout quickly and leave, avoiding all eye contact.
A couple of weeks later I decide I can chance making a return visit to my mom’s gym. This time, I remember the membership card. I go on a Saturday morning, a different time and day of the week than the previous visit. Strategic, I think. I run through my workout, finish up on the mat, stretching and working my non-six-pack abs. I rise up, mid-crunch when I notice a shadow cast on my stomach.
“I just want to tell you that you look really incredible for your age.” I look up and sink back down. Just my luck. Mr. All-American trainer, probably corn-fed blondie.
I reply mid-crunch, expelling my air, “I’m lucky. Thanks.”
“What’s your secret?” he continues and kneels down next to me.
“Good genetics and consistent exercise,” I gasp, my breath getting shorter by the minute, panic beginning to race through my veins.
“You should be the poster child for the Y.”
I thank him again but immediately hop up and shake his hand. Time to cut short the rest of my workout and I hustle out of there in a 50-yard dash. My days of wandering into the Y incognito have officially ended.
When I arrive home, my mom is there. As much as I want to avoid it, I need to brief her on the situation: that I have been using her card and that I escaped trouble, barely.
“What? Why did you have to check in?” My super square mom is advocating breaking the rules? My mom’s a stickler for honesty and integrity and once made me go back to a store to pay and apologize to the store manager for stealing a packet of cartoon stickers when I was six. She doesn’t even “borrow” post-it notes for personal use.
I finally mumble, “Couldn’t do that. They were guarding the front desk. They would have seen me.”
“You could have just waited around until they looked elsewhere and then wandered through the entrance or just walked with purpose through the entrance.”
“Mom, they would have caught me.” I barely avoid a childish whine. I’ve gone from 57 to five.
“No, they wouldn’t. I do it all the time when I forget my card. No one has ever stopped me.” The image seems incongruous to me: my law-abiding mom committing an underhanded act. This somehow appears more egregious than my posing as her.
She continues, “Now, I can’t even go to the Y with my card. They might take my privileges away.” A bit melodramatic. We just need to brainstorm and come up with a solution.
“Mom, don’t worry. All you need to do is use the Y guest cards for a few weeks until this blows over. They know who I am…I mean who you are. So, if you want to go, just use a guest card. But, you can’t use your name. Write my name in the guest name area. And you can be my mom. See how convenient that is? You really are my mom so that’s not being dishonest.” I smile, feeling smug.
My mom’s mouth drops open. Then shuts abruptly. “I’m not doing it.”
“Why not?” I ask, truly perplexed. “You are my mom. It’s perfect. But, you’ll have to say you’re in your seventies.”
“What? I don’t want to be in my seventies.”
“Mom, this is great. People at the Y will think you look fantastic and the trainers can brag to their customers about how you’re visible proof of the benefits of exercise.
“I don’t care to act older than my age. I’m already getting old without adding a few decades.”
I lean back to get a better look at my mom. She still looks youthful but she makes an especially fine-looking septuagenarian.
Neither my mom nor I go back to the YMCA for quite some time. I accompany her on a guest pass years after the incident and scan the gym but don’t spot Olga or my two admirers. I feel a twinge of disappointment. Too bad. I want to show them how good I look for 59! | <urn:uuid:48bb90aa-6bc8-48fc-8298-c1ba9403bcf2> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | http://www.jacquelineyau.com/writing/age-defying-benefits-exercise/ | 2023-09-23T17:26:02Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.956469 | 2,135 |
Rishikesh is situated at a peak of around 1360 feet above ocean level. Rishikesh is spotted with various antiquated Hindu temples, ashrams and acclaimed meditation and yoga centers. Aficionados, as well as explorers from all parts of the world flock this holy destination in search of inner peace. Many spend months together living and volunteering at the several ashrams situated along the banks of the Ganges or spend time in silent self reflection, learning yoga etc.
Rishikesh has been recognized internationally as the centre for yoga and meditation, thanks to the numerous yoga gurus, yoga ashrams that have sprung up in the valley in the recent years in addition to the spiritually serene atmosphere here. People from all over the world visit the place seeking salvation, inner peace or adventure.
The Ganga aarti ceremony is conducted every evening at the Parmarth Niketan Ashram located on the banks of the Ganges which is a quiet ceremony with a few bhajans and few people.
