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The Age of Shakespeare and the Trial of Man
by Edward T. Oakes June 2004
Unlike its English and American counterparts, Scottish law allows three verdicts in criminal trials: innocent, guilty, and not proven. Several years ago, amateur Shakespeareans convoked moot courts in this country to decide who wrote Shakespeare's plays: Was it the man from Stratford, or was it somebody else, perhaps Edward de Vere, the seventeenth Earl of Oxford (though he inconveniently died before the real Shakespeare had finished writing about a fifth of his plays)? In one such trial, Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens voted for the fustian Earl, a decision that should not surprise anyone familiar with his constitutional jurisprudence.
In any event, the renowned literary critic Frank Kermode, after having published a fine study titled Shakespeare's Language, has turned his attention to the historical setting of Shakespeare's life in The Age of Shakespeare, and he resolutely (and rightly, in my opinion) refuses to deal with the authorship "debate," which has become a kind of Da Vinci Code for amateur Elizabethans, an X-Files for eggheads.
Kermode does, however, pay attention to a genuine debate that has been raging recently among Elizabethan historians: Was Shakespeare a Catholic? Sticking strictly to the forensic standard of proof beyond reasonable doubt, he renders his firm verdict: not proven. He certainly makes clear how circumstantial is the evidence for Shakespeare's personal attachment to his parents' faith. Kermode admits the strong Catholic connections of the Ardens (Shakespeare's mother's family) as well as the illegal and highly dangerous hospitality proffered to the Jesuit Edmund Campion by Shakespeare's father. And he concedes that Shakespeare's favorite daughter Susanna seems to have stayed Catholic, at least up until her marriage to a Puritan physician, John Hall. As for the rest, Kermode cannot resist pointing out how those who argue for Shakespeare's Catholicism must invoke diffident phrases like "might have" and "may well have"; and when they use intimidating words like "surely" and "doubtless," their evidence proves, on close examination, to be wispy at best.
Be that is it may, one finishes reading this pleasantly written book with a strong sense of how very much we do know about the man and his background (especially the social and economic background of both the plots of the plays and the institution of the theater), even if Shakespeare's personal opinions continue to elude us; and an evening spent with this vigorously lucid book will set it all out before the eager and curious reader.
Where Kermode fears to tread, Michael Wood barges right in. In his new Shakespeare, he argues that if both Shakespeare's father and Shakespeare's daughter were Catholic, then the conduit through which the forbidden Catholic faith traveled from grandfather to granddaughter must have been William (although, given William's extensive absences from home to keep his company stocked with plays, Susanna's mother would seem to be a likelier candidate for the role of secret, seditious catechist). Wood's book is the lushly illustrated companion to his BBC/PBS television series In Search of Shakespeare, and viewers who have seen his earlier ventures for public television, In Search of Lost Troy and In Search of Alexander, already know of his irrepressible enthusiasm and will not be surprised that he goes in search of Shakespeare's Catholicism like a 60 Minutes reporter on the prowl for a scandal.
More than once (in fact, repeatedly), Wood calls Elizabethan England a "police state," and he stresses, far more than Kermode does, how dangerous life was for a dramatist, Catholic or otherwise, during Elizabeth's neurotic and anxiety-ridden reign. One day, Shakespeare's company put on a performance of Richard II (about the overthrow of a hopelessly incompetent monarch) for the Earl of Essex. This turned out to be the eve of Essex's abortive attempt to depose the queen. When Elizabeth got wind of this performance, the company found itself in hot water; but actors are nothing if not chameleons, and it seems they got off with merely a fine. Wood also reports—a fascinating detail—that the famous Jesuit poet Robert Southwell was William's distant cousin and penned a sharp remonstrance addressed to one "W. S." (presumably his cousin William) that rebuked W. S. for his worldly outlook (this was just after Shakespeare had published his erotic masterpiece, Venus and Adonis).
No one would dispute Shakespeare's worldliness, if by that one means a wide acquaintance with the ways of the world, for in that regard Shakespeare stands unrivaled in literature—Homer, Dante, and Dostoevsky very much included. But Southwell's complaint was much more personal than that. Otherwise he would be attacking his cousin for possessing a writer's supreme virtue, which is knowledge of the world. For Southwell, however, only a forthright willingness to be martyred for the Catholic cause counts before God (he was himself martyred by Elizabeth's government, and with appalling gruesomeness). Wood points out that Southwell's remonstrance hardly makes sense except as the lament of a zealous Catholic bemoaning the caution of a Catholic kinsman who is ambitious and decidedly wary.
So who is right, Kermode or Wood? My own view is that Shakespeare was such an effective dramatic ventriloquist that no one knows what he privately thought about any important issue, most especially religion and politics. The famous political philosopher Leo Strauss once wrote a book called Persecution and the Art of Writing, which proposed that in dangerous times major authors speak in a kind of code known only to initiates (and perhaps to those equipped with a special decoder ring and a diploma from the University of Chicago). Whether that holds for such diverse writers as Aristophanes, Plato, and Maimonides (as Strauss claimed) is arguable, but of Shakespeare I would definitely say it applies. Not only were his times exceedingly dangerous (although in calling England a police state Wood exaggerates, as he does on other matters throughout the book), but Shakespeare was also astonishingly skilled at mimicking voices and adopting personae, good and evil, as his own.
Craig Bernthal in The Trial of Man takes a different approach to the question of Shakespeare's religion: he investigates the trial scenes in the plays, in order to show that Shakespeare held views on justice and jurisprudence shared by all Elizabethans, irrespective of religion. Now, views shared by everyone in a particular age are best seen when they contrast with our own, and here the contrast between Shakespeare's time and ours could not be starker:
The prevailing theory of law in our time is that the law is rational, utilitarian, and secular. Legislators create rules to accomplish policy objectives. Laws are the instruments used to promote the finite, material interests of particular groups and individuals. Judges, in reaching decisions, use legal precedents to solve problems, not to propound universal truths or to make the will of God explicit. Laws are evaluated not with respect to any universal standard of right and wrong, but by workability.
Bernthal points out that every single author who wrote on the law in Shakespeare's time held a very different view. For Elizabethans, positive law derives from natural law, which itself flows from the divine will. This means above all that a just verdict in a human court must in some way reflect, and be validated by, the divine verdict; and when the two diverge, divine judgment waits in the wings and will not ultimately be stayed or thwarted. For example, in one of his sermons, "A Remedy Against Sorrow and Fear," the great Anglican divine Richard Hooker asserts (in the kind of superb prose that the Elizabethans seem always to have ready at hand):
The judgments of God do not always follow crimes as thunder doth lightning, but sometimes the space of many ages comes between . . . . [But even if sinners] chance to escape clearly in this world, which they seldom do, in the day when the heavens shall shrivel as a scroll and the mountains move as frightened men out of their places, what cave shall receive them then? What mountains or rock shall they get, by entreaty, to fall on them? What covert to hide them from that wrath, which they shall neither be able to abide nor avoid?
