Very few attorneys understand the complex medical jargon and health care requirements of patients. This results in a demand for medical records analysts (MRAs) who can explain the complicated health matters to those in the legal profession.
According to the Houston Chronicle, "Of the approximately 900,000 attorneys in practice today, 25 percent (i.e. 225,000) deal with medical malpractice and personal injury cases." These attorneys rely on specially trained medical records analysts to help them win their cases.
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In iOS 14, either the green or the orange indicator lights up at the top of the screen: what are they for?
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What does the appearance of a green and orange indicator in iOS 14 mean?
Displaying a small orange dot in the area of the status bar at the top of the display indicates that some application uses an iPhone or iPad microphone. If the green dot lights up, the camera is used.
True, some users immediately accused Apple of inconsistency, since Siri is not accompanied by such a pointer. But such a decision still seems not erroneous, but thoughtful. Otherwise, an orange microphone would always be present, making the whole function meaningless. Do you remember that Siri is constantly running in the background and waiting for his magic phrase? But now users will be able to confirm their concerns or dispel them that popular applications like Instagram and Facebook are listening to our conversations.
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Why did Apple introduce such indicators?
In fact, it is no coincidence that Apple introduced these recording indicators on the iPhone and iPad. Thus, the manufacturer helps its users to get rid of existing fears. It's no secret that rumors attribute modern smart devices the ability to follow the owners, recording voice and video. So there are cameras, microphones and device ports sealed with tape.
Here's what Apple vice president of software development Craig Federigi told:
"I constantly receive emails from clients who are confident in tracking them of various popular applications. People say that as soon as they say something out loud, an announcement on the relevant topic immediately appears on the Internet. It seems that computers are eavesdropping on us and transmitting this information somewhere.
In fact, in most cases, such fears are groundless. We know that this is not happening. But users tend to trust their fears and rumors. To maintain peace of mind, a recording indicator was created that tells people if the application currently has access to a camera or microphone".
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Attention to privacy in iOS 14
But this is not the only innovation to ensure privacy in iOS and iPadOS 14. For example, users can now share not a specific location (as before), but an approximate one.
Users note that the manufacturer also fixed the clipboard privacy issues that were previously reported. The company initially denied the problem, but iOS 14 introduced changes recommended by experts. Now the system will show a notification when the application or widget reads the clipboard. This is especially true if it contains a password or credit card information.
Another privacy-focused feature on iOS and iPadOS 14 is limited access to photos. If before the application could get or not full access to photos, now it has become possible to give access to a limited selection of items in the photo library.
The company does not forget about improving the security and privacy of its other platforms, including some important changes that have appeared in HomeKit and other products.
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What do you think about privacy tools in iOS and iPadOS 14? Do you think that some applications really spy and eavesdrop on their users? Are new program indicators able to reassure you? Tell us in the comments about this.
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Every person born in Canada would have to apply for citizenship. More tax dollars would be needed to process the applications. Clerks would suddenly have the power to make substantive and legal determinations about the status of every person who applies for citizenship.
Like any administrative system, mistakes would be made. Bad or wrong decisions would be challenged in the courts at great expense to both the state and people affected. People would struggle with the fact that they are stateless in the interim.
Yesiree Ms Lieu, you are indeed a lawyer,and a very articulate one.I certainly disagree on your idea of how best to build a nation.Have you written a book about you and your dads experiences.
The article neglects to talk about those that arrive in Canada with the sole purpose of having their baby here to claim Canadian citizenship. They then head back home. What are the repercussions of this to the rest of us that pay taxes? What happens when these 'Canadian citizens' decide to move back to Canada in their retirement years to be supported by our health care system? If you are going to be born in Canada it should be conditional that your family should be living and working here and supporting Canada. "Birth Tourists" should be paying full price plus a 'premium' to have their baby's here with 'no' automatic citizenship.


As I discuss a few of these changes in further detail, I hope to give some sense of the complexity and rich history of Russian. Russian formalism was a diverse movement, producing no unified doctrine, and no consensus amongst its proponents on a central aim to their endeavours. Only with the three , which like most Russian consonants have both a hard and a soft form, does the spelling rule actually reflect phonetically based pronunciation. The is the most common in the and Crimea regions of Ukraine, and the predominant language in large cities in the and of the country. The case is used for a direct object, the case for an indirect object. These are the first name, the second name and the family name.
Due to various political complications, however, it was not until 1906 that Ukrainian was officially recognized as a separate language 18. Standard Russian grew out of the of Russian spoken by people in and the area around Moscow. Several ways of and its absence are distinguished. It includes the work of a number of highly influential Russian and Soviet scholars such as , , , , , , who revolutionised literary criticism between 1914 and the 1930s by establishing the specificity and autonomy of poetic language and literature. It was the de facto language of the until its on 25 December 1991.
