In our series walking through the construction of different types of articles, we hone in on the easy-to-write (and pitch!) staple of magazines everywhere: the front-of-book round-up.
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When I speak at conferences like the upcoming Women in Travel Summit where the audience is primarily either professional bloggers or folks who started a blog because some idiot said that that was the way to get assignments with magazine editors who would magically find your site and ask you to write a paid piece for a print publication, I am constantly asked if people can pitch stories they have already written on their blog.
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A few weeks ago we had some extra avocados hanging around the kitchen and I told Ryan I had seen some recipes for avocado pudding that I planned to try. It was also the same week that I made French Silk Pie, which we brought over to my sister-in-law and brother-in-law's house. After cutting slices of pie for everyone and joining them in the basement, I walked into the conversation just in time to hear Ryan tell everyone there was avocado in their pie.
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How Primitive Methodism came to Hertfordshire
from the Watford Times, 1891
In October and November 1891, the editor of the newly-founded Watford Times was making a number of visits to local churches and chapels and writing about his experiences. Number 8 in this series combined a visit to Queens Road chapel with an insight into the means by which Primitive Methodism arrived in Watford.
A Woman in White
"I have recently been perusing some manuscript written by the late Robert Martindale, and have derived considerable edification therefrom. From this document I gather that 'Primitive Methodism was introduced into Watford by a little woman dressed in white over fifty years ago'. The good lady, however, only paid a 'flying visit' to the town, and it was not until some years later that any permanent attempt was made to establish Primitive Methodism in Watford.
£100 to mission Hertfordshire
It seems that Thomas Baker, a gentleman living at Reading, offered £100, providing the Primitive Methodists would mission Herts.. This offer induced five young men – James Warnes, James Barnes, George Gyngel, Jesse Herbert, and Thomas Green – to engage themselves to do the work at a salary of £20 per year each. On Good Friday, 1840, they left Reading and walked to Maidenhead, then to Burnham, where they held a service. On the following night they slept at Rickmansworth, and in the morning walked on to Watford, where they 'got shaved by Mrs Smith (Andrew and Sons' shop), and were kindly entertained by a Mrs Clarke'. They did not stay at Watford, but after holding a service walked on to St Albans, where, on the following day, they conducted a service on an open air stand. That night they 'all slept at a public-house, after resting on the tombstones', Subsequently they 'all met at Bricket Wood, where they slept at Bro. Wiggs's', but I am sorry to say that the incompleteness of the manuscript does not permit me to trace these missionaries any farther.
Arrest in Watford
So at Bro. Wiggs's, at Bricket Wood, they must be left. But there is proof that Watford received considerable attention at the hands of the 'Prims', for G Grigg, writing in Dr Antliff's Book of Marvels, says, 'From St Albans I turned my attention to Watford, where a small society had been formed by my predecessors. It was on Sunday evening, in 1842, that I took my stand on a spot where there was no public thoroughfare'. The writer goes on to narrate that while the service was being conducted with 'great propriety' it was CUT SHORT BY TWO POLICEMEN ordering him off. He objected to go, so the policemen dragged him into the public street and said he was to go to the police-station. 'Well', he said, 'then let us go cheerfully together'. So taking their arms in his he commenced singing 'O for a trumpet voice', etc. He sang so loudly that after a short time the policemen released him and beat a retreat and he then returned and concluded the service in peace.
On the following Sunday he was singing at one end of the Butchers' Shambles when the superintendent of police, a sergeant and two privates came up and ordered him off. He declined to go and the superintendent gave the command, 'Arrest him and take him off to the blackhole'. Away they marched, the superintendent going before shaking the gaol keys and he in the middle singing 'Wicked men I need not fear', etc. He was placed in the inner of the two compartments which was reserved for those who were guilty of high crimes. But he occupied his time in singing and praying and preaching to the people through the bars of his cage. Shortly after nine o'clock the police came and entreated him to leave, but he declined to do so unless he was held prisoner and taken before the magistrates the next morning. This the superintendent engaged to do. In the morning, however, the police did not come to his lodgings, so he went to the police-station and told the superintendent that if he did not take him to the police-station [sic] he would take the superintendent. Thereupon they went to the Justice-room. Here Grigg refused to give an undertaking not to preach again in the streets and the magistrates thereupon committed him to the Hertford House of Correction for three months, with hard labour. But Grigg pointed out that even if he had been guilty of blocking up the public thoroughfare the offence was an indictable one and should be tried at the Quarter Session. He added 'And if you do commit me, I will meet the indictment by counsel, and it may be you may SECURE A PARTIAL JURY who may return a verdict against me, then you will come down on me for expenses. I will first pay my own attorney and counsel, and then I shall have to pay yours. But, gentlemen, it will be by imprisonment; and when I come out I shall come back and preach in your streets again'. Finding he meant what he said 'the chairman, who was the vicar of the parish, took his hat and walked away. He was followed by two others, who were parsons, and another, who was a brewer. Then the police disappeared and I was left alone.
The society grows
I walked out, went to my lodgings, and in the evening preached in the open air in peace, and from that time we were never interrupted by policemen. Several got converted and joined our Society in the town; and although thirty years (nearly half a century now) have passed since we had this conflict with the police and magistrates the Society in Watford still lives."
The above account is corroborated by Kendall, who records that the Reading circuit "was enabled to enter more extensively upon missionary work through the liberality of Mr Thomas Baker who, though a member of another community, contributed the sum of £100 towards the employment of five missionaries in the neighbouring counties."
Watford Times, Saturday 22 November 1891
Kendall, H. B., The Origin and History of the Primitive Methodist Church, Vol. 2 (London: Robert Bryant, c. 1905), p.345
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College Basketball Picks, Odds and Analysis: 2020-21 Big Ten Preview on DraftKings Sportsbook
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What's getting lost in the mix during the heart of football season and Thanksgiving week? The start of college hoops! I'll have you covered with best bets articles throughout the season, but it's also good to have something from the preseason as reference for early in the season to get a grasp on different teams and conferences. So I'm breaking down each of the Power 6 Conferences with some useful betting info from DraftKings Sportsbook.