Lakshman Jhula an iron suspension connect that the outskirts of the Tehri and Pauri region of Rishikesh. It's situated 04 kms a long way from Railway Station of Rishikesh. Laxman Jhula is almost four hundred and fifty- Feet long Bridge on the River Ganges. Lord Ram’s sibling Lakshman is said to have crossed the Ganges on a jute rope and later the bridge was built in honour of Lakshman. The bridge appears to be suspended over the flowing river and connects to the triyambakeshwar temple which has numerous idols of various deities depicting legends of the Vedic times.
It's the most old, most holy & most well known temple located at the heart of the city. It's accepted that city's existence started to exist with this temple just. It is additionally accepted that if any traveler upon the arrival of Akshya Tritiya takes 108 parikarmas (rounds) of Lord Shri Hrishikesh Naranyan at this sanctuary and looks for the gift at his feet (it is just day when Lord's feet are revealed), all his wishes are fulfilled and it is proportional to the piligrimage to Badrinath.
The most mainstream bathing ghat in Rishikesh, the Triveni Ghat is the point where River Ganges takes a complete right edge turn. Hindus likewise accept that it's here that the three blessed streams Ganga, Yamuna and Saraswati meet. Each morning, scores of travelers and lovers can be seen here taking a blessed plunge in the celestial waters of the Ganga. At night, the sight at the ghat is just heart mixing. Vedic serenades, to the backup of drums and ringers, can be heard all around and a profound air encompasses the entire spot. Small oil lights on adorned leaf pontoons skimming on the Ganges add much appeal to the entire air.
The spot (or the extension) is similarly prevalent with aficionados and travelers. It stays suspended 3 km north of Rishikesh town. It pulls in many guests because of the way that it lies simply near to the prevalent ashrams - Geeta Bhawan and Swarg Ashram. Guests can't bear to miss the captivating night petition to God (which goes on for 30 minutes) at the Geeta Bhawan's ghat. Nourishment beaus can make a beeline for the 50-year-old and the exceptionally well known Chotiwala restaurant, situated in Ram Jhula.
Kunjapuri Devi Temple
Kunjapuri Temple is claimed to be the one of the three Siddha Peeths in Tehri district, other two being Surkanda Devi and Chandrabadni. According to the mythology, when Lord Shiva was carrying the burnt body of Sati, her burned chest fell at the place where the temple is currently located. From the temple, one can see the panoramic view of the neighbouring hills like Swargarohini, Gangotri, Banderpunch and Chaukhamba. Also, from the other side of the temple, tourist can relish the view of the nearby landmarks like Rishikesh, Haridwar and Doon Valley. The temple sees a massive crowd around Dussehra and Navratri festival.
Situated in the lap of Himalaya, on the bank of holy Ganga, Parmarth Niketan is the largest ashram in Rishikesh, which consists of around 1000 rooms. The spiritual haven, Parmarth Niketan, was founded in 1942 by Pujya Swami Shukdevanandji Maharaj subsequently managed by Pujya Swami Chidanand Saraswatiji Maharaj, now the president and spiritual head. Spread over an area of eight acres, the Parmarth Niketan features a lush green manicured garden, 1000 well furnished residential rooms, Parmarth Gurukul, Swami Shukdevanand Charitable Hospital .
Neelkanth Mahadev Temple is dedicated to Shiva as Neelkanth is his another name. This temple is located around 7km from Swarg Ashram and the route is a 3 hour long walk along a forest path. Another way to reach here is via Lakshman Jhula. A taxi might also take you there for a reasonable price. Pilgrims offer water from Ganga to this temple. | <urn:uuid:dcac3266-410a-4c43-bd12-5338499b5eab> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | http://www.jeweltravels.in/rishikesh | 2023-09-23T18:11:08Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.957629 | 1,174 |
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The Kensington Rune Stone
|Olof Ohman was clearing trees on his farm near Kensington in the fall of 1898 in preparation for planting the following spring. When he finally managed to down one of those trees, a large rock was found clasped in the roots. Olof supplied this sketch to the Minnesota Historical Society in 1910 showing how the main root had grown along side the stone and a smaller root had grown across the stone and then down the opposite side. Two of Olofs sons were helping their father that afternoon-Olof, Jr. (age 11) and ten year old Edward. It was Edward who first noticed some kind of writing chiseled into the stone when it was pulled from the ground. The slab-like stone lay so that the characters were on the bottom and were exposed as Edward brushed off the dirt. The roots were cut and the stone hauled to the Ohman farm yard where the dirt was removed. When asked about the stones cleaning, during an interview conducted by the Minnesota Historical Society in 1949, Edward replied we did the best we could to expose the carved inscription.|
Thus begins the inscription that was revealed when the stone had been cleaned.