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Especially admired was the French language, which began in the 18 th and 19 th centuries to be seen as fashionable and superior to Russian. Historical Reflexes in the Modern Lexicon The history of the words that make up the modern Russian language is extremely complex. Russian was the main language of academic research, although Armenia's constitution has recognized Armenian as the official language. They were gone by the middle of the century. Originally it was a of or ofenes, old Russian , and had a number of names, or it might come from the Russian word фен or fen which is the. Since then Russian has been of high significance in the life and history of Armenia. It is comparable to the -based.
What is the meaning of word 'Poka Poka ' in Russian?
Nouns, pronouns, adjectives, demonstratives, most numerals and other particles are declined for two singular and plural and six see below ; some of these parts of speech in the singular are also declined by three masculine, feminine and neuter. The other two are and. Some common Russian names for girls are Anna, Anastasia, Svetlana and Yekaterina. In some ways, Standard Russian was also like the Russian used in government offices in earlier centuries. Russian belongs to the family of , one of the four living members of the East Slavic languages, and part of the larger branch. Much that seems confusing, arbitrary, or strange in the modern Russian language becomes clearer as we become familiar with the processes of change throughout the historical development of Russian.
This feature applies in Slavic languages like , and , and is also found in , but not in western Slavic languages, such as and. Although, nowadays, nearly three decades after the breakup of the Soviet Union, Russian is used in official capacity or in public life in all the post-Soviet nation-states, as well as in Israel and Mongolia, the rise of state-specific varieties of this language tends to be strongly denied in Russia, in line with the ideology. The published the first full dictionary of Russian in 1783. Russians from the countryside continued to speak their local dialects. The case is used for the tool or instrument with which something is done.
Take, for example, a boy whose father is named Ivan. Russian has in unstressed syllables. These mentions date back to the times of or perhaps even earlier. The list complements the and does not overlap with it. Russian spelling, which is quite phonemic in practice, is a mix of the morphological and phonetic principles, with a few etymological or historic forms, and occasional grammatical differentiation. Rapid started during the Soviet period, particularly after Stalin's coming to power in the mid-1930s, when Russian became of the Soviet Union. In Modern Russian, velar consonants are exclusively followed by front vowels, indicating the completion of the process of palatalization.
Russian grammar goes so far as to dictate that the spelling rules must take precedence over any other rule. The current Republic of Armenia, was annexed by the in the early 19th century. Russian science fiction emerged in the mid-19th century and rose to its during the Soviet era, both in cinema and literature, with writers like the , , and , among others. Russian literature became famous throughout the world. Parents choose the first name for their child. Cyril and Methodius, familiar with the dialect of Slavonic spoken in Macedonia, created an alphabet based on the phonemic properties of this form of Slavonic 26-28.
Although its level of competence have significantly decreased since Armenia's independence in 1991, in 2010, the have reported that about 70% of Armenia's population has the ability to speak Russian. It played an important role in the history of the Slavic languages and served as a basis and model for later traditions, and some and churches use this later Church Slavonic as a to this day. История, динамика, идеология двух атрибутов нации pp 216—227. The grammar, , and of Russian became stable and were standardized at the end of the 18th and in the 19th century. Buck Midterm Report Linguistics 450 Dr. It is a major foreign language in the country and is used in many aspects of life. Another example: A man's name is Nikolai Alexandrovich Romanov.


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Cut and Get Pasted
T.R. Witcher May 16, 1996 4:00AM
Paramedic Rick Stolte liked practical jokes. So did his co-workers at the Platte Valley Medical Center in Brighton. During almost six years of working there, Stolte saw or participated in everything from snowball fights to cars stuffed with shredded paper to colleagues fooling around in the hospital's computer system.
Neither his bosses nor his colleagues seemed to mind. "We'd always make jokes that you can't get fired from PVMC," he recalls.
But the final joke turned out to be on him. Last October hospital administrators fired Stolte and emergency medical technician Sandra "Sam" Boytim for pulling a seemingly innocuous joke on an older paramedic named Susannah O'Keefe. Boytim and Stolte don't deny participating in the joke: By cutting and pasting, they rearranged a magazine article to make fun of O'Keefe. And they say three others helped them do it.
They had found an article in an emergency medicine magazine about an elderly paramedic named Betty Parks, who, like O'Keefe, was in her fifties and had gotten into EMS later in life. So Stolte, Boytim and the others cut and pasted the article, inserting O'Keefe's name and photo over that of Parks, then teased her about her age by pasting in that she needed "Depends, trifocals and Prozac."
They left their "revised" article on a table in the ambulance day room, and Boytim says she saw it hanging on a wall for a day or two. They don't remember seeing it anymore after that, and they promptly forgot about it. That is, until two months later, when Boytim and Stolte were told they were being fired because of it.
Now that they've moved on to other, lower-paying jobs in their field, Stolte and Boytim are still trying to figure out why they were the only ones fired, or even why they were fired for something so minor. O'Keefe declines to speak with Westword. Hospital spokesman Darryl Meyers confirms the firings but says only that the incident was "totally inappropriate for an employee."