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Minnesota +30000 +2400 +10000
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The Favorite
This should be a super competitive league, so no team stands out as head and shoulders above the pack. You could argue that seven Big Ten teams rank in the top 25, but none rank in the top 10. However, I do lean to Wisconsin as the best team in the conference, potentially creating some early value at +350 to win the conference.
The Badgers do rank 7th in KenPom, which is very impressive. Why so high on them? It looks like Wisco will start five seniors this season, and finished last season on an eight-game winning streak. I don't expect the momentum to completely carry over, but this team is going to have much less difficulty finding early season chemistry and maintaining in through what should be a choppy season. Again, there's lots of talent across the conference, but this is the most stable squad.
Luka Garza (+400) is the favorite to win National Player of the Year, but that's playing way too much into Iowa's season outlook. But this is the anti-Wisconsin, as the talent falls off a cliff behind Garza. After a couple of solid upperclassmen returning, I just don't see why this team is tied for the third-best title odds in the country. KenPom has the Hawkeyes at 13th, which feels about right, but the futures market makes them a top-five team. There might not always be value here to fade this team, because they're going to be good. But the market is going to be high on them, so fading Iowa early and against other strong competition has some appeal to me. If Iowa is +125 to make the Final Four, I'd love to go the other way if a "No" option wa offered.
Last year was a strange one for Michigan. It was Juwan Howard's first year as a head coach, and the team lost a ton of talent to the NBA. The Wolverines actually exceeded expectations early, shooting up the rankings thanks to some massive wins in a tournament in the Bahamas. However, they fell off hard after that and were still carrying too much value from their hot start.
Somehow, I think some of that value Michigan built up early last season has carried over, and it's not justified. Zavier Simpson and Jon Teske are massive losses — senior starters at PG and C. This team was trending in the wrong direction as last season progressed and should actually take another step backwards.
I don't like going against KenPom, which actually has Michigan 15th and Illinois 17th, but I'm trusting my gut on this one. Illinois ranks third in terms of conference odds at +355, almost the same price as Wisconsin. But if someone outside of Wisco contends here, give me the Fighting Illini. They got red-hot last season, and return a good combo of veterans infused with some young talent. Ayo Dosunmu had some NBA interest and is back for his junior season — he could be a 20-point scorer in the backcourt. Kofi Cockburn is also back for his sophomore season, and absolutely could've left for the NBA. The big man should take a huge leap and be one of the most dominant bigs in college hoops.
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On why the rise of fundamentalism in Muslim-majority countries owes much to the failings of the secular left.
Muslim pilgrims attend Friday prayer on January 6, 2006 in the city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
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This article was originally published in Actuel Marx (2018/2), no. 64, special issue on religion edited by Etienne Balibar and Michael Löwy, pp. 101–111. Translated from French.
Recent decades have seen a "return of the religious," as fundamentalist creeds have become an increasingly prominent element of the geopolitical landscape. Not only has the worldwide spread of neoliberal capitalism failed to spread secular notions of science and progress, but the shocks produced by its crises have helped feed sectarian responses based on religious identity.
Going beyond mere condemnation of religious dogma, Marxists have long analyzed religion as a social phenomenon which can take many different forms. Karl Marx famously highlighted religion's dual character as both an illusion and a comfort to the oppressed, and many socialist movements have deployed religious iconography (and, for the Christian left, the example of Jesus) in their cause.
Several movements in Muslim-majority societies offer hints of an Islamic left analogous to the liberation theology seen in Catholic countries. Yet such initiatives lag behind the success of fundamentalist movements who advance a literalist and backward-looking understanding of Islam. In a period of global crises, these latter have been better able to present themselves as an alternative value system.
Yet this religious revanchism is not simply rooted in the soil, as if it expressed Muslim-majority societies' "essential" cultural traits. Indeed, if Islamic fundamentalism promises a return to an idealized past, its current success is something new. As Gilbert Achcar explains in this interview, its advance owes not simply to the words in the Qu'ran, but so, too, to the defeats of the secular left in the Arab and Muslim world.
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Chilton band to close Music Under the Stars season
The Groeschl Band will give a free concert at Buttermilk Creek Park for the Music Under the Stars series on Monday, Aug. 29.
Chilton band to close Music Under the Stars season The Groeschl Band will give a free concert at Buttermilk Creek Park for the Music Under the Stars series on Monday, Aug. 29. Check out this story on fdlreporter.com: http://fondul.ac/2bXzvK7
Dorothy Bliskey, On behalf of Music Under the Stars Published 12:00 a.m. CT Aug. 25, 2016 | Updated 1:36 p.m. CT Aug. 25, 2016
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FOND DU LAC - The Groeschl Band, a six-piece band from the Chilton area, will give a free concert at Buttermilk Creek Park for the Music Under the Stars series from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Monday, Aug. 29.
The upcoming concert includes their signature tunes featuring German polkas and waltzes, along with Big Band music. A crowd-pleaser is their theme-song "Herman Take Me Home."
The group was formed more than 50 years ago by the late Syl Groeschl and known as the Syl Groeschl Band. His father had a similar band prior to that. Longtime drummer Dale Mueller has since taken over as the band's leader. Some members of the Syl Groeschl Band still perform in the current version of the band
The Groeschl Band plays all over this area of Wisconsin at public and private events such as weddings and fundraisers. It can often be seen performing in area parades, riding on top of a decorated flat-bed trailer while playing German polkas.
This is the final band to perform in the summer concert series known as Monday Music Under the Stars.
Food can be purchased prior to and during the concert, starting at 6:30 p.m. Gilleburgers, hot dogs, popcorn, root beer floats and more are available.
Attendees should bring their own chairs. In case of inclement weather, the concert will be held at the Fond du Lac County Fairgrounds Cow Palace building.
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"This is our army"
24 February, 2017 - (10:38 PM)
Georgette Sadeq
It is not so long ago that social media in Egypt teemed with criticism of the Egyptian army and what many saw as its increased role in the economy, a field far removed from its basic role of defending the country. Whether or not this was the opinion of the man-on-the-street is a question Watani is exploring in this story.
It took a taunt from Qatar, in the form of a documentary that directed harsh criticism at the Egyptian army, for Egyptians to stand up in force and defend their Armed Forces. Facebook and Twitter, two platforms which had overflowed with Egyptian criticism for the military, suddenly rocked with support for the army.