Shakespeare signals his agreement with these claims when he has Hamlet expostulate in these terms:
In the corrupted currents of this world
Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice,
And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself
Buys out the law: but 'tis not so above;
There is no shuffling, there the action lies
In his true nature; and we our- selves compell'd,
Even to the teeth and forehead of our faults,
To give in evidence.
In other words, Elizabethan legal philosophy knew that a corruption of the principles of the law in the name of expediency would be ruinous, sooner or later. The great Puritan philosopher of empiricism, Francis Bacon, put it this way in his essay "Of Judicature" (1612): "One foul sentence [from the court] doth more hurt than many foul examples [of crimes]; for these do but corrupt the stream, the other corrupteth the fountain." (Justices on our Supreme Court might spend their time more profitably with this text than with showboating sessions on moot courts deciding issues of Elizabethan literary history that are beyond their competence.)
So how does all of this apply to the plays? In the first volume of Theo-Drama, the Catholic theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar makes this large claim: "The real dramatist of forgiveness is and remains Shakespeare." One imagines that Bernthal would agree, provided we first amend the line by saying that the real dramatist of justice is and remains Shakespeare. For after all, mercy is "parasitic" on justice, just as forgiveness piggybacks on judgment—not in the sense that mercy eats away at justice or that forgiveness destroys true judgment (although that can happen when one is too ready to forgive, as if no real offense had taken place). Rather, mercy and forgiveness have no meaning unless the fault or crime for which one is seeking forgiveness or mercy is first acknowledged before an objective and fair tribunal.
A mercy that short-circuits justice by intervening before a just verdict has been rendered is no mercy at all, merely a cleverly (and insidiously) disguised injustice, as when certain unctuous clergymen preemptively announce that they have "forgiven" Osama bin Laden even as he continues to call for holy war and to evade justice. As Shakespeare himself puts it: "Mercy is not itself that oft looks so; pardon is still the nurse of second woe." In other words, for Bernthal (who is both a lawyer and a professor of English) Shakespeare's God very much resembles St. Anselm's: a God whose mercy is perfectly expressed in His justice, and His justice in His mercy.
But while that might hold true theologically, Shakespeare was too good an observer of human affairs to be unaware of the human habit (or rather folly) of pretending to know just what divine justice and divine mercy precisely entail. (His contemporary Francis Bacon, for example, could pen lucid sentences on jurisprudence, but as a high official in the court of James I he confessed to bribery and corruption, and retired in disgrace.) Consider Shakespeare's Hamlet, which has recently been much discussed for its supposed Catholicizing tendencies.
In his book Hamlet in Purgatory, English professor Stephen Greenblatt has argued that Shakespeare's choice of Wittenberg as the place where Hamlet spent time as a student before his father's death cannot be mere whim; for in Wittenberg the young prince would have imbibed Martin Luther's theology of justification, including his critique of the dogma of purgatory. Back in Denmark (a Lutheranized country by the time the play was written around 1600), Hamlet encounters his father's ghost, who describes himself as "doomed for a certain term to walk the night / and for the day confined to fast in fires / till the foul crimes done in my days of nature / are burnt and purged away" (emphases added). The budding Lutheran prince is thus jolted out of his Wittenberg theology—but not enough to trust the ghost right away, for the Protestant critique of purgatory still holds sway in his impressionable mind. Rather, he tests the authenticity of the ghost's claim—that he was poisoned by his brother Claudius—by putting on a playlet, "The Mousetrap," to catch the conscience of the new king; and only when Hamlet suspects Claudius is going to give himself away in the next scene does he tell Ophelia, "get thee to a nunnery."
Greenblatt's interpretation sounds plausible, I admit. But Bernthal says, in effect: not so fast. What is most striking for him is that Hamlet submits the ghost to a theological or metaphysical test (Is it real?) but not to a moral analysis (What kind of being would order me to kill my uncle?): "How much more hellish will King Hamlet's time in purgatory be for encouraging a sin of the most serious kind?" Bernthal asks. "And what kind of father would want to put his son's soul in danger by persuading him to commit such a sin?" Moreover, when the prince is finally convinced of the ghost's authenticity, he refrains from killing Claudius; finding him praying, the prince backs off, lest he kill Claudius at a repentant moment and thereby send him to heaven. What kind of Christian, Bernthal asks, would deliberately send someone to hell while calling himself a Christian?
Nor has Claudius really given himself away by swooning during "The Mousetrap." To the best of my knowledge, Bernthal is the first and only critic to point out that Hamlet has written his little play to guarantee some strong reaction from Claudius, even if Claudius were not old Hamlet's killer. Yes, the audience may know that Hamlet's uncle killed the rightful king; but young Hamlet doesn't know that at all. To find out is, he says, his whole reason for staging "The Mousetrap." But curiously enough, what he presents is a play that seems designed to prevent him from finding out. "In Hamlet's play it is a nephew, Lucianus, who murders his uncle, Gonzago. Claudius, even if he were innocent, would have every right, given Hamlet's erratic behavior, to take this as a barely veiled threat. Since Claudius's reaction to 'The Mousetrap' could verify either of two hypotheses, it ultimately fails to reveal the truth."
To complicate matters even further, the audience, too, must render judgment. If "The Mousetrap" was Hamlet's way of capturing the conscience of but one king, all of Shakespeare's plays are "trial scenes" of a sort; that is, they are Shakespeare's way of trapping audiences into rendering a "verdict." At the close of The Tempest , for example, Shakespeare, with a self-consciousness about the theatrical arts typical of much of his writing, even engages in a witty riff on the Catholic belief in indulgences: Prospero appeals to his "jury," the audience, to judge the play not according to its poor "merits" but by the audience's merciful "indulgence," that is, by its benign, all-forgiving applause:
And my ending is despair
Unless I be relieved by prayer,
Which pierces so that it assaults
Mercy itself and frees all faults.
As you from crimes wouldpardoned be,
Let your indulgence set me free.
Audiences are always complicit in plays, and in no plays more than in Shakespeare's. I have seen productions of The Merchant of Venice that make Shylock an oily misanthrope and deliberately play up the anti-Semitic tropes of medieval and Renaissance Europe, and others where Portia seems to be cynically mouthing mercy while Shylock actually embodies it (or at least justice). And Shakespeare notoriously left the ending of Measure for Measure up to the director. That play revolves around a man in late-medieval Vienna whom the viceroy of the absent Duke sentences to death for fornication. The man's sister, who has just entered a convent, comes to plead for mercy for her brother; and the viceroy promises amnesty only if she will bed with him. Unbeknownst to the viceroy, the Duke is back in town (disguised as a monk, of course) and the "monk" arranges for this illegal tryst to be kept not by the condemned man's sister but by a fiancée whom the viceroy had previously jilted; thus the viceroy will be caught in fornication himself, while the sister's virtue will be preserved.
At the end all is revealed, the viceroy marries his fiancée, the convicted fornicator marries the woman he had violated, who was, after all, his intended spouse—and the Duke, doffing his monk's robe, proposes marriage to the novice nun. Having hotly refused the viceroy earlier (much to the consternation of her brother), does she accept the Duke's almost equally impertinent offer? The play doesn't say, for it ends there. A director may have her walk off in a huff or take his hand while the curtain falls; I have seen it staged both ways (and both leave a rather unpleasant taste in the mouths of spectators).