|The stone, approximately 31 X 15 X 6 and weighing about 200 lb., contains an inscription of 12 lines using the runic alphabet. Nine lines appear on the face and the last three on a side. Word of the unusual discovery spread relatively quickly. In his letter dated January 1, 1899 John P. Hedberg, mayor of Kensington, arranged to have a sketch of the stone and inscription sent to his friend Swan J. Turnblad, publisher of Svenska Amerikanska Posten in Minneapolis, MN. Turnblad, in turn forwarded the sketch to the University of Minnesota. Prof. Olaus J. Breda was unable to make a complete translation, but identified the characters as Norse runes.|
|The runic alphabets are a set of related alphabets using letters known as runes to write various Germanic languages prior to the adoption of the Latin alphabet and for specialized purposes thereafter. The Scandinavian variants are also known as futhark (or fuþark, derived from their first six letters of the alphabet: F, U, Þ, A, R, and K); the Anglo-Saxon variant is futhorc (due to sound changes undergone in Old English by the same six letters). This ancient Germanic alphabet dates to about 150 AD. The Latin alphabet gradually replaced the runic alphabet in Scandinavia and England as the influence of Christianity spread northward from Rome. The runic alphabet was used in certain parts of Sweden even after the Middle Ages, however.|
Breda correctly surmised that some of the runes were numbers (which he couldnt translate) and suggested that several others were not consistent with those with which he was familiar. The translation he offered can be paraphrased, an unknown number of Swedes and Norwegians on a journey from Vinland camped one days journey from this stone. One day after coming home from fishing a number of men were found red with blood and dead. AVM-save from evil. Have men at the ocean to look after our ships. Year-unknown.
Linguists and runologists have scrutinized the inscription for years and reported their findings. Bredas basic translation has been modified slightly but the greatest change occurred when the date at the end of the inscription was reported: 1362. This inferred that a group of Scandinavians had ventured into the heart of North America 130 years prior to Christopher Columbus landing in the West Indies and hence being credited with discovering America.
The land which Olof chose in 1890 to establish his farm is situated in Sec. 14 of Solem Twp., Douglas Co. The property is at the western edge of a heavily wooded area of west central Minnesota. The terrain consists of gently rolling hills with an abundance of glacial rocks and boulders. Just a short distance to the west of the Ohman farm, the hills recede and the soil contains fewer large rocks as the woodland gives way to the western prairie grass region. For the pioneer farmer, the soil of the prairie was much easier to break and prepare for planting than having to contend with first cutting trees, grubbing the roots, and removing the rocks prior to plowing the soil. The advantage Olof had, however, was that wood was readily available for building, cooking, and heating the family's home.
According to Douglas County records, Olof obtained warranty deeds for two 40-acre parcels in April 1890. The farm dimensions can be described as approximately a half mile from west to east and a quarter mile from north to south, typical of U. S. standard surveying methods. Typical of many pioneer farmers the first home was a dug-out in the side of a hill until the building site (house, barn, granary, etc) could be established near the western edge of the property. Family oral history indicates that the Ohman family spent at least one year in their dug-out.
|The building in this photo has been identified as Ohman's first barn and it is likely that Olof would have constructed it the first year after the crops (wheat, oats, and probably potatoes) had been planted. The chimneys protruding through the roof suggest that besides protecting the farm animals from the elements, it may also have served as living quarters for a period of time.|
Clearing the land to make it suitable for raising crops, initially for feeding the family and animals, was a slow laborious process. It is likely that the first year there would have been just enough land planted near the building site to sustain the family and animals through the winter. A few additional acres would be cleared and seeded each year, gradually working towards the western line fence. By the fall of 1898, Olof and his sons had expanded the farmable land to within a few hundred feet of his neighbor Nils Flaaten's land. Olof had devised a system for downing trees that involved digging around the base, cutting the roots, and then using a winch to topple the tree-with roots intact. Edward had brought the usual afternoon lunch to his dad and watched as Olof struggled with one of the poplar (aspen) trees. The tree had grown over a large rock in such a way that as the roots grew they held the stone firmly in their grasp. Once the roots were finally cut away and the stone pulled from the hole, it was Edward who noticed that there appeared to be something carved on the stone.