So how exactly does Egypt's public rate its military?
Time honoured military tradition
As far back in time as ancient centuries, the Egyptian army has been the pride of Egyptians. Even during the times when Egypt was occupied by foreign powers such as the Romans, Egypt's military enjoyed a reputation of valour; an example is the Theban Legion of the third AD century which was part of the Roman army. During medieval times, the Egyptian army led by Saladin defeated the Crusaders in the Battle of Hattin in 1187.
In the 19th century, the Egyptian army saw a glorious revival under Muhammad Ali Pasha who is regarded as the founder of modern Egypt. He transformed Egypt into a regional power, waged war on behalf of the Ottoman Sultan, Mahmud II in Arabia and Greece, then independently in the Sudan and the Levant, and ended up fighting the Ottoman army itself with a view to gaining independence for Egypt. But at this point (1840) the European powers intervened and the Egyptian army had to withdraw.
In modern times, Egypt was defeated in the 1948 war against Israel in Palestine and again in the June 1967 Six Day War, but the Egyptian army made a turnaround with its epic crossing of the Suez Canal and battles against Israel in the Sinai in October 1973. This led to peace talks with Israel and, in 1979, a peace treaty was signed between Egypt and Israel according to which Egypt regained the Sinai Peninsula which had been in Israeli hands since 1967.
The years since 1973 saw no more wars in Egypt in the classic sense of the word. Yet the military, which had in 1952 overthrown the monarchy in Egypt and later declared the country a republic, enjoyed a strong presence on the political and economic fronts. Since 1952 all of Egypt's presidents but one, as well as the governors of all the border provinces, came from among the military.
Arab Spring and 30 June Revolution
The last days of January 2011 saw Egypt tumble into what came to be termed as the Arab Spring. On 18 February, long-time President Hosni Mubarak stepped down, and a military council took over until a new president could be elected. The army worked hard at maintaining law and order during that time of turmoil and political upheaval. Egyptians, the majority of whom are Muslim, decided to give Islamists a chance to make good on their promise to rule the country righteously and bring prosperity. On 30 June 2012, Muhammad Mursi who belonged to the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) group was elected as President. But the rule of the MB proved to Egyptians once and for all that Islamist authority is anything but righteous or geared towards prosperity. Mr Mursi and the MB imposed hegemony over all authorities in the State, destroyed democracy, worked to impose a conservative brand of Islam which Egyptians rejected, and let the country slip into economic decline. Egyptians rebelled. On 30 June 2013, a massive revolution of some 30 million Egyptians rolled peacefully along Egypt's streets nationwide demanding an end to Mr Mursi's presidency and MB rule. With an eye to averting civil war, the army stepped in, and gave Mr Mursi an ultimatum of 48 hours to resolve the crisis. He belligerently rejected the ultimatum and, on 3 July the then Chief of the Armed Forces Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi gathered a council of representatives of all the sectors of the Egyptian community. They drew a roadmap for the future of a secular Egypt.
In January 2014 Egypt established a new Constitution, in June 2014 Sisi was elected President, and Egypt embarked on a secular era. The army had a new role to play.
Army steps in
Predictably, the army's prime role is the defence of the country. This was no simple task since it involved defending Egypt against enemies from outside and inside its borders. The Islamists who had been ousted in July 2013 had explicitly vowed to inflict upon Egyptians "terror you never dreamed existed" as expressed by the MB leader Safwat Higazy. The Islamists had turned mountainous cave-riddled Sinai into a jihadi stronghold since the Mursi year and, to this day, the Egyptian army's battles with the jihadis have cost Egypt the lives of scores of its sons. To the West is Libya, large swaths of which were turned, in the wake of the Arab Spring, into battlegrounds where the Islamist militias hold upper hands. The jihadis have attacked Egyptian targets close to the Egypt-Libya border. To say nothing of the countless terrorist attacks that have targeted Egyptian police and civilians. All along, Egypt's army has been strongly defending the country.
The army also gained a reputation for promptly stepping in to aid the police when a strong hand was needed to restore the rule of law and order which had, in the wake of the Arab Spring, been replaced by lawlessness. Today, however, law and order have been restored, and the army is seldom needed on this front. But it is needed elsewhere on entirely different levels, as will be revealed here.
In war and peace
In its issue of 2 March 2014 Watani International printed an article by Injy Samy under the title "An army for war and peace":
"Residents of Heliopolis, especially, feel the difference. The eastern Cairo upper-middle-class suburb has been suffering from crushing traffic congestion that escalated to gridlock level throughout the last years. Any trip or errand through the district practically became a veritable piece of hell. Yet recent projects that seemed to have miraculously cropped up overnight have alleviated the problem to a point undreamt-of by eastern Cairenes. Roads have been widened, squares and roundabouts upgraded, overpasses erected, and new exits and entries added. The result has been stunning; life became instantaneously easier.
The secret saviour? The Egyptian Armed Forces."
The story went on to list a plethora of projects by the Engineering Authority of the Ministry of Defence. The projects aimed at providing services for the public in various regions in Egypt. Giza on the west was being given a new set of periphery roads, highways and bridges to the tune of several billion Egyptian Pounds which come mainly from the military budget.
Under-privileged areas such as the villages of Kerdassa, Barageel, and Bashteel in Giza were getting bakeries, sports centres, and youth community centres. Fayoum, some 100km southwest of Cairo was getting a new 16,000-unit housing project, Suez bakeries, and South Sinai bridges and medical centres.
More recently, the army stepped in to help resolve a shortage in infant formula; the Armed Forces imported packages to be sold to Egyptians at reasonable prices. It also had its convoys head to various districts in Egypt to hand out affordable packages of foods—meat, poultry, dairy, sugar, and others—that went short or too expensive on the market. The aim was to ease the toll of economic reform on Egyptians.
Huge resources
It was nothing new that the Egyptian army should provide the community with much-needed services or products. The story goes back to the 1950s and 1960s when Egypt's President Gamal Abdel-Nasser worked to strengthen and expand the national army into a regional force. For that purpose he embarked on ambitious projects not only of procuring arms but also of setting up an impressive military production base in Egypt. Some 28 military factories were established in engineering, metal, chemical and electronic industries.