So who knows what Shakespeare's religious convictions were? No one, probably. But at least Kermode, Wood, and Bernthal can confirm this historical fact: he knew his theology, Catholic and Protestant. What audiences and readers make of that, it seems, is up to them. I predict that this debate on Shakespeare's religion (just like that on his politics) will never be resolved. That's the great advantage of being in the theater: people never know for sure what to think of you.
Edward T. Oakes, S.J. is coeditor, with David Moss, of The Cambridge Companion to Hans Urs von Balthasar, forthcoming in the Fall of 2004 from Cambridge University Press.
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Return to the MECCA: Bucks play Celtics October 26
By iHeartMedia Sports Staff Aug 29, 2017
The Milwaukee Bucks will host the Boston Celtics at UW-Milwaukee Panther Arena, formerly known as the MECCA, on Oct. 26, at 7 p.m. The "Return to the MECCA" game is part of the Bucks' celebration of their 50th Anniversary season and will be broadcast on TNT. "The Original Buck" Jon McGlocklin was joined by Bucks forward Jabari Parker and Bucks President Peter Feigin at UW-Milwaukee Panther Arena today where the announcement was made along with the unveiling of the Bucks' Classic Edition uniform.
The Bucks' Classic Edition uniform will make its season debut for the "Return to the MECCA" matchup against the Celtics. The uniform is Nike's modern take on the original Bucks uniform from 1968 and will be worn on select dates throughout the 2017-18 season. Photos of the Classic Edition uniform can be found here.
The Bucks called the MECCA home from their inaugural season in 1968 until 1988, and played the Celtics 48 times during the regular season at the MECCA, going 30-18 in those games. Milwaukee compiled a 582-209 home record in 20 seasons at the approximately 11,000-seat MECCA and made 16 playoff appearances, won 12 division championships and two conference titles. In just their third season, the Bucks compiled a 34-2 record at the MECCA and went on to win the 1971 NBA Championship. "Return to the MECCA" will be the first time the Bucks have hosted a regular season home game off-site in Wisconsin since they played three regular season home games in Madison during the 1974-75 season.
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T-Mobile (TMUS) Stock Advancing, Upgraded at Wells Fargo
T-Mobile's (TMUS) stock rating was raised to 'outperform' from 'market perform' at Wells Fargo on Monday morning.
Kaya Yurieff
Aug 29, 2016 9:58 AM EDT
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Shares of T-Mobile USA (TMUS) - Get Free Report were gaining in early-morning trading on Monday as Wells Fargo boosted its rating on the stock to "outperform" from "market perform," the Fly reports.
The firm also increased its price target range to $52 to $54 from $48 to $50 on shares of the Bellevue, WA-based wireless carrier.
Wells Fargo said the company's free cash flow should ramp significantly in 2017, the Fly noted.
Additionally, T-Mobile should see ongoing positive momentum in subscriber growth and will be helped by merger and acquisition speculation following the U.S. presidential election, the firm added.
Separately, TheStreet Ratings Team has a "Buy" rating with a score of B on the stock.
The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, good cash flow from operations, expanding profit margins, notable return on equity and solid stock price performance.
The team believes its strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had sub par growth in net income.
Recently, TheStreet Ratings objectively rated this stock according to its "risk-adjusted" total return prospect over a 12-month investment horizon. Not based on the news in any given day, the rating may differ from Jim Cramer's view or that of this articles's author.
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How Long Can Homemade Gelato Last? (Perfect answer)
After everything is said and done, no matter how watertight your gelato's container is, putting it in the freezer for an extended period of time may have an adverse effect on its taste and texture. Gelato should be enjoyed within a week or two of purchase to ensure maximum enjoyment.
No matter how watertight your gelato's container is, putting it in the freezer for an extended period of time might have a negative affect on the flavor and texture of the gelato. Gelato should be consumed within a week or two of purchase in order to be enjoyed.
Refrigerate the mixture for at least 4 hours, but ideally overnight, when it has cooled down completely in a well covered container. After that, you'll be able to turn it into gelato.
How long is homemade gelato good for?
Transfer the gelato to an airtight container and freeze for at least two hours, or until it is solid. STORAGE: The gelato can keep for up to 1 month if kept in the freezer. SERVING: Always bring the gelato to room temperature 10 to 15 minutes before serving to allow it to soften and become easier to scoop out of the container.
How long can you keep homemade gelato in the freezer?
Gelato shelf life can be extended if proper storage conditions are followed, allowing the product to last anywhere from 3 months to 9 months, depending on the flavor.
How long does gelato last in fridge?
Ice cream does go bad, and it may make you sick if eaten in large quantities. Technically, ice cream will be safe to consume for up to three or four months after it has been made. It's important to note that we indicated ice cream will be edible for six weeks, not just fresh. It is after six weeks that ice cream begins to lose its perfect taste and texture.
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Can gelato be kept in the fridge?
It is best to store gelato in the freezer to ensure that it lasts longer; however, if the refrigerator is sufficiently chilly, you may also store gelato in the refrigerator. This particular form of gelato refrigerator will maintain a cold temperature, ensuring that the gelato is neither too soft nor too hard to consume and enjoy while it is in the refrigerator.
How long can you keep gelato?
How do you maintain gelato?
The solution: Keep your gelato or ice cream in your freezer at a constant temperature at all times; the colder the temperature, the longer the gelato or ice cream will keep. In addition, it should go without saying that you should carry your gelato from the shop to your freezer in the coolest and quickest manner possible!
Why is my homemade gelato icy?
Low total solids, too much water, insufficient or incorrect stabilizers are the main causes of icy gelato. What to do: increase the number of solids in order to lower the amount of water, add thickeners up to 0.5 percent, and use strong thickeners that are specifically designed for gelato (no starches or other weak ones).
Does gelato freeze?
Gelato, on the other hand, tends to freeze into an ice brick. As a result, gelato is served at greater temperatures than other desserts. If left in the freezer at this temperature for more than three to four hours, it will harden and become ice in texture. Yes, you may take it out of the freezer for a few minutes to allow it to soften.
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Why is my gelato grainy?
When ice cream is melted and then refrozen, it can have a gritty texture. When this occurs, the little ice crystals melt and refreeze, resulting in the formation of huge ice crystals. In addition, large ice crystals can develop as a result of evaporation, which occurs when moisture is lost and then recrystallizes within the container.
How do you keep gelato cold?
Dry ice is the quickest and most effective method of keeping ice cream frozen in a cooler. Dry ice is carbon dioxide that has been frozen, and it is far colder than ordinary ice. Dry ice has a temperature of -109.3°F (-78.5°C), which is even colder than your refrigerator's freezer. It is unquestionably chilly enough to keep your ice cream from melting.
How do you soften gelato?
To soften ice cream in the refrigerator, transfer it from the freezer to the refrigerator 20-30 minutes before using it to prevent it from becoming hard. Alternatively, let it to sit at room temperature for 10-15 minutes. The hard ice cream can also be softened in the microwave for around 30 seconds at 30% of its original power.