Nils Flaaten, who was working nearby, was called over to inspect the stone that the Ohmans had unearthed. As the dirt covering the stone was brushed away, more and more of the strange markings became visible. But what were they? The stone was hauled to the Ohman farmyard where it was more thoroughly cleaned to expose even more of the carved marks.
In his letter to Swan Turnblad, J. P. Hedberg describes how Olof Ohman came to his office in Kensington one day and told him about the discovery. The stone was subsequently taken to town and put on display in the Bank of Kensington across the street from Hedberg's store and office. Prof. Breda at the University of Minnesota was the first to publish his translation, based on a copy of the inscription made by Samuel A. Siverts, cashier at the bank. Another copy of the inscription was sent by Samuel Olson, jeweler and optometrist, to Prof. George O. Curme at Northwestern University, Evanston, IL. Prof. Curme's translation, which differed slightly from that of Prof. Breda's was published in The Minneapolis Journal on Feb. 24, 1899:
Proffessor Curme's Translation
Prof. Curme was sufficiently interested in further study of the inscription to request that the stone be shipped from Kensington to his home in Evanston. After studying the stone itself, Curme's translation was published in The Northwestern on March 9, 1899:
|Eight Goths (from Sweden) and twenty two Norwegians on an expedition of discovery from the Vinland of the west. We had a camp with two boats a day's journey from this stone. We went out fishing one day. After we came home we found a man red with blood and dead. Good-by, rescue from evil. We have men at the ocean to look after our ships, fourteen days' journey from this island. Year 1362|
Intrigued by the possibility that a party of Scandinavians might have ventured as far as the middle of North America as early as 1362, Curme suggested that the discovery site should be excavated. He also made a copy of the inscription and sent it to Prof. Adolph Noreen (an authority on Norse runes) at the University of Upsala, Sweden. Photographs of the stone were taken by John F. Steward, an amateur geologist. Steward commented in his letter to Prof. Ludwig F. A. Wimmer, of Copenhagen, Denmark, that the characters appeared to show significant age. Prof. Curme returned the stone to Olof Ohman in March 1899.
A copy of the runic inscription and an article about the Kensington stone was published in a Norwegian newspaper in March 1899, but the inscription was dismissed as a fake by Norwegian scholars. An article appeared in the Minneapolis Tribune in April 1899 that quoted a telegram from Professors Gustav Storm, Sophus Bugge, and Oluf Rugh as saying " the Kensington Rune Stone is a grand fraud " Prof. Bugge and Prof. Wimmer are considered to be the co-founders of modern runology. When compared to other runic inscriptions the Kensington inscription exhibits several unique characteristics.
1. The Kensington inscription is significantly longer than those typically seen on Scandinavian rune stones.
2. When numbers were used in a rune stone inscription, they were generally spelled out (eight, twenty two, fourteen, etc). The Kensington inscription, however, presents these numbers in pentadic form and in Arabic placement (8, 22, 14, etc.).
3. The carver of the Kensington inscription used nine rune forms that were not consistent with the information in books and dictionaries on Old Swedish available in the late 1800's: A, G, K, N, W, Y, $, ^, l.
4. The inscription contains three Latin letters: AVM (interpreted as Ave Maria).
In compliance with Prof. Curme's suggestion a group of men, led by Cleve W. Van Dyke of Alexandria, performed an excavation at the discovery site in an unsuccessful attempt to find remains of bones or other artifacts. Samuel Olson, J. P Hedberg, Gullick Landsverk, Olaus Olsen, Albert Larson, and Emil Johnson were a few of the men from Kensington and the surrounding area who were in that group.
1907-Study of the Kensington Stone Begins Anew
The stone had been returned to the Ohman farm just a month before the findings by the three Norwegian scholars was published. Fortunately, Olof set the stone in the lean-to attached to his granary where it remained for several years. He could have just as easily tossed the stone on a rock pile as he had done with the many others removed from his fields. But this one was different. Besides being found clasped tightly in the roots of a tree, there was an inscription carved on it.
In 1907, Hjalmar Holand was interviewing persons in west central Minnesota for a book he was writing about the Norwegians who had left their native land and contributed much towards the settling of America. While in Evansville, MN-about ten miles north of Kensington-Holand learned that Ohman's farm was relatively close to Evansville and decided to view the stone. Wilhelm Thompson drove Holand from Evansville to Kensington on Holand's first contact with the farm owner (source: brochure from Evansville Historical & Research Center). Holand managed to persuade Olof that the stone should be studied further and took it with him to his home in Ephraim, Wisconsin.