During wartime the military factories focused on military production, but during prolonged periods of peace the huge industrial base channelled its capacities towards producing goods for the community. And so it was that these plants supplied Egyptians with top-notch products that included among others diesel engines, workshop tools, plastics, household appliances, aerosols, pesticides, poultry and dairy products, agri-products, oils, food preserves, radio and TV sets, computers and various electronics.
With its huge resources and capacity, the military diversified into the field of expert services, providing facilities for transport, security and guard services, garage and parking, container rent, environmental services, tourism and hotel management, as well as many others. It also went into the fields of contracting, road building, mineralogical activity, and marine services.
The army also offers medical services of legendary quality by Egyptian standards; even though these services are mainly offered to their personnel and may serve civilians only under certain conditions.
In August 2015, the army completed the digging of the New Suez Canal in record time of less than a year; the time anticipated by construction experts had been three years. Currently, it is performing huge contracting work on the New Administrative Capital. Last August, the Ministry for Military Production signed an agreement with the Health Ministry for Egypt's first plant to produce cancer medication.
Making life a bit easier
For his part, President Sisi has rejected criticism that the military's growing economic involvement was distracting it from its core duties. He dismissed suggestions of military mismanagement, saying he and the Defence Minister personally approve all spending. President Sisi said the military could deploy across the entire country in six hours if needed.
The army's economic involvement, he said, was with the aim of helping to "rebuild" Egypt. This is a role which many Egyptians appreciate, given the austerity measures, dollar shortage and rising prices on account of economic reform.
Watani decided to sound mainstream Egyptians on the issue of the army's involvement in the country's economy. A woman in her late forties, who works as a cleaner in one of Cairo's malls, complained of painful price hikes. "But the rise in prices of commodities is nothing compared to the rise in rents," she said. "I used to pay EGP300 rent for my flat; now it's gone up to EGP500." This brought on the question of where she lived. "In an overcrowded district in Ain Shams (east of Cairo)," she said. "I have five children: two daughters who are married, as well as two others and a son. I make ends meet by saving a little money in gamiya together with my neighbours and friends. We each pay a monthly instalment and get back a good sum of money a few months later. I'm lucky I have a job; others don't." How about the army's role in Egypt? Watani asked. "Oh, the poor young men!" she said. "They stand to lose their lives any minute to the terrorists." But she also said that she sees the army trucks bringing in affordable foods into her neighbourhood. "For this we are truly grateful," she said. "It definitely eases matters."
"We need them now"
Another cleaner who talked to Watani was a younger woman who said she had two children aged five and eight. "The prices keep on rising," she said. "At times it becomes intolerable." She said her husband held a reasonable job and, through both their salaries, they could make ends meet. As to the army, she said: "The country was in a shambles after the MB rule," she said. "The military were able to restore law and order. And they're helping us meet the cost of living which is getting more intolerable by the day." So would you like to go back to the MB days? Watani asked. "Never!" was the vehement interjection that came from both women. "The MB had their own interests to serve, and these obviously never included the good of Egyptians." One of the cleaners expressed a wish that the military would impose more discipline on the markets; she said she was sure this would 'tame' prices. She was echoing a concept common among Egyptians that the prices were being manipulated by traders and could be brought down by imposing disciplinary action.
A man in his late thirties who works as a guardsman in a private company replied to Watani's question on the role he envisioned for the army by saying: "At this post-MB phase, we definitely need the army in control. Only the military can handle the terrorist threats from inside and outside the country. But in the long run, I hope peace reigns and we get a civilian as president. I also hope we get stronger political parties in place of the many current weak ones." For today, however, he said he highly appreciated the role of the military to build projects and bring affordable foods to the people who need them badly.
"Your sons"
A taxi driver in his fifties echoed the complaint of the high prices. Gasoline prices are up, he said, and the instalments on the vehicle are a heavy burden. "This is all the aftermath of the one-year Islamist rule and the terrorism the Islamists are inflicting on us now that they have been ousted. But how long will this last?" he sighed. "So you're unhappy with the military's role in the country now?" Watani asked. "Oh no," he said, "they're actually doing a good job. But I'm frustrated that they're doing nothing about the prices."
The end result is that Egyptians in the mainstream welcome the role the military is playing. For better or for worse, they feel the army is an integral part of their daily lives, not merely a remote body whose presence can only be felt during wartime. Given that Egypt's army is formed mainly of recruits, the majority of Egyptian families have members who were or are in the army. So the army is, in a way, an extension of the Egyptian family.
According to President Sisi: "This is your army, the army of your country. Your sons. It is not anyone else's army."
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So, I'm not sure if I need therapy or financial advice. But. Here goes.
I've been in a common law relationship for the last 15 years. I'm a stay at home mom and take care of four children.
Recently, our world has been turned upside down. The century-old house we purchased two years ago started to show its true colours – it began with a septic tank replacement, then it needed re-roofing and toxic mould removal. Overall, the repairs would have cost us $75,000.
With a $190,000 mortgage on our house at 90% loan to value, we couldn't refinance, and we couldn't take out more because our consumer debt was also out of control. So, we walked away from the repairs, and the house, and declared bankruptcy. It was the most difficult decision of our life. And now we feel even more overwhelmed.
At least my partner's job is secure. He makes $70,000 a year. With the additional income, the universal childcare benefits give me; we can make ends meet our immediate needs.
How do we rebuild ourselves? How do we establish better trust and transparency (re: consumer debt)? How can I make sure we'll always be able to provide for our kids when we don't have access to credit?
I can understand why you and your partner are feeling overwhelmed – sounds like you've been navigating some turbulent waters. Your financial boat was already leaking with out-of-control consumer debt, and the addition of expensive home repairs created the perfect storm with no option but to abandon ship. I applaud you for making that tough decision to send out the SOS flares!
The silver lining here is that by declaring bankruptcy, you've found yourselves a life preserver and the opportunity for a fresh start. To rebuild your future, you will need to be actively involved in creating in – which begins with facing some tough questions.