"I think maybe politics were a lot of it, the feeling that somebody had to go," says one member of a panel that last November conducted separate grievance hearings for Boytim and Stolte. The panel wound up not restoring their jobs, although the panelist who spoke with Westword didn't think the pair deserved to be fired. Hospital president John Hicks ruled that the terminations should stand.
Boytim and Stolte believe the hospital caved in after O'Keefe threatened a sexual-harassment suit if the practical jokes continued, but Steve Rollert, O'Keefe's work partner since January, says he's not aware that O'Keefe ever planned a lawsuit.
"Basically, her attitude was she didn't know who had done this," Rollert says, adding that O'Keefe just wanted the practical jokes against her to stop and did not expect the hospital to react as it did. "I talked to her at length, and she said, 'If I had known they were going to do what they were going to do, I would have never done it.'"
Boytim doesn't believe it. "Susannah comes off as this hurt little puppy until she drives a knife through your shoulder blades," she says. "She knew it; she planned it. She didn't like me and she didn't like Rick. She knew exactly what she was doing and exactly what results she wanted."
There seems to be no indication Stolte ever had problems with management, but this wasn't the first time he had pulled pranks on O'Keefe: He recalls filling her car with shredded paper and, in a slightly more personal attack, tying her to a chair with adhesive tape for a few minutes while someone snapped a picture. Boytim, on the other hand, didn't get along with O'Keefe, her former partner, or with her bosses.
"I was surprised Rick was fired, but I knew they were looking for a reason to fire Sam," says Megan Wilcox, a former EMT who left Platte Valley last September. "They didn't like her, and Platte Valley is very much a good ol' boys' network. She had opinions on how things should be done, and when opinions conflicted with management, that's when the trouble started."
But while there's plenty of uncertainty about why Stolte and Boytim were really fired, one thing's apparent to some employees: The fallout from their firings has turned a once-happy working environment into a tense place.
Before the termination, practical jokes were very common among paramedics and firefighters--as they are in many other fire departments--and the doctored magazine article seemed unremarkable when compared with other pranks.
Boytim and Stolte say three others--physician advisor Dr. Henry Johnston and paramedics Chris Scott and Bill Onken--were in on the last O'Keefe prank. Chris Scott refused to talk to Westword; Dr. Johnston did not return repeated phone calls; and Bill Onken, who says he participated in other jokes in the past, says he can't remember whether he was involved in this one. "I remember seeing the article," he says. "I don't know if I ever saw anything with the cutting and pasting. It's possible."
No one knows why this particular joke set people off. "Practical jokes have been going on forever," says Donna Ulrey, a long-standing part-time EMT. "It's a way to keep your sanity in a tense, tragic situation."
In their grievance statements, Stolte and Boytim mention a long list of PVMC gags, which are corroborated by other employees: shredded paper in ambulances, water fights, even a CPR dummy that, according to Boytim, was put in Stolte's car, "handcuffed to the steering wheel, given a whip to hold and dressed in an edible bikini." And Stolte has Polaroids of a dummy fireman reading a paper on an old toilet on his front porch.
Several PVMC employees say they don't recall O'Keefe ever being singled out for practical jokes or being offended by them. Former EMT Mark Rule remembers that O'Keefe participated in jokes as well. He recalls being chased by her once in a water fight.
"And I went over a chain-link fence and caught my hand at the top," Rule says. "I ended up with a nice laceration. She participated in as many of them as the rest. I can't remember any, 'cause they weren't any big deal." But he remembers one joke that might have gone too far. He recalls hanging a glow stick above O'Keefe while she slept and spraying the room she was in with Silly String. "She woke up and saw this thing four feet from her and it scared the hell out of her."
Rule says O'Keefe called him up at home later that night and told him to return to the hospital and "'get whatever the fuck this is out of my room.'" But the next day, he adds, she was no longer upset.
Others say O'Keefe had a good sense of humor about her age; she wore a cap that said "paragranny," and she and another older paramedic were nicknamed the "Geritol crew." "We made jokes like that all the time," Rule says, "but they were right there laughing with us."
However, Wilcox says, "Susannah was a bad sport, and if you're a bad sport, people are gonna tease you more and tease you more."
During November's grievance hearings, Boytim and Stolte were told that O'Keefe's letter of complaint did not include their names, and the ex-employees were not shown a copy of the offending article.
They're not even sure hospital administrators ever saw the article that led to their termination. While the hospital would not comment, at least one member of the five-member grievance panel confirms never seeing the cut-and-pasted article.
Boytim now works full-time with AMR ambulance service in Denver. Stolte is a park ranger in Aurora and works part-time with the Federal Heights Protection District. Boytim does not plan to pursue her dismissal in court, but Stolte is still considering it. Both regret losing jobs they enjoyed, but Stolte says, "My only grudge is against Susannah for not coming to me, because we were really close friends for six years."
Meanwhile, O'Keefe is still working at PVMC, as are Onken, Johnston and Scott. EMS employees say few practical jokes are being played these days. "Since all of this blew up, it's sad, if not tragic, that the work environment is really paranoid," Ulrey says. "One doesn't feel anyone can be trusted. You have to keep your back to the wall or else you'll get a knife through it." Ulrey says that even though medical performance hasn't suffered, morale has.