Holand devoted one chapter in his book De norske settlementers historie (Norwegian Immigrant History), published in 1908, to a discussion of the Kensington Rune Stone. Convinced that the Kensington inscription was an authentic record of a group of Scandinavians venturing into the middle of America in the 14th century, Holand spent the next 60 years researching, lecturing, and writing about the Kensington Rune Stone.
The above photo of the Kensington stone is assumed to have been taken at Holand's home.
(source Dr. Richard N. Nielsen, 2009-private communication)
8 goths and 22 northmen on
discovery trip from
Vinland of west. We
had camp by two skeeries
one day's journey north from
this stone. We were to fish
one day after we came home found
10 men red with blood and dead. AVM
save from evil have 10 men by the sea to look after our ship 14 day
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With the official release of Albion Online around the corner, our Founder program is coming to an end. On July 9th, at 21:00 UTC, the Founder Packs will become unavailable. That means you have only one more week left to purchase a Founder Pack or upgrade your existing one to get your hands on its exclusive goodies such as the Explorer’s mounts, unique avatar rings, equipment, and more! The 9th of July does not only mark the end of our Founder program, but it is also the day on which the servers go down in preparation for release on July 17th. The servers will stay down until the 17th – with more information on exact starting times for the different packs following next week. More information on exact opening times of the server will follow next week. You, our loyal Founder community, helped us shape Albion through several tests and make it what it is today. To show our gratitude, every Founder will receive an extra 10% Gold on release! This bonus Gold of course also applies when upgrading your Founder Pack. On top of that, Legendary Founders will now also receive the Epic Explorer’s Equipment and epic avatar, and silver avatar ring. Note: You will not be able to upgrade your Founder Pack after July 9, 21:00 UTC. DID YOU KNOW? With the new “Claim Rewards”-function, the Founder Pack contents do not automatically get redeemed automatically on the first character you log in, but you can now freely choose when and on which character to redeem it. This also means that if you have multiple packs on your account, you can have multiple characters with the Founder Packs bonuses, such as the premium time, Explorer’s mounts and house. Thank you for your relentless support throughout these years! It has been quite a journey, and we could not have done this without you. As July 9 also marks the end of the Albion Beta, expect to hear about some events to celebrate soon! | <urn:uuid:6a799cf7-8dd3-4d4c-a617-8cf702c9534c> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | http://www.lethalitygaming.com/threads/4-days-left-to-grab-founders.1889/ | 2023-09-23T18:07:30Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.963055 | 395 |
One of my favorite cookies are
They're French, they're yummy, they're colorful
And they're expensive!
And they turned out although I didn't have all the nuances
for making these tasty French treats!
Because of being so colorful they were perfect for Easter
But I also found a source in the city for these wonderful goodies:
A charming little shop
And I would buy a few if I were in the city and near the store
Then on Thursday . . .
I was in Natasha's kitchen!
There to learn how to make macarons!
With friend Vonnie and four other students
Vonnie was the high bidder on a package that included this cooking class
And I was the lucky person that got to go with her!
I felt very fortunate to be included!
Vicki and Natasha were great teachers
And the recipe was in true bakery language
for it was in weight rather than amount!
We . . .
Whipped egg whites
And heated syrup
And mixed the two together until it was the perfect macaron consistency.
We then piped them onto parchment paper . . .
Ready for the oven after they "cured"
And while they rested and cured, we turned our hand at Italian buttercream
for the filling
We chose four flavors:
Champagne, strawberry, pistacchio and almond
Finally, the "tops and bottoms" were done and out of the oven
We piped the filling and made the little sandwich cookies
I think they look quite professional!
And we each got a box to take home!
And my box . . .
Was brought out for tea Friday afternoon
Looking quite professional in Natasha's box
They were perfect for Friday afternoon tea
And for several more teas to come!
Will I make them again!
Definitely . . .
But not for me but rather when I have a tea party and I want a special treat for my guests
For they are a special cookie and not an everyday cookie jar cookie!
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There's also heaps of other stuff that's been going on the last coupla years that you'd only know about if you went "off the beaten track" into the wilds of "alt-media". This stuff makes Downer as spook seem a lot less far-fetched, I can tell you!