Ask yourselves: How did we get here? Why did we get here? What did we do wrong? You must dig deep to get to the cause of the consumer debt you built up. Out-of-control debt is a result of your actions, not your circumstances – and bankruptcy doesn't change anything regarding your behaviour. So unless you understand what thoughts and feelings that motivated those actions, you're at risk of sailing into the same stormy territory again.
This kind of self-reflection can be really difficult work, with powerful emotions like shame and embarrassment bubbling to the surface. I encourage you to consider working with a debt counsellor to guide and support you as you work through the emotional and behavioural causes of the bankruptcy.
And remember, you're in this together. Be kind to each other, encourage each other. Watch each other for signs of difficulty processing your feelings, or slipping back into old patterns of behaviour.
When it comes to trust and transparency – I'm not sure if you mean with your partner or with banks and lenders. So let's address both.
With each other, regular and open communication is vital. Don't wait to deal with issues as they arise, be proactive. Try scheduling weekly money dates with a set agenda. For example, reviewing your spending from the previous week, discussing upcoming big purchases, and addressing any concerns either of you have with your budget.
With banks and lenders, you can begin right away to rebuild your credit with a secured credit card. This path requires you to have some cash savings in the bank, so make building that balance your priority. Review your expenses for opportunities to be more frugal with a fine-tooth comb. Consider finding creative ways to earn extra income to help you build up your savings. Even if you can only save $20 a week, you will develop the habit of spending less than you earn. That habit works like a muscle. The more you exercise it, the stronger it gets.
As you think about your future, and how you will provide for your kids, remember that savings are the foundation of your financial plan – not credit. If your plan requires access to credit to provide for your kids, you have a fundamental problem to overcome first. Credit is a helpful safety net to bridge income fluctuations and hard times, but it's not the plan.
Ultimately, your kids need you more than your money. They need parents who provide role modelling of smart spending. Parents who teach the habits that will lead them to their financial success. You don't need to foot the bill; show them to save, and you will provide them with the most valuable gift of all.
Your current reality is paving the way for a different tomorrow. After seven years your bankruptcy will be wiped from your credit report, and this experience will be a memory – a memory of the time you stepped up for yourselves and your family and changed the course of your financial trajectory.
Give things some time to cool off and new habits to set in. Soon enough, you'll find yourselves smooth sailing into a bright financial future.


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A king room with premium bedding, a retro loveseat and wall art.


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Pulitzer Winner Adam Johnson Returns With 'Fortune Smiles'
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Adam Johnson won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for his novel, "The Orphan Master's Son," about propaganda and power in North Korea. In his new short story collection "Fortune Smiles," Johnson turns his lens mostly back to our American shores -- and even the Bay Area -- as his characters struggle to maintain their humanity amid technology's temptations and the loss that comes from cancer and natural disasters.
More: About the book "Fortune Smiles" (Indiebound)
Adam Johnson, associate professor of English at Stanford University and author of "Fortune Smiles"


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Kawana Waters State College has an extensive range of subject offerings including Authority subjects, Subject Area Specific (SAS) subjects and vocational education.
As part of the extensive range of opportunities we offer at Kawana Waters State College, there is a co-curricular program for secondary students.


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Not long ago I wrote about my current modular CSS (BEM/OOCSS) naming conundrum. This is a shorter but related post about how those kinds of selectors can be produced with new features of Sass 3.3.
Update 16th March 2014: The final release of Sass of 3.3 changed the way that suffix selectors could be written. This post (now much shorter than the original) has now been updated to reflect the final release syntax.
However, what troubles me is whether this is actually a preferable syntax to write, regardless of whether you are experienced in writing Sass?
There are certainly upsides. Firstly, there will be no misspelling of the namespace (when/if needed) so some human error factor will be removed. One could also argue it's a DRYer syntax as the namespace isn't repeated.
However, I'm not 100% happy it's an improvement from a legibility point of view on just writing things out in Sass 'long-hand'. But before we drop the mic and exit stage left, come and follow me on an interesting tangent.
Whilst looking into all this, by way of this post I found the irrefutably smart Scott Kellum had taken the @at-root & syntax and turned it into Mixins. Here's a link to his Gist on SassMesiter.
You'll see there is one @mixin for the ComponentName (c), one for the ModifierName (m) and one for the variant-label (l). Notice that each contains the necessary delineating prefix character to save writing it in the Sass when the mixin is included in a rule.
Does this abstraction, as neat and smart as it is, detract more from the authoring experience than it adds? Does using either of these syntaxes actually make the code more maintainable?
Perhaps it's merely an exposure thing, and in time, like many new features, we will all wonder how we lived without it. At this point, personally I'm on the fence.
We lose the benefit of keeping all of that selector and its variants in one self-contained nested block but we (arguably) gain some legibility benefits. In the text editor, selectors are always left-aligned and always bare a one-to-one relationship with the HTML classes they apply to.
That final point is key for me; I can select an HTML class in the browser Dev Tools and then search my Sass files for it. And so can anyone else. With the two Sass methods I have described here (using @mixins or using the & parent selector) they break the one-to-one link between HTML classes and CSS selectors. If a fellow developer who is not as experienced with Sass attempts to search for a class they will come up missing. Therefore, is it an abstraction too far?
Now, one could argue I should just use source maps and edit the values in the browser but I'm not sure I want all my (and others) eggs in that basket. I like editing my text in Sublime. Others have their own preferences. I also can't be sure other people I share code with will have the same dev setup including source maps etc.
The authoring won't be as DRY but you get a one to one parity between HTML classes and their equivalent selectors. You also get all related styles and selectors within one block of code. It's not perfect but it's another option.
I feel like that about using the parent selector to create BEM style selectors. These things are now easily possible; with Sass 3.3 we can do it right now.
I'm just stopping long enough to think about whether I should.
It would be great if Sass/SCSS would support this kind of nesting as well.
Hi Lucas, that's great thanks. I do keep meaning to look at Stylus, especially since hearing Ben Alman (of Gruntjs fame) recommend it on the JSJ podcast.
I was quite surprised to see "&" behave this way in SASS. This is one of the moments when I think it is needlessly complicated.
Hi Sam, yes, isn't that what I started off the post showing?