How do you defrost gelato?
Take your ice cream out of the freezer and set it aside. Allow it to soften for a few minutes, but no more than five—you just want it to thaw long enough to allow you to get it out of the container safely. To make the ice cream, place it in the bowl of a stand mixer* fitted with the paddle attachment and mix until smooth. Slowly increase the speed to medium until the ice cream is smooth and creamy.
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How long does gelato take to set?
Removing your ice cream from the freezer is the first step. You just want to thaw it for a few minutes, no more than five, since you only want it to be soft enough to be removed from the container. Using the paddle attachment on a stand mixer*, combine the ice cream and the remaining ingredients. Turn the mixer down to medium and continue mixing until the ice cream becomes smooth and creamy.
How far in advance can I make ice cream base?
Making ice cream at home requires planning ahead of time. Make the ice cream base one day before you want to churn it and refrigerate it overnight (at least 12 hours)—this is referred to as 'curing' the ice cream.
How do you save a Mcflurry for later?
In the event that you allow it to melt in the fridge and then refreeze it, you will notice that it has a different texture. It has the potential to form ice crystals or become ultra solid. Keeping it in the freezer is highly recommended.
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CEA's Healthy Home Tips: Keeping a Dry Home, from the Inside.
Dry your clothes outside. One load of washing can release up to 5 litres of moisture into the air. Make use of the sunny days and dry your washing outside. If you must dry inside, put your airing rack in a garage or unused bedroom (away from main living areas) preferably with a window open. If you use a dryer make sure it is vented to outside.
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Lena Dunham, creator and star of the HBO series Girls, is taking on a new project for the cable network. Dunham will join Konrad Kay and Mickey Down for Industry, an eight-episode drama, according to THR.
The series is reportedly set in the world of international finance and based on the lives of Kay and Down. There is no word on whether or not Dunham will play a role in the series.
Industry was written by Kay and Down, who will executive produce the series. Dunham will direct the pilot in addition to executive producing. They are known for the feature film Gregor. Bad Wolf (The Night Of, His Dark Materials) will produce the series. The series will explore the world of finance through the experiences of 20-somethings trying to work in the industry.
According to the site, the series "follows a group of young graduates competing for a limited set of permanent positions at a top investment bank in London — but the boundaries between colleague, friend, lover and enemy soon blur as they immerse themselves in a company culture defined as much by sex, drugs and ego as it is by deals and dividends. As members of the group rise and fall, they must decide whether life is about more than the bottom line." It will be shot in Cardiff this summer.
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In 2009 we were able to get approval from the parish administration to have the 3,949.2 sq.ft. grass space with 5 trees on it to relocate our preschool playground.
We launched our nature playground project in 2010 by first educating Sts Peter & Paul parish families about the need to ensure that children are given opportunities to be in touch with nature in our preschool curriculum. We outlined our goals to create an accredited Nature Explore Classroom through Dimensions and the Arbor Day Foundation. We accomplished this through an article in our parish newsletter which featured a photo of our Science Observation Garden that had already been completed with the donated help of a parish member who has a landscape business, my brother-in-law, and my sister.
In several special news features to our preschool families, we laid out our plans, the specific nature features that we were hoping to have, and I requested their help of time, talents, and money donations. I also included a copy of information from the Nature Explore Resources that explained the research-based findings of connecting children with nature and what a Nature Explore Program should include.
The response was amazing…more than we hoped for in that first year! At our annual year-end celebration that year, we were presented with a large sum of money that had been secretly collected from all of the preschool families to be used to start creating the nature features. Two of our preschool families organized two other fundraisers for the playground the following school year. One of our preschool teachers created a story photo book using photos of our preschoolers in it, and we sold copies of the books as a fundraiser for the playground as well. Several families contacted me as an offer to make specific nature features with my direction. We would work on the special features each summer when preschool was not in session.
Every fall when school would start we would send preschool families a special flyer to update them on the continued progress and thanking the special groups or families that had helped us to complete the additional nature features on the playground. We had full support and encouragement from our principal, Mrs. Kalyn Herrmann, for all fundraisers and family projects. We posted photos of our new playground features on our parish/school website, and we also submitted photos and articles about our nature playground progress each year in our local newspaper, The Star-Times. As children play in our completed nature playground, various photos are taken and posted on our Kinder Haus Facebook page, so parents can see the benefit of how their child learns through nature.
Several older children and teens, who were former preschool students at Kinder Haus, contacted me and asked if they could help in any way– from removing sod, laying up a small stone wall, and weeding chores during the summer. One former student donated a music/tone panel out of PVC pipes that she & her father made at school.
A scout from a local Boy Scout Troop contacted us to see if there was something he and his troop could construct or do for us on our playground to earn his Eagle Scout Badge. The whole troop and their fathers helped remove sod and lay stones for our Diggin' In The Dirt area, and they created an arch using fencing to make our vine arbor area. We were so grateful for that Boy Scout's help and for the opportunity to help him become an Eagle Scout!
One of the ways that we continue to bring about awareness of connecting children with nature is to host a special time for families to see their children playing, exploring, and making discoveries in our nature playground. During the beginning of the school year as part of our "Get Acquainted Evening" event where we have orientation for children and their parents, we end the evening by taking all of the parents and children into our special nature playground and again during one of our year-end events as well.
Approximately 40 families were directly involved in organizing and doing the actual labor or because of their business affiliation. However, including all who donated money and have had children in our playground and received the education about the importance of nature play through the past 7 years of this project, the total number of families would be around 66 families each of those 7 years (over 400 families).


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A Turkish startup: save food, save money, save the Earth
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A brand new startup brings together food vendors and customers by offering large discounts on surplus food, preventing food loss and aiming for a profit at the same time.
A UN study published in 2011 warns that " roughly one-third of food produced for human consumption is lost or wasted globally, which amounts to about 1.3 billion tons per year."
A start up company in Turkey aims to change that - at least for residents of Istanbul for now. It is called Oreka and it is a young business, having launched in September 2020. The company is currently going through a growth process, say its co-founders Daniel Alp Rizo and Ethem Ozcan.
Oreka bridges the gap as a mid-partner between premium food producers and sellers. In essence, when markets, cafes,and patisseries have surplus product at the end of the day, Oreka are able to discount the goods by 50 percent, or more, sometimes, and offer them to be purchased by users of their app. Once they have done this, the buyer can go directly to the vendor, a cafe, for example, in person to collect the goods.
"Oreka helps food sellers monetise unsold food and gain new customers, while aiding customers buy premium goods at a discount," Rizo says. "Not to mention there is the environmental impact: there is less loss of food at the end of the day."
The partners attended a Sustainable Food Summit in Istanbul in 2019 and the idea for the Oreka app was born.
While the app focuses on sustainability and green economy, it does aim to make money by taking a small commission from vendors.
"According to the Economist magazine's Food Sustainability Index," Rizo tells TRT World, "among 82 countries Turkey ranked 80th – third from the bottom – in Food Loss and Waste."