As is the case with so many issues -- climate change, for example -- the MSM have their heads whopped right up their own clackers. In fact, they're so far up 'em, they're coming out their own mouths! Which is why they talk crap all the time. And they're definitely talking crap on this so-called "conspiracy theory".
Because Guardian "journalists" here are lazy, brainwashed muppets, they've just looked at this Papadopoulos stuff and thought: "Oh, we all know Lexie's a Tory, and he's for Brexit, etc, so there's no way he could possibly be part of a plot to take down right-wing nationalist Trump." So they come up with articles like this.
ABC robodolts like Matthew Bevan have been repeating this "Downer a spy? LOL!" angle ad nauseam also, often linking it to Trump. Pretty funny when you consider that this muppet (along with the entire MSM) has been a sucker for the biggest conspiracy theory of all (the one about Russian collusion) for years on end and now he's hinting at dark forces ("Trump's favourite TV host") behind this narrative. FFS, who's the wingnut here?
Being a mere activist he hasn't looked closely into why we've been sucked into the US discussion, just offers facile observations about it. A real journalist, OTOH, would actually do some research into the details of Papadopoulos' claims, and their context. But nup. Smug insinuation will do when you're a guest on that combination sneerfest and circle-jerk called The Drum.
In any case, the whole PapaD vs Lexie grudge match has been highly entertaining.
Notice how Lexie himself cites his Tory credentials, zif that's some kinda rhetorical slam dunk. But as Stefan Molyneux would say, that's not an argument!
Lexie also uses the "conspiracy theory" label. Another non-argument.
But what if it's not a theory, and people did conspire? And they used him to further their ends? He's not offering anything like a solid refutation, or even any evidence, to debunk this claim. He's just using a hackneyed term that's meant to smear his accuser as a paranoid idiot.
It's a very lazy, tried and true tactic, which is why Bevan has employed it here also.
"Nothing to see here folks, move along ..."
And what did Bevan's investigations entail? Why, an interview with Lexie himself!
Firstly, it's lazy to draw your conclusions merely from asking the accused about the accusation ... If, say, a teller says his boss has been ripping off the bank do you just go up to the manager and say "Mate, did you do it?" and take his answer -- an obvious "no" -- as the final word on the matter, or do you look forensically at the money trail?
Also "every question" you could think of is not gonna reveal much when you're a robodolt whose main software program is OrangeManBad.exe.
And so fricken what if the chowing Downer was so calm that he snacked as he yacked? How much of a child-brained credulous twit would you have to be to conclude that that somehow supports the line that the claims are bogus?
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Islamist cleric and al-Qaeda associate Abu Qatada should be tried in Britain following the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruling that he cannot be deported to Jordan, the Henry Jackson Society argues today.
Qatada, a Jordanian national, stands accused of conspiracy to cause explosions in his home country, but has never been charged with any offences in the UK, despite a long and damning record of terrorist activity. Qatada has served as the spiritual advisor to a host of radical Islamists including 9/11's '20th hijacker' Zacarias Moussaoui and the 2001 'shoe bomber' Richard Reid. He was the mentor of Abu Hamza, the former imam of the Finsbury Park Mosque who was convicted of soliciting to murder and inciting racial hatred in 2006.
Qatada has been linked to the terrorist group Egyptian Islamic Jihad (now merged with al-Qaeda) through Ayman al-Zawahiri and is believed to have known Osama bin Laden since 1989.
The ECHR judgment found the UK legal system did everything it could in processing Qatada and that the UK's extradition arrangements with Jordan were sound. Further, Qatada is not staying in the UK because he is at risk of torture, but because the evidence against him might have been obtained from others under duress, breaching article six of the ECHR, the right to a fair trial.
Before his arrest in London in October 2002, Abu Qatada was the most prominent jihadist scholar in the UK. Widely seen as wielding more theological authority than his student Abu Hamza, he issued fatwas on behalf of the GIA (Armed Islamic Group) in Algeria and in the late 1990s and early 2000s played a key role in radicalising several key al-Qaeda individuals.
Eighteen video recordings of Abu Qatada's talks were discovered in the Hamburg flats of Muhammad Atta, the leader of the 9/11 attacks and when he was arrested in February 2001, police discovered £170,000 in cash in his home, including £805 in an envelope labelled "For the Mujahedin in Chechnya".