The tension is noticeable in the number of staff, former and current, who are reluctant to speak about what happened. "It's been put off-limits by management," Onken says. "It was put out to all of us--it will not be discussed by anyone at any time for any reason. Management won't talk about it. The subject was closed."
There's a lingering feeling of regret over what happened, but it's tempered by the survival instinct. "I'd like to help Rick out," says EMT Don Branning, "but it's not worth getting into again.
T.R. Witcher
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Mr. Rudolph Haas went to Monroe Tuesday on business.
Dr. J. M. Thurman, the popular Ruston dentist, spent a couple days of this week in Farmerville.
Dr. C. H. Laurence and Mr. M. J. Pearson spent Saturday in Monroe on business.
It is reported that a case of small pox has developed in the Cherry Ridge vicinity.
Mrs. A. C. Harper, of Weldon neighborhood, died last Thursday night. The Gazette extends sympathy to the bereaved family.
Messrs. C. D. Covington and Joe Ramsey went to Monroe Thursday, returning home Saturday.
Remember coffins are cash. Before you get one make your arrangement for the pay. 2-2-'01. J. R. SIMMONS.
Misses Myra and Ava Gill, of D'Arbonne neighborhood, spent a few day of last week in Farmerville, the guest of Mr. J. D. Baughman's family.
When you need any staple farming implements, fine or staple pocket knife or other cutlery, go Baughman's. He can suit you both in goods and prices.
Mr. W. S. Pearson and Miss Susanna Odom were married Monday at the residence of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Odom, near Farmerville.
Mr. Roland Edwards, son of Mr. and Mrs. Marion Edwards died last week of pneumonia, aged 18 years.
Farmers have been scarce about town for the past few days. They are looking after their planting interests.
Last Thursday the suit of King vs. King was transferred to Lincoln Parish, and there being no further business at that session of the district court the tribunal adjourned.
I will be at Cherry Ridge March 11; Oakland, March 18; Farmerville, March 25, and will stay a week at each place, prepared to do all kinds of dental work. Dr. C. H. Laurence, D.D.S.
If the old saying, "March comes in like a lamb, she'll go out like a lion." holds good, this year, we can expect blustering times at the close of this month. The weather for the first three days of this March was as fine as we ever saw.
It was a mistake in announcing the Epworth League literary entertainment for next Tuesday evening. It will take place, Friday, the 15th inst. Program given in our next issue.
Eld. J. U. H. Wharton has accepted the pastorate of the Ruston Missionary Baptist church for the present year. He moved from El Dorado to his new field of labor this week. By this change what is El Dorado's loss is Ruston's gain.
Read the new and attractive advertisement of J. D. Baughman, in another column. His store is being filled to overflowing with new and seasonable goods. Having bought for cash at close figures, he is determined to sell the same way. –cheaper than the cheapest. Give him a call.
We learn that the cotton gin of Mr. T. J. Cole, in the D'Arbonne vicinity was destroyed by fire Monday night, and that 15 to 20 bales of cotton, most of which was ginned and baled, were also consumed.


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BREAKING: Accused Child Molester Found Guilty on All Counts by Casper Jury
Kevin Koile - TownSquare Media
A former carnival worker accused of kidnapping and sexually abusing a five-year-old boy last summer was convicted Thursday by a jury of seven women and five men on all counts charged against him.
Joshua Ashby Winters, 34, now faces 45 years to life plus 70 years in prison after being found guilty of kidnapping, sexual abuse of a minor in the first degree and sexual abuse of a minor in the second degree.
The jury deliberated for a little over two hours before returning their verdict.
Before completing the verdict, jurors asked a question about the language in one portion of the verdict sheet. The court addressed the question, clarified the language and sent the case back to the jury.
Jurors returned to the courtroom just a few minutes later to announce their unanimous decision.
After the verdict was read and the jury excused, Natrona County District Court Judge Thomas Sullins ordered Winters held without bond pending sentencing. He also ordered a presentence investigation.
Charging papers say the victim went with his brother and possibly one or more friends to El Mark-O Lanes on July 18 to play video games in the arcade.
Winters was allegedly in the adjoining bar, drinking throughout the day, though the amount of alcohol he reportedly consumed remains unclear.
He had quit his job as a carnival worker earlier in the day and had all his possessions with him in one or more bags.
At some point, Winters went up to the children and gave them money to play games. Later, Winters began asking the children and manager about money he said was missing.
Winter and the victim allegedly left the bowling alley within a few minutes of each other. Winters reportedly told the boy he would show him his camp down by the river, but Winters later claimed the boy was helping him look for his missing money.
Investigators believe the pair walked to the intersection of 13th and Coulter, Johnson told jurors. It was unclear who led whom to the river.
The first story Winters told police, Johnson said, was that the boy stole Winters' bags. Winters reportedly said he chased the boy to the river, jumped in, hit his head and later woke up with the boy nowhere to be found.