"Based on 2018 data, Turkey's food loss and waste adds up to 214 billion lira [$34 billion]," Ozcan adds.
Oreka co-founders Ethem Ozcan (L) and Daniel Alp Rizo. (Courtesy of Oreka)
The co-founders say, theoretically, anyone could be an Oreka customer, but that their demographic is likely to be a young, smartphone-using one, and people generally concerned about the environment.
When asked about whether refugees could use the app, they are somewhat more cautious. "The vendors we have done deals with so far have been premium locations and require bank or credit cards," Rizo says.
There are, to date, 450 users, but it is good news for an app that only launched weeks ago and that already boasts 14 existing deals with vendors, companies such as Pokemate, Brod, Spada Coffee, Socrates Bistro and Backhaus. Ozcan says they have already brokered deals with another 75 vendors that are not yet on the app, but their focus is on expanding in a controlled manner.
Currently, this intelligent, Earth-friendly app serves the neighbourhoods of Sisli, Beyoglu and Besiktas. "We are growing fast," Ozcan notes, "and we ultimately want to be available beyond Istanbul, throughout Turkey, and have plans to expand overseas as well."
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Hedwig Grossman (later Lehmann) was born in Berlin, Germany to a secular family of industrialists. In 1919–1925, she worked as a Zionist youth leader for Blau-Weiss. In 1933, she immigrated to the Land of Israel with her sculptor husband Rudi Lehmann, settling in Haifa.
Grossman was one of the first Israeli artists to use local clays and derive inspiration from Arab pottery. In 1935, Grossman established a flower pot factory and ceramic workshop at Kibbutz Yagur. In 1937, the couple moved to Jerusalem. In 1953, she was one of the founders of the Artists' Colony in Ein Hod, where she lived until 1957. In 1959, the couple moved to Givatayim, where they established a municipal art school.
Grossman's ceramic works made use of local Land of Israel materials and natural colors, and show the influence of archaeological findings. In the early 1950s,she began to produce woodcuts.
In 1973, Grossman's book "Terra Cotta" won a special mention in the Israel Museum's International Art Book Competition.


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The kitschy place was even the setting for several K-Pop videos (Korean pop, for the uninitiated). But the privately-owned property opens to the public twice a year, with one event in September and one in June. And if you want to see it, you won't be breaking and entering: For a fee, you'll be allowed to look around. See more ideas about Lenawee county, Michigan, Pure michigan. Tina Donvito is a regular contributor to RD.com's Culture and Travel sections. A history themed park of the early 1960's, this park spanned 85 acres and was … Leadley would die in 1897 in a freak accident, and the park was sold in 1903 to the Lansing City Electric Railroad Company. According to Imgur user … Mrs. Lawrence collected fares while her husband operated it. When Electric Park opened in 1906, the Detroit Free Press proclaimed it "the greatest electrical display ever seen outside of the Pan-American Exposition." But the place never opened, reportedly due to financial difficulties. 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But if you stop by today, you might not be alone: Rumors of roaming crocodiles have plagued the park, although reports say the creatures have been removed. With the business doing well, the two men decided they wanted to give tourists more to do. But the explosion at the plant occurred just a few days prior on April 26, so it never happened—although according to some reports, officials opened the park early to keep residents busy before evacuation orders were given. The park opened in 1990 and the attractions included miniature golf, go-karts, an indoor arcade, and a small collection of amusement park rides aimed at children 12 and younger. Louis Wallace and Logan Drake were partners in the boat building business. Dreamland Park began with a dark past that would continue to get darker. What's scarier than a wooden roller coaster, freakier than a funhouse, and more chilling than a clown? These are the spookiest places you can stay. 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For 80 years, the St. Joseph waterfront was home to the Silver Beach Amusement Park. The trolley line was then extended to Lake Lansing with a loop at the campgrounds. Entering this desolate place in Berlin on your own is verboten … New content will be added above the current area of focus upon selection Drake's fiance coined the name "Silver Beach" because the moon path on the water "shimmered like silver.". Built on the grounds of a pre–Civil War mill, Bongoland opened in the late 1940s and featured concrete dinosaurs, animals including the park's namesake monkey Bongo, a replica of a Native American village, and a kiddie train. Nature Is Reclaiming This One Abandoned Spot In Ohio And It's Actually Amazing. Its name was changed to Waverly Park the following year, and the Lansing and Suburban Traction Company began adding attractions. But you can boat or kayak by the remains, listening for the ghostly sounds of long-past visitors. And there was the well-known Palais de Danse, a dance hall built over the Detroit River. The quarter-mile long roller coaster made the distance in about 1½ minutes, with an estimated speed down the first dip at 75 miles per hour. Check out this collection of abandoned parks across the nation. Another FYI: Locals may ask you for a "donation" to see the site. The park was located just north of Atlanta adjacent to White Water waterpark. Ever wonder what Michigan's old amusement parks were like? The largest ride at… In one of the more head scratching entries on our list, Holy Land USA's eventual closure shouldn't come as that much of… Spreepark IIINo longer in operation, the ride here deteriorates over time. After dark, the lights are even turned back on, creating an atmosphere of chills and thrills even without going on any of the derelict rides. Find the best Amusement Parks near you on Yelp - see all Amusement Parks open now. But the most famous, the Disneyland-inspired Dreamland, became more of a nightmare than a dream. Find abandoned places near your current location, or search for a place to target. Fun and games definitely sell…except when they don't. When my family and I passed this Abandoned Amusement park on our way to Chattanooga, we made a note to stop and visit it on our way home. Freedomland – NY. Box 38 Charlestown, IN 47111 812-256-5600 Mapping Address: 12500 Indiana 62 Charlestown, IN 47111 Subscribe to email newsletter After an auditorium, horseback riding and dancing were added, Shaw erected a 7-foot picket fence around the property and charged a dime for admission. Some say the place is haunted and even claim to have seen ghosts of the park's victims. The "Chase through the Clouds", or the "Figure 8" rollercoaster was built in 1904 and 1905. But beware of falling dinos: This summer, the crumbling T. rex toppled after heavy rain. Boomers! Another "woulda coulda shoulda" amusement park, Fantasy World's owners had, well, fantasies of it becoming a Philippine Disneyland. It would never reopen, and it's now one of the attractions that are so creepy, they're off-limits to tourists. She also writes about health and wellness, parenting, and pregnancy. The communist-era park opened in 1969 East Germany, but it was closed in 2001 and left to the elements. Today, it's one of the creepy but real ghost towns around the world. In addition to attractions such as "the Great Chick," a comedian and "tramp cyclist," there were high wire and circus acts, a windmill, a giant Ferris wheel and a scale model of the 1889 flood of Johnstown, Pennsylvania. And a moving stairway was installed to carry people from the foot of the bluff. The park closed in 1917, a victim of the growing popularity of the Pine Lake Park at what is now Lake Lansing. Location Class: • Amusement Park Status: • Abandoned • Gutted Photojournalist: • Cody Cooper • Justin Tyler Moore • Michael Schwarz • Mary Evans This 75-acre theme park was built for $100 million … These 10 Defunct Amusement Parks Are Totally Abandoned, But Are Actually More Fun That Way. Amusement Parks and Arcades for sale Showing 1 - 25 of 35. After gaining popularity