Lucas's example shows the same effect can be achieved with a terser/easier syntax is Stylus.
Haha, silly me! Slow morning!
Hey, nice guide, just one thing: you don't actually need @at-root in these examples.
To me BEM is neither DRY nor KISS in this regard. Also consider the fact that repeating the namespace in children defeats the purpose of reusability. I cannot just simply move a child from one namespace to another and adapt 'automatically'.
This is an interesting approach. Unless I missed something, I don't see how using the mixins makes the nested sass code DRYer. In fact you are substituting &- for @include c. This seems wetter to me.
However, I think the abstraction the mixins provide has some real advantage if you decide you want (or need) to change class naming conventions. As you and other have written, there is a lot of debate about how class names should be constructed. Different frameworks, boilerplates, etc. seem to use different naming conventions. Making it easy to change a naming convention makes your code more modular. It would be nice to see this taken a step further. Perhaps the dashes and underscores that are integral to a BEM methodology could be defined as sass variables?


Communities across the country are launching pre-arrest diversion initiatives designed to better address law enforcement's encounters with people who have challenges with drug use and mental health. Such initiatives enable law enforcement officers, when appropriate, to divert eligible individuals away from the criminal justice system and into community-based behavioral health interventions and social services. In this way, law enforcement becomes a new and sizable pathway to treatment and social services.
The Police, Treatment and Community Collaborative (PTACC) was launched in April 2017 with a mission to strategically widen community behavioral health and social service options available through law enforcement diversion. The purpose of PTACC is to provide national vision, leadership, voice, and action to reframe the relationship between law enforcement, treatment, and community.


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The danger of campaign signs
The bitter political divisions in America have turned some traditional election activities into risky actions. Election campaign signs are intended to familiarize people with candidates and their names, and to create and interest in and show support for the candidates by the people who display their signs. However, by displaying partisan signs, people are applying labels to themselves that identify them as enemies to the opposing party.
The problem is that the political dialogue in our country has deteriorated into exchanges of hate speech. Donald Trump is the result of a degeneration of thought and word that has been at work for a couple of decades, at least. People hardly ever state political disagreements in reasoned and respectful terms. Rather, they call the opposition demeaning names and accuse them of degenerate things. Their words do not inspire thought, but provoke anger and a desire to lash out. Mindless anger has displaced rational thought as the currency of politics.
The seeds were planted decades ago with midnight talk radio in which "hosts" would introduce some insanely provocative topic and invite people to call in and comment. To keep the phone lines busy the hosts would encourage the ignorant, the stupid, and those possessed by some demented obsession to vent over the air. The audience for the talk shows had two major components: those people of limited intellect who were ignored in general society; and those who were entertained or made to feel superior by foolish rantings. Talk radio gave the stations a surprisingly substantial audience during the gloomy hours when most people were asleep. It was a refuge for the superstitious, occult, and spurious, and popular enough so that national programs could network throughout the nation and give local radio stations a cheap way to fill the dreary hours.
Talk radio became the foster home of conspiracy theories. It nourished and propagated them. It gained such an audience that it was moved to prime time with the likes of Rush Limbaugh who became the voice of American conservatism. His harangues became the model for conservative political discourse.
Limbaugh's technique is to lie about everything, insult, defame, ridicule, and violate every rule of respectful and productive discourse. But he became one of the most prominent political commentators in the nation, and local radio stations found "hosts" who bring his debasement to local politics. Fact checkers analyzed Limbaugh's falsehoods and found an astounding degree of untruth. In one sampling of Limbaugh's statements, Politifact found this distribution of truthfulness:
True: 0%
Mostly True: 5%
Half True: 13%
Mostly False: 26%
False: 31%
Pants on Fire: 26%
Limbaugh's response was to conduct a defamation campaign against fact checkers.
For the ignorant, stupid, and hateful souls who were possessed by the worst demons of humankind as opposed to Lincoln's better angels, Limbaugh and his emulators legitimatized mindless scurrility as a mode of political discourse. Donald Trump has totally adopted the Limbaugh playbook for lies, insult, and abuse as his mode of communication. By this summer, he was recorded as telling more than 4,200 lies to the public during his term of president.
His supporters, of course, claim that the liberals are the ones guilty of making up malicious accusations. Consequently, the contest between Republicans and Democrats has devolved into each side regarding the other as motivated by a malicious dishonesty. This contempt affects the way the way people hear and read political messages and how they perceive campaign signs.
I have examined responses, including my own, to signs in an effort to understand how people read and react to them. The hateful dialogue of contemporary politics has established the context that controls the responses. Rather than registering the name of a person on a sign and endeavoring to assess the qualifications of the individual, the first impulse is to determine what party the candidate belongs to. If the person is a Republican, he or she becomes associated with Limbaugh and Trump and the people who endorse them. Such association labels them as enemies of democracy.
And when conservatives determine that a sign is for a Democratic candidate, they associate the displayer of the sign as a communist or a socialist or a bleeding hearted snowflake or whatever label the conservative media uses to denigrate Democrats.
So, when people move about town and see signs in private yards, they identify the householders as Republican or Democrat. And accordingly, they decide if that neighbor is an ally or any enemy. They are reacting to the insulting, defaming, and threatening political discourse that has conditioned their response to the opposing party.
When it comes to inspiring hostility, the GOP has a strong edge over Democrats. It has developed personal attacks and defamation as effective campaign tools. There is no dispute that appeals to hate win elections for them. When Democrats and independents see a GOP campaign sign, they automatically associate it with the scurrility that comprises many Republican campaigns.
Campaigns are what has driven the wedge to American society that has made the political divide irreconcilable. Who wants to have a friendly relationship with people who defame and disparage others as a way of life? And so, when many people see a campaign sign in a yard, they take it as a warning that the people who live there are they kind they should avoid. It is a matter of semiotics: what a sign says on its surface may signal a menacing danger in its deeper intention. The campaign season becomes not a time to make a choice about who to vote for, but a time to identify which of our neighbors to stay away from. The signs call up the political practice that the signs support in a larger context
Political signs send a quarantine message to stay away from the people who display them.