But Johnson said that story doesn't hold water, because police officers later found where Winters had allegedly hidden his bags before heading to the river.
The state alleged Winters carried the boy across the river to a densely-wooded area on the north bank, took his clothes off and sexually abused the boy.
Then, court documents say, Winters left the boy alone, wet and crying near Wyoming Boulevard. A woman driving home from the grocery store with her three children found the boy and took him to the Mills Police Department.
"I feel like we all have seen and understand what happened in this case," Assistant District Attorney Brett Johnson said in his closing argument Thursday afternoon.
"He'll never be the same kid," Johnson concluded.
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When I meet someone new socially the inevitable question of "what do you work with?" comes up.
After I tell them I work with shipping containers they try to look sort of interested, but you can see they're bored already. And who can blame them?
Maybe they were expecting me to tell them I'm a film producer or racing driver.
Anyway. Being who I am I do my level best to conjure up some excitement in what has now become a slightly dull conversation in their eyes.
I fall back on my trusted technique of speaking about container conversions.
You see, as soon as I start mentioning how we convert shipping containers into bars, restaurants, shopping malls and even hotels they start to perk up.
Their eyes come alive and all of a sudden we're in conversation dreamland.
I don't want to harp on to you about how containers are great for storing things, or what a CSC plate stands for. Go here if you want that.
No. I want this little virtual meeting we're having to be fun for you. "How will you do that?" I hear you ask.
Let's start this with a bang shall we?
You've got a 20,000 sq ft of open land next to a train station in Croydon not really doing anything.
Convert 96 shipping containers into one of the UK's most impressive food and entertainment venues of course!
BoxPark Croydon has 2 levels of pretty much every food you can imagine being served (and prepared) inside shipping containers.
At night this place comes alive with entertainment too. Food, drinks, entertainment and shipping containers… the "container guy" in me calls this El Paradise.
Next up is something slightly less bombastic in scale.
It's actually the world's largest container conversion ever created.
MIF68 is a huge business to business retail park in Marseille, France.
So how big is it? Literally hundreds of containers big.
When we were approached to help create this conversion, who were we to say no.
Have you ever sat at your desk and dreamed of giving it all up to own a cafe or bar?
Well that's what Zan Kaufman, a lawyer from London did.
Bleeker St. is a gourmet burger bar mostly based in London.
Packing up at a moments notice and moving to a new (and potentially more profitable) site like a festival or event is a luxury most hospitality businesses can only dream of.
However, that's exactly what Zan Kaufman can do with her "business in a container".
You can take a quick peek inside in this video we posted.
I hope I've sufficiently entertained you with my quirky use of shipping container stories? If you acquired a taste then head over here to discover more conversion projects we worked on.
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The Bridestones, Near Todmorden, West Yorkshire
Bride Stones, west Yorks (Sphinx- like formation).
Bridestones, near Todmorden, west Yorks (OS trig point no: S4501)
OS grid reference: SD 9334 26750. Close to the Long Causeway and just east of Todmorden, West Yorkshire, are the Bridestones, outcrops of millstone grit rocks and boulders which are ½ a mile long. Amongst these rocky outcrops are a number of odd-shaped formations that have been caused by weather-related erosion over thousands, if not millions of years. One huge boulder in particular, known as 'The Great Bridestone' is fantastically shaped at its base, looking like an up-turned bottle, as if it might topple over at any moment. There are a number of myths and legends associated with The Bridestones, many of these going back to the mists of time. More recently, perhaps, there are a number of local traditions that have become connected to the place and its many, strange-shaped rocks and boulders. The Bridestones are located about ½ a mile north-east of Eastwood Road – where a footpath runs across the often boggy moor to the outcrops. Another path connects the north-side of the outcrops from Kebs Road, and from just opposite Orchan House Farm at Fast Ends – it runs in a southerly direction across Bridestones Moor.
Bridestones (human face rock formation).
Bridestones, west Yorkshire (the anvil-shaped rock)
At over 1,400 feet above sea-level the Bride-stones on the windswept moors to the east of Todmorden and the Calder Valley, there is a ½ mile long escarpment of Millstone Grit outcrops that stand like rocky sentinels keeping watch over the Pennine moorland. These rock forma-tions have been made by the 'ravages of time' – wind and rain over thousands of years weathering away the soft grit-stone into strange and curious shapes, and there are indeed some strange-shaped rocks – some looking like human heads and faces (the sphinx), while others look like prehistoric birds, a giant tortoise, and a bear, and there's even a huge anvil-shaped rock.
Bridestones, west Yorkshire (the rock-house).
Bridestones, (a "possible" cup-marked rock).
There is even a 'rock-house' at Fast Ends above Bridestones Farm at (OS grid ref: SD 9277 2690). Local legend says that Nan Moor and Jack Stone lived at the rock-house a few hundred years ago as 'guardians of the stones', and they were proba-bly married there, too. They are said to have lived in a wooden structure or homestead that was connected between the two large rocks; one of the oblong-shaped rocks having square-shaped openings in its side, which must have taken a great deal of time to carve out. This wooden structure was dismantled in recent times. Just above the rock-house there are some large, flat rocks which look to have ancient cup-marks but there are also larger, circular depressions that are naturally-formed by rainwater – although it's sometimes difficult to tell which are natural and which are man-made! And there are many interesting rock basins to be seen.