as an off-the-beaten-path destination for urban explorers, the place is now open for visitors through official tours only. This country is filled with abandoned amusement and theme parks that, for one reason or another, have gone silent. His wife and infant son, George Jr., joined him soon after and the family set up housekeeping in a shack underneath the ride. Beware of this cursed amusement park: Like something out of a horror movie, Lake Shawnee was reportedly built on an Indian burial ground. An open-ended roller skating rink north of the Natorium was built in 1905, followed by a dance pavilion and casino. Sports Business In Bergen County; Location: Bergen County, New Jersey, US Description: Indoor sports activities have resumed with an easing of the NJ pandemic restrictions, and this indoor sports business is enjoying a full resurgence. It's a popular spot for paranormal investigators, and every Halloween, the spot hosts a "Dark Carnival" with tours, ghost stories, a corn maze, and campouts. Tucked away in Medina County there's a rusted, long forgotten ferris wheel. The "Bug" was a colorful metal caterpillar replica that traveled along a moderately steep rail of "ups and downs." The Detroit area was once home to several amusement parks, among them Edgewater Amusement Park, Riverview Park, Eastwood Amusement Park and Electric Park. Amusement park accidents that left us all shaken. It now features toppled dinosaur statues, rusting roller coasters, and a track leading into a surreal monster mouth. The city of Detroit condemned several of the park's rides and buildings and closed the park completely in 1927. Structures were to be built in different styles, including a Muslim minaret, Chinese pagodas, and a faux-medieval castle. Merry-go-round carousel builder Fred Dolle of North Bergen, New Jersey, constructed the ride and operated it at Silver Beach until 1930 when Drake bought the ride outright. Where else can you see ruins of a sugar mill, a botanical garden—and a dinosaur theme park? A 14-year-old girl was caught by strangers after falling from a gondola ride at a Six Flags park in New York. It was demolished in 1928. Follow her on Twitter @vickkiD. Seph Lawless has explored abandoned places all over the world, especially abandoned Ohio and haunted places like amusement parks. Spreepark, Germany. But before you go, make sure to check out these insider secrets from a Disney World superfan. Forty-five years after opening in 1961, Dreamland closed and was left to rot, not to be seen again except by the urban explorers who dared to enter illegally. Entering this desolate place in Berlin on your own is verboten (forbidden in German) and for good reason. Due to declining patronage, and a disastrous balloon exhibition in 1924 that resulted in the death of the featured performer, the park closed to the public in May of 1925. After this Port Orange attraction closed in 1952, it was abandoned for decades; today, gardens surround the old prehistoric creatures, which remain as spooky relics of the park's past. Florida Splendid China // Four Corners, Florida. Ho Thuy Tien's giant dragon looms over a sci-fi-looking aquarium, welcoming visitors to this now-algae-covered water park. The roller coaster, "Big Easy" Ferris Wheel, and other rides are now deserted—if you don't count the snakes and alligators wandering through them. The park was opened briefly in 2004, despite being only partially completed. If you're looking to plan a more traditional trip, check out this list of the best amusement parks in America. THEME parks are often packed with thrill-seekers queuing up to get on the latest ride however these creepy images show what they look like when no one uses them. It began operating by 1916. She earned a BA in English and History from Rutgers University. The origins of this never-opened Indonesian amusement park are mysterious—it's not even known exactly why tourists never got to ride its rides or stroll its paths. If you like taking trips on the proverbial road less traveled, check out these truly bizarre tourist destinations. Explore other popular activities near you from over 7 million businesses with … American Adventures was a small amusement park and family entertainment center. During the park's peak, between 1911 and 1915, 15,000 patrons or more visited the resort each day. There were also plans for a zoo and a racetrack. It was torn down in 1923, to make way for the "Velvet" rollercoaster. Now overgrown with weeds, the rides rusting and paint peeling off the castle, Fantasy World is finding new life as a "photo park." For a fee, you can enter the property, look around, and take pictures of the eerie theme park that never was. The Palais de Danse burned down in 1911 and the park went through many legal battles which threatened the ownership and existence of the park during the 1920s. Here work was selected by author Elizabeth Gilbert to be included in the anthology Eat Pray Love Made Me Do It: Life Journeys Inspired by the Bestselling Memoir. It had a resort hotel, called Leadley's Park Hotel. Many of the power plant's workers and their families lived in the town, where the park was set to open for the May Day celebration on May 1, 1986. This "city of toys" was conceived in the 1960s as an adult amusement park, a Las Vegas–style resort in the middle of Italy just an hour from Milan. It's one of the most bizarre sights at any abandoned amusement park, and one of the most chilling photos of abandoned places around the world. The "House of Mysteries," which would be like a modern spookhouse or mirror maze, came along in 1907. Built in … Hamel's Amusement Park … This 1970s-era, Wizard of Oz–inspired attraction isn't a functioning theme park anymore, and most of the year, it stands empty in Beech Mountain, North Carolina. Photojournalist Seph Lawless has taken pictures of 10 abandoned theme parks around the US. The roller coaster was one of the attractions at Oakwood Park, an amusement park in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Nay Aug Park (1931-1990) Scranton, Lackawanna County. It was located at the entrance to Belle Isle in what is now Gabriel Richard Park. Visitors to the camp could lease a tent that would shelter 50 people for $2.50 for the season. The Patriotic Palace is located on Interstate 75, exit 141, a lonely and sad reminder of….what? Yongma Land Abandoned Theme Park. You decide. A roller coaster was erected, and there was a merry-go-round, penny arcade, steamer rides on the Grand River, donkey cart rides for kids, hot air balloon ascensions and more. Urban theme parks were often shuttered in part due to racist discrimination. Still, we don't recommend getting in the murky water—or trying the rickety waterslides. The Thrill Is Gone. We recommend our users to update the browser. Our search engine has helped millions of people scout out thousands of locations across the world, from derelict buildings to abandoned theme parks.. While you can't stay here overnight, you can rent these 8 haunted places on Airbnb. Previously editor-in-chief of Twist magazine, Donvito has also written for Parade Magazine, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Parents Magazine online, among others. I'm really not sure, as I have been unable to find any specific information regarding this amusement park. Lansing State Journal rounded up parks you may remember and some you probably never knew existed. Electric Park had several roller coasters with names like the Big Dipper. We are no longer supporting IE (Internet Explorer) as we strive to provide site experiences for browsers that support new web standards and security practices. July 6, 2016 ... it closed in the mid-80s and sat abandoned and neglected for decades. This book seeks to serve as a collection of photos of abandoned and decaying buildings that litter the towns and cities of Southern Michigan, from a massive abandoned paper mill near Kalamazoo to the skeletal remains of the once thriving industries of Detroit, and an amalgam of now abandoned amusement parks, roadside attractions, and factories in between, from Adrian to Saginaw. Mailing Address: P.O. Aug 15, 2015 - Explore Jane Koehn's board "Michigan Ghost Towns" on Pinterest. If you love a good scare, check out these 12 true stories about the world's most haunted forests. Pine Lake became a popular gathering place in 1883 when Spencer Shaw purchased the land and set aside a portion of it for spiritualist camp meetings. On the north bank of the Ohio River in Charlestown State Park, the remains of the Rose Island Abandoned Theme Park serve as a ghostly reminder … Cave City, Kentucky. The first ride was a 65-foot figure-eight roller coaster known as the Cyclone. Dreamland Park. 6 Christian Amusement Parks and Crazy Attractions That Have Actually Existed by Jesse Carey. 