Posted by David Newquist at 8:34 AM
Such a great editorial, Mr. Newquist! I would only add this thought: the Candidates and their volunteers who place the signs on public right-of-ways like road ditches etc. just add to the angst and debauchery of the democratic process by their blatant disregard of the laws against such placement.
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"The crops were way too long. Nothing like the picture in the catalogue."
"longer than I expected I'm 5`6 came to my ankles"
"I love all the comfort waist pants from Chadwick's, and these are no exception. The Desert Pink is fairly peachy, so when I paired it with the Dark Salmon square-neck tank, they look made for each other. The Fringe Trim Watercolor Print Scarf pulls them together even more beautifully. And I love the sale price!"
"Love them. They do not ride down when bending over"
"I now have three pairs. Blue, pink, and green. They are so comfortable and luck good rolled up as well."
"Fabulous, Awesome... there is nothing negative to say about these. Hope Chadwicks never stops offering them. Here's the thing you need to know, if you have wider hips, and I do... you may need to go up a size or two, but only if your hands can't handle the grip of tugging them over the hips. The desert pink color is really cool, and I don't do pink! l delighted and in love with these and ordered in other colors (Try the shorts and bi-stretch pants too! They're awesome!) "
"Love these crop pants - wash them every week so I can wear them again."
"True to size in waist and hip, comfortable fit, fabric not too thick or thin, not overly stretchy, nice color. The lower leg should be more tapered and 21 or 22 inches length. These come in 24 inches which is more like an ankle pant unlike the photo. So different lengths should be offered."
"Nice material, but run a little on the small side through the hips."
"Great fit, did order a size up based on reviews. Black denim can be difficult to find. Wore to a Texas supper gathering....perfect."
"Great fit and comfort! Love the fabric!"
"Love these, a little tight at the waistband but I'm sure they'll stretch out with wash & wear. Just the right length & could be cuffed if desired."
"Great fit, wonderful price. The legs are a great width, not to tight in the calves! Runs true to size. Nice not having to worry if the waist with fit. Pull on and go! Never stop making these."
"Nice material but pants are much wider than pictured. They are not anywhere near "slim". Had to send both pair back. I can't wear "skinny" because of my age but these would be "flappin' in the breeze"."
"Nice looking, fits as suggested."
"Fit great! True to size. Nice quality for the price."
"Lovely fit - much better than regular jeans. Love them!"
"I received the pants in pink, the fit of the pants in the waist and hips were fine, but I didn't care for the legs. They were wide and flared at the bottom. "
"I have suggested Chadwick's have a size 2 in missy sizes...the 6 is too big. I ordered petite 2 in these crop and fit is perfect..I am 5-6...123 lbs...long waisted and these still fit...will order straight leg jeans and just roll them cause they fit so good! But please do 2 size in missy!"
"Love these pants!! I have larger calves and these fit great! Not to tight! I bought denim and white. I would recommend these pants!"
"They fit well without any bagging. The material is not too thin so they should last awhile. I just wish they had belt loops because I've always been straight waisted and have no hips so they slide every now and then."
"They are very comfortable and cute. Didn't stretch out too badly."
"I am 5'1" 124 lbs. I wear size P8. It is too long for petite. The leg is too wide like bell bottom, it is not narrow like in the picture."
"Very comfortable. No lumps. Easy to wear "
"LOVE THEM, SUPER COMFORTABLE, ALREADY ORDERED A SECOND PAIR!"
"Nice comfortable pant with a slight flare at the bottom. I'm 5"3 126lb ordered a 6 petite. fit perfect. Did shrink a bit, add to really tug to get them on just like leggings, but the pant looked great once there on: leg room is not to skinny just right and with the snug waist least it won"t slide off and is very comfortable on."
"I was skeptical about ordering these as been dieting didn't know what size I really was. I ordered a 16 and they fit perfect and will work as I lose more. Good quality as always with Chadwicks very pleased. "
"Very comfortable. Runs true to size. Love these. Will buy more"
"Great fit except I wish the bottom of the pant leg was a little narrower."
"fit perfectly, look great Ordered size 8, which is my usual size. "
"Love these! They are super comfortable and fit so well. "
"Comfort and great fit - I love these jeans!"
"These are my new favorite pants! They fit perfectly and look good...so good, I ordered 2 more in different colors!"
"I bought these in the same size as ones I bought in the corduroy material. They fit a bit tighter in the waist and thighs than in the other material, but not terribly so. I would like solid denim color material if I were to buy another pair. "
"Most comfortable and flattering jeans ever! DUNSVILLE"
"These are really nice crops! Good quality, great fit! Unfortunately for me , they are too long to be crops and too short to be ankle pants.(I am 5'3") hated to send them back!"
"Love these pants. They fit beautifully and, of course, they are my favorite colors. And what a great price. Thanks TJM!"
"Great jeans! Fit is true to size. Wish there were more colors."
"Great fit -- love the flat waistband. Good quality denim with just the right stretch. So versatile for transition to fall. "
"Love these! They look great and are super comfortable. I wish you had them in white!!!"
"They are the most awesome, comfortable jeans I have ever put on. No zipper, snaps or muffin top showing!! Please do not discontinue!!!!!!"
"Very comfy pants, but the legs are baggy. Also, if the goal is a smooth look, why are there pointy grommets in the front?"
"These are very nice and well made. All my clothes are a 12 but I did have have to exchange these for a 10. "
"Love the fit! Going back for another pair!"
"I am 5'1". The crops came all the way down to my ankles. I will now try the long shorts to see how those fit. I like the no zip waistband. "
"These are classics! I can dress them up or wear them for everyday. I only wish they came in more colors!"
"Extremely comfortable to wear -- easy to pull on and off. Looks good on the body, too."
"Love the comfort, look and ease of care. Great fit and shape. Will take them everywhere I go this summer!"
"This style is a luxury and a blessing! I've had 3 back surgeries and I can't wear many of my clothes that fit around my waist and hips due to tenderness. I bought the skirt, then another, the shorts, then these pants! Comfy, stylish, throwing my old pants, skirts out!"
"LOVE these pants, fit is great and color is perfect"
"Really comfortable and fit is good. A little long for this short gal, but roll up fine"
"I really like my new Comfort Waist Crop Pant. The quality, fabric, fit are great. I love the comfort waist and no more zipper to deal with. More colors would be wonderful!"