Great Bride Stone stands like an up-turned bottle.
Great Bride Stone (from a different sideways angle).
The name 'Bridestones' might be derived from Bridia, Brighid, or Briga, the pre-Roman (Iron Age) diety who is more often known from history as 'Brigantia', goddess of the Brigantes tribe of northern England – just prior to, and up to, the Roman Conquest. Or they "might" perhaps take their name from bride as in 'bride and groom' at a wedding ceremony, which harks back to times, long ago, when weddings supposedly took place on the moor where the outcrops of rocks now known as 'Bridestones' are located. Indeed there is a 15 foot high oval-shaped, weathered rock called 'Great Bride Stone' and beside it a smaller rounded rock called 'the groom stone'. But undoubtedly the Bridestones was a sacred, magical place, and no-doubt a few thousand years ago it was the abode of druids who worshipped heathen gods and also officiated in ritualistic and sacrificial ceremonies, but aside from that they were also poets, historians, magicians, physicians and astronomers.
Local author John Billingsley in his work 'Folk Tales from Calderdale' – Volume 1, says that: "The Bridestones are first mentioned in local documents in 1491, and Smith in his 'Place-names of the West Riding' does not quibble with the derivation from 'bryd', a bride….. John Stansfeld, however, in 1885, suggested that Danish 'bred' and Icelandic 'bryddr' married well with Gaelic 'braidh' and modern 'bride' in meaning 'edge of the top of the hill'; whether today's etymologists feel this explanation is defensible or not, the descriptive does fit this location rather well."
Billingsley goes on to point out that: "Taylor [Ian Taylor, 1993], has suggested an identification of Bride with 'the Old Wife' or Gaelic Cailleach, a traditional spiritual denizen of wild places more usually associated with the Irish goddess Danu; a local appearance of this hag figure may well be the Old Woman.
"The Bride has also been locally known as the Bottle Neck. Other rocks have been given names, too, arising from one perception or another. Modern climbers have named rocks themselves, like the Indian's Head and Spy Hole Pinnacle, as well as giving equally vivid names, like the Obscene Cleft, to specific routes. F.A Leyland cites names known in the nineteenth century, like Table Rock and Toad Rock.
"John Watson knew of the Bride and Groom in 1789, but does not give details of the legend, other than saying the Groom had been "thrown down by the country people". In keeping with the spirit of the time, however, he saw the rocks as the natural haunt of "a large settlement" of Druids – "a vast variety of rocks and stones so scattered about the common, that at first view the whole looked something like a temple of the serpentine kind".
And another local author, Geoff Boswell, in his book 'On The Tops – around Todmorden', says: "We know that the early Britons lived in Todmorden. We have the exhibition of objects dug from the bronze age barrow in the library. Perhaps the name Bride is very old and derives from the early British Breiad, the Gaelic Braidh, the Icelandic Bryddir and the Danish Bred. All of which have similar meanings of "the edge , or margin, at the top of a mountain". It is a sobering thought that the names of our prominent rocks can derive from very early times and are far older than any written records we have."
Author Paul Bennett in his work 'The Old Stones of Elmet', says of the Bridestones that it is: "A beautiful, remarkable and powerful site of obvious veneration. First described in local deeds as early as 1491, there are a great number of severely weathered boulders all round, many like frozen giants haunting a magickal landscape.
"Dedicated to Bride, goddess of the Brigantine people, like her triple-aspect we find a triple-aspect to the outcrops here: to the west are the Bride Stones; to the east, the Little Bride Stones; with the Great Bride Stones as the central group, surveying everything around here. The goddess' divine qualities were those of healing, smithcraft, poetry, and mother-hood. There is no attendant lore here that relates to any of these elements.
"Although local history records are silent over the ritual nature of these outcrops, tradition and folklore tell them as a place of pagan worship. People were said to have married here, although whether such lore evolved from a misrepre-sentation of the title, Bride, is unsure. In the present day though there have been a number of people who have married here in recent years.
"If the Brigantian goddess was venerated here, the date of the most active festivities would have been February 1-2, or Old Wive's Feast day as it was known in the north."
Sources and related websites:-
Bennett, Paul, The Old Stones of Elmet, Capall Bann Publishing, Milverton, Somerset, 2001.
Billingsley, John, Folk Tales From Calderdale, Volume 1, Northern Earth, Mytholmroyd, Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, 2008.
Boswell, Geoff, On The Tops – around Todmorden, (Revised Edition), Delta G, Hollinroyd Farm, Todmorden, 1988.
http://www.hebdenbridgehistory.org.uk/folklore/bridestones.html
https://megalithix.wordpress.com/2011/03/10/great-bride-stones/
http://www.mypennines.co.uk/south-pennines/walks/301113.html#sthash.AKhGBLJg.dpbs
© Ray Spencer, The Journal Of Antiquities.