In February 2007, the Special Immigration Appeals Commission ruled that "He has given advice to many terrorist groups and individuals, whether formerly a spiritual adviser to them or not. His reach and the depth of his influence in that respect is formidable, even incalculable."
The 2008 report Virtual Caliphate, by the Centre for Social Cohesion, now part of the Henry Jackson Society, found many Islamist websites hosting audio recordings by Abu Qatada calling for jihad as the way to establish the Islamic caliphate, and demanding the execution of Muslim secularists, whom he describes as "kaffirs" (unbelievers).
In one lecture, 'Wajib al-Muslim' ('The Duty of Muslims') Qatada claims that it is the duty of Muslim to wage jihad against "oppressors" (both Muslim and non-Muslim) who do not fully apply sharia law until the caliphate has been re-established, saying
"The only way to have a khilafa is through jihad."
Qatada also explicitly calls on Muslims to murder non-Muslims, saying that:
"Our countries have been infiltrated by kaffirs [non-Muslims]. It is farid [duty] for us to turn our swords on to them and kill them."
"We must fight the kaffirs. We can't reason with them. We can't reach a compromise and we can't be friends."
In another recording entitled 'Seerah' ('The Path') he launches a tirade against Christians and Jews while outlining his apocalyptic visions of the future, describing Christianity and Judaism as "devil worshipping" and saying:
"There will be a great battle against the wathaniyah [Jews and Christians] where the saviour will come back to this earth, the king with an army in the sky, killing the Jews, wipe them out, and rid of the planet of the Jews. Esa [Jesus] will return and spread peace; the majority that remain are those who believe in Esa."
He then tells his listeners that:
"In Jewish law, when a Jew enters a village in war or peace it is his duty to rape the land, take kill the men and turn the women into slaves. He will take the land and the money and that is what that religion says. This war is for existence, to exist or not exist."
Robin Simcox, Research Fellow at the Henry Jackson Society, said today:
"Abu Qatada has been detained for almost ten years without trial while awaiting extradition to Jordan. This is a man who aspiring terrorists and jihadists from around the world sought out for spiritual advice. His continued presence in the UK poses a grave national security threat."
To book Henry Jackson Society experts:
Contact Michael Weiss by email or phone +44 (0)20 7340 4520(office) or +44 (0)77 666 41670 (mobile). | <urn:uuid:bd348d86-742f-4344-986b-aef8262c1f35> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | http://www.militantislammonitor.org/article/id/5162 | 2023-09-23T17:27:02Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.963464 | 1,044 |
Second Terrorist Convicted For Murder Of Father And Baby Son In Rock Attack
January 1, 2014
Second Murderer Convicted in Palmer KillingsYonatan Palmer and his father, Asher, were murdered with a rock in September 2011. AAFont Size By Gil Ronen First Publish: 12/31/2013, 6:16 PM
Asher and Yonatan Palmer Courtesy of Palmer family
The military court in Judea and Samaria on Tuesday convicted Ali Saada, of the Hevron area, in the murder of Asher Palmer, 25, and his baby son Yonatan, in September of 2011.
Saada's conviction joins that of another participant in the murders, Wael al-Arjeh, who was sentenced to two life sentences and 58 additional years in jail last July.
Arjeh's conviction was a legal precedent, in that it was the first time a military court has handed a verdict of murder for rock-throwing.
Saada and Arjeh were both members of a group of terrorists who hurled a large rock at the car Asher Palmer was driving, near Hevron. It hit him in the face, and he lost control of the car, possibly after losing consciousness.
The resulting crash killed him and baby Yonatan, who was two days shy of his first birthday.
Asher had been on his way to pick up his pregnant wife, Pua, from her job in Jerusalem. Pua gave birth to a baby girl five months after the murders, and named her daughter Orit, meaning "light."
The trial was attended by United States representatives due to the fact that Asher had U.S. citizenship.
The terrorists who murdered the Palmers had rehearsed the method of attack before carrying out the murder. They threw the rock from a vehicle that sped past Palmer's car in the opposite direction. The rock thus struck the windshield of Palmer's car at a very high velocity, leaving him no chance.