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Leicester Tigers TV
Heyes opens up on rapid rise through Tigers ranks
2 November 2018 18:15 By Sam Williamson
Joe Heyes opens up to LTTV on his rapid rise through the Tigers ranks from the academy to senior squad, learning the ropes from one of the world's best, scrum sessions with Boris Stankovich and the mates helping him keep his feet on the ground, as well as this weekend's Welford Road Premiership Cup clash with Worcester.
Joe Heyes admits the past 18 months have been one heck of a roller coaster ride from playing park rugby with mates in Newark to packing down for Leicester Tigers in the Gallagher Premiership and Heineken Champions Cup with and against international props.
"It has been a crazy roller coaster to where I am now, but I haven't let it faze me."
Joe Heyes
Heyes has made six appearances for the senior team so far this season, beginning with his debut in Round 3 when the 19 year old replaced Dan Cole in the England and British Lion's 200th appearance for Leicester Tigers against Wasps.
Since then, Heyes has replaced his 85-Test capped team mate on four more occasions and made his starting debut in last Saturday's away game against Saracens in the Premiership Rugby Cup.
Looking back on it all, the young front-rower from Nottingham admits it has been quite a rapid rise but isn't letting it get to his head.
"It has been a crazy roller coaster to where I am now, but I haven't let it faze me and just tried to take it week by week," Heyes told LTTV on the touch-line at the club's Oval Park training ground.
Helping him stay grounded are his mates and former team mates at Newark, who he's in constant contact with.
"I've got mates at my old club who are just saying 'well done' and 'keep your head on' ... it's a big rise, but I just want to keep my head and not get too excited," he said.
Heyes will tick another item off his bucket list on Saturday afternoon when he runs out for his first starting appearance in a Tigers shirt at Welford Road, which he says is an "exciting" prospect.
"Welford Road this weekend is very exciting ... I have never started there in a Tigers shirt," said the England U20s front-rower.
"It's just about involvement, even if I'm not playing one week I am still learning."
Mentoring the young tight-head prop at Tigers are an experienced duo in the form of team mate Cole and the club's scrum coach Boris Stankovich, both of which Heyes is enjoying learning all he can from while trying to add his own, unique attributes to his game in the very early days of his career.
"There's no better player to base my game around [than Cole], but obviously I'd like to add my own stuff to that," Heyes said.
"He'll [Boris] always go over the game with me ... I enjoy it and helps me."
While the enjoyment of the game has only heightened since joining the top tier at the club, the 19-year-old is feeling the burn of the more physical demands on his body but says for now, it's about continuing to learn while he has the opportunity to be a part of it.
"I think it's just been used a lot more ... I've had to be a bit more clever with my recovery," Heyes said when asked about how his body was coping.
"It's just involvement, even if I'm not playing one week I am still learning."
Watch the full interview with Heyes below, exclusively on LTTV and click here for more interviews out of Oval Park ahead of the Premiership Cup fixture against Worcester on Saturday afternoon at Welford Road.
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Star Wars launches Birmingham's first ever Improv Festival
The city's first festival of improvised theatre & comedy is holding a Star Wars themed launch event in the Jewellery Quarter on Friday 24 June. The event, held at The Blue Orange Theatre, aims to give audiences a sneak peek of the fun that is to come during the festival in October.
Jon Trevor, chair of the Birmingham Improv Festival committee, said "This event is the first step on the road to the festival later this year. I'm proud to be organising the first festival of this type in the city, and proud that we've attracted some of the greatest acts in the UK to perform. Our aim is to appeal to a wide range of comedy and theatre goers and showcase an artform on the rise."
"Millions of voices", the show chosen for the launch event, tells the story of everyday folk on Princess Leia's home planet. Taking suggestions from the audience, each performance tells a unique tale which will never be repeated. The show was created by MissImp, a group that performs regularly in and around Nottingham.
The Birmingham Improv Festival will run 21-23 October at The Blue Orange Theatre, Great Hampton Street, B18 6AD. It is the first festival of improvised theatre and comedy in the city. The festival will feature performances each evening covering a wide variety of improv styles, from serious drama to sketch comedy. Each day will also include workshops accessible to both new and experienced performers.
http://birminghamimprovfestival.com/ @BhamImprovFest
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The Italian flag is a rectangular drape, vertically divided into three equal sections: green, white and red (the green side is attached to the mast). The width of the drape is equal to two-thirds of its length.
The tricolor was first adopted in 1796 by the Lombard patriots and became the symbol of freedom and unity. It was sanctioned as National Flag by the Italian Republic in 1802, by the Italic Kingdom in 1804 and by the first King of the Savoia dynasty, Carlo Alberto in March 1848. Since the first time it was adopted, it has remained the symbol of independence from foreign rulers for all Italians, who fought several wars during the period known as the "Risorgimento" until they succeeded in securing freedom and unity.
During the Savoia dynasty the flag had in the center of the white section the emblem of the Savoias: a white cross on red background surrounded by a blue border and surmounted by a crown. Since Italy became a Republic in 1945 the flag has had no emblem. The emblem only appears on the flags of the Navy and the Merchant Navy.
The flag of the Navy has the heraldic emblem of the Navy in the center of the white section: it is a shield divided into four sections, each one representing the crests of the four historical maritime Republics: Venice, Pisa, Genoa and Amalfi. The emblem is surmounted by a turreted and rostrate crown.
The flag of the Merchant Navy has the same emblem, but no crown. The crest of the Republic of Venice in the Navy flag shows the Lion of St. Mark with a book. The same crest in the Merchant Navy flag shows the Lion of St. Mark with a sword.
First adopted by Napoleon for the French-controlled Italian kingdom in 1796.
Historically considered first to adopt the Italian flag was the region of Reggio Emilia in 1979.
These colors are explained in Dante's Divine Comedy, refer to Purgatorio, XXIX, 122-127, and were utilized in the Florentine Medici emblem showing a ring with an encased diamond and displaying three feathers and their respective colors, refer to James Hall's Dictionary of Subjects and Symbols in Art, p. 120.
Courtesy of the Embassy of Italy. Reprinted with permission.