16 strange abandoned places in Pennsylvania, from theme parks to trolley graveyards The march of time has left behind a number of abandoned and overgrown places all throughout Pennsylvania. But tragedy struck in 1976 when a landslide destroyed the road to the city. Nay Aug Park still stands as a municipal … Today, you can take a tour of the grim place. Plenty of old carney magic still haunts this photogenic amusement park. Here are a few of the lost and abandoned amusement parks in Michigan: For 80 years, the St. Joseph waterfront was home to the Silver Beach Amusement Park. The plans for the sprawling complex were abandoned, the half-finished buildings left to decay. Although not strictly abandoned, it's still creepy to think of the yellow brick road winding its way through the woods with no one to follow it except the wind. Here are some other forbidden places no one will ever be allowed to visit. Near the end of the 1800s, water slides were anchored in shallow water for children, and soon other buildings and eventually a boardwalk were erected. Your California Privacy Rights/Privacy Policy. The name comes from the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, which was the gold standard of expositions at the time. Lawrence and his family lived there until 1925. The tragic story of this Ukraine amusement park centers on the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl, a couple of miles away from Pripyat, one of 14 historic places that are now abandoned. On Aug. 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast, washing out … Some days, as many as 800 people would be at the campgrounds. The decrepit remains of a park that once rung with children's screams—screams of happiness, that is. See more ideas about ghost towns, michigan, ghost. Lake Lansing Amusement Park was considered the premier amusement park in mid-Michigan in its heyday. Take a visual stroll through these abandoned amusement parks around the world, some of which you can also take an actual stroll through…if you dare. But this sad memorial may soon be gone, as plans for its demolition were recently announced. Want to be creeped out all through the night? It had a nickelodeon theater, dance hall and band stand. The park also featured tilt-a-whirls, flying scooters, a "Fun in the Dark" ride and a miniature train. Some of the theme parks, like Lake Shawnee Park in West Virginia, closed down after guests died at the park. The pool used lake water that was heated by a steam furnace. The haunting pictures show graffiti, decrepit rides, and … It's far from the first accident at America's amusement parks this past year. Amusement parks usually conjure up images of soaring, spinning thrill rides, … These abandoned historic sites are too dangerous to visit. Looking like reinforced concrete reflections of topographic terrain, the abandoned ruins of once raucous … Racism, Riots, and Euclid Beach Park. Located on the east side of Waverly Road on the Grand River, the park was named after Gottlieb Leadley, its owner. Back then, "White City" was a very popular name for amusement parks. Top 5 Scary Abandoned Amusement Parks YOU'D NEVER WANT TO VISIT! Its doors were shut nearly a hundred years later in 1993, and the area is now closed to the public. What what was once Chippewa Lake Park is now just a few piles of amusement park ruins and the lone ferris wheel. George G. Lawrence and his family made their home inside a roller coaster. Please note, the locations listed are not a comprehensive listing; they are the … Here are a few of the lost and abandoned amusement parks in Michigan: Silver Beach Amusement Park. The roller coaster and other buildings in the park area were to be taken down and the materials sold for scrap, burned, dumped in the lake or otherwise discarded. Japan has more than its fair share of abandoned amusement parks. Article by Steve, filed under Abandoned Places in the Architecture category. Just on the brinks of the largest city in Canada, lays the now dilapidated theme park and permanent worlds fair, Ontario Place. Around 1929, the Spiritualist camp was sold to the Haslett Park Association, and eventually it became an amusement park. Around the same time, the town and the state began buying the property in stages. Explorers should watch out for what was planned to be a crocodile pit—or more accurately, for the ravenous reptiles who may now be wandering free. This episode of The Abandoned Carousel gives a broad overview of 20th century recreation riots and urban theme park closures, … The park they built operated from 1891 to 1971. The amusement park closed in 1994 and sat abandoned for years before its remains were finally demolished out of concern for public safety. One of those buildings was a bathhouse and swimming pool, which gave park bathers a choice of swimming in the lake or a large indoor pool, a rarity at the time. Picture an 1898 Victorian amusement park: music from an organ grinder, women's skirts swishing around the dance hall, children's laughter echoing from the various newfangled rides. Boarded Up: 15 Rad & Gnarly Abandoned Skate Parks. In the 18th century, a bloody confrontation erupted between Native Americans and a colonial family who attempted to settle here. Contact Vickki Dozier at (517) 267-1342 or vdozier@lsj.com. Both parks are owned and operated by the same organization. Since then, the abandoned Ferris wheel has become a symbol of the ill-fated town. Once the announcement was made to leave, everyone fled almost immediately, leaving the park (and everything else) to the elements. Oakwood Park opened to the public in June of 1907. Six Flags: New Orleans. Today, Taman Festival is being consumed by the jungle, an example of what happens when nature takes over abandoned places, and it is also covered with vibrant graffiti. The men built cottages along the beach then added concessions, games, then a photo studio, other shops and a pavilion. This once-sparkling place of merriment now stands as an eerie reminder of the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, which flooded the city and closed the park in 2005. A merry-go-round carousel and organ were imported from Germany, with hand carved horses wearing jeweled saddles and real horsehair tails. Lawrence's father, George Lawrence Sr., came to the Kalamazoo area in 1917 from New York, to operate the roller coaster, according to Keith Howard at the Kalamazoo Public Library. Over a century later, the amusement park opened on the site in the 1920s—until closing in 1966 after the accidental deaths of two young patrons, including one on the spooky circular swing that still stands. Discover Cascade Park in New Castle, Pennsylvania: This public space is speckled with the eerie remnants of a defunct amusement park. The park's historic Denzel carousel was added in 1942, and remained until 1971, when it was dismantled and sold to Cedar Point for use in its Frontier Land. The now abandoned Geauga Lake amusement park was visited and documented by Lawless several times over the years starting in 2010 making him one of the first to take photographs of it and is why you can see rides and other roller coasters in his images … But the premier attraction was the "Dizzy Figure-8" roller coaster. It languished until 2013 when the land was bought and the park was demolished in 2017—but not before being immortalized by photographer Romain Veillon. 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Can we prove that $J^2 =-{\rm Id}_V$?

My guess would be "no". If this is the case, then what I want to confirm is: when people are talking about compatible triples in a Kähler vector space and they say that either two of the structures actually determines the remaining one, is $J$ assumed to be a complex structure (or even exist) to begin with?

A: Nevermind, I got it. The following are equivalent:

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How to Get an Annulment in Texas
by Megan Thompson, Legal Writer from Lawrina
Divorce vs. Annulment: What's the Difference?