Categories: Myths And Legends, Natural Rock Formation, Natural Stone Or Other | Tags: The Bridestones near Todmorden in West Yorkshire | Permalink.
Les Causeurs Menhirs, I'le de Sein, Finistere, (Bretagne) Brittany
Les Causeurs(photo credit: portalix – Wikimedia).
Latitude: 48.038149. Longitude: 4.851246. On a grassy mound at the south-west side of St Guénolé's church on the I'le de Sein (Sein Island) – five miles off the Finistere coast at Pointe du Raz (Bretagne), Brittany, are two tall granite standing stones (menhirs) that are said to date from the Neolithic. These two standing stones may originally have been part of a stone circle. There are a number of myths and legends associated with these menhirs, and also the surrounding area in which they stand. The island, known as Enez Sun in Breton, is also steeped in pre-Christian myths and legends associated with druidic ritual. The standing stones can be seen on a low, grassy mound at the south-western side of St Guénolé's Church (Eglise Saint-Guénolé) on the Place Francois-Le-Sud – just to the west of Port du Men-Briel.
The two menhirs (long stones) are also known in the Breton language as Ar Brigourien – the Talkers, and Ar Fistillerian – the Orators or Gossipers, and sometimes Ar Predicateurs – the preachers. The smaller stone seems to lean toward the taller one – hence the name "The Talkers". They stand on a low grassy mound which long ago may have supported a circle of standing stones – these two are all that remain of that, but where the other stones went to is not known. Or maybe they originally formed part of a stone row or sacred way. It is thought they were erected here in the Neolithic period of prehistory (6,000-2,500 BC). Les Causeurs menhirs stand respectively at 2.8m (9 ft 3′) and 2.3m (7 ft 6′) in height. The church of Saint Guenole (alias St Winwaloe) was obviously built close to the stones to Christianise what was, long ago in the island's dark past, a pagan ritualistic site associated with the druids and, mysterious pagan priestesses called "The Senes" – the island taking its name from them
The Breton author Henri Queffelec in his work 'Un Recteur De L'ile De Sein', tells us more about the island's dark past. He says that: "In early times, the île de Sein was thought to be the haunt of supernatural beings. In the first recorded mention of the island in 43 A.D., in the work of the Roman geographer, Pomponius Mela, we are told that the Insula Sena possessed an oracle which was served by nine vestal virgins who had the capacity to control the elements and cure the apparently incurable. This tradition is later exploited by Chateaubriand in book IX of Les Martyrs (1809) in his description of the sacrificial activities of the Celtic druidess Velleda some of which take place on the "île de Sayne, île venerable et sacrée". In the Middle Ages, the île de Sein is caught up in the Arthurian legends and according to some storytellers, is the birthplace of two of the most accom-plished magicians, the wizard Merlin, and Morgan La Fée."
Queffelec goes on to inform us about the legendary ville d' Ys, which was the kingdom of King Gradlon: "the ville d' Ys, according to legend, was once the kingdom of King Gradlon in the sixth century A.D. situated somewhere between the Point du Raz and the île de Sein, and protected from the sea by a system of dykes. King Gradlon's daughter, Dahut or Ahès, was captivated by the charms of a handsome young man who was really the devil in disguise; as a proof of her love for him, he ordered her to get the keys of the dykes from Gradlon, her father. Once in possession of the keys, the devil opened the dykes and the town of Ys was submerged for ever. Gradlon managed to escape and went to Quimper where his statue can be seen on the cathedral; Ahès was changed into a siren, the Marie Morgane who lures unsuspecting sailors to their end. The story of the submerging of the ville d' Ys is related by Queffelec in his novel, Tempête sur la ville d' Ys, published in 1962."
The Insight Guide 'Brittany', says of: "the fabled, drowned city of Is, [it was] the legendary capital of the kingdom of Cornouaille (echoes of Cornwall here)." It goes on to say that: I'le de Sein was the: "last refuge for the druids in Brittany."
Insight Guide, Brittany, (First Edition), APA Publications (HK) Ltd., 1994.
Queffelec, Henri, Un Recteur De L'ile De Sein, George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., London, 1972.
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Causeurs (Photo displayed under the Licence Creative Commons 3.0).
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=8863
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winwaloe
http://www.lafermedekerscuntec.fr/peninsulas-islands-brittany.htm
http://www.brittanytourism.com/discover-our-destinations/quimper-cornouaille/unmissable-sites/sein
The Ile de Sein
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Cup-And-Ring Marked Rocks on Rivock Edge, Near Riddlesden, West Yorkshire
OS trig point no. S4563 on Rivock Edge, West Yorks
OS grid reference: SE 0742 4446. In close proximity to the Ordnance Survey triangulation pillar (no: S4563) at the north-western side of Rivock Edge, near Riddlesden, west Yorkshire, there are several prehistoric cup-and-ring marked rocks. However, some of these carved rocks are easily missed as they now lie amongst dead tree branches and stumps – the forest here having been cut down in the last couple of years. The trig point on Rivock Edge can be accessed from Silsden Road – to the north-west of Riddlesden. A footpath runs north-west across a field to a wall stile, then walk towards the television mast, but before that take the footpath (not the trackway) that heads north-east around the northern-side of Rivock Edge to Rivock Oven Cave. From here walk up-hill and head south-west across the wood-strewn moor, keeping sight of the wall and concrete trig pillar. It's now just a case of looking out for the many large and small cup-marked stones and rocks, and they are widely scattered about.