It took a while for authorities to determine that Asher and Yonatan Palmer were, indeed, victims of a terror attack. In initial reporting of the deaths, authorities treated the event as an accident. Nationalist MKs accused the police of a cover-up at the time. Then-MK Yaakov Katz doubted the police's initial version from the outset and estimated that it was designed to prevent unrest.http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/175773 | <urn:uuid:8972de53-6cca-4f55-a796-daca660f9ec4> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | http://www.militantislammonitor.org/article/id/6215 | 2023-09-23T18:09:44Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.981521 | 512 |
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Volume 20, Issue 22
Five young Cree students were recognized for their hard work recently when they were named the inaugural recipients of Academic Excellence awards for the secondary sector.
The Cree Nation Achievement Awards Foundation (CNAAF) honoured the five bright academic stars at an honorary banquet August 7 in Wemindji for their work during ... read more ››
An archaeological team began a two-week excavation in late August on a Waskaganish site that is believed to contain artifacts up to 7,000 years old.
The Saunders Goose Pond site was identified last summer after local resident Christopher Wesley found rough stone blades and arrowheads there. The site claims historical significance ... read more ››
Recently, a cousin of mine appeared as a guest speaker at a conference in Whapmagoostui. Having known him as a young man, the encounter made me realize how quickly time flies. His greying hair reminded me that my own hair, which is turning transparent, and really didn’t match our youthful ... read more ››
Cellphones are a big part of our lives these days. Although the technology is rather young it is probably true that most of us would be lost without our cellphones. I recall first-generation cellphones in the early 1990s. In remote Attawapiskat, we were so far removed from modern technology that ... read more ››
Cree Human Resources Development (CHRD) will soon hit the road to promote programs they offer to improve our lives.
While this Cree entity has been around for some time to assist Crees with issues like financial aid for their studies, employment initiatives, and to provide skills and development training, it has ... read more ››
It seems to be happening everywhere. Whether in anonymous attacks on Twitter and in website comments, in semi-public forums like Facebook, or in signed letters and columns in mainstream newspapers, public expressions of anti-Aboriginal racism are appearing on a more regular basis. It’s gotten so bad that most people think ... read more ››
If you’ve been thinking about a new career but can’t figure out just what might be the best choice for you or wonder if the course is something that you would enjoy, read on.
To look at what will be offered between now and March 2014, the Nation spoke to Joanie ... read more ››
“Believe and achieve is our motto this year.”
This is the message that Chisasibi’s Trevor Monaghan delivered loud and clear to the players and supporters of the James Bay Eagles 6-A-Side football program.
For the fourth consecutive year, the Eagles represented Quebec at the recent 6 Nations Challenge in Brandon, Manitoba. The ... read more ››
It may still feel like summer outside, but don’t let that fool you. With junior hockey and Midget AAA training camps opening across the country in mid-August, hockey season is upon us once again.
Cree hockey is well represented this season at all levels, from minor hockey to the pros, and ... read more ››
The “discovery” of seven waterfalls along the Again River in the Hudson Bay Lowlands by Canadian geographer Adam Shoalts was met with the confusion and disdain of some members of Moose Cree First Nation in August.
Shoalts received considerable praise from the Royal Canadian Geographical Society for being the first to ... read more ››
The Eeyou Eenou Police Force (EEPF) is accepting candidates for a new cadet program that could get underway this fall. The pilot project will initially focus on the communities of Whapamagoostui, Eastmain and Oujé-Bougoumou.
The program is the brainchild of EEPF managers, who want to diminish the teenage idleness that can ... read more ››
On June 1, 1990, a 13-year-old Secondary 2 student at Voyageur Memorial School in Mistissini received a letter from the then-Commissioner of the Cree School Board, Kenny Blacksmith. The typewritten note of congratulations commended Betty Anne Forward for her choice of a powerful public-speaking topic, Women and Violence; a speech ... read more ››
While most people know that soft drinks are not a healthy beverage choice, a University of Columbia study now suggests that these beverages may induce violent, withdrawn and distracted behaviour in children as young as five.
The study – written by researchers Shakira F. Suglia, Sara Solnick and David Hemenway – ... read more ››
Nationally celebrated Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence won a second term to lead her embattled community in elections last month. But Spence, who galvanized the country, gained massive media coverage and helped create a movement during her six-week hunger strike last winter, nonetheless won only 42% of the 507 votes cast ... read more ››
Living in Montreal, I’ve often gazed up the defining geographical feature of this city, Mount Royal, and wondered why in this day and age it should be topped by an illuminated Christian cross that is paid for by all residents here, no matter our religious faith or lack thereof.
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