Grounds for an Annulment in Texas
How Do I Get an Annulment in Texas?
How Long Do You Have to Annul a Marriage?
What is the Cost of an Annulment in Texas?
Many people assume that marriage can only end in either divorce or death. However, in Texas, a couple can also legally separate through a marriage annulment. Annulments are not as well-known as divorce, as they are only an option for marriages in Texas that were never valid nor legal. In other words, an annulment makes it as if the marriage never legally existed in the first place. A judge will decide whether there are grounds for an annulment or whether the couple is instead required to go through the process of divorce.
For people navigating these types of separations, the process can seem complicated. However, the entire annulment process is governed by Texas annulment laws. In this article, we look at these laws in more detail and answer all there is to know about how to get an annulment in Texas.
An annulment is a form of legal separation that a judge grants to married couples whose marriage is deemed invalid. An "invalid marriage" refers to any marriage that was entered into under false pretenses. The legal proceedings of the annulment essentially make it as if the invalid marriage never occurred in the first place. After an annulment, both spouses will be single with no legal ties to the other person. Therefore, any couples that are not in a valid marriage can make a petition to the courts and start researching how to file for an annulment in Texas.
In Texas, a divorce and an annulment are separate legal proceedings. Both are a legal form of separation in which two spouses split. However, when going through the process of divorce, courts recognize the initial marriage as legal and valid. While this marriage did legally exist at one point, following the divorce proceedings, it has now legally ended. On the contrary, a marriage annulment in Texas refers to the termination of a marriage that was never legally valid to begin with.
Whether the judge decides that a marriage is annulled or not depends on the specifics of the marriage in question. To pursue an annulment, the marriage must be deemed invalid. According to the Texas family code, below are all the possible grounds under which a marriage may be eligible for an annulment:
Incest: If after the marriage it has been discovered that the two spouses are blood relatives, the marriage is considered invalid on the grounds of incest. To be considered as an incest relationship, the spouses' relation must be closer than first cousins, such as a parent (mother or father), sibling (brother or sister), aunt, or uncle.
Bigamy: If one or both of the spouses are already in legally binding marriages, this is considered bigamy. It is illegal for anyone to be in two marriages at once in Texas, thus the second marriage is invalid and can be annulled. Alternatively, the second marriage can become valid if the prior marriage is dissolved.
Under the Influence: If it can be proven that one of the spouses was under the influence of drugs or alcohol at the time the marriage took place, it may be considered invalid. This can usually only be used as grounds for an annulment if the intoxicated spouse has not voluntarily cohabited with their partner since the effects of the drugs/alcohol have worn off.
Under Age: According to Texas law, the legal age for marriage without parental consent or a court order is eighteen. If it is found that a spouse enters a marriage when they are under age, the marriage is deemed invalid and offers grounds for an annulment. In these cases, the parent or guardian can file for an annulment on the minor's behalf.
Impotence: When one member of the couple is impotent and unable to have sex but conceals this from their new partner until after the marriage has taken place, this is deemed as an invalid marriage under Texas laws. For this to stand as grounds for an annulment, the inability to have sexual intercourse must be permanent.
Mental Illness: Physical or mental reasons can sometimes be used as grounds for an annulment of a marriage in this state. For example, if mental illness caused one spouse to lack the capacity to either (1) choose to enter the marriage voluntarily or (2) understand what marriage is, the couple may be able to pursue annulment.
Force or Duress: If one spouse has been coerced into the marriage by force or duress, rather than entering it voluntarily, Texas law considers these examples as invalid marriages as long as the force or duress continued up until the time of the wedding ceremony.
Fraud: Cases of fraud include where one spouse lies about something essential to the marriage, and also provide grounds for an annulment. Examples could include a prior concealed divorce, purposefully hiding information on his or her sterility, concealing an existing pregnancy, or refusing to have children despite agreeing previously to the contrary.
Waiting Period Violation: In the state of Texas, there is a mandatory waiting period of 72 hours between the issuing of a marriage license and the wedding itself. If there has been a violation of this waiting period and the couple married before the 72 hours passed, it can be used as grounds for annulling a marriage.
To get an annulment in Texas, the first step is to file a petition with the courts. This legal petition document is called "A Suit to Declare Void the Marriage of [Petitioner] and [Responder]". The person filing for the annulment is the petitioner, while their spouse is the responder. This document needs to be filed in the district in which the spouses live, and the appropriate forms can usually be found by contacting the county clerk's office. Doing so will kick start the annulment process and the courts will begin to look over the application documents.
It is important to note that it is not possible for any spouse to file a petition for a marriage annulment in Texas. Instead, an annulment can only be filed in the state if either:
The spouses were married in the state of Texas;
One or both of the spouses live in Texas and have lived there for at least 90 days.
The main purpose of the annulment petitions is to provide the courts with the necessary information regarding the lawsuit. Therefore, the spouse filing for the annulment needs to provide information such as the full names of both spouses and any children, the date that the marriage took place, and the date on which the married couple stopped living together. Information on where both spouses both live and whether the courts need to divide the property upon separation also needs to be stated. Where children are involved, the annulment petitions are where the petitioner can ask for help from the courts in determining decisions on child custody, visitation rights, and child support payments as well.
After the petition has been filed and picked up by the courts, a decision will usually be met within a few weeks. The spouse filing the annulment can insist on a jury trial if the outcome is not in their favor.
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Spouses seeking an annulment in Texas need to be aware of the annulment time limit. According to state law, the annulment petition must be filed within 30 days of the marriage. If the petition is signed after this – even in cases where there are clear grounds for the judge to grant an annulment – the couple will need to go through a divorce instead. In these cases, it is best to contact a divorce attorney to discuss the available options.
The procedure is not free. Any spouse that files a petition for an annulment with the courts will be required to pay filing fees. These are standard fees charged by government bodies to cover the cost of staff reviewing and storing the documents. In Texas, the filing fee is approximately $300.
On top of filing fees there are legal fees. In order to keep these costs down, many spouses may choose to file to annul a marriage without seeking legal advice. However, we always recommend appointing a law firm with experience in working cases in Texas annulment law. These experts can help ensure the paperwork is completed correctly and take the pressure off of the petitioner at this stressful time. The cost of an attorney will vary greatly depending on the experience of the law firm but commonly the legal fees for an annulment will amount to at least $1,000. A lawyer referral service may be useful in helping spouses connect with local attorneys to work their case.
An annulment in Texas refers to the voiding of a marriage that was never valid to begin with. According to Texas annulment laws, several situations could qualify a married couple for an annulment, including incest, bigamy, intoxication, mental illness, fraud, and duress. It is ultimately the judge's decision whether or not a marriage qualifies for an annulment. If granted, it will be as if the marriage never legally existed.
Article by Megan Thompson
Megan Thompson is a legal writer at Lawrina. Megan writes about different law practice areas, legal innovations, and shares her knowledge about her legal practice. As a graduate of the American University's Washington College of Law she is an expert of law in Lawrina's team and has a slight editing touch to all content that is published on the website.
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