Cup-And-Ring Marked Rock at Rivock Edge.
Cup-and-ring marked rock on Rivock Edge.
One of the best cup-and-ring marked rocks on this part of the moor is undoubtedly, in my opinion, the large gritstone rock located some 350m east of the trig point (SE 0743 4462). From the trig pillar follow the footpath east beyond the wall. This large, weather-worn rock has several well-defined cups and also a few that have faint concentric rings. Other carved rocks and stones can be found in the vicinity of the wall, while others are a bit further away. There may well be some that are hidden beneath the tree foliage, and a few that are still unrecorded.
Cup-marked rock on Rivock Edge, west Yorks.
Cup-marked stone on Rivock Edge, west Yorks
Cup-marks are circular depressions on rocks, usually on flat-sided gritstone and sandstone rocks, but not exclusively so, and often but not always these are surrounded by concentric circles. Sometimes these circular depressions and rings are joined or intersected with gulleys or lines running from other cup-marks; other patterns and designs can sometimes be seen on these rocks too. They are sometimes confused with larger, deeper depressions, or holes in the rock's surface that are caused by natural water erosion; these are generally steep-sided.
Stone with cup-marks on Rivock Edge, west Yorks.
Large rock with cup-marks, Rivock Edge.
These ancient carvings (petroglyphs) or rock-art, have generally been dated to the Neolithic, but they are perhaps more likely to date from the early Bronze Age. But no-one seems to know, with any 'real' certainty, what they actually represent or signify, or why they were carved on rocks high-up on the bleak, windswept moors. Were these prehistoric cups-and-rings carved onto rocks to represent the stars or were they perhaps maps of the stars, or maybe maps showing where burials were located, or sacred places, springs, ancient pathways and caves that were, at that time, only known to our ancient ancestors? Or were they simply the doodlings and graffiti of ancient peoples? So these carvings must remain, for the time being at least, something of an "ancient enigma". Probably we will never really know their true meaning or symbolism.
Author John Dixon in his work 'Journeys Through Brigantia', (Volume One), says of these mysterious carvings that: A comprehensive field study of the cup and ring stones of the moor has been published by the Yorkshire Archaeological Service. From that survey a few broad conclusions are possible.
"The marked stones fall into three main types: cup and ring marked; cup marked only; and more complex designs. The marked boulders tend to be found in clusters on the flanks of the moor—both in Airedale and Wharfedale. Cup and ring marked stones are found in other parts of the British Isles—but Ilkley represents a unique concentration of carvings. It is clear that the stones were cut over a comparatively long period of time—and unfor-tunately some stones have been recut in modern times. Certain glacial markings may have been interpreted as the hand of man."
John goes on to say that: "We can be sure however that the stones themselves were sacred in ancient times. The kings of the Picts, the most ancient people we can identify by name in the Isles, were proclaimed upon a stone. The Stone of Scone is now incorporated into the English Coronation Throne in Westminster Abbey. At Hexham and Beverly the thrones of the Anglo-Saxon bishoplords exist cut from a single stone.
"Throughout history and throughout the world ancient places of assembly are often signified by stones or physical features—unchanging in a changing world. The signifi-cance of certain stones being stressed by the marking of the stone. Sacred marked stones can indeed be found worldwide, from Ilkley Moor to Ayers Rock.
And the great Arthur Raistrick in his work 'The Pennine Dales', has an interesting theory regarding the climate in the Bronze Age. He says: "The wet period began to fall off about 3000 B.C. and the later Neolithic and Bronze Age people had a warm, dry period during which the forest cover of oak, alder, lime, and ash, with birch, spread over the fells to over 2,000 ft OD. The climate during the Bronze Age was better than that of today, and man could occupy many sites which now would be almost untenably cold and wet."
Barringer, J. C., The Yorkshire Dales, The Dalesman Publishing Company Ltd., Clapham, 1982.
Dixon, John & Phillip, Journeys Through Brigantia, Volume One: Walks in Craven, Airedale and Wharfedale. Aussteiger Publications, Barnoldswick, 1990.
Raistrick, Arthur, The Pennine Dales, Arrow Books Ltd., London, 1972.
http://www.ancientmonuments.info/monuments/silsden-west-yorkshire
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neolithic_and_Bronze_Age_rock_art_in_the_British_Isles
http://www.stone-circles.org.uk/stone/rombaldsmoor.htm
http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/uncovered-secrets-of-ilkley-moor-s-rock-art-1-